Ever since rebuffing Microsoft’s takeover bid, Yahoo has been keen to placate angry shareholders, and Carol Bartz’s latest moves are doing that still. But by failing to keep up with true social networking a la Facebook, Yahoo r…
As more shoppers spend their money online, retailers are deciding where to put their e-marketing. According to a new ForeSee study, promotional emails were still far more effective at driving traffic to retail sites than social…
Internet company AOL (AOL) agreed to purchase about.me Inc, a website that lets people create a single personal profile page that presents their online identity.
About.me lets users bring together profiles on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, blogs and more.
About.me’s co-founder Tony Conrad and his team will join AOL’s Consumer Applications Group, AOL said in a statement.
The…
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AOL to Buy Online Profile Site About.me originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:25:00.
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