New York, NY, April 15, 2008 – AOL today announced that it has acquired Sphere Source, Inc., a leading provider of contextual-search tools which offers related content to publishers. Sphere will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL as part of the company’s Programming division, which is led by Executive Vice President Bill Wilson.
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NEW YORK, NY, March 13, 2008 – AOL announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bebo (http://www.bebo.com), a leading global social media network. Together with its AIM and ICQ personal communications network, the acquisition will give AOL a premier position in the fast growing world of social media with a […]
New York, NY – Feb 5, 2008 – AOL announced today that it has acquired buy.at, a leading independent affiliate network that provides a platform for performance-based e-commerce marketing programs to advertisers and publishers. buy.at will operate as a wholly-owned business unit of Advertising.com, part of AOL’s Platform-A organization.
“This acquisition further enhances our Platform-A […]
New York, NY, February 4, 2008 – AOL today announced that it has acquired Goowy Media, Inc., a widget development and analytics tools company based in San Diego, Calif. Goowy will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL as part of the company’s Products division.
Founded in 2004, Goowy offers a technology platform and […]
NEW YORK, NY and Tel Aviv, Israel, November 12, 2007 - AOL announced today that it has acquired Yedda, Inc., a leading semantic social search Questions and Answer service. Yedda will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL.
Founded in 2006, Yedda employs patent-pending technology that automatically matches questions to other related questions […]
NEW YORK, NY and DULLES, VA - November 7, 2007 - AOL today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Quigo, a leading site and content- targeted advertising company based in New York. When completed, the acquisition will let AOL offer contextual advertising that matches ads to the contents of a Web […]
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