One of the first Internet mapping services, MapQuest, has launched its official app for Windows Phone 8 devices, including support for Live Tiles and pinning to the Start menu. More...

Microsoft is launching even more media streaming apps for its Xbox 360 console this week, including the Vimeo and AOL On apps in the US, along with an update to the Verizon FiOS app. More...

All AOL employees will be getting a nice $1,056 year end bonus, thanks in part due to the recent sale of a number of patents it owned to Microsoft, which in turn sold some of those patents to Facebook More...

What if Microsoft's antitrust troubles led to it being split into two companies? What if Steve Jobs never returned to Apple? Trivia Tuesday takes a look at some of technology's greatest what ifs. More...

Aol has launched a new web email service called Alto that's designed to work with Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Aol Mail and .Mac, but the press release make no mention of Hotmail or Outlook.com from Microsoft. More...

In April, AOL announced that Microsoft would be purchasing a number of their patents. Now, in the midst of a very public patent row in the US courts, the AOL/Microsoft deal has been completed. More...

Aol has launched a major redesign of its web-based Aol Mail service as it seeks to keep its remaining users from leaving for Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail and other services. More...

AOL has announced that it has officially concluded its previously announced deal to sell over 800 patents to Microsoft for $1.056 billion. Microsoft will sell many of those patents to Facebook. More...

Once upon a time, AOL was a mighty titan in the tech world, but now it's just a place for entrepreneurs and squatters to crash. If that ain't a sad fate, what is? More...

Nokia has announced it has made some deals with a number of companies for them to produce apps exclusively for the company's Windows Phone-based Lumia smartphones. More...

Is Microsoft planning to sell off the patents it recently acquired from AOL for around $1 billion? A report claims that it is, adding that Microsoft doesn't actually need most of those patents. More...

Shares of AOL are going ballistic today, with the stock price surging over 46 percent after it announced a deal to sell 800 patents to Microsoft for just over $1 billion. More...

Microsoft and AOL linked up in a billion dollar patent sale that will give Microsoft ownership of the patents for Netscape. Microsoft not only killed the browser, but it now owns its soul. More...

AOL's AIM instant messaging service could be on the chopping block, as the company lays off almost all of the staff working on the long standing software. Could it be the end of an era? More...

Microsoft, Google and others have agreed to abide by the Obama Administration's new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights which, among other things, will keep companies from tracking people's web surfing. More...

One of the "one of the worst deals ever made in the dotcom era" disappeared off the internet today, making no noise and giving no warning that it was going. It appears it's permanent. More...

Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, AOL and other companies are teaming up to launch DMARC.org, a technical working group that's developing new email standards designed to combat threats such as phishing. More...

Microsoft, along with other companies like Google, Yahoo, AOL, are working with a start up called Agari in order to find and stop phishing email messages from inboxes. More...

AOL-Nullsoft launched Winamp for Mac Sync Beta, the first Winamp application for the Mac. Nullsoft reports that many more features are coming soon and promises a "new long-term commitment to the Mac More...

AOL has released a preview of the upcoming and revamped version of its popular AIM messaging software for the PC, Mac, iOS and Android platforms with a number of new features. More...

Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo have officially announced plans to team up in order to sell web advertisements in an effort to better compete with the Google ad powerhouse. More...

A new rumor claims that AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong is still trying to get his company to merge with rival Yahoo which he claims could save both companies between $1 billion and $1.5 billion. More...

Yahoo's stock price rose up today on new rumors that Microsoft might be trying to buy the Internet web portal, three years after Microsoft tried unsuccessfully to acquire Yahoo. More...

Struggling web site portal Yahoo has announced a new collaboration with ABC News in a partnership that they claim will form the US's largest digital news network. More...

Yahoo has sent out invites to the media saying it will hold a press conference in New York on Monday morning but there's no word on what might be discussed. More...

A new report suggests that AOL is in talks with financial advisers to possibly merge its operations with Yahoo following the firing of Yahoo's CEO Carol Bartz. However another report says otherwise. More...

In her first interview since being fired as Yahoo's CEO on Monday, Carol Bartz minces no words and says that the company's board "f***** me over" and also called Yahoo's board members "doofuses". More...

