New York -- AOL venturing into capture new audiences has announced a new version of their creatively named AOL HD app, which is now available for instant download on Samsung Smart TV and Google TV platforms.

New York -- AOL Inc., late Tuesday appointed veteran executive Janet Balis to head its sales strategy, marketing and partnerships for AOL Advertising.

New York -- In an attempt to compete with its arch rival Google, AOL, while offering a wide variety of original programming on one of the largest--and fastest--growing online video platforms, over the weekend announced that it will launch 15 new original web video series produced by or starring celebrities including Jennifer Lopez and Heidi Klum.

San Francisco -- In their boldest attempt to salvage their embattled advertising businesses, AOL Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc., the three major tech companies are forging an unusual alliance against a common enemy, Google, to sell ads on each other's sites, according to advertising executives pitched on the initiative.

TechCrunch has been updating and breaking news for quite some time now and has been a reliable source for the readers and if one thinks about TechCrunch without Michael Arrington (Mike), the equation might look odd. In this case, the said entrepreneur thought that he had sold his company for a worthy fortune and are still in a position to command in the company. Seems so, it is.

New York -- Barely last year, Ask.com, one of the most popular and well-known search engines (next to Google, of course) on the internet, conceded its search operations to its competitors and refocused on building out its Q&A platform, and now they are looking to establish a foothold, has just introduced a new Android app offering a mobile Q&A service to users. The launch follows that of its iPhone app, which recently surpassed a million downloads.

New York -- Magazines Rock! In a previous advertising video for AOL's new digital magazine, the project's lead director impishly called it “the app for when you crap.” But make no doubt about it, soon, iPadsters will have AOL's iPad app Editions, which launches this week, wants to be your personalized, daily reader for the bathroom, bedroom, and anywhere else you use your iPad.

New York -- Barely two weeks prior to the second-quarter earnings, AOL is undergoing another management shakeup, and the biggest fish to fry being head of global ad figure “Jeff Levick,” one of Tim Armstrong's key initial hires, is leaving the company, replaced by his former deputy Ned Brody, AOL's chief executive told employees on Monday, according to reported by AllThingsD.

Music has an eternal feeling which creates many new memories while brings back even a few old ones. PLAY makes this eternal feeling comes alive on iPhone too. PLAY has finally been launched for iPhone and its AOL who needs to be credited for the efforts made. AOL was ready with this innovative music application since March and finally now its announced that it has collaborated with iPhone. It can be well said that the release was timed to perfection.

New York -- Recently, the daily deals market is getting saturated by day with the vague goal of using the power of social media to task such things as crowdsource as the lore behind the deals originator goes! And now, AOL's Patch, a local news network has joined the band targeting Groupon and other deal providers, has forged alliance with renowned e-commerce giant American Express and its Serve card service to offer daily deals to local markets.

New York -- Merely days after Microsoft made the biggest gamble in its 36-year history--paying $8.5 billion for Skype -- AOL Inc. has decided to dip its toe in the online video chat world with AOL AV, rolled out the first version of a free video chat service for its AIM instant messenger over the weekend that does not require users to log in or download any software.

New York -- In a bid to spread its innovation, it seems like MapQuest is prepping a massive management shakeup. The wholly owned subsidiary of AOL Inc., over the weekend announced that it has hired an ex-Googler to run Mapquest out in Denver, as a VP of Product Management: Vijay R. Bangaru, who is the third executive hire in the last three months.

New York -- Barely days after finalizing its deal with the Huffington Post, AOL Inc., on Thursday announced plans to terminate as many as 900 jobs globally as the company integrates the news website and restructures to try to return to revenue growth, according to a company memo sent by CEO Tim Armstrong, Bloomberg reported.

New York -- Barely weeks after its purchase of the Huffington Post in a $315 million deal, AOL has once again embarked on an acquisition spree and is reportedly is reportedly purchasing local-news aggregator Outside.in for less than $10 million to bolster its own Patch news site, as the battle for hyper-local news dominance heats up, according to paidContent.

Los Angeles -- In its second recent prominent media site acquisition, web portal AOL said tonight it has agreed to pay $315 million to acquire The Huffington Post, the influential news site co-founded in 2005 by Arianna Huffington and media executive Kenneth Lerer, and form a new media powerhouse by combining the content of both organizations.

Los Angeles -- Internet pioneer AOL Inc. on Monday said it has agreed to buy European video distributor GoViral, saying that it "supports our overall content strategy by creating another immediate delivery path for all of the great content we are generating daily," in a deal worth $96.7 million, the latest in an acquisition spree AOL has pursued in an effort to recast itself as a destination for online video and articles.

Los Angeles -- AOL has taken its first concerted step to launch an all new magazine-like app designed specifically for the iPad app entitled "Editions", making it the second of what is expected to be a long list of iPad-exclusive digital titles on the cards, which TechCrunch suggests will be very similar to the much-hyped Flipboard news app.

New York -- AOL might be struggling, but in fact it is still trying to figure out how it can remain in business. In a major restructuring to the company's Internet content division, the company has announced new content partnerships with "The Sporting News to deliver sports content, Everyday Health for health content and Move Inc. for real estate listings," in an attempt to increase online ad revenues and cut costs.

Los Angeles -- Relentlessly striving to make good on its effort to revive its brand and expand its video programming, AOL on Wednesday announced a Web programming deal with big TV network reality show producer Endemol USA, to develop a pair of original Web series aimed at women.