After a decade of falling behind more-innovative competitors such as Google and Microsoft, former Internet giant AOL slammed the brakes on its decline Wednesday, as the company announced its best earnings results in years, thanks to a big patent sale to Microsoft and an increase in advertising revenue.
In naming its new CEO, Yahoo became the latest tech company to lure top executives from Google. Here's a look at a few of them over the years:
In naming its new CEO, Yahoo became the latest tech company to lure top executives from Google. Here's a look at a few of them over the years:
AOL said Monday that it has agreed to sell 800 of its patents and their related applications to Microsoft and grant it a license for its remaining patents for a total of about $1.06 billion in cash.
AOL and the Huffington Post are launching a live video network that aims to combine broadcast news with social media.
Michael Arrington, founder of the popular technology blog TechCrunch, is leaving the blog and its owner, AOL, to work on the venture capital fund he recently started.
The search has now begun for a person willing to lead one of the world's most popular Internet properties, Yahoo Inc., whose problems have deepened under its three previous leaders.
Internet company AOL Inc. said Tuesday that its net loss narrowed in the second quarter even though revenue fell, largely because the results a year ago were weighed down by a huge accounting charge.
AOL Inc.'s heads of online ad sales and corporate communications are leaving as part of the Internet company's latest management reorganization.
