AOL Puts Drag on Time Warner Profit

Sluggish Online Ad Sales Contribute to 26 Percent Drop in Parent's Earnings

Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008

AOL's expensive investment in building a leading online advertising network is not yet paying off for parent company Time Warner. Read story »

AOL Is Moving Closer to Jettisoning Dial-Up

Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008

AOL is finally in a position to shed the dial-up-access business that once offered tens of millions of people their first glance at the Internet. Read story and 4 comments »

AOL Cuts More Products Developed in Dulles

Moves Affect Development Unit in Dulles

Saturday, July 26, 2008

AOL is slashing more products — including some that had been promoted as on the cutting edge of the company’s future — as part of its effort to cut costs and focus resources on what is working for the beleaguered Internet giant. Read story »

SEC Sues 8 Former AOL Officials

Regulator Alleges Inflation of Online Ad Revenue

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday filed civil lawsuits against eight former America Online executives, accusing them of participating in illegal accounting practices that inflated the online giant’s reported revenue by more than $1 billion. Read story »

Bringing Together AOL's Ad Unit

Unit’s New Chief Inherits Clashes

Monday, March 17, 2008

Just as soon as AOL veteran Lynda M. Clarizio was promoted last week to lead Platform A, the company’s ambitious online advertising network, firecrackers started to go off around her. Read story »

AOL Buys Bebo to Compete In Social-Networking Market

Saturday, March 15, 2008

AOL announced plans earlier this week to buy social-networking site Bebo for $850 million in an attempt to appeal to younger Internet users and expand its online-advertising business. Read story »

Anti-Spamming Felony Conviction Is Upheld

Saturday, March 1, 2008

The Virginia Supreme Court yesterday narrowly upheld the nation’s first conviction under a state anti-spamming law that makes it a felony to send unsolicited mass e-mails. Read story and 1 comment »

The AOL Exodus Effect

Once a Magnet, Firm’s Departure May Alter Local Tech Landscape

Monday, Feb. 18, 2008

Barry Schuler moved to Washington from Silicon Valley to join AOL during its golden days, one of the many top technology professionals the Internet 8giant recruited to the region. But when the former chief executive left in 2003, he returned to California to become an investor and start a technology company, following other executives who have drifted away from the region. Read story »

Yahoo Shows an Interest in AOL

Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008

Now that Yahoo has formally rejected Microsoft’s unsolicited $44 billion buyout bid, the Internet company has set its sights on its own deal with AOL. Read story »

Yahoo Board Rejects $44.6 Billion Microsoft Offer

Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008

The Yahoo board has decided to reject Microsoft’s unsolicited $44.6 billion cash-and-stock buyout bid, a source close to the discussions said, setting the stage for what could be a prolonged takeover battle between the two tech companies. Read story »

New Time Warner Chief Focuses on Consolidation

Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008

In the first five minutes of his first address as head of the world’s largest media company yesterday, Time Warner chief executive Jeffrey L. Bewkes said: The company is looking to fold its New Line Cinema movie studio into the larger Warner Bros.; AOL’s declining Internet-access business will be split from its growing advertising business; and Time Warner is working on an ownership change at Time Warner Cable, possibly completing the spinoff of the cable unit. Then, Bewkes got on to the more prosaic news of discussing Time Warner’s fourth-quarter and full-year 2007 earnings, released yesterday. And then he took a breath. Read story »

Possible Yahoo Sale Puts Focus On AOL

Possible Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Robs AOL of Likely Suitors

Monday, Feb. 4, 2008

Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo on Friday revived debate about AOL’s plan to remake itself as an online advertising company and whether it might too become a target for acquisition. Read story »

As It Shifts Strategy, AOL Cuts Some Charitable Ties

Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007

AOL is scaling back its philanthropic contributions in Washington region as it reinvents itself as a global Internet advertising firm. Read story »

AOL Pulls Out of Summer Music Fest

Friday, Dec. 7, 2007

The Loudoun Summer Music Fest announced Friday that AOL will no longer be sponsoring the annual charity event. Read story »