AOL's top advertising executive will be leaving the company, the chief executive confirmed to employees on Monday. The president of the company's global marketing and strategy, Jeff Levick, will be leaving the company after a... More...

Microsoft, Google, and AOL are the subjects of a lawsuit from a company that claims the three defendants violated the patents of its 3D mapping software. Bloomberg reports that Transcenic filed the lawsuit earlier this... More...

The hacker group LulzSec may have decided to stop their massive hacking campaign this weekend but that doesn't mean that the group didn't want to stage one final big release of data that it has... More...

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen is accredited with a shocking investment error in the early 90s that ended up costing him a staggering $40 billion, as mentioned in his memoir Idea Man. Revealed through... More...

News staff and editors may be leaving other AOL-owned websites, namely the much-reported-about Engadget resignations, but some websites aren't seeing their staff quit—they're essentially all being let go. DownloadSquad and Switched have announced today that... More...

Engadget, an arguable leader in the technology blogosphere, has been suffering from resignations quite rapidly in the last three weeks. Paul Miller, an editor for Engadget, was the first one to hand in his letter... More...

This is how an acquisition works: When you are bought out by a larger, more corporate, financial entity, they look at your assets and your growth potential, they evaluate you as a viable revenue stream,... More...

The recently leaked document, the “AOL Way”, seems to be causing more public outcry than CEO Tim Armstrong probably ever intended. It was not long after that document made headlines that staff at Engadget, one of... More...

Tech blog Engadget seems to be spending more time in the news than publishing it of late, with editor Paul Miller taking a parting swipe at AOL as he announced his departure from the site... More...

AOL has today announced it will acquire the rapidly expanding online United States news, analysis, and lifestyle website giant Huffington Post for $315 million. As part of the deal to acquire the Huffington Post, co-founder of... More...

AOL has continued its acquisition spree, this time announcing that it has purchased startup website about.me for an undisclosed amount of money. The site, which began beta testing in September, has over 400,000 users and... More...

A report out of the NY Times Bits blog suggests Yahoo may be planning layoffs as early as Tuesday, December 14th. The anonymous source claims Yahoo may be planning to cut up to 5% of... More...

The AIM® service is all about helping you keep in touch with your buddies. Whether you're sending IMs, sharing photos or doing a voice chat we want to make it better. Features include: Sleek new design: New... More...

The AIM® service is all about helping you keep in touch with your buddies. Whether you're sending IMs, sharing photos or doing a voice chat we want to make it better. Features include: Sleek new design: New... More...

If you read the title above and instantly felt excited, chances are you still use AOL mail. If so, you'd probably be the first to admit to AOL's lack of competitive features. AOL's latest endeavour... More...

Rumors that AOL was interested in purchasing Yahoo were reported here last month and it appears that AOL is now taking the next steps in investigating a possible merger; Reuters is reporting that they have... More...

In recent months, Yahoo has become the garage sale of the Internet, where many curious tech company shoppers are looking at taking property from Yahoo, and among these curious shoppers is AOL. However, AOL isn't... More...

TechCrunch has quickly grown to be one of the driving forces behind the huge and dynamic world of online technology news media. In its five years of life, founder Michael Arrington has grown his news... More...

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) should be used because e-mail just isn't fast enough sometimes. This convenient, add-on to your system lets you communicate one-on-one or in a group with family, friends, and business associates who... More...

The AIM® service is all about helping you keep in touch with your buddies. Whether you're sending IMs, sharing photos or doing a voice chat we want to make it better. Features include: Sleek new design: New... More...

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has sued Apple, Facebook, Google and eight other companies for infringing on his patents, according to the Wall Street Journal. The patents, filed over a decade ago, are not targeting major... More...

Yahoo may have taken the spotlight this month, but it is still far away from Google who is dominating the search market. ComScore released their monthly statistics showing the rise and fall of the... More...

AOL has sold its ICQ instant messenger service for $187.5 millon to Russia's Digital Sky Technologies (DST). Business Wire reported the deal on Wednesday saying the instant messaging software has a large presence in Russia,... More...