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Microsoft, Yahoo! chatting up old flames?
News and then just its search business - is talking about alternative deals with Time Warner, which owns AOL, and News Corp, parent of MySpace, a source close to Microsoft said, but any negotiations remain in preliminary stages.silicon.com Classics [03 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Ranking everything
Comment That's right, a struggling car marque - who owns it these days? Past number ones include Ray Ozzie (now at Microsoft), Ashley Highfield (BBC), Eric Schmidt (Google), Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch, Chris Gent (Vodafone) and former AOL top dog Steve... [13 Sep 2007]
Google spells out its verb case scenario
News One blogger also suggested Google has missed the obvious compliment in all this, which is the use is evidence the company now owns the search industry. AOL is another technology company which has fought the tendency of brands to become generic... [14 Aug 2006]
Bertelsmann eyes a 'MySpace' for silver surfers
News Bertelsmann also owns pan-European broadcaster RTL, publisher Random House and half of music company Sony BMG. Like many other media companies, Bertelsmann burned its fingers five years ago on the web with an ill-fated online book retailer that... [04 Apr 2006]
AOL-WebEx love-in aims to make IM pay
News AOL pioneered instant messaging more than a decade ago, and owns 56 per cent of the worldwide market share, according to research company the Radicati Group. AOL is expected on Tuesday to launch two new versions of the company's instant messaging... [21 Feb 2006]
BT posts higher-than-expected profits
News Pipex owns a licence to operate wireless services at 3.5GHz, a frequency used for WiMax. However, BT's share of the retail market was just 31 per cent, as rivals such as AOL, Virgin and Wanadoo are providing effective competition in the retail sector. [09 Feb 2006]
Google slammed for censoring its Chinese sites
News Google is opening a research and development centre in China and owns a stake in Baidu.com, the most popular search engine in that country. AOL, MSN and Yahoo! Google said on Tuesday it would launch versions of its search and news websites in China... [25 Jan 2006]
Disney splashes $7.4bn on Pixar buy
News The deal is subject to regulatory approval as well as the nod from Pixar shareholders, though Jobs owns 50.6 per cent of Pixar. New Yorker media writer Ken Auletta, who has followed Disney for many years, compared the deal to Time Warner's merger... [25 Jan 2006]
Murdoch casts his net over online search
News News Corp has planned to spend about $2bn on internet acquisitions, including the $580m it agreed to pay to buy Intermix Media, which owns MySpace.com, and $60m it is paying for sports website owner Scout Media, according to Murdoch. [15 Aug 2005]
Netscape: New version set to leap out
News A spokesperson for AOL, which owns Netscape and develops the browser, was not available at the time of publication, nor was Markham available to expand on his comments. At that time, AOL said the product would remain in a testing phase for several... [18 May 2005]
Netscape 8 launch 'imminent'
A spokesperson for America Online (AOL), which owns Netscape and develops the browser, was not available at the time of publication, nor was Markham available to expand on his comments. At that time, AOL said the product would remain in a testing... [18 May 2005]
Google code hides IM secrets
News First, although few people seem to realise it, Google already owns an instant-messaging (IM) client called Hello that it picked up this summer with its acquisition of photo-sharing service Picasa. A Google representative said the protocol flagged... [18 Oct 2004]
Trillian finally cracks Yahoo!
News AOL, which owns AIM and ICQ, has not taken any steps to block Trillian. The software does not communicate directly with other IM services but instead lets people integrate buddy lists from other services - such as AOL Instant Messenger, MSN... [10 Oct 2003]
Microsoft wins '...is typing a message' IM patent
News The patent encompasses a feature that's not only on Microsoft's IM products but also on those of its rivals AOL and Yahoo! Both AOL and Yahoo representatives declined comment as well. Microsoft has won a patent for an instant messaging feature that... [08 Oct 2003]
Microsoft loses court case - and $521m
News The university owns the patents for the technology, which it licensed to Eolas in 1994. Microsoft said in May it would pay AOL Time Warner $750m to settle a lawsuit brought on by America Online subsidiary Netscape. [12 Aug 2003]
