"AOL UK has appointed independent agency Media-Link to boost its advertising sales outside of London and increase its geo-targeting."

"[A] next big thing—web-mail then, social networking now—can indeed quickly become something that consumers expect from their favourite web portal. The non sequitur is to assume that the new service will be a revenue-generating business in its own rig

"The midday spike in Web traffic is not a new phenomenon, but media companies have started responding in a meaningful way over the last year. They are creating new shows, timing the posts to coincide with hunger pangs."

"Google Finance, launched in March last year, has failed to put a dent in Yahoo Finance’s lead as the most popular web source of financial news and data."

Jon Fine: "There’s now a case to be made for Google (and, for that matter, Google’s competitors) to buy up content players. Or, rather, there will, be, once their monumental growth slows down and the competition for traffic becomes more costly than it

"Just over a year ago, AOL unveiled a radical plan to remake itself into a business built on advertising from one driven by Internet access subscriptions. … A] precipitous slowdown in advertising growth has raised new questions about AOL’s transformat

A look at the redesigns of three-recently relaunched news web sites: AOL, CNN and USA Today.

"Angst over how to best work with Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and America Online has become the hot-button issue in the newspaper business…"