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”…

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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…

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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 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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),…

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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…

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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…

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