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AOL Completes Acquisition Of Global Social Media Network Bebo

NEW YORK, NY, May 19, 2008 – AOL announced that it has completed its acquisition of Bebo, a global social media network that will form the centerpiece of AOL’s newly created People Networks business unit. Bebo’s CEO Joanna Shields will serve as Executive Vice President of AOL and President of People Networks, which combines Bebo, AIM, ICQ and AOL’s other community platforms and reaches about 80 million users worldwide.* Shields will report to AOL President and COO Ron Grant. Read the rest of this press release »

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Blogging and Social Media, Business | May 19th, 2008

AOL Launches ParentDish.com

NEW YORK – May 16, 2008 – AOL announced the launch of a new parenting destination, ParentDish.com, http://www.parentdish.com, which is part of AOL Living, http://living.aol.com. AOL’s site features a mix of videos, blog posts and celebrity contributors who provide informative, accessible, focused and personal content written with a “personal touch” for families with kids of all ages and issues they face today. ParentDish is supported by AOL’s advertising network, Platform-A, which will offer both display advertising as well as content-targeted links provided by Quigo. Read the rest of this press release »

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Computer, Consumer | May 16th, 2008

AOL’s Games.com to Award Six Free Seats to the 2008 World Series of Poker Championship

New York – May 12, 2008 – AOL today announced that Games.com, http://games.com, will award six seats to this summer’s World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas. Beginning May 4 and running through June 15, players can compete in free, online No-Limit Texas Hold’em tournaments on Games.com’s World Series of Poker hub, http://games.com/poker. The six top qualified players will each win a seat to the World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold’em event on July 3, 2008, and travel accommodations from within the United States to Las Vegas. Read the rest of this press release »

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Gaming and Casinos | May 12th, 2008

Truveo Makes International Searches More Relevant

San Francisco, CA – May 7, 2008 – Truveo, the leading video search engine, today announced that it has introduced new localized ranking algorithms for all of the countries it serves with the 17 international Truveo portals. With these new algorithms, the order of search results will vary from country to country in order to deliver the most relevant results to each country’s Truveo users. Truveo and its international portals are accessible at http://www.truveo.com. Read the rest of this press release »

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Science and Research | May 8th, 2008