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AOL Sold to Italian Tech Company Bending Spoons

October 29, 2025
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Yahoo Finds AOL Buyer as Dial-Up Internet Dies Off
Partnerships // October 02, 2025

AOL’s owner has reportedly found a buyer for the one-time internet service titan. Yahoo, backed by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, is in advanced discussions to sell AOL to Italian technology company Bending Spoons for roughly $1.4 billion, Reuters reported Thursday (Oct. 2), citing...

Google Replaces Gemini Head After Lagging AI Performance
Artificial Intelligence // April 03, 2025

Google has removed the head of Gemini as its AI chatbot continues to lag behind ChatGPT. According to Semafor, Sissie Hsiao has stepped down to be replaced by Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who oversaw the launch of NotebookLM, the artificial intelligence (AI)...

Yahoo to Add Personalization Features With Artifact Acquisition
Partnerships // April 02, 2024

Yahoo will add artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personalization features across its platform, including Yahoo News, following its acquisition of Artifact. This acquisition closed Friday (March 29), Yahoo said in a Tuesday (April 2) press release. “Yahoo was one of the first to combine human and algorithmic curation of news,” Kat Downs...

Yahoo Launches BMW In-Car Entertainment Project With Xperi
Connected Economy // October 30, 2023

Yahoo is teaming with Xperi to bring in-car video content to BWM drivers. The partnership between the tech company and the automotive entertainment platform, announced Monday (Oct. 30), will bring video content from Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, and In the Know to Xperi’s TiVo-powered DTS AutoStage video service.  “From taking a...

Interviews & Exclusives
DuckDuckGo Takes On Google Search

September 14, 2018
Think of online privacy as a race. With consumers increasingly focused on how their data and web personas are used by eCommerce and other digital organizations, regulators and lawmakers are moving to get ahead of that political and cultural wave. Payments, commerce and tech companies, meanwhile, are trying to stay a step ahead of regulators […]

Yahoo Takeover A Done Deal; Marissa Mayer Bows Out

June 13, 2017
And then, just like that, it was over. As has been widely anticipated and widely reported, Yahoo’s been consumed by Verizon, which is now combining with the AOL properties under...

Three Years After The Target Breach

December 21, 2016
There was a time when data breaches were not a daily part of consumers’ day-to-day lives. Sure, credit cards got stolen or skimmed from time to time — but such...

Yahoo Fizzles With History’s Biggest Data Breach

September 23, 2016
As September is gearing up to go into its last week, the waning warm days of the summer season certainly went out with a bang — care of the largest data...

Quick Reads
AOL Sold to Italian Tech Company Bending Spoons

October 29, 2025
Bending Spoons, an Italian technology company, has agreed to acquire AOL from Yahoo. The acquisition, announced Wednesday (Oct. 29), follows weeks of reports that AOL, a one-time web titan, was up for sale. “AOL is an iconic, beloved business that’s in good health, has stood the test of time, and we believe has unexpressed potential,” Bending Spoons CEO and […]

Yahoo Finds AOL Buyer as Dial-Up Internet Dies Off

October 02, 2025
AOL’s owner has reportedly found a buyer for the one-time internet service titan. Yahoo, backed by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, is in advanced discussions to sell AOL to...

Yahoo to Add Personalization Features With Artifact Acquisition

April 02, 2024
Yahoo will add artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personalization features across its platform, including Yahoo News, following its acquisition of Artifact. This acquisition closed Friday (March 29), Yahoo said in a Tuesday (April 2) press release....

Yahoo Launches BMW In-Car Entertainment Project With Xperi

October 30, 2023
Yahoo is teaming with Xperi to bring in-car video content to BWM drivers. The partnership between the tech company and the automotive entertainment platform, announced Monday (Oct. 30), will bring video content from Yahoo Finance, Yahoo...