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...

AOL Buys Bebo for $850 Million

Paying close to a billion dollars cash, wounded Internet giant AOL (itself owned by Time Warner) has bought Bebo, a popular social networking site.This deal bears out the theory that social networking sites' value...

Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN and Facebook: The Epic Battle of 'Long-Tail Marketing'

In the world of online media marketing, 2007 will be remembered as a quantum evolution in "behavioral targeting" technology. Most recent and perhaps most important, Facebook opened up its marketing platform to developers and the widget was born as a cheap marketing and...

AOL Needs To Be Run Out Of Business

Last week a robbery happened. It was a very clever crime, committed by a very devious and vile organized crime group. I didn’t discover the crime until three days later. It was too late to undo the...

Ad Control at Stake on Dispute against Google

"YouTube lays a deeper struggle over who controls the relationship with advertisers that will take years to resolve, behind a media industry furor over Google Inc.'s popular video-sharing site. Many new models will be tested to determine which is worth more to...

AOL's Local Search Engine Service

"Another new search engine, which offers local search service, will soon boost to the Internet market industry. AOL LLC had started to test it new local search service engine, which finally adds up to the many competitors in the Internet industry for years. According to AOL...

Napster to Replace AOL MUSIC NOW

"Napster Inc., the digital music company,with a total of 566,000 customers as of Dec. 31, will be the exclusive music subscription provider for Time Warner Inc.’s AOL online unit,350,000 paying music subscribers.Naspter will replace AOL’s Music Now service and AOL’s...

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