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For months, Time Warner has been exploring options for the two sides of America OnLine (AOL), including whether to sell or combine the businesses in a partnership with other companies. However, the discussions have been held back by uncertainty about how revenue and liabilities would be split between the two sides, which complicated putting a value to the businesses.

If a recent exclusive is to be believed AOL is set to bring its ad network - Advertising.com to India. The launch, which might happen in a couple of months itself can have a big impact on the already crowded Indian Online Advertising industry.
 
Through a spate of acquisitions which included advertising.com, AOL had formed Platform-A [...]

“In addition,” reads Yahoo’s press release, “Yahoo and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services, bringing easier and broader communication to users.”

AOL India has just launched their Video Portal in India. The company is also launching video portals in Canada and Taiwan. The website is being powered by Truveo – the search engine for videos across the web. So Indian content is basically being optimized from Truveo and being showcased on the AOL Video Portal.

Web18 Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd, the Internet arm of Network18 Media and Investments Ltd is set to launch a horizontal portal, said two people familiar with the development (according to Livemint).
 
A horizontal portal refers to an Internet portal site that offers a broad range of content and services. Exampels could be Rediff, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL etc.
 
Web18 had launched Josh18 sometime back [...]

Microsoft walking away from the deal might seems like an ideal situation that Yahoo might have dreamt of. But it’s actually a nightmare. Let me tell you why. If Microsoft walks away from the deal, thousands of shareholders of Yahoo will be furious since they failed to get a justified price for their holdings in Yahoo. (Yes, many of the shareholders think that at $31 per share, Microsoft is offering a fare price to Yahoo). This, as we discussed in our featured post Microsoft-Yahoo-Google : Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai, could result in a shareholders’ rebellion

The International social networking scene just refuses to die down. After the astronomical valuation of facebook by Microsoft another social network bebo.com which we had covered earlier here has been bought over by AOL in an all cash deal worth 850 million $.Lets put this deal into perspective with whats happening in the social networking [...]

 
AOL has entered into an alliance with OneIndia for providing content in Hindi. AOL has entered into the Indian market recently. Recently it released the online contest “Bano TV Star” and released viral video TV Commercial for the same.
 
OneIndia is an integrated Internet portal providing content in Hindi, Tamil, Malyalam, and Telugu.
 
AOL’s Vice President, India, [...]

Yahoo! has been very active with new feature with regards to its mail. It had gone regional recently with its mail to reach to wider audience. Now Yahoo India, has taken a step ahead by announcing the launch of new product for visually impaired people to use Yahoo Mail Service.
 
 

The company mentioned Yahoo Mail [...]

Microsoft, the global software giant, launched the upgraded version of its Windows LIVE Services recently in India. Windows Live Services comes along with a set of online tools and desktop applications which include Windows Mail, Messenger, Toolbar, Events, Photo Gallery, Writer and OneCare Family Safety.
 
The upgraded version of Windows Live is designed to synchronize [...]

The trend of portals such as Yahoo!, Google, MSN and AOL going mobile is taking mobile users with awe. Certainly, the war of the internet giants is getting warmer to capture the mobile search market. The mobile market in Asia is huge and certainly the giants are making efforts to prepare for the big [...]

After Yahoo, Google and Rediff now it is time for to go regional. As a part of an aggressive global expansion strategy AOL is launching Hindi and Tamil language version of internet portal in India and also launches Indian version of its video search engine called Truveo.
We have also blogged earlier that [...]

 
After being the software outsource superpower, superstardom seems like the next thing on the Indian youth’s mind. The plethora of reality shows that the nation has been witnessing for the past few years only supports this. Now AOL is cashing on with this feeling of the youth with its “Bano TV Star” TV Commercial campaign. [...]

‘US-based Internet giants such as Google and Yahoo are eyeing Rediff.com India Ltd,’ reports Hindustan Times. Investment banking sources told Hindustan Times that the management of Nasdaq-listed Rediff was in talks with the global companies for a negotiated takeover deal.
Rediff is definitely India’s leading portal and off late have looked at incorporating certain Web 2.0 [...]

AOL (formerly known as America Online), one of the oldest online companies is making its entry into India on 15th of November with an India based portal that will compete with domestic portals like Rediff, Indiatimes, and other international players like MSN and Yahoo.
Currently, the Indian AOL will be headed by Maneesh Dhir and the company is recruiting heavily [...]