TMZ is branching out into sport, with the gossip blog come TV show having registered the domain name TMZsports.com
TMZsports.com is showing registered to Telepictures Productions (previous half owner of TMZ) as of December 16. Interestingly though, the ...
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Old school IM service ICQ is said to be on the market and heading to Russia as AOL looks to flog its non-content based businesses as it breaks off from Time Warner.
According to multiple reports, ICQ could ...
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On of the often told lies of the heritage media luddites is that there is no future or job opportunities in new media for journalists being laid off from newspapers and the like.
Yeah, about that: AOL hired ...
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AOL has announced that its new strategy is to copy Demand Media through automated topic creation and mass outsourcing of writing to freelancers.
According to a report that first appeared in the Wall Street Journal, "AOL is ...
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In other news, AOL is still around.
AOL announced rebranding plans sunday, losing the all-caps "AOL" and changing the brand's name to the much catchier and sensical "Aol." (Owl? Awl?) Along with the new pronunciation being rolled out ...
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AOL today has launched a "new brand identity for its future as an independent company" that includes among other things the letters AOL superimposed on a fish.
In what has to be an April fools day joke seriously ...
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I don't think there is a person on the net today who has been online for more that 10 or 15 years who doesn't hold up their low number count ICQ ID as some sort of badge. ...
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AOL has acquired MMA news portal MMAFighting.com, with the site to be merged into its Fanhouse sports network.
MMAFighting.com covers the increasing popular sport of mixed martial arts, and includes a mix of blog like news elements, sport ...
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AOL has shut CompuServe, the first major commercial online service in the United States.
The company had its origins in 1969 and started offering limited dial-in services in the mid-1970's. The year it first offered "online services" was ...
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I have to give big props to the guys over at TheNextWeb.com for finding this gem of a video – oh and the headline it’s actually from the video and their answer wasn’t Google ...
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AOL has announced that it has acquired hyperlocal news service Patch and social events site Going. Both acquisitions offer local news and events, with a strong emphasis on user generated content.
Of the two acquisitions, Going would seem ...
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Time Warner has announced that it will spin off AOL, on the same day as reporting a big plunge in revenue in the troubled division.
Time Warner has made an initial filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission ...
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AOL will fire 700 employees according to a memo sent to all staff by CEO Randy Falco today.
Included in the cuts is a freeze on "merit" pay rises for 2009.
Among the cuts is also said to be ...
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It’s been a long haul for AOL the Internet brand we all love to hate. It was only 18 months ago that the company set about to rework itself into a more relevant company and while it ...
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AOL will shut AOL Video Uncut, its user generated video YouTube competitor in early December.
AOL Video Uncut launched in 2006 with promises of greatness, targeted at AOL's strong base of IM users. The service did get off ...
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Blogging may have started from personal journals, but the diaries of 2000 evolved into something different. As sites grew a new form of company emerged, the blog network, that aimed to take the experience often gathered in ...
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A former AOL exec has recruited a team of tech veterans to help fund his new sports blogging network. Jim Bankoff, one-time programming chief of AOL, has just secured a "mid-seven-figure sum" of money for SportsBlog ...
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Yahoo7, the Australian version of Yahoo, is to cut 10% of its workforce.
News reports that workers are expected to be told of the cuts this afternoon. 20 positions will go, but it isn't clear which positions ...
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It only seems like yesterday that Jason Calacanis launched the blog network Weblogs Inc. I can still remember him pitching me at The Blog Herald, asking me to cover his new network. It took a couple of ...
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AOL has launched a new magazine-style blog site that attempts to combine entertainment news with city-based stories. Digital City describes itself as having "a local slant, but global appeal."
Officially announced this morning, the site's ...
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Back in July I wrote a post arguing that issues at Weblogs Inc prove that big companies and blog networks are a difficult mix, and that AOL proved it. While there is a still a sound case ...
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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, ...
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