Tagged: AOL & News
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Internet giants call for new privacy rules for digital age News
31.03.2010 A consortium of the who’s who in cyberspace – including Google, Microsoft and eBay – are calling for new privacy protections for the digital age and in particular want the US... -
Facebook hits 100 million mobile users - puts chat on all IM clients News
11.02.2010 Social-networking player Facebook is now being used by more than 100 million mobile phone users around the world. The company today unveiled a new feature that allows people to... -
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Broadband speeds not as fast as ISPs claim – Ofcom survey News
28.07.2009 UK telecoms regulator Ofcom yesterday proved itself to be no slouch and published research into fixed-line broadband speeds which compared actual speed results with what...Categories: Comms -
Surfers can’t live without eBay or Facebook News
21.05.2009 eBay is listed as one of the world’s top 10 website that ‘users can't live without’, according to research conducted by Nielsen Online, while Facebook demands the most online time.Categories: Digital Life -
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RIM’s App (half) World arrives News
01.04.2009 RIM’s long-awaited rival to Apple’s iTunes App Store has finally arrived – but only in the UK, US and Canada. All other BlackBerry users around the globe will have to make do...Categories: -
Google reveals three million communities of followers on Blogger blogs News
27.02.2009 Since Google launched its Following feature during the autumn to help bloggers connect with fans of its blog and discover communities of people with the same interests, some...Categories: New Media, Digital Life -
Maloney’s Balderton Capital raises US$430m News
12.01.2009 Former Irish mobile network boss Barry Maloney’s London-based venture capital fund Balderton Capital has raised an additional US$430m, bringing its funds under management up to...Categories: Business -
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Yahoo! re-opens talks about acquiring AOL News
24.09.2008 Internet stalwart Yahoo! – itself the subject of a possible takeover battle earlier in the year – has re-opened talks with Time Warner about possibly acquiring the ailing AOL...Categories: Business -
AOL to Yahoo!: Let’s Talk News
16.07.2008 Remember AOL? The little spanner in the works of the ‘Microhoo!’ talks seems to be talking to both companies in the hopes of a deal with either, whereas back in February it...Categories: New Media -
AOL/Bebo to create 80 million-strong community News
14.03.2008 AOL’s acquisition of social networking site Bebo for US$850m may be the boost it needs to add to its existing instant messaging services AIM and ICQ or, as some think, it may be...Categories: -
Bebo bought by Time Warner for US$850m News
13.03.2008 Ireland’s most popular social networking site, Bebo, is to be acquired by AOL, the internet division of Time Warner, for US$850m – a whopping US$270m more than Rupert Murdoch...Categories: New Media -
AOL splits off ailing dial-up service News
07.02.2008 AOL was and to a degree still remains a force to be reckoned with in the wider web world but as its advertising business grows, its ageing business dial-up service seems to be...Categories: New Media -
Broadband spells demise of traditional telcos — expert News
15.09.2006 Traditional telecoms operators may be shooting themselves in the foot by offering broadband, the former chief technology officer of BT and futurist Peter Cochrane told... -
Blog, stock and barrel for Irish AOL team News
08.05.2006 Engineers at AOL Technologies’ development centre in Dublin have developed a new blogging network focused on enabling bloggers to provide daily, insightful commentary and...Categories: CommsTags: AOL -
Google confirms US$1bn stake in AOL News
21.12.2005 Online search giant Google has pipped Microsoft at the post in terms of acquiring a stake in AOL. It is understood that Google is to invest US$1bn for a 5pc stake in AOL. The...Categories: Business