Tag: time warner
Second time lucky: AOL seeks new media dominance with Huffington Post acquisition
The coolest kid on the liberal media block, Arianna Huffington, has agreed to sell her media group Huffington Post to AOL. AOL will pay $315 million for Huffington Post, the highly respected online newspaper, in a boon for AOL…
Yahoo! start discussions with AOL
It’s been a little while since the “Microhoo” shenanigans of earlier this year where titans Microsoft tried to take over the struggling Yahoo! Yahoo! haven’t really got too far since – a hoped-for ad deal with Google is struggling to get regulatory backing, and investors are worried…
The waters are getting decidedly murky in the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover, with News Corp looking keen
Microsoft’s courtship of Yahoo became a little less than friendly over the weekend following Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s ultimatum, which included a three week deadline and a threat to usurp Yahoo’s board of directors. Now Yahoo appears to be seeking comfort in the arms of others in order to forestall the takeover while Microsoft is apparently finding more allies to strengthen its advances…
YouTube testing video fingerprinting tech to head off copyright lawsuits
What do you do if you’re the planet’s biggest video-sharing site, and you’re getting sued for a billion dollars by Viacom for copyright infringement? Why, you get your arse into gear to develop some technology to identify dodgy vids, of course.
