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All the angles on AOL. Founded in 1985 as a dial-up internet service provider, the company has since shifted its focus to media. It claims ownership of several large internet media outlets such as TechCrunch, Endgadget, and Huffington Post.
The latest articles around AOL
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Both Yahoo and AOL are scanning customer emails to attract advertisers
Oath, the advertising arm of Verizon -- which owns both Yahoo and AOL -- has been pitching advertisers a service that would allow them to peer into the email accounts of more than 200 million people. The service benefits advertisers by allowing them to identify and segment potential ...
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AOL Instant Messenger to shut down after 20 years
AOL announced that its iconic chat service from the '00s is officially going dark after 20 years -- and we're sad to see ...
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AOL is killing off its Alto email app
AOL informed users of its Alto email service that it's shuttering the app on December 10. The multi-inbox tool will be removed ...
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Verizon plans to rebrand AOL and Yahoo as 'Oath'
After Verizon officially acquires Yahoo, the newly created content division will get a new name: 'Oath.' It might not be the worst name ever (Tronc still exists) but it's damn sure trying to be. https://giphy.com/gifs/upvotes-maybe-vomit-IlLDe5OVHu3yo After announcing the acquisition ...
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Urban Outfitters hawks the AOL shirt no one asked for
Want to remind everyone that America Online was a thing in the 90s? Urban Outfitters thinks you do. UO is selling an (admittedly comfy-looking) t-shirt emblazoned with the familiar AOL triangle logo for $45. That's almost $20 more than you'd pay for AOL's most expensive subscription ...
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AOL's 'Alto' aims to tame your unruly inbox, but completely misses the mark
For a tech reporter, the idea of inbox zero is a unicorn, a hoax, a cruel joke perpetrated by type-A personalities and productivity gurus. It simply doesn't exist. The second I get my inbox clear, I'm met with a flood of new email and a lack of desire to actually clear it. Now, repeat ...
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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's Twitter was just hacked
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is having a bad day. His Twitter account was hijacked and used to post spammy messages at a rate of ...
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Ransomware found in ads on NYT, BBC, AOL and more won't help the ad-blocking debate
Sadly, big publishers have once again been serving up malicious ads to users as a result of the ad networks in use on the ...
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AOL to consider ditching its iconic brand name
If the thought of AOL conjures up images of '500 hours free' disks, 'You've got mail!,' or one of the worst mergers in history, you're not alone. "The Aol name has many associations that people just can’t get past," says Sam Wilson, global principal at consultancy Wolff Olins, told ...
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Verizon will share your personal data with AOL to target you with ads
Verizon successfully completed its acquisition of AOL in June this year, and now it will begin sharing customers' personal data for the purpose of ad targeting. Sigh. From November, Verizon is going to start feeding information from its controversial supercookie identifier, which ...
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Crunchbase leaves AOL with funding by Emergence Capital
Crunchbase, the startup database service operated by TechCrunch, is now spinning out into its own company. Announced onstage in San Francisco at TechCrunch Disrupt 2015, TechCrunch COO and General Manager of AOL Media Ned Desmond announced that Crunchbase will leave AOL -- and closed ...
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Verizon officially completes its AOL acquisition
A little over a month ago, Verizon announced it was purchasing AOL to the tune of $4.4 billion dollars. Today, that transaction is complete. AOL was sold for the expected $50 per share, in cash. AOL CEO Tim Armstrong will continue to lead that company's operations, while Bob Toohey, ...
