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Latest stock prices
| Symbol | Name | Time | Trade | Change | % Chg | Volume | P/E Ratio | EPS | Mkt Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AOL | AOL | 21:03 GMT | 36.17 | -0.37 | -1.01% | 672510 | 3.12 | 11.699 | 2.801B |
Latest AOL news
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Facebook needs to learn from AOL and CompuServe
CommentPart of the problem is that Facebook thinks users want systems like AOL and CompuServe. For those who came late to the internet, these outfits offered a one stop shop for users. You could message, email, visit news groups, and surf the net all in one spot. -
Murdoch wants a bigger slice of AllThingsD
AOL expressed interest in buying the site in the past, but those days appear to be long gone. -
UK Highways technology useless
The wasted tech was found when AOL asked which section of the road netted the most cash, only to find that the cameras had caught no speeders at all. -
Microsoft ditches Hotmail
Hotmail was one of the earliest popular web mail services, but in its time it has had to face off competition from Yahoo, AOL, and, of course, Google's Gmail. -
Facebook pays Microsoft $550 million
Facebook has said that it will write a cheque to Microsoft for $550 million for hundreds of patents that originated with AOL. -
AOL shareholder says Microsoft sale not good enough
AOL's gadfly, the activist hedge fund Starboard Value, says that it is still unhappy dispite the decision to sell $1 billion of its patents to Microsoft. -
AOL sells patents to Microsoft's Ballmer
Software's answer to Marcel Marceau, Steve "softly, softly" Ballmer, has written a cheque for $1.056 billion to buy 800 of AOL's patents. -
Samsung and RIM alleged to have ripped off emoticon menu patent
The patent titled "emoticon input method and apparatus" was filed in 2005 before it was given to a company called Wildseed. After being bought by AOL, Varia Holdings was created and took the patent with it. -
Bing shuffles agonisingly slowly towards Google's dust trail
Incredibly, three percent of the USA's web prefers to use Ask.com. AOL made no change, at 1.6 percent of all searches for the month. -
Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL set up advertising alliance
In a bid to give Google and Facebook a kicking, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL have set up an advertising partnership to attempt to restore the balance of power against the other evil empires. -
AOL dusts off merger plans with Yahoo
AOL chief executive officer Tim Armstrong has admitted that he has been wining and dining Yahoo again to see if the outfit is interested in a merger. -
Diaspora still trying to reinvent social networks with open source
The post likens Diaspora to the walled in AOL services a number of years ago to the WWW, and how AOL was forced into bringing the walls down and allowing users open access. It insists feverishly that the intent is in no way to rival the current giants. -
Staff say AOL busy ruining its publications
One of the largest tech blogs with one of the most loyal fanbases is having its plug well and truly pulled by AOL, or at least enough for journalist MG Siegler to pen a farewell post. -
The frightening truth about your data
AnalysisQuoted from EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation): "Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and other search engines record your search queries and maintain massive databases that reach into the most intimate details of your life. When revealed to others, these details can be embarrassing and even cause great harm. -
Facebook is vital for news distribution
The report was based on the traffic number for 25 different online news outlets, which include NYTimes.com, WashingtonPost.com, HuffingtonPost.com, Yahoo! News, Google News, Reuters, AOL News, and CNN. -
Press creates more Paul Allen than is actually there
According to Insider, Allen wanted to invest in the internet giant AOL but Gates wanted to get his Volish claws into AOL and crush the rival and scatter its ashes like dust in the wind. -
Linux falls to patent troll
Bedrock Computer Technologies looks set to use the ruling to bring down some big names in the Linux community including Yahoo, MySpace, Amazon, PayPal, Match.com and AOL -
Bebo has high hopes for doomed relaunch
Following News International's backing of the neither-right-nor-wrong horse in MySpace, AOL bought Bebo back in 2008, but it quickly slipped down the rankings of preferred social networking services.
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