Yahoo CEO Calls AOL A “Mini Yahoo,” Defines Patchwork Strategy For Success

Yahoo CEO Calls AOL A ...

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz continued the to talk about Yahoo’s regrouping strategy at an advertising industry conference earlier this week. She touched on the topics we covered in our post last week, The Steady, Efficient Decline Of Yahoo Go here to see the original:  Yahoo CEO Calls...
AOL To Pour $50 Million Into Patch This Year

AOL To Pour $50 Million...

Yesterday brought the news that AOL sold Buy.at, the affiliate marketing network it bought in early 2008, to UK network Digital Window. AOL acquired Buy.at for a rumored $125 million two years ago. Today, AOL filed a 10-K report that revealed that AOL only sold Buy.at for $17 million,...
Two Years Later AOL Offloads Buy.at To Digital Window

Two Years Later AOL Off...

In something of a surprise move AOL has sold Buy.at , the affiliate marketing network it bought in early 2008, to UK network Digital Window . AOL acquired Buy.at for a rumoured $150 million but although sale terms have again not been disclosed this time round it’s fair to say the...
The Ten Most Likely M&A Deals In Online Video

The Ten Most Likely M&a...

Editor’s note : Guest author Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of video site WatchMojo . Below are his picks for the ten most likely M&A deals in online video. Previously, he wrote a series if posts about the state of online video (Part I , II , III , and IV...
Inbox2 Debuts Public Beta Of Message Management Desktop Client For Windows

Inbox2 Debuts Public Be...

Leena Rao picked a great title when she wrote a post about fledgling Inbox2 late last year, writing that the startup essentially aims to rule all incoming communication streams, as the Web service turns your email and micro blogging updates from friends and contacts into a single,...
Visage Mobile Gets A $4.5 Million Infusion From Qualcomm And Others

Visage Mobile Gets A $4...

Visage Mobile, an enterprise mobility management company, has raised $4.5 million in Series B funding from Qualcomm Ventures with Worldview Technology Partners , ATA Ventures , Vesbridge Partners , and Emergence Capital Partners participating in the round. This funding brings the...
Happy Birthday, BBS!

Happy Birthday, BBS!...

WWIV, Wildcat, Celerity — these hallowed names represent the best of a golden era of communication, back when “getting online” meant tying up the family phone line, remembering arcane Hayes AT codes to maximize performance out of the 9600 baud modem your dad borrowed...
OpenFeint X Debuts To Help Developers Create The Next FarmVille For The iPhone

OpenFeint X Debuts To H...

Aurora Feint started out as a puzzle game developer for the iPhone platform but has since evolved into the maker of a comprehensive social gaming platform dubbed OpenFeint that continues to attract independent iPhone game developers to join its rapidly growing community . See the...
Google, Mozilla Claim AOL’s China Portal May Harm Your Computer

Google, Mozilla Claim A...

Google Chrome and Firefox both throw up a malware warning for AOL’s Chinese portal (click at your own risk), and Google even warns people who run a search for ‘AOL China’ that the site may harm their computer, as you can tell from the screenshot above. As far as I can...
What’s Better: Saving the World or Building Another Facebook app?

What’s Better: Saving...

Running on just sugar and caffeine, 32 teams of students worked non-stop for 18 hours to develop applications that they hoped would blow the judges’ socks off. This was at the UC-Berkeley Hackathon , last weekend More: What’s Better: Saving the World or Building Another Facebook...

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