Posts Tagged ‘AOL’

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Feb13

Major Yahoo investor urges Microsoft to raise offer

by admin on February 13th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Posted In: News & Articles

BOSTON/SEATTLE (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc’s second-biggest investor urged Microsoft Corp to raise its $42 billion bid for the Web pioneer and warned Yahoo it has few options left, raising the pressure on them to seal a deal. In a quarterly letter to investors released on Tuesday, Bill Miller, the star stock-picker at U.S. asset manager […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Mar14

AOL to Buy Bebo Networking Web Site for $850 Million

by admin on March 14th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Posted In: News & Articles

AOL, seeking to make up for falling subscription sales, agreed to buy Bebo for $850 million to gain the third-largest U.S. social-networking Web site and expand in online advertising. Bebo, which is closely held, has offices in the U.K., San Francisco and Austin, Texas, AOL, a Time Warner Inc. unit, said in a statement today. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jul10

A cartoonlike way to chat from Google

by admin on July 10th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Posted In: Internet / Mobile

Google, known for its plain-Jane approach to Web design, has come up with something much wackier. On Tuesday the company introduced Lively, an online tool that allows people to embody a cartoonish online avatar and have text-based conversations with friends and other Internet users in virtual chat rooms. The rooms can be added to any […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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