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Annie Lennox and Sandi Toksvig to contribute to AOL women’s site MakersOnline collection of women’s stories has already launched in the US, Canada and China with content from Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey
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How did email grow from messages between academics to a global epidemic?Ray Tomlinson, the man who literally put the @ in email addresses, has died. Here’s a brief history of electronic messages, from the Queen’s first mail to the triumph of spam
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Jim Kimsey, co-founder of AOL, dies at 76The web pioneer helped start what would become America Online in the early 1980s, eventually connecting millions to the internet with dial-up
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You've got donations: AOL email users give more money to political campaignsData shows average contribution from an AOL address is $159, compared to $31 from a Gmail address, as campaigns depend heavily on email fundraising
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AOL’s Tim Armstrong: ‘If there’s one law, it’s that nobody owns the future’Chief executive on creating value, the impact of adblocking, and why HuffPo isn’t chasing profits
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Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner signs up for Huffington Post web series#PowerShift looks at power of social media in series commissioned out of AOL/HuffPo’s UK operation and starring actor who plays Sansa Stark in HBO hit
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AOL's Millennial Media deal highlights rise in automated ad buyingProgrammatic ad buying predicted to account for more than half of the UK’s £3bn digital display market this year, according to research
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Before Google's new logo, vaginas and goldfish: five other tech redesignsAs the technology corporation introduces its brand new logo to the world, we take a look at other tech brand reinventions
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'We blame the sick for being expensive': the mother whose baby cost AOL $1mAfter AOL’s CEO told employees he was cutting retirement benefits partly because of the cost of Deanna Fei’s ‘distressed baby’, the mother fought back
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Microsoft transfers map business to Uber and display advertising to AOLAOL to make Bing its main search engine and take over selling ads on Microsoft sites, while Uber rather than in-house division will supply maps
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Guardian signs global video deal with AOL OnYouTube-style portal adds newspaper to list of partners that includes Channel 4 News, ITN, and the Telegraph
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There’s fear over what new culture secretary Whittingdale might do about the licence fee, but the last thing the BBC needs is to be kept in a gilded cageWe can treasure the BBC, but it has to make its own way in the digital world
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Verizon and AOL deal gives us a glimpse into the future of advertisingThe $4.4bn purchase by the US telecoms giant will help overcome the ad industry’s biggest problem
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AOL sold to Verizon: its journey from tech giant to penny-ante side betThe $4.4bn price tag for the once-great internet player is a bargain compared to what it could have commanded 15 years ago
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Facebook quiz publisher PlayBuzz raises $16m in fundingIsraeli-based quiz and list publishing platform uses content from organisations including such as the Daily Telegraph and AOL
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AOL to close MyDaily and ParentDishCompany scraps women-focused sites in order to focus on key brands such as HuffPost UK, which will double its lifestyle and politics teams
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Besides AIM, what would telecom giant Verizon get from AOL takeover deal?Online advertising might be appeal of firm that once dominated internet access.
Dial-up customers, ‘digital prophet’ and AOL homepage fans are also possible draws
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Jess Zimmerman: AOL and Co are so desperate for magical thinking that they’ll pay six figures to a man best known for his hair and doodlesForget Shingy. 'Digital prophets' only sell optimism to a terrified tech industry
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Who is Shingy, AOL's digital prophet?David Shing, aka Shingy, is employed by AOL as their resident ‘digital prophet’. He flies around the world and goes to conferences. But what else does he do?
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Tess Daly, Richard Bacon and Rochelle Humes star in AOL’s new web seriesFirst UK commissions by the digital media company will explore motherhood and successful 30-year-olds. By Mark Sweney
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Warner boss Jeff Bewkes's real curveball was to question the value of the non-voting Fox 'A' shares being offered
Why Rupert Murdoch's bid for Time Warner crumbled
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How the local press can survive – and thrive – in a digital age
Local media outlets are ripe for reinvention and can be even more powerful in an era dominated by the web
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AOL's Tim Armstrong: We expect Arianna Huffington to sign a new contract - video
Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, joins the Guardian's Mark Sweney at the Cannes Lions festival to discuss the changing advertising and digital media landscape
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Arianna Huffington: 'I'm optimistic about the media - even newspapers'
Jane Martinson and Mark Sweney: The Huffington Post's founder on its new emphasis on lifestyle and wellbeing, life at AOL – and leaning back like a cat
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Microsoft launches programmatic video advertising network in the UKAdvertisers will be able to buy ads across 350 third-party websites as US tech firm takes on rivals Google and AOL. By John Reynolds
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US tech giants knew of NSA data collection, agency's top lawyer insistsNSA general counsel Rajesh De contradicts months of angry denials from companies like Yahoo and Google
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AOL's Tim Armstrong couldn't be more wrong about 'distressed babies'
Janet Sheaffer Pickel: My twins were born prematurely and cost millions to treat, but you can't put a price on human life. I'm glad I didn't work at AOL
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Tech giants' demand for NSA reform 'a major game-changer', advocates say• Google and Facebook among firms calling for radical reform
• Obama to receive findings of NSA review panel next week
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