AOL’s acquisition of lifestreaming service Socialthing has been confirmed, reports Mashable. Financials have not been revealed.
According to their QBase entry, “Simplifying the management of sites and services that you already use like blogs and social networks, socialthing! synchronizes your personal information, content, and friendships so that you can post this information across the social […]

In 2006, Google gave AOL $1 billion in cash for a 5 percent indirect equity stake in the company. Now, in a regulatory filing with the SEC, Google believes that its investment may be worth less than a billion and may review for impairment and financial write-downs in the future.
“We believe our investment in AOL […]

A week after announcing cut backs, bloggers at the AOL Weblogs Inc are still up in arms, according to a post at ReadWriteWeb.

In an internal briefing AOL Senior VP of Programming Marty Moe spun a positive line, noting that traffic and revenue was growing across the network, and that the company had further international expansion […]

AIM is expanding its reach to include integration with other social-oriented services.
The options come as part of the newly launched BuddyUpdates feature for AOL’s instant messaging platform. The feature lets you link your buddy list to third-party sites including Twitter, Blogger, Flickr, del.icio.us, Mixx, StumbleUpon, and YouTube. There’s also an option to add […]

AOL will close Bluestring, Xdrive, MyMobile and AOL Pictures as part of a restructure, and Weblogs Inc blogs have not missed out, according to a report at PaidContent.
Of the services being cut, most would be unfamiliar names to most reading this, perhaps for some with the exception of the online storage service Xdrive, acquired by […]

A small startup acquired by AOL earlier this year is now being incorporated into the company’s advertising platform.
Widget-maker Goowy will be used as part of AOL’s Platform-A as of this week. Clients will be able to use the already free service to build and distribute their own widget ads through all of AOL’s and […]

A new version of Propeller went live earlier today, complete with radical overhaul that included dropping Digg style voting and a look that screams news magazine.
I hate it, and many others will as well, however I know I’m not the target market. The market is the broader, mainstream non-tech market that Yahoo Buzz attracts, a […]

AOL is trying to stake its claim in the online health market with a new set of expansions for its AOL Health service.
The company is now planning to share health-related content with three other sites: Caring.com, Health.com, and HealthCare.com. In addition to AOL Health’s content targeted at women, the new partners will […]

Yahoo’s starting up direct talks with Time Warner, while Microsoft is meeting with Carl Icahn to plan for the future.
Yahoo spent time with Time Warner over the holiday weekend, according to London’s Times Online. The paper reports Yahoo’s board is struggling to seal some kind of deal before its August 1 shareholders’ meeting — […]

AOL has teamed up with Weblogs, Inc. to launch a new PC and Mac game service focused on free downloads.
BigDownload.com features game downloads and demos along with reviews, news, and industry analysis. Weblogs, Inc. provides the reviews and other text-based content while AOL Games delivers the software offerings.
The service won’t require any sign-up process. […]

AOL has just unveiled plans to make its content mobile via a new partnership with WIN plc.
The deal will give AOL’s UK division a “fully managed mobile content store” that’ll offer entertainment along with news-type information and other paid content for AOL users. It will also provide a mobile version of AOL’s Instant Messenger […]

AOL has launched specialized web sites in four new countries.
AOL Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Venezuela all went live this morning. Each site has local and regional news, as well as localized versions of AOL Instant Messenger and e-mail.
The launches bring AOL to a total of 25 country-specific sites. Five more are expected to […]

The company behind HGTV and the Food Network is teaming up with AOL in a new online video deal.
Scripps Network has signed on to feature its video content on AOL Video, as well as on several other AOL services like AOL Food and AOL Home. The content will also appear on AOL-operated site Slashfood.
The […]