Oath — the combined Yahoo-Verizon entity — is closing that creaky door for the last time today on AOL Instant Messenger, shutting down a mainstay of millions of millennial childhoods.… Read More
Marissa Mayer will step down from her post as Yahoo CEO after the company’s $4.48 billion deal to be acquired by Verizon closes later this year. According to filings with… Read More
Verizon will buy Yahoo’s operating business for $4.83 billion and integrate the venerable internet company with another, AOL, under an acquisition confirmed by the telecom giant this morning. “Just over a year ago we acquired AOL to… Read More
Microsoft general counsel Horacio Gutierrez, a longtime attorney who oversaw many of the Redmond tech giant’s company’s biggest patent deals and cases, is leaving Microsoft to join music streaming service Spotify as… Read More
The days of overnight startup success may be numbered, at least according to Steve Case during his talk at CES last week about entrepreneurship and risk-taking. The AOL Co-founder and… Read More
CrunchBase is preparing to become its own entity, according to TechCrunch, which reported Tuesday evening that the startup ecosystem database is set to raise up to $7 million as a standalone company.… Read More
Microsoft is turning over its display advertising business in the U.S. and eight other markets to AOL as part of an effort focus on search advertising, the company announced this afternoon. As part… Read More
Wowser. In crazy merger news, you’ve probably heard by now that Verizon is buying AOL for $4.4 billion dollars. The deal is all about the ability to stream mobile-first content,… Read More
Verizon’s deal to acquire AOL for $4.4 billion promises to transform the telecom giant into an end-to-end media and technology company — from content creation to delivery, supported by a video advertising platform optimized for mobile viewing.… Read More
In 1996, the internet was little more than a sparkle in Al Gore’s eye. Mark Zuckerberg was 12. Google was still two years away from being formed. And the Spice… Read More
The year may be winding to a close, but a coalition of 9 tech companies want lawmakers in Washington, D.C. to curb the government’s surveillance powers before the close of… Read More
While they’re usually fierce competitors, an octet of leading technology companies have banded together to ask the U.S. to take the lead when it comes to ending government surveillance. AOL,… Read More
AOL announced yesterday that it would be shutting down Winamp, the venerable media player that helped usher in an age of people listening to music on their computers, next month.… Read More
In yet another example of the Xbox 360 turning into an entertainment hub, Xbox Live today added content from video providers AOL and Vimeo. Vimeo, a video-sharing website similar to… Read More
Patent sales typically have little to do with the average employee, negotiated and transacted by hordes of lawyers. But now these bad boys of the tech world may actually be… Read More
Big Fish Games has hired gaming executive Chris Williams to lead the charge on the company’s free-to-play games strategy. “I am excited to be working with such a content-rich company,… Read More
Facebook will pay Microsoft $550 million in cash to buy a portion of the AOL patent portfolio that Microsoft recently agreed to acquire. Two weeks ago Microsoft agreed to pay… Read More
Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo this afternoon announced a deal to sell display advertising inventory on each other’s sites. The unusual collaboration between the web giants will “dramatically improve the process… Read More
Zillow announced a deal today to bring its mortgage marketplace offering to AOL Real Estate and Daily Finance, marking the first time that the two companies have partnered. The new… Read More
Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL plan to work together to allow their respective sales forces to sell leftover online advertising inventory on each other’s sites, teaming up in an attempt to… Read More