Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
AOL India has launched its Video portal focused on Indian audience. The portal is powered with AOL’s video search technology, Truveo. As per AOL, Truveo has indexed over 170 million videos from 16 countries across the world. The content on AOL India Video site is more aligned towards movies, music and celebrity news. There is [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Friday, May 16th, 2008

AOL Indian has launched a service which allows for sending free text message to any mobile phone in India using the AOL IM as well as AOL Mail. The people to whom the text message has to be sent need not be registered users of AOL. The process of sending SMS from IM is simple. [...]
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Technology
Friday, May 16th, 2008

AOL is planning to open its email API for the third party developers to develop and deploy applications. The plan is to open the content part of email using which developers will be able to build communications and social networking applications which can be added to email interface. Richard Landsman, VP of Technology at AOL, [...]
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Business
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

AOL has announced that it has acquired Sphere, the content engine. Sphere is a contextual search engine which delivers matching content from blogs, videos, photos and other media channels. The discovered content is then displayed in a pop-over window or through a widget. The Sphere widget lets publishers better engage their audience by providing related [...]
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Business
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

AOL has announced a deal with Verizon under which Platform-A will manage Verizon’s online ad inventory. Under the deal, Verizon will get to use Platform-A’s sales force, along with its ad-serving, targeting, and inventory management capabilities. This deal is a major success for Platform-A which is a the centerpiece of AOL’s restructuring. Apart from online [...]
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Technology
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

AOL has announced the launch of PubAccess which is a self-service solution for small publishers to join Platform-A’s Advertising.com. PubAccess, a web based system, will allow the publishers to manage display advertisements for their web sites. Lynda Clarizio, President of Platform-A, says, Until now, smaller publishers didn’t have a lot of options to receive CPM [...]
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Business
Thursday, March 13th, 2008

This is breaking news reported by PaidContent; AOL has acquired Bebo for $850 Mn in an all cash deal. With the deal, AOL will get access to Bebo’s 40 million registered member. Bebo is the most popular social network in the U.K. The announcement says that the Bebo president Joanne Shields will continue to run [...]