NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc's TWX AOL will launch a personal finance site on Tuesday, adding to a roster of new properties that do not bear its name. The new site, called WalletPop.com, is a spin-off of AOL's Money & Finance...
By Kenneth Li NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Time Warner Inc's TWX discussions to merge or sell its AOL Internet division with Microsoft Corp MSFT or Yahoo Inc YHOO have taken on new urgency ahead of Yahoo's Aug 1 shareholders meeting, a source familiar with ...
By Kenneth Li NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc's TWX discussions to merge or sell its AOL Internet division with Microsoft Corp MSFT or Yahoo Inc YHOO have taken on new urgency ahead of Yahoo's Aug 1 shareholders meeting, a source familiar...
Do you need help operating your computer-machine on the Intertubes? Once upon a time, AOL was master of its domain. Now that the world has realized the internet is free, AOL struggles to be useful. They bought Bebo, a social-networking site, in hopes that the young, international demographic will boost...
America Online AOL uses a proprietary e-mail system. In April 2004, AOL introduced a way that its subscribers can access their AOL e-mail messages from other e-mail applications, including Outlook, anywhere Internet access is available. You do not have to be directly connected to the AOL service to access your...
Salesforce.com, the market leader in online customer relationship management CRM, signed an agreement with America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, under which America Online will utilize the salesforce.com Enterprise Edition for online management of advertising and commerce partners. The agreement will provide several hundred sales and marketing...
Most people need to set aside a year's worth of income before they cut themselves loose. Being your own boss has a lot of advantages, but making the transition from the traditional corporate world takes work. Hanging out your own shingle in a field you're expert in can be a...
If you want to be an entrepreneur, you're in good company. An average of 464,000 adults a month create new businesses, according to the most statistics available from the Kauffman Foundation (kauffman.org), which tracks and promotes entrepreneurship. But starting a business is a complicated, risky, all-consuming effort. Indeed, just two-thirds...
AOL said Monday that it has closed the $850 million purchase of Bebo and has put Bebo CEO Joanna Shields in charge of the newly acquired social network, AIM and ICQ. Shields will be in charge of a new AOL unit dubbed "People Networks." The general theme...
Whoops. After I said it looked like Platform A had dodged a bullet last week, after landing a rather large deal with Viacom and placing first among comScore's ad network rankings, the company announced plans to lose 100 employees over the weekend. From the Washington Post story: ...
Not a bad day for AOL's Platform-A ad network. First, the company announced a major deal with Verizon, in which Platform-A will rep all of its online advertising, as well as most of its mobile advertising: Under the terms of the agreement, Verizon will leverage Platform-A's ...
In May of this year, web users spent 25 billion minutes on AOL online media (including IM and e-mail); that makes the little yellow running man a gold medal winner.After Nielsen/NetRatings changed its methodology to account for "total minutes" a month ago, the Googlemeister dropped from 1st to 5th, while...
Willing bring a new product or service to market. All the homework is done and decided exactly what plan is to offer; now all there is need to generate is sales. Sounds simple enough, doesn't it? But every day, countless new product and service ideas are conceived-never to be born...
Organizational change is a much discussed topic in the management literature. It is an important issue because proper change management significantly increases the survival an organization in hyper-competitive global business environment. Yet, all too often transformational change programs fail due to a variety of reasons. The purpose of this paper...
Steve Case is turning his attention to the health care industry in hopes of effecting radical changes in how people meet their health needs. The means to this end is Revolution - a portfolio of 12 companies, ranging from luxury resorts to boutique insurers, which cost a hefty quarter-billion dollars...
The online coupon program offers a new way for traditional, brick-and-mortar grocery stores to reach shoppers on the Internet. Though the ValuPage online coupon program doesn't exactly qualify as "e-commerce," it certainly provides a new way for grocery vendors to promote their brands to a targeted, local audience via the...
With 13 million downloads under the iTunes Music Store belt since the April 2003 launch, cavalier Jobs pledged his company will now sell 100 million songs by April 2004. Currently, Apple supports 200,000 titles but has machinations to offer more than 400,000 songs by the end of October. Like its...
Ethics govern the overall behavior of employees in an organization. The challenges in managing ethics magnify in the international context. The vast social and cultural differences pressurize the multinationals to redefine the ethical codes of conduct. This paper prescribes a few rules for this game in line with the general...
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia recently has ruled that computer data does not constitute “tangible property” under a technology general liability policy in America Online, Inc. v. St. Paul Mercury Insurance Co., No. 01-1636-A, 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11346 (E.D. Va. June 20, 2002)....
