Last night, Tim Armstrong and team celebrated independence from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with P. Diddy and this morning they’ll make it official by ringing the bell in the same location. AOL (NYSE: AOL) is back as a ticker symbol and…

AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO Tim Armstrong did a hurried Q&A session at the Paley Center this afternoon and then had to rush off to being the IPO roadshow, which starts tonight here in Manhattan, presumably at some glitzy event here in the city. (Ed. note: The road show actually starts…

Last week I reported, based on AOL’s spinoff SEC filing, that Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) may be retaining AOL India and AOL’s venture investments. Turns out neither is happening, and was based on my misreading of the SEC filings. On AOL India, the company has denied Time Warner would be…

AOL (NYSE: TWX) Inc, the new about-to-be-spun-off unit from Time Warner, has filed an amended filing with SEC detailing some of the spin-off specifics. This comes as it named nine new board member for the new company this morning. In it, the exact steps required for this complex spinoff. The…

A few weeks after AOL (NYSE: TWX) denied it would hastily offload its $850 million Bebo acquisition, the social network is trumpeting a whole roster of new products offered not just through Bebo, but through AOL itself, AIM, ICQ and AOL’s mobile products, each of which is harmonizing user profiles.…

—- Games2Win has announced the launch of its gaming ad network called Inviziads. The service requires developers to integrate the ad code along with the game and as the game gets shared, monetizes the inventory through pre-rolls. The network currently has AddictingGames.com on board which WAT reports has over 10…

AOL (NYSE: TWX) has launched the Indianized version of its international men’s lifestyle site, Asylum.in. Although the release claims the Indian site to have customized content, there is nary an Indian feature besides the welcome post. Most of the content is currently being syndicated from the US version of the…

AOL India has tied up with Galatta.com for movie content related to South India, an AOL (NYSE: TWX) spokesperson confirmed to ContentSutra. The recently launched South Cinema channel features content from Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil cinema. All the content is in English, though AOL does have local language content…

AOL India is trying to drive signups by offering users free SMS services via mail and messenger. Subscribers are offered the facility to send free Instant messages and SMS’ to mobiles, with the ability for the the recipient to respond. They’re using the short codes 51515 and 51516. Nice work…

Well, with its announcement of a two-week Adsense trial, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is finally playing a very public hand with Google—thus raising the stakes even across during Microsoft’s three-week deadline. But the real drama is behind scenes where Yahoo is still talking to Time Warner—despite the observers who say any…

So it has finally happened: AOL (NYSE: TWX) has sold its call center operations in India to Aegis BPO Services, a part of the Essar Group, reports ET. The acquisition is expected to be completed by the end of April. The divestment is a part of AOL’s strategy of focusing…

AOL (NYSE: TWX) is selling its call center business in India to Aegis Communications in an all cash deal of around $100 million, reports the Times of India. The report suggests that the sale was on the cards, since Wipro and other companies were in talks with AOL for acquiring…

In a major and rather unexpected deal, AOL (NYSE: TWX) is buying social net Bebo for $850 million in cash. Rumors had swirled around Bebo of either an acquisition or new financing for weeks, but few anticipated AOL as the suitor. AOL will get Bebo’s 40 million members and 80…

AOL (NYSE: TWX) will split in two President and CEO Jeff Bewkes, in his first earnings call, said that plans to separate AOLs audience business from access are underway, but “will take several more months because it’s fairly complicated…It’s one of our top priorities.” What he didn’t say: We’re working…

At a press conference that AOL (NYSE: TWX) held on the sidelines of the Fortune Global Forum, the company announced the launch of local language portals in Hindi and Tamil, and the launch of video search Truveo; Jeff Bewkes, Time Warner President and COO reiterated the importance of India for…

Some more details on the proposed AOL (NYSE: TWX) editorial layoffs in the UK. Apparently, they may be higher than 13 people reported last week, and a number of those jobs might get offshored to India rather than eliminated altogether. A report in the Guardian says the 13 figure was…

If someone understands the strategy behind this tie-up, do let me know. MTNL and AOL India have launched a co-branded site - mtnl.aol.in, reports PTI…by the looks of it, it’s the same as aol.in, but with an MTNL banner where an advert is placed in the regular site, and one…