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AOL enters mobile partnership with WIN

London, June 23th 2008 - AOL UK today announces a partnership with WIN plc that will see the interactive mobile innovator provide AOL with a mobile content delivery platform for web and mobile.

Under the terms of the agreement, WIN will provide AOL UK with a fully managed mobile content store on both its mobile and web-based portals, supplying entertainment, information and paid-for content to AOL users.

In addition, WIN will provide content aggregation, web and mobile portal design and ongoing service development.

As well as sourcing and managing content for AOL, WIN will integrate mobile delivery of AOL UK’s popular Instant Messenger service (AIM). WIN’s extensive product suite will also be available under this agreement to support the future enablement of multimedia, video and WAP services.

Truveo Improves Video Search with Release of New Site

San Francisco, CA – June 12, 2008 – Truveo, the leading video search engine, today launched a major update to its website that improves the performance and makes the site more useful to consumers. The new site is available at http://www.truveo.com; localized versions of the new Truveo experience are available in 16 other countries.

“Consumer interest in online video has exploded, and video is now one of the key drivers of audience and traffic growth on the Web, which increases the importance of a quality video search product,” said Kevin Conroy, Executive Vice President of AOL. “Truveo offers consumers in the U.S. and abroad the most advanced video search tool to find what they’re looking for, and as a result it’s seen dramatic global growth. The enhancements to Truveo.com only improve what is already the best video search experience.”

Truveo Updates its Video Site

Truveo released a major update to its websites in the U.S. and in 16 countries worldwide. Improvements include faster viewing of videos, easier video sharing, social ratings and improved display of related content. According to Kevin Conroy, EVP AOL Products, the new Truveo site “only improves what is already the best video search experience.”

AOL Wins Coveted Apple Design Award

San Francisco, CA - June 12, 2008 – AOL announced that the company was recognized with an Apple Design Award for the development of AOL Radio for iPhone.  The AOL developed application was highlighted during the "iPhone Developer Showcase" portion of the annual awards ceremony last night at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco and won the award for "Best Entertainment Application".

Built using Apple’s Beta iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK), the new application gives users immediate, free access to over 350 online radio stations, including 150 local CBS RADIO stations and custom channels plus more than 200 AOL Radio channels.  The AOL Radio iPhone application will be available as a free download with the launch of Apple's App Store. 

AOL Radio Wins Apple Design Award

AOL Radio won a coveted Apple Design Award for a version of the player designed for the iPhone. AOL Radio for iPhone gives iPhone users free access to more than 200 AOL Radio stations and 150 CBS Radio stations while on the go. Among other features, the player automatically adjusts the bandwidth of the stream based on connection speed, and automatically highlights local CBS Radio stations based on the user's current location. The award represents a significant milestone in AOL’s efforts to “get back to the Mac.”

TMZ Launches on AOL's Mobile Portal

Content from entertainment news site TMZ is now available on AOL's mobile portal. Users will have instant access to TMZ's breaking celebrity news, gossip, photos and more. AOL's mobile portal also includes mobile versions of AOL Mail and Search, best-in-class services such as MapQuest and Moviefone, and content such as shopping, music, news and games.

Breaking News from TMZ.com Comes to the AOL.com Mobile Portal

NEW YORK – June 11, 2008 – AOL today announced that breaking news content from TMZ.com, http://www.tmz.com, is now available through the AOL mobile portal, http://www.aol.com. TMZ.com, a joint venture of Telepictures Productions and AOL, is the No. 1 entertainment news destination on the Internet. Users of the AOL mobile portal will now have instant access to TMZ’s breaking celebrity news, gossip and photos.

AOL Launches New Radio Experience

AOL unveiled a new AOL Radio experience that features player enhancements and new stations, including 150 local CBS Radio stations. Highlights include the ability to skip and pause songs, pre-set an unlimited number of channels and share stations with friends via AIM integration.

AOL Launches AIM Money for Developers

AOL announced the availability of AIM Money, a revenue-sharing program that lets developers make money from Open AIM applications. There are no fees to participate and payments are issued via PayPal. All advertising is handled by Platform-A. Get details in the release.

AOL Launches AIM Money for Web Developers

New York, NY – June 10, 2008 – AOL today announced the availability of AIM Money, http://dev.aol.com/aim/money, a new-revenue-sharing program that lets developers make money from Open AIM applications. AOL also announced AIM version 6.8, the latest version of their popular instant messaging software, which features new modules for the Buddy List and a new open API for developers to build their own mini-applications to upload and share in a library.

“Through Open AIM we’ve empowered Web developers to leverage real-time messaging to enhance the way users interact with their products and services,” said Joanna Shields, President, AOL People Networks. “AIM Money is now giving them a way to easily monetize their applications as they continue to develop new and innovative AIM-based Web experiences.”

AOL Video Goes Global

As part of AOL's global expansion strategy, AOL Video launched portals in Canada, India and Taiwan. The new sites offer localized content and the ability to search for videos across the Web using Truveo, AOL's video search engine.

AOL Launches Video Portal Sites in Canada, India and Taiwan

New York, NY, May 22, 2008 – AOL today announced the next steps in its ambitious global expansion effort with the international launch of AOL Video, http://video.aol.com. The new offerings will let consumers find and watch millions of videos in Canada, India and Taiwan at http://video.aol.ca, http://videoportal.aol.in, http://videoportal.aol.tw, respectively, without having to visit multiple websites. Additional plans are underway to launch video portals in the United Kingdom, France and Germany in the fall.

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.

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.
 
Previously, Truveo, like most video search engines, had one single relevancy and ranking algorithm for all searches no matter where the search originated. So, a search in the U.S. for “football” would turn up the same videos as a search in the UK for football even though the two searchers were most likely looking for and expecting completely different results.
 

Truveo Localizes its Search Results

Truveo has introduced new localized ranking algorithms for its 17 international portals. This relevancy algorithm looks at the language and country of origin before delivering search results. For example, a search in the U.S. for "football" will turn up different videos than the same query in the U.K. Read more in the release.