What does AT&T’s M&A dance with Time Warner mean for the media industryAT&T wants to produce and own TV shows and movies to distribute to its pay-TV and mobile customers. Rivals Comcast and Verizon have taken s...
23 Oct, 2016, 10.26 AM IST
Stage 3 is where you can style and rent a custom-made dressThe business is looking to target women between the ages of 21 and 35 looking to rent dresses for any event, even weddings.
15 Dec, 2015, 04.38 AM IST
Be afraid: Verizon's supercookies to merge with AOL's ad-tracking networkVerizon is merging its cellphone tracking supercookie with AOL's ad tracking network to match users' online habits with their offline detai...
07 Oct, 2015, 03.05 PM IST
Funny pictures can wait, Facebook now says content is the kingEver since the dawn of the mass-market web in 1995 or so, the saying "content is king" has moved in and out of fashion.
19 May, 2015, 09.03 AM IST
Yahoo investors could reap $11 billion in breakupYahoo, now worth less than those Asian stakes, has put $1.3 billion toward takeovers since 2012, around the same time Mayer took the helm.
01 Oct, 2014, 08.55 AM IST
Marissa Mayer's decision to sell Yahoo’s 40% Alibaba stake crucialAnalysts have estimated the company’s valuation could reach at least $150 billion at the time of the offering.
09 May, 2014, 11.59 AM IST
- AOL cutting over 900 jobs in US, India
Internet company AOL is cutting more than 900 jobs as it joins forces with The Huffington Post and seeks to reinvent itself as a major play...
12 Mar, 2011, 05.17 AM IST
- Yahoo! taps Goldman for takeover fence
The company’s internal thinking is that an outsider may be interested in Yahoo’s 39% stake in China-based Alibaba Group that analysts say i...
15 Oct, 2010, 12.37 AM IST
- AOL buys Silicon Valley tech blog TechCrunch
AOL announced Tuesday it had acquired TechCrunch, a leading Silicon Valley technology blog.
29 Sep, 2010, 09.22 AM IST
- Zynga's 'FarmVille' debuts on MSN site
Zynga, the biggest maker of Facebook games, began letting users of Microsoft games site play its most popular application, ‘FarmVille’.
06 Feb, 2010, 03.24 AM IST
- Time Warner to spin off AOL on Dec 9
Time Warner says it will spin off its Internet business, AOL, as a separate company on Dec 9.
17 Nov, 2009, 04.16 AM IST
- AOL buys two Web startups
Internet pioneer AOL, which Time Warner plans to spin off into an independent company later this year, announced on Thursday that it had bo...
12 Jun, 2009, 02.28 AM IST
- Time Warner to spin off ailing AOL
AOL is currently the number four Web gateway after Google, Microsoft sites and Yahoo! and has been trying to refashion itself as a popular ...
29 May, 2009, 03.23 AM IST
- Online sales expected to grow 17% in 2008: Survey
Retail sales online, excluding travel purchases, are set to grow to $204 billion in 2008 from $174.5 billion last year. Day in pics | Tips ...
08 Apr, 2008, 09.45 PM IST
- US IT market to experience slowdown in 2008: Forrester
Growth in market for technology in US would slow from 6% in 2007 to 3% in 2008, according to research firm Forrester. Learning with an 'e' ...
04 Apr, 2008, 04.00 AM IST
- US clears Google's $3.1 bn purchase of DoubleClick
US antitrust regulators approved Google Inc's $3.1 billion (euro2.16 billion) purchase of DoubleClick Inc.
20 Dec, 2007, 08.28 PM IST
- AOL buy to make Carphone UK’s No 3 broadband co
Carphone Warehouse has agreed to buy Time Warner’s AOL internet access business in the UK for £370m in cash to become Britain’s third-bigge...
12 Oct, 2006, 02.04 AM IST