AOL buys MapQuest for
$1.1 billion
By Tiffany Kary, Inter@ctive Investor
December 22, 1999 6:14 AM PT
AOL appears to have nabbed the online map company from right under Yahoo!'s nose. Will map
out AOL Anywhere strategy.
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Hello, I've got the password to your America Online account. Ha-ha!
AOL gives privacy an
expiration date
An America Online policy is again putting privacy issues on the front burner. The
nation's leading access provider recently started sending e-mails to customers informing
them that the privacy preferences they signed up for a year ago - the ones telling the
company not to collect or distribute information about their accounts or online habits -
have 'expired.'
In what health officials believe is the first time a disease cluster has
been traced to cyberspace, the department of public health here has tracked an outbreak of
syphilis cases to an AOL chat room.
CompUSA will carry AOL software
and give classes on how to use it.
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AOL blocks rival's IM
access
New Prodigy service may have to pay for the
privilege of exchanging Instant Messages
with AOL system.
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A few hours after Microsoft launches MSN
Messenger, AOL fires back, saying the use of
AOL subscribers 'is akin to hacking.'
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The Internet's international coordinating authority said it had received and expected to
grant an application to give the Palestinian National Authority its own two-letter suffix,
or domain, on the Internet.
Can't Go Back? Can't Find Home?
How Webmasters Use Dirty Tricks to Ensnarl Surfers
By J. D. BIERSDORFER
By ANDY WANG
For a multimillion-dollar site financed by prominent venture capitalists, Google is as
plain and non-commercial as it gets. The company's plan is to build a better search engine
and generate revenue by licensing its technology to other companies.
In CyberTimes
Juno sets its sights
on AOL
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