Urlesque Swallowed by HuffPo- Cue Keyboard Cat

Urlesque Moving under Huffington Post Umbrella Just as  Cheezburger Network bought Know Your Meme, Huffington Post has taken over Urlesque. Well, a more accurate way of reporting this would be "AOL is shutting...

AOL's Purchase of HuffPost Could Be Masterstroke -- or Blunder

By Acquiring the Wildly Successful Online News Portal for $315 Million, Can the Internet Company Once Known as America Online Overcome Its Reputation for Making Bad Business Decisions -- From Its Failure to Adapt to the Rise of Broadband, to Its Disastrous Merger With...

AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million

AOL Buying HuffPo for $315 Million: Arianna Huffington Keeps Editorial Control AOL is going big in its bid to rule the content world. The former dial-up giant has bought the web's biggest content success story, the...

Anyone use AOL anymore?

It was a beautiful concept in the beginning, America, online. Wow, let’s make a movie, “You’ve got mail.” I was hooked. I couldn’t do without it. I was a founding member and long time user, and then I...

Top Secret: Chile removes uranium stockpile reduces safety threat

President Obama recognizes that the only way to stop impending nuclear threats is to create an opportunity for other countries to follow in the footsteps of the two major powers in the world, the US and Russia. If...

AOL To Layoff 1,400 Staff: AOL Slashes Jobs

AOL is set to layoff 1,400 staff. The slashing of jobs at AOL is not very surprising but troubling nonetheless. AOL indicated it would reduce its staff by 2,500.  Since then just over 1,000 people took some...

Art of Living Camp concludes in Mussoorie

Mussoorie, 28 July: The four day Art of Living meditation course organised by the Kanpur and Mussoorie chapters concluded successfully at an Auditorium in Kulri Bazaar, here, today. More than 250 people...

Time Warner Confirms AOL Spin-Off

Media conglomerate Time Warner has confirmed that it will spin off its AOL division, after buying the 5% share owned by Google in order to regain 100 percent ownership."Time Warner Inc. will spin off the entire AOL Internet unit by the end of the year, reversing a failed $124...

COFFEE AND SEX - In the Early Morning

USNEWSREPORTERMrs. Lana Burke EARLY MORNING COFFEE AND SEX In the wee hours of Thursday, May 8 is much better termed in the gigantic morning hours of a rainy day best spent in bed! In a leading coffee and bagel...

When the Tweets Go Out: Downtime and User Expectations

Last weekend's Twitter downtime has prompted the expected bout of hand-wringing... (I didn't even notice, but evidently many, many others sure did)"•  The difference between way AOL grew and some services...

Yahoo-AOL-Google Alliance Created to Fend Off News Corp-Microsoft Hostile Tak...

Whats sure to be the wildest hostiletakeover ever!Yahoo finally takes up Google's offerto form strategic partnership to fend off hostile takeover by Microsoft. Google's CEO Eric E. Schmidt, placed a call to...

Facebook Chat: kiss your productivity goodbye

Facebook is quietly rolling out its version of online chat, though it is not  yet present on my own network. In keeping with its aggressive use of online widgets, this chat feature will be hosted and run by Facebook's main site, and will not rely on a local...

Facebook's collision course with the big portals

Mark Zuckerberg describes Facebook as a service designed to help people communicate better, primarily through the social graph, which is the network of connections and relationships between people. The social graph, he said, is the reason Facebook works. The...

Struggling AOL Acquires Bebo

Apparently, there's still value in the mostly ad-supported Internet business of social networking.Yesterday AOL announces a plan to acquire Bebo, the third-biggest social networking site in the United States, for $850 million in cash. It's reported that: "AOL has spent close...

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