As the NSA surveillance story goes from bad to worse to Philip K. Dick, some of the Silicon Valley companies implicated in the so-called "PRISM" program are denying that they've ever heard of it.
The Huffington Post is teaming up with Mark Cuban to take its newish, money-losing video channel, HuffPost Live, from the laptop screen to the television screen.
Alto is AOL's new mail venture, in which the company gives up on getting people to have AOL.com e-mail addresses.
Perpetual underdog AOL has had a better year than tech behemoth Apple, if we're looking at one particular metric: The percent by which their stocks have changed since January 2012, as Business Insider's Jay Yarow shows in this Google Finance chart he put together.
By now you might have heard about Eric Simons, the 19-year-old who crashed at AOL's Palo Alto campus for two months until he was finally caught and thrown out. Here's how he did it.
The hilarious news that a 19-year-old entrepreneur secretly lived on AOL's Palo Alto campus for months reminds us of a very similar story from 2000 and makes us wonder just how closely we're repeating the history of the '90s tech boom and bust.
Sarah Lacy of PandoDaily reports that AOL is looking to unload two of its signature blog properties, Engadget and TechCrunch, after a year of messy public fights over their leadership.
Just over a year after she was anointed queen of content, Arianna Huffington has been knocked down the ladder a couple of rungs at AOL.
Lost in the thunder of Facebook buying Instagram for $1 billion a few weeks ago was Microsoft buying a portfolio of patents from AOL for the same amount, a portfolio which Microsoft has now parlayed into a $550 million cash deal with Facebook.
Brian Farnham, the guy in charge of AOL's Patch network, is leaving because Patch is not enough of a start-up for him, he said in an unnervingly positive farewell blog post Wednesday.
AOL shareholders must be beside themselves after the company offloaded over 800 patents to Microsoft in a deal worth about $1 billion.
Michael Arrington, founder of of the popular tech blog TechCrunch is back and guest blogging for the site despite an epic, public flame war with the blog's corporate owners at AOL that ended with his exit.
After a short break from daily bad news, AOL's management is once again being needled in public.
Patch's request to its hundreds of local editors not to comment on Jim Romenesko's reporting on Patch is just the latest example of a big media company trying, and failing, to control its people's participation in Internet conversation.
Poor AOL. All it wants in this cold, harsh, and loveless world full of bigger, stronger brands like Yahoo and Google is for customers to start caring for them again.
Advertising bolstered AOL at the end of 2011, lifting the company's profits beyond Wall Street's expectations, the fourth-quarter profit report revealed.
AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong just sent out his end-of-year, go-get-em email that includes, among other things, details of exactly what "General Stan McChrystal and an elite team of Special Forces leadership" are consulting on the company's web strategy.
The tech world leaned forward on Wednesday evening when Michael Arrington — the TechCrunch founder who boisterously departed AOL after a spat with Arianna Huffington — warned on Twitter of "some very bad news about AOL."
The secret to AOL's 3.5 million dial-up subscribers: they're not paying for dial-up.
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong feels confident enough with his company's middling third quarter earnings, released today, to tell the world that, no, AOL doesn't want to merger with Yahoo, despite rumors to the contrary.
There's (a little) good news and there's (a lot of) bad news in AOL's third quarter earnings report out Tuesday, leaving some to wonder if Tim Armstrong's big turnaround is still stalled.
Plus: Leonardo DiCaprio is on the rebound
After Arrington, Paul Carr is the first blogger to quit the blog
The departed TechCrunch founder now says the fight with AOL wasn't that bad
Huffington blames the media in her defense of her journalism ethics
According to a statement from AOL, Erick Schonfeld is the new editor of TechCrunch
This is the third time this has happened, and the reactions just get crazier every time
Despite a few power users, there's still a stigma around using aol.com addresses
We've heard this one before
What's stopping Arrington from just starting a new blog?
Ousting the tech blog's founder leaves a power vacuum in Silicon Valley
If not that, he wants a clean break from The Huffington Post
Journalists are angry, employees don't know what's up
Also, disorganized. So many different stories. Here's a quick explanation
If AOL goes private, here are the properties on the chopping block
Adweek reports that the fledgling internet giant might want to break up
According to some analysts, it might be their "last, best hope"
Reporter Shahien Nasiripour is Huffington Post's second big loss this week
In an effort to stop the bleeding, Tim Armstrong is offering shareholders $250 million
Ad revenue is up for the first time since 2008, but the company is still losing money
From the look to the way it works, Editions pays homage to traditional media
The latest: a veiled threat to a tech executive who he blames for not handing him a scoop
Everybody knows that local papers are suffering. But what can we do about it?
Four months after the $315 million acquisition, critics are scrutinizing the wisdom of the deal
A very fortuitous time for the AIM chat app, and Skype competitor, to be unveiled
Army of unpaid, hyper-local bloggers goes to work
Advertising gains don't offset a 24 percent subscription revenue decline
The plan is for them to write a new "local voices" section on Patch.com
The editor of Moviefone is sacked one day after she sacked her freelancers
The infighting at AOL rages on over a "snarky" dispatch
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