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The presidential elections dominated user searches this year, according to AOL’s annual lists of top Web, mobile and video searches across more than 40 categories for 2008. But celebrities continued to be hot topics for searchers as well. The rankings are based on the people, places and topics that received ...

AOL announced a brand new homepage available here that will let consumers access multiple social networking services directly from AOL.com, becoming the first major portal to offer direct access to information from major social networking sites. This follows the move last month to provide access to multiple e-mail services from ...

AOL Television has announced the launch of Outside the Box, http://www.television.aol.com/outside-the-box, a new free on-demand online series in which cast members from popular network and cable television programs interview one another using fan submitted questions. The debut episode, featuring Kate Walsh, Taye Diggs, Audra McDonald and Tim Daly from ABC’s ...

AOL’s Platform-A announced that it will offer Goowy’s widget creation and management services as part of its widget distribution offering for advertisers. Goowy enables the creation, syndication and measurement of widget-based campaigns as a free, value-added service across Platform-A’s properties and networks. For those of you who don't know Platform-A, ...

AOL announced this morning that Gannett has selected ADTECH to be its online ad serving provider. ADTECH is part of Platform-A, AOL’s digital advertising business. By striking a relationship with one of the nation’s leading online media companies, ADTECH is significantly expanding in the U.S. market. ADTECH has been ...

Last month we wrote about BigString (coverage), a provider of social networking messaging applications user-controllable email and instant messaging services. Today they announced the acquisition of Buddystumbler.com, an IM-based social network that allows users to meet people via free online chats on AOL AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger and Google ...

AOL has brought three new iPhone OS applications to the market: AIM, AOL Radio, and Truveo, the leading video search engine. Each of them are available as free downloads from the Apple App Store now.

A new web-based, cross-platform, instant messaging application that enables users to send self-destructing or regular IMs across AOL’s AIM, Yahoo’s Messenger, MSN’s Messenger and Google’s Gtalk has been introduced by BigString.

AOL along with several others are launching heavily into the fast growing latin market.