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Better late than never? AOL-owned MapQuest has finally added street view images, two-and-a-half years after Google first added similar images to Google Maps. Google has been able to take advantage of that head start, along with other unique features, to surpass MapQuest's once large lead in the mapping market, which is likely to become even more significant as smartphone adoption increases.
Time Warner completes the demerger of AOL.
The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space. When a group of people starts discussing social media, it usually takes only a few seconds until it becomes a discussion about the most popular and widely used social media tools. Twitter , Facebook , and YouTube dominate the discussion ...
Investors greeted the official return of AOL to Wall Street with all of the excitement of a neighborhood yard sale.
NEW YORK — AOL resumed life as an independent Internet company today as it completed its spinoff from Time Warner Inc. and closed the book on one of the most disastrous business combinations in history.
DST, which recently made a $200 million investment in Facebook, is reportedly in negotiations to acquire AOL's instant-messaging service.
AOL, suffering falling revenue and getting a poor reception Thursday in its first day of trading after its spinoff, might not even be able to depend much on its ace-in-the-hole.
Los Angeles based Demand Media , a sprawling network of content sites (that was a big part of a post yesterday on the end of hand crafted content ), is rumored to be shopping itself to the big Internet companies. A couple of sources have told us that they've recently been talking with Yahoo, AOL and Google about an acquisition, and would like to exit for $1 billion or more. Those rumors are ...
Early investors might profit from the AOL's return as an independent company -- but its long-term prospects aren't promising.
AOL search users are more likely to click on ads than any other major search engine. According to research released earlier this week by Chitika, a search-based online ad network, search engines with the top click-through rates were AOL (2.50 percent), Ask (1.76 percent) and Bing (1.74 percent).
Shares of AOL Inc fell about 2 percent on their return to trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, following the Internet company's spin-off from Time Warner Inc, while shares of AOL's former parent rose.
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