Articles

AOL’s Longest-Running Employee on the History of AOL Chat Rooms
In the late 1990s, AOL chat rooms had millions of users. So what happened? Joe Schober, the longest-running employee at AOL, explains the evolution of the chat...
Tale of Two Techs: Yahoo CEO Mess Deepens as AOL Rides Patent Sale
Yahoo and AOL are both former tech/media darlings in the midst of turnaround efforts, but lately they’ve had a striking divergence of fortune.
AOL Stock Soars 40% on Billion Dollar Patent Sale to Microsoft
Wall Street cheered AOL’s deal to sell $1 billion worth of patents to Microsoft, sending the onetime Internet pioneer’s stock soaring over 40% Monday to levels...
Report: AOL Still Wants to Merge with Yahoo
Those AOL-Yahoo deal rumors you've probably forgotten about? They're apparently still a possibility, with anonymous sources saying that AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has...

AOL’s Hyperlocal ‘Patch’ Network Triples Traffic in 2011, but What Does That Mean?
AOL's network of hyperlocal blogs, Patch, may have become more than a little controversial for its use of unpaid writers and rumors it's lost ridiculous piles of...
Photo Essays

AOL Turns 25
A photo history of the iconic internet brand


