AOL

AOL continues its rocky transition from a subscriber-based company to an ad-supported content provider in the third quarter.

The chief executive of AOL is pushing top shareholders to consider a sale of the beleaguered Internet pioneer to Yahoo. Yes, that Yahoo.

Daytime soap operas may be fading, but the angst, anger, and catty remarks have moved to AOL and TechCrunch. Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, sold out to AOL a year ago, then started behaving as if auditioning for a daytime Emmy. Now AOL may fire Arrington, close TechCrunch, or let soap star #2, Arianna Huffington, clean house.

AOL undergoes another shake-up in the executive ranks. Good thing it has that booming dial-up business to fall back on!

AOL and Google are joining forces once again to offer users interoperability among Gmail, Google Talk and AIM.

I know this has nothing to do with tech business per se, but the screenshot below from Friday's Huffington Post says it all about where the AOLs of the world want to lead us.

Just when Google thought it was getting a handle on ridding its searches of low-quality content created by content farms, aggregators and SEO-riggers, the marriage of two masters of those dark arts was approved by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

The tech world is buzzing about the memo allegedly written by Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop to employees, in which he outlines the perilous market situation facing the struggling Finland-based mobile phone company, likening it to a man standing on a burning oil platform.

AOL has agreed to buy the second most popular news website in the U.S., The Huffington Post, for US$315 million, it said in a statement Monday.

You know how every so often your local newspaper reports about elderly people being swindled out of money by shady contractors who trick them into paying for unnecessary home repairs, like a repaved driveway or new gutters? To me, that's sort of what AOL is doing.

1985 was a go-go year for geekdom: Microsoft released Windows 1.0, the first dot-com domain names were registered, AOL was founded, and Richard Stallman's GNU Manifesto was published. Also, the Unabomber's first fatal attack took place.

Online content farm AOL reportedly is working on a super, double-secret plan to break up the company, with one potential result being a merger of one of its pieces with Yahoo, according to Reuters.