So it has begun. In the coming hours, lights will be switched off at an estimated 7,000 websites across the Internet as the web protests SOPA, an oppressive act that threatens to disfigure the Internet as we ...
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As a person who basically routes their entire life through the internet- professional, personal, lifestyle- one of the things that gets me agitated about the whole SOPA brouhaha is how little the average web user is concerned ...
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Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder and wearer of acerbic T-shirts, has resurfaced with a new blog, promising 'transparency' and 'truth.'
Arrington was banished as co-editor of TechCrunch last month, after new owner AOL decided he had a conflict of ...
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Remember that AOL.com email address you decided not to hold onto when everyone jumped ship to hotmail and then eventually gmail, it turns out those addresses are now considered some sort of weird status symbol among some ...
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What do AOL, Inc., Google. Inc., IAC Search & Media, Inc., Gannett Company, Inc. and Target Corporation have in common? They were all named today in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by I/P Engine, Inc. in the ...
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Ariana Huffington's major cash out on the Huffington Post hasn't been without incident, and the noisy group of unpaid sweatshop writers who provided much of the site's multi-million dollar content haven't shut up- they've filed a class ...
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I'll admit it- I have a strong prejudice against certain email address domains and even occasionally try to convert people still using undesirable domains.
I don't know what this says about me (I'm sure it's not entirely positive), ...
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Off the bat, I will admit to having an intense girl-crush on Arianna Huffington.
I've been an ardent fan of both Politically Incorrect and Real Time with Bill Maher for a decade and a half, and I find ...
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I was asked today on Formspring "What are your thoughts on AOL buying Huffington Post?". The response is informal 1st person, but I thought I'd share it here.
It's an interesting buy on a couple of fronts.
People are ...
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AOL's acquisition of The Huffington Post for $315 million has delivered a smorgasbord of commentary this week, and who better to join the fray than our favorite Taiwanese animators.
Highlights: we'll where do you start. Arianna gets ...
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As we reported earlier, AOL has acquired The Huffington Post for $315 million, the largest buy for a stand alone new media property that we can recall, let alone a new media network.
The size of the buy ...
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Wow. Holy Crap.
This has to be some of the biggest deal to hit the blogosphere, over shadowing AOL's purchase of TechCrunch for a rumored amount of $10 million.
Following the Super Bowl Kara Swisher from All Things D ...
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Once more Aol tries to show the world that it is still relevant by teasing us with an iPhone app called Editions; which is being billed as the news app that reads you.
Okay, cutesy taglines aside this ...
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AOL's recent shopping spree of blogs and content sites may not be over, with a company spokesman saying the company may yet buy more blogs, and even a newspaper.
When asked about it's intentions, AOL CTO Alexander Gounares ...
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If there is one thing that is a constant in the tech industry it is the secretive ways of Apple's PR machine and the trigger finger of their legal department to go after anyone talking about Apple ...
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The news is out all over the tech blogosphere - Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL took the stage of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference today to announce that AOL has bought Techcrunch, and all its media properties.
Of course ...
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This just flashed up on GigaOM and must be placed strongly in the rumor column but Om Malik, who I have a great respect for, is reporting that while still at a delicate stage the deal that ...
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Remember the English social network called Bebo?
No?
Not surprising since its only real claim to fame was that Aol lost its mind and bought it for $850 back in 2008 and from there returned to an even worse ...
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TheOatMeal.com has made this brilliant, true and funny drawing. (I use gmail and my own domain, but I have a hotmail too. Used only for registering and spam).
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Digital Sky Technologies, the largest internet firm in Eastern Europe has agreed to buy instant messaging platform ICQ from AOL at a cost of $187.5 million. The platform, while not the most popular in the United States ...
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It looks like Facebook's web dominance has claimed another victim, as an AOL memo circulating indicates that the company plans to shutter or sell the social networking site Bebo.
Although AOL sunk $850 million into Bebo two years ...
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AOL delivered its first quarterly earnings report today as an independent company, and among the gloomy figures were some modest growth stats for their blogs and content sites.
Advertising for AOL has a whole dropped 8%, but this ...
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