Time to say goodbye to AIM

After 20 years of its existence, AOL’s long-running instant messenger service AIM is getting the boot. The app will be shutting down on December 15^th. Perhaps not a lot of people would even care at this point but AIM has been one of the first experiences we’ve had whit chatting online. It was back in March when AOL cut off access to AIM via third-party clients. And now the inevitable has happened.

Source: The Verge

Verizon buys Yahoo for US $5 billion

It's an end of a long, grueling era for dot com pioneer Yahoo. The long suffering company was purchased for $5 billion in cash by Verizon who adds the search portal as another of its growing list of media properties under the AOL brand (which also owns Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Engadget). 

Yahoo's diverse core internet business which is made up of web properties like Yahoo Mail, Fantasy Sports, the photo storage site Flickr ,Yahoo search and Tumblr as well as the company's advertising technology are now all part of Verizon.

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO said that, "Yahoo is a company that has changed the world, and will continue to do so through this combination with Verizon and AOL." Meyer, who was hired from Google in 2012, says she plans on staying on for the next phase of Yahoo's assimilation into Verizon.

Source: BBC

AOL onboard with Apple Watch with three new apps

AOL just announced it is launching three new apps for the Apple Watch in time for the anticipated wearable's launch tomorrow April 24. 

The new Watch apps include Pip, the newly redesigned The Huffington Post app, and the AOL app. Available on April 24. Hit jump for more information on the new apps.

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