AOL Acquires Goowy Media
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AOL has bought a small widget and online desktop applications maker Goowy Media, for an undisclosed amount.
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Time Warner Inc.'s AOL is in talks to  acquire mobile phone advertising start-up Third Screen Media,  the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday, citing people familiar  with the matter.
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America Online is tapping the vast media assets of parent company Time Warner to outdo rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in the search wars.
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Google announced Friday that it bought FeedBurner, a firm specializing in delivering podcasts, weblogs, news and advertising to Internet browsers.
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Time Warner's  AOL Europe has hired Google  to provide advertiser-sponsored search results for its Internet service, replacing Yahoo's  Overture unit, AOL Europe said on Tuesday.
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AOL Canada Inc. will announce plans today to enter the burgeoning market for providing telephone service over the Internet. The on-line service company has beaten its US parent Time Warner Inc
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Time Warner Inc.'s Internet unit AOL  on Wednesday said it had purchased GameDaily, a video game news  and review Web site, part of an effort to expand a portfolio of  online information and entertainment.
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Yahoo has acquired a stake in Tyroo Media to help it capture more of India's fast-growing online ad market.
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AOL said Monday it would move its headquarters to New York and integrate its advertising businesses into a single unit as part of its transformation from Internet access provider into an ad-driven business.
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AOL is rumored to be close to a deal with Third Screen Media, a mobile advertising startup, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company had previously been in talks with Microsoft over a possible deal.
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AOL has extended itsÂ offer to acquireÂ online marketing company TradeDoubler, giving its shareholders until March 14 to tender their shares in favor of the deal.
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By Eric Benderoff, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 2--At a time when everyone from stay-at-home moms to international media conglomerates call themselves publishers, a small Chicago company sitting in the middle of a distribution revolution was purchased Friday by Web giant Google Inc.
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In a blow to Google Inc., which provides general Web search for America Online members, AOL yesterday said it has chosen Fast Search &amp; Transfer to power a revamping of its local search service.
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NewsÂ Corp. aims to increase ad revenue from its online division by completing the acquisition of Internet ad placement company Strategic Data Corp. on Thursday.
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Time Warner Inc. on Monday said its  AOL online unit has acquired Userplane, a provider of Web-based  chat and instant messaging services.
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(InfoWorld) - AOL has integrated its various ad networks into a single platform that it hopes will jumpstart its online advertising business, whose weak growth in the second quarter has led to sharp criticism of this Time Warner subsidiary. On Monday, AOL announced that the integrated ad platform, called Platform A, meshes Advertising.com, Tacoda, Third Screen Media, Lightningcast, and AdTech. AOL also announced it will move its headquarters from Dulles, Virginia, to New York City, in order to be physically at the center of the U.S. advertising industry. However, the announcement comes at a time when questions about AOL's strategy and performance are at a high point. In August, when Time Warner issued its second-quarter financial report, some observers were surprised that AOL's online ad revenue grew only 16 percent during the quarter, well below the industry average. In the first quarter, online ad spending in the U.S. was up 26 percent year on year, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Last year, spending grew 35 percent over 2005. AOL in recent years has been transitioning its business model from one based on subscription fees to one based on online advertising. Toward that end, it has made almost all of its content and services freely available on the Web and discarded its "walled garden" approach. Until the second quarter, AOL's online ad growth had either been in line with the industry average or exceeded it, justifying the strategy change. But the quarter's results led some financial analysts to openly question if AOL can successfully pull off its transformation into an online ad-supported business. Time Warner has been investing in AOL's online ad platform. In 2004, AOL acquired Advertising.com, a provider of online marketing services to publishers and advertisers, and last yearÂ it bought Lightningcast, a broadband video advertising specialist. This year,Â AOL snapped up Third Screen MediaÂ to boost its mobile advertising services, and also acquired AdTech for its ad-serving and marketing campaign-management platform. Most recently,Â it bought Tacoda, which specializes in delivering ads based on users' online activities, an area known as "behavioral targeting." With Platform A's unveiling on Monday and the move to Manhattan, AOL executives are convinced that the subsidiary will get its online ad business back on track. AOL is no stranger to corporate shakeups and reorganizations. Almost a year ago today, it announced a significant realignment of its internal business structure, only to see its then-CEO and Chairman Jonathan Miller get his walking papers two months later. Miller's replacement, Randy Falco, unveiled major changes to Miller's plan in mid-December amidst a shakeup that saw several high-ranking executives head out the door. Separately on Monday, AOL also announced an agreement with HP to offer co-branded, localized versions of AOL's portal, toolbar and search engine on HP desktop and notebook PCs sold worldwide. The agreement extends and expands an existing relationship between the companies of a co-branded AOL-HP portal as the default home page in HP consumer PCs sold in the U.S.
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AOL yesterday said it is buying its fourth online advertising company of the year, part of an ongoing effort to transform itself into an Internet advertising concern.