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AOL To Launch An iPad Magazine Called Editions [VIDEO]
AOL is preparing to launch a digital iPad magazine called “Editions,” which will most likely be different from the News Corp. digital magazine known as The Daily. The Editions motto is: “The Magazine That Reads You.” The Editions app will be very similar to Flipboard. Editions will find content that you like based on your interests. Check out the video demo above.
Categories America Online, AOL, AOL Editions, Apple iPad
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AOL Rumored To Be In Talks For An Acquisition Of Outside.in
Rumor has is that AOL is in talks to acquire local news aggregation company Outside.in. The talks may fall apart since it is in early stages according to BusinessInsider. Steven Johnson founded Outside.in in 2006. Investors in Outside.in include Union Square Ventures, Marc Andreessen, John Borthwick, Esther Dyson, and CNN. If AOL does end up acquiring Outside.in, it is likely that they will roll the technology into Patch.com.
Those AOL CDs From The 90′s Costed $35 Per User
Former AOL CEO Steve Case answered a question on Q&A website Quora about how much those promotional CDs that the company sent out costed. Case said that each AOL CD costed “about $35 per user.” Below is the Q&A between the Quora user and Steve Case:
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Categories America Online, AOL, Quora, Steve Case
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AOL Acquires About.me In An Amazingly Fast Acquisition
Well, this is a first. In the same day I wrote about a start-up exiting beta mode, the same company announced that they have been acquired. AOL has acquired custom profile and personal analytics dashboard service About.me.
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Categories About.me, America Online, AOL, AOL Ventures, Ryan Freitas, Tim Young, Tony Conrad, True Ventures
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AOL Buys Marketing Platform Company Pictela
AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) has acquired Pictela, a New York City based start-up that distributes brand content across online advertising companies and social media. Pictela content is distributed through AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Demand Media, Glam Media, Hearst, Time, etc. The acquisition deal is rumored to be worth about $20 million. Pictela will remain independent but will be under an AOL Advertising group. Pictel started in 2009. [TechCrunch]
Categories America Online, AOL, AOL Advertising, Pictela
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Steve Case Asks AIM Team Why They Did Not Add 3G Video Calling Before Yahoo!
New Yahoo Messenger now live in App Store w/ 3G video calling http://bit.ly/aRmTe8 Note to AOL’s AIM team: why weren’t you first with this?
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AOL co-founder and former CEO Steve Case is not too happy with the AOL AIM team because Yahoo! came out with 3G video calling first. He sent the above tweet about what he thinks about AIM not integrating the service first.
Categories AIM, America Online, AOL, Steve Case, Twitter
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AOL Is Planning To Create A Groupon Clone Called Wow!
AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) is planning to launch a Groupon clone called Wow! Groupon is a service where users are sent an e-mail everyday about a deal at a local venue. The coupon doesn’t work until enough people agree to use it.
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Categories America Online, AOL, Groupon
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AOL Acquires Thing Labs
AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) has bought Thing Labs. Thing Labs developed the social media reader service Brizzly. Thing Labs head Jason Shellen will run AOL Lifestream, AIM, and Brizzly. He will be reporting to Brad Garlinghouse.
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AOL Buys TechCrunch Network of Blogs [UPDATED]
AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) has announced today that they are acquiring TechCrunch, Inc. TechCrunch operates TechCrunch.com, MobileCrunch.com, TechCrunchIT.com, MobileCrunch.com, GreenTech, TechCrunchTV, and CrunchBase.com.
AdAge.com is reporting that the deal was worth $30 million plus incentives. Michael Arrington is expected to remain at AOL/TechCrunch for up to 3 years.
Below is the full press release:
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Categories America Online, AOL, Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
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Propeller.com Shuts Down
Propeller.com is a social media link-sharing website that is similar to Digg.com and Reddit.com. Somebody submits a story and if it gains enough popularity, that story hits the homepage. Propeller.com was created out of an experiment by AOL subsidiary Netscape.
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Categories America Online, AOL, Digg, Jason Calacanis, Kevin Rose, Netscape, Propeller, Propeller.com
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