2017-10-07
AOL will shut down Instant Messenger in Dec after 20 years
Will be shuttered on Dec 15 this year.
AOL
2017-04-04
Verizon to call media division ‘Oath’
Division will house Yahoo’s media Sites, AOL (including TechCrunch and Engadget) & Huffington Post, ‘Oath’.
2015-06-30
Bing replaces Google in Microsoft-AOL advertising deal
1st it lost Mozilla to Yahoo Search, now it’s lost another major deal. Microsoft’s just announced it was handing over parts of its display advertising business to AOL. The latter was recently acquired by Verizon. As part of the deal, AOL will make Bing its default search engine instead of Google for the next decade.
Reports: Fortune, TechCrunch, Winnipeg Free Press, Business Insider
2015-05-12
Verizon to acquire AOL for $4.4 billion all cash
Verizon, the largest mobile phone operator in the US, said it was buying AOL for its video services. Verizon is already a market leader in the US in distributing mobile video through its mobile phone network.
Reports: New York Times, MarketWatch, NPR, ABC News, Network World, SF Gate