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AOL Buys Fantasy Football Site Fleaflicker - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 25 Apr 2008 05:18 AM PST

AOL has acquired Fantasy Football site Fleaflicker for an undisclosed amount, Mediapost reported. The site will be added to AOL Sports, whose existing fantasy football offerings were described as “modest”…

AOL’s Platform-A Answers ‘Spray And Pray’ Ad Sales With Spot Market System - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 23 Apr 2008 09:01 PM PST

AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) Platform-A is unveiling Spot Marketplace, a service that aims to give advertisers a bit more selectivity when it comes to online placements, the company tells us. The…

Comcast, Time Warner And Cox Pull Out Of Pivot - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 23 Apr 2008 03:32 PM PST

Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Cable and Cox Communications have pulled out of the Pivot joint venture with Sprint (NYSE: S) (the fourth cable partner, Advance/Newhouse Communications, declined…

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Warner Bros. TV Teams With Essence Magazine On New Site, Broadband-to-TV Plans - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 21 Apr 2008 11:00 AM PST

Warner Bros. TV Group is partnering with its Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) sibling Essence magazine on a series of online and broadcast moves, starting with a revamped, video-heavy website for…

AOL To Layoff 100 Staffers Across Platform-A - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 18 Apr 2008 01:23 PM PST

AOL (NYSE: TWX) plans to lay off roughly 100 staffers from its Platform-A ad agency network over the coming months, sources say, confirming an earlier report from SAI. While roughly…

AOL Quietly Creates Female-focused Lifestyle Site; Editor Must ‘Get’ Renee Zellweger And Amy Sedaris - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 18 Apr 2008 08:12 AM PST

AOL (NYSE: TWX) is stealthily creating a new lifestyle website aimed at younger women ... Mediapost reported, citing a job posting on JournalismJobs.com. While the listing for an editor doesn’t…

NBCU May Become Major Shareholder of Lara Croft Publisher: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 17 Apr 2008 09:16 PM PST

SCi Entertainment, the LSE-traded games publisher that owns the popular Lara Croft Tomb Raider franchise, is close to finalizing a $100 million issue, and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) could become…

Yahoo’s Google Test Positive; Moving Closer To An Alternative? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 16 Apr 2008 10:34 PM PST

Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) two week test of using Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) search ad technology is bearing positive results a week into it, thus possibly giving the belabored Internet giant some…

Asian Expansion: MySpace Korea, AOL Hong Kong - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 15 Apr 2008 04:31 PM PST

MySpace went live in South Korea today—and head to head with some of the toughest social network competition out there. Forget Facebook, as I heard and saw during my too-brief…

AOL Buys News-Blog Contextual Search Firm Sphere - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 14 Apr 2008 09:32 PM PST

AOL (NYSE: TWX) has bought out Sphere, a blog and news contextual display service, for an undisclosed amount. The startup operates in a crowded contextual content display space with competition…

Time Warner Cuts 450 Jobs At New Line Cinema As Studio Merges With Warner Bros. - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 14 Apr 2008 03:09 PM PST

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) is slashing 450 jobs from New Line Cinema, Reuters reports. The job cuts were expected, as the movie studio is being absorbed by the company’s Warner…

Yahoo Board To Meet Friday; Solo Microsoft Still Seen As Odds-On Favorite - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Apr 2008 06:47 PM PST

Today was almost eerily quiet after yesterday’s rapid-fire flurry of news… However WSJ is reporting that the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) board is set to meet tomorrow (Friday) to discuss Microsoft’s…

AOL Creates Umbrella Site For Tech Blogs; Wakes Up - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 10 Apr 2008 09:21 AM PST

AOL (NYSE: TWX) is finally updating its portal’s blog structures with the introduction of the AOL Technology Network, which will house its related Weblogs sites like Engadget, Switched, TUAW, and…

Markets React To Microsoft-Yahoo-Google-News Corp.-AOL - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Apr 2008 06:26 AM PST

Who knows how the market will ultimately judge the latest news, but the snap reaction goes something like this. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is an obvious beneficiary, up about 2.6 percent…

Google-Yahoo-Microsoft: Analysts React To The Latest Twists - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Apr 2008 05:00 AM PST

With the Microsoft-Yahoo-Google (NSDQ: GOOG) dance so fluid, analyst reports are going stale pretty fast. Whereas just a couple days ago, most analysts were debating “what price” a deal would…

Yahoo-AOL: Will It Happen Finally? In Advanced Talks on Combining - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 09 Apr 2008 02:53 PM PST

Update: Now WSJ is reporting the same thing, three hours later: that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and AOL (NYSE: TWX) are in serious advanced talks on combining. Under the plan being…

Industry Moves: AOL’s Lewis Dvorkin Exiting As Head Of News And Sports Programming - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 09 Apr 2008 11:30 AM PST

PaidContent has learned that Lewis Dvorkin is leaving his post as SVP, *AOL* News and Sports, on May 1, with plans to start his own content company. Dvorkin, a media…

AOL’s Platform-A Makes Its Pitch To Small Publishers With Advertising.com PubAccess Service - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 09 Apr 2008 05:56 AM PST

AOL (NYSE: TWX) display ad unit Advertising.com has created PubAccess, a self-serve tool for publishers to join the Ad.com network. The service is aimed at small publishers as a way…

TheStreet.com Expands Content Partnership With AOL; Better Play But Still No Pay - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 07 Apr 2008 09:01 PM PST

TheStreet.com and AOL (NYSE: TWX) are expanding their relationship with a three-year deal that includes the company’s homegrown personal finance site MainStreet.com and BankingMyWay, the Bankrate (NSDQ: RATE) competitor that…

Update: CBS And CNN In Talks—Again—To Combine News Operations: Report; CBS Denies - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 07 Apr 2008 05:29 PM PST

See update below A perennial favorite resurfaces… NYT is reporting that CBS and CNN are in talks to combine their news operations, though the nature of the agreement or the…

ESPN Syndicating Video Through Portal For First Time; ESPN Channel Launches On AOL - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 07 Apr 2008 03:00 AM PST

Back in 2004, ESPN (NYSE: DIS) ended a three-year relationship with MSN designed to boost the sports site’s traffic while giving the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) portal much-needed content. Among other…

AOL Sells Its Last Call Center To Aegis - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 01 Apr 2008 08:18 AM PST

So it has finally happened: AOL (NYSE: TWX) has sold its call center operations in India to Aegis BPO Services, a part of the Essar Group, reports ET. The acquisition…

Microsoft Decides Not To Bid Against Itself; No To Price Rise on Yahoo: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 31 Mar 2008 10:41 PM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), not in any particular mood to bid against the only competition it has --itself-- has no plans to raise its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO),…

Proxy Watch: TWX: Despite Stock Slide, Bewkes And Parsons Exceed Bonus Targets - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 31 Mar 2008 03:03 PM PST

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) had a rough 2007—its stock ended about 30 percent off its highs—but its top executives all received bonuses above the targets that were set for them…

Time Inc. Acquires 51 Percent Of Mexican Soccer Site MedioTiempo - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 31 Mar 2008 06:47 AM PST

Time Inc. has acquired a 51 percent stake in MedioTiempo, a Mexican soccer site that claims to be the biggest sports site in the country. The deal was mentioned in…