Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL ‘You’ve got mail’ greeting, dies aged 74
Edwards taped message that became catchphrase and served as title of 1998 film starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
March 2019
‘I met my wife on LiveJournal’: stories of love, friendship and joy from the web’s early days
From Neopets and Habbo Hotel to LiveJournal and AIM, the early internet was a friendlier place. Readers tell us about the web spaces they’ve loved and lost
December 2018
Yahoo parent Verizon cuts value of media brands by $4.6bn
US telecom firm’s Oath, which includes Huffington Post and AOL, is now worth $200m
October 2017
RIP, AOL Instant Messenger, may bald orange angels sing thee to thy rest
AOL shuts down Instant Messenger after 20 years of online chat
July 2016
TechCrunch falls victim to OurMine hacking group
Yahoo is not alone: six failed tech companies and how they fell
April 2016
Annie Lennox and Sandi Toksvig to contribute to AOL women’s site Makers
Online collection of women’s stories has already launched in the US, Canada and China with content from Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey
March 2016
How did email grow from messages between academics to a global epidemic?
Jim Kimsey, co-founder of AOL, dies at 76
January 2016
You've got donations: AOL email users give more money to political campaigns
Media interview
AOL’s Tim Armstrong: ‘If there’s one law, it’s that nobody owns the future’
October 2015
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
September 2015
AOL's Millennial Media deal highlights rise in automated ad buying
Before Google's new logo, vaginas and goldfish: five other tech redesigns
July 2015
'We blame the sick for being expensive': the mother whose baby cost AOL $1m
After 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
June 2015
Microsoft transfers map business to Uber and display advertising to AOL
AOL 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
May 2015
Guardian signs global video deal with AOL On
YouTube-style portal adds newspaper to list of partners that includes Channel 4 News, ITN, and the Telegraph
Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
We can treasure the BBC, but it has to make its own way in the digital world
Peter Preston
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 cage
Future of advertising
Verizon and AOL deal gives us a glimpse into the future of advertising
Tom Goodwin
The $4.4bn purchase by the US telecoms giant will help overcome the ad industry’s biggest problem
