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Exclusive: Independent App Store Appia Brings on Craig Forman as Chairman

Ina Fried in Mobile on September 7, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Though not all that well known, Appia powers app stores for a variety of big-name carriers and handset makers.

PayPal Acquisition Hints at Company's Approach to the Mobile Wallet

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 28, 2011 at 10:42 pm PT

EBay-owned PayPal said in February it will conduct several pilot programs over the next year to enable consumers to use their PayPal accounts–at the register. Today, it announced an acquisition that may help them get there.

EarthLink Customers Suffer Email Outages

Marisa Taylor, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 23, 2009 at 12:30 am PT

EarthLink email customers experienced outages over much of the weekend, according to numerous online complaints. Starting Friday, Twitter users began to post updates about service outages. Alex Mendez tweeted “33:40 minutes on the cellphone dealing with TW / earthlink. UGH,” and Diane Fischler wrote, “Not getting email messages again. Woke up to about 60 left over from yesterday’s Earthlink outage, now seems to be down again. Who else?”

Hotmail Phishing Attacks Spread to Other Email Services

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 6, 2009 at 12:16 pm PT

Phishing attacks that affected customers of Microsoft’s Hotmail Monday have compromised more than 30,000 email accounts, including those of Gmail, Yahoo Mail and other services. Microsoft blamed phishing, in which cybercriminals try to trick consumers into revealing personal information through fraudulent emails, for a list of Hotmail account passwords that appeared online.

Earthlink: Why Haven't They Bought AOL's Dial-Up Unit?

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's Tech Trader Daily in News on February 5, 2009 at 2:49 pm PT

Earthlink is an odd company: It continues to generate more and more cash from the terminally ill (and steadily shrinking) dial-up Internet access business. Its coffers are bursting at the seams. Judging by the company’s valuation, the Street doesn’t see a whole lot of value in the core business. But there certainly is intrigue over the cash–including whether the company will eventually buy the AOL dial-up access business.

What AOL's Nov. 5 Results Mean to Its Yahoo Escape Hatch

Kara Swisher in News on October 23, 2008 at 5:59 am PT

One of the more interesting quarterly earnings calls to watch carefully is going to be Time Warner’s in two weeks. Why? Well, in the digital space, it is because of its long-suffering online unit AOL and what results it will show. More importantly, though, is what AOL’s performance will mean for the attempts Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes has tirelessly been making to trade it away to Yahoo. Last quarter’s results were pretty bad for AOL, which dragged down Time Warner’s results. Will it be even worse for the third quarter or not?

Spot Runner's CEO Nick Grouf Speaks!

Kara Swisher in News on July 31, 2008 at 10:05 am PT

On one of my many trips to Los Angeles (what can I say? I like to hang where LoRo* hangs), I dropped in to see Nick Grouf of Spot Runner. As many might know, Spot Runner is an online-offline ad agency play that has gotten big funding and even bigger hype of late. Usually, BoomTown runs screaming from such Web 2.0 dandies, but there is definitely some there there at Spot Runner.

Earthlink Boosts Full-Year Guidance; Stock Rallies

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on July 29, 2008 at 7:16 am PT

Earthlink (ELNK) shares are on the rise this morning after the company posted better-than-expected Q2 profits and raised its full-year guidance. The provider of dial-up Internet access services posted Q2 revenue of $245.6 million, right in line with the Street.