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Touchdown Called Back: Fleaflicker Founder Buys Back Fantasy Sports Site From AOL
Over three years ago, we reported that AOL had acquired the New Jersey-based fantasy sports site Fleaflicker. It seemed like a touchdown for 26-year-old founder Ori Schwartz. Now it’s looking…
Zoopla moves in with AOL to power its property search
Zoopla, the real estate startup, has signed an “exclusive deal” to power the property search feature of AOL in the UK, which is now live. Interestingly, Zoopla already has existing…
AOL Makes Fun Of Yahoo. And It's Actually Hilarious.
This is amazing. Earlier today Yahoo launched Android music app that happened to have the exact same name as the Android music app launched by AOL four months ago, “Play.”…
The Devil Made Me Do It. AOL's Regrouped Advertising.com Is A $500 Million Business
AOL’s advertising platforms, which are grouped under the Advertising.com business, is now a $500 million business, the company revealed today at its Investor Day in New York City. The Advertising.com…
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong: Paid Content Can Work
TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington took the stage today to interview AOL CEO Tim Armstrong. It was actually at TechCrunch Disrupt New York last year where Armstrong first approached Arrington about…
Revealed: The Huffington Post Wanted To Buy TechCrunch Back In The Day
My boss, Michael Arrington, sat down with his boss (and my boss as well), Arianna Huffington for a brief chat at TechCrunch Disrupt, where Huffington revealed that she tried to…
As 2012 Election Season Ramps Up, AOL's Patch Will Launch 33 Sites In 'Key' Primary States
In its last earnings report, AOL revealed that it poured $40 million into its hyperlocal news platform Patch in the quarter. It’s no secret that AOL, Arianna Huffington and CEO…
AOL Launches "Incredibly Easy" Video Chat Service Internally; We Launch It Externally
Earlier today, AOL’s Head of AIM Products Jason Shellen sent an email to the entire company urging people not to share its contents with people outside of the company. Even…
Tim Armstrong Gives Some Project Devil Details
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is betting on the devil. Project Devil, that is. Those are the ad units on AOL properties (including TechCrunch), and now on Hearst sites as well,…
AOL's Q1: Display Ad Revenues Finally Going Up, But Profits Are Down 86 Percent
Our parent company AOL has just released its quarterly earnings for Q1 2011, and it’s a mixed bag (again). Revenue came in at $551.4 million, which is better than most…
The Complete Guide To Watching And Tracking The Royal Wedding Online
For any of you caught up in the frenzy over the royal wedding between England’s Prince William and Kate Middleton, we’ve collected a comprehensive list of where to watch the…
Courtesy Of Moo, AOL's About.me Allows Users To Print Free Business Cards
Personal profile startup About.me, which was acquired by AOL last December, is adding a new feature today—the ability to print business cards for free from personal profiles on the platform.…
AOL Jumps To No. 2 Spot In comScore Online Video Rankings
Online video views continue to rise. ComScore has released data from its Video Metrix service, showing that 174 million Internet users in the United States watched online video content in…
Play, AOL's Android Music Sharing App, Hits 250,000 Downloads In Three Weeks
When a mobile app gets more than a hundred thousand downloads in its first few weeks, that is usually a good thing. Instagram hit 100,000 in a week, and music-sharing…
Bought By AOL Alongside Patch, Going Will Soon Be Gone
Back in June of 2009, then-new CEO Tim Armstrong made two acquisitions to move AOL into the local space: Patch and Going. While the verdict is still very much out…
AOL HuffPost To Freelancers: We Want You On Staff, But Real Journalists Only Need Apply
In the reorganization of AOL and the Huffington Post into the Huffington Post Media Group, the company succumbed to layoffs and consolidated AOL news sites into the Huffington Post, folding…
Actually, AOL Didn't Ask Us To 'Tone It Down' – Moviefone Did. And Their Editor-In-Chief Should Be Fired
“AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down” screamed Alexia Tsotsis’ headline on TechCrunch earlier today. And, as someone who has been just waiting for our new corporate paymasters…
SoundTracking Sings The Praises Of "Mobile-First" And "From-The-Ground-Up Social"
Late last week, we first wrote about SoundTracking, a new iPhone application from Schematic Labs that allows you to easily share not only the music you’re listening to, but the…
AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down
Earlier this week interviewed Duncan Jones and Jake Gyllenhaal at SXSW, at the press junket for their movie The Source Code. While the film doesn’t have a huge tech angle…
AOL's Mobile-First Group Steps To The Stage With Play, An Instagram For Music
As you know, we’re now owned by AOL. And while it’s a big company, you’d think we’d be able to find out some tidbits of information about secret projects they’re…
Confirmed: AOL Gives Over 200 U.S. Employees Pink Slips
As we’ve heard over the past few days, AOL has started implementing layoffs across its properties in the wake of the Huffington Post acquisition. The deal, which amounted to $315…
AOL Closes $315 Million Huffington Post Acquisition; Expands Editorial Team
Well that was fast. AOL has closed its $315 million acquisition of The Huffington Post. The deal was originally announced on February 6, so it’s taken a month for the…
Confirmed: AOL's Patch Buys Hyperlocal News Site Outside.In
AOL’s Patch has acquired hyperlocal news aggregator Outside.In, we’ve confirmed with Patch’s president Warren Webster. It’s unclear what the terms of the deal are but Business Insider reported earlier that…
AOL's Awesome Weekly Drinking Binge
One great thing about big corporations are all the rules. AOL has a twenty nine page Standards of Business Conduct policy that all applies to all employees. The document covers…
AOL To Restructure Media Group Around Huffington Post – Here's The Internal Email
Earlier this morning AOL President Media David Eun resigned, leaving us wondering who we at TechCrunch work for now (I mean besides you, dear readers). Now we know. In an…
AOL Exec David Eun Out – Here's His Email To Staff
David Eun, my boss’s (Heather) boss since the acquisition, will shortly be leaving AOL. As President of AOL Media and Studios he oversaw the AOL homepage as well as all…
Should Entrepreneurs Trust a VC Who Is Also Founding a Company? (TCTV)
There’s an age-old debate in Silicon Valley over whether or not you have to have started a company before to be a great VC. While many of the best VCs…
First AOL Q1 Luge Update Since HuffPo Acquisition: We've Got Work To Do (No Kidding)
It’s rare that we get access to insider information as AOL employees here at TechCrunch HQ, so we have to rely on our mad reporting skills and the strength of…
Funny Or Die Explains The AOL-HuffPo Deal: "Bringing The Future Back To 1996"
Ever since AOL announced its $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post, pundits have been asking what does it mean? Well, look no further. Funny or Die created the faux…
Huffington Post Unique Visitors Surge To 28 Million In January
Huffington Post, our soon to be sister site (assuming government clearance of the AOL acquisition goes through), had quite a January. Unique U.S. visitors surged to 28 million in January…