08.15.08 webNews Wrap-up

In case you missed it…. AOL Acquires SocialThing Google’s Feedburner Switches to Adsense Yahoo Board Adds Icahn Nominees Chapple, Biondi Twitter Cuts U.K Texting Facebook Sued over Beacon

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Time Warner Splitting AOL, Preparing for Possible Sale

Time Warner Inc., announced that they will be splitting AOL’s dial-up Internet and advertising business into separate divisions by early 2009. This announcement follows major budget cuts to AOL’s blogging properties as well as complete cuts of some of AOL’s products including; Bluestring, Xdrive and AOL Pictures, according to an internal memo from Kevin Conroy, [...]

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AOL Strong Growth off Niche Redesign and Rebranding

AOL has done an exceptional job positioning themselves in most major vertical markets, but more than just their presence AOL has completely dominated most of these spaces. Black voices is no exception, the industry leader in the Black Community News, AOL is starting to see the benefit from the success of BV and other niche focused websites. AOL property’s have hit an all time high in [...]

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04.18.08 webNews Wrap-up

Layoffs at AOL’s Platform A Technorati b5 media merger, goes kaput AOL buys Sphere Yahoo to offer free Analytics Suite Last but not least: Why is everyone (Mashable, RWW) doing “ways-not-to-pitch-to-us” posts this week?  We’ll take ‘em!

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04.11.08 webNews Wrap-up

Hulu will go international. Yahoo runs 2 week trial of Google AdSense in Yahoo search results. AOL launches Technology network. Yahoo Maps in living color. Google crawls HTML forms.

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