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AOL offers buyouts to over a third of work force...advertising, content, communications and local businesses. Communications includes AOL's AIM instant-messaging service, while local offerings include mapping service MapQuest. Armstrong will also forgo a bonus this year. AOL, which is... In this article: AOL, Time Warner, Revenue, Google Inc, Joint venture, Recession, Unemployment, and Tmz.com |
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CNET News.com | 3 days ago
AOL also likely to eye sale of MapQuest--Is Microsoft a possible buyer?
...the software giant or anyone would fork over a huge sum of money for MapQuest. That would include the $1.1 billion in stock that AOL paid for MapQuest in 1999. AOL is set to spin itself off in less than a month from corporate owner Time...
In this article: AOL, Microsoft, Waste, ICQ, Bebo, Google, and Time Warner
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paidContent.org | 3 days ago
Updated: AOL Slashing A Third Of Staff; Armstrong Will Forego '09 Bonus
...the severance package runs by title: SVP-9 months pay; VP-6 months, Director- 4 months; below director- 3 months. Would the layoffs be reduced if AOL sells ICQ and MapQuest or other assets? We were told that was too speculative to factor in.
In this article: AOL, Time Warner, E mail, ICQ, and NYSE
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Meet Chrome OS
...Ballmer says Windows 7 is selling better than any previous version of Windows; and AOL looks to shed about 2,500 workers and its MapQuest division. Jennifer Guevin is assistant managing editor of CNET News. She focuses on science and...
In this article: CNET, Chrome OS, Waste, Netbooks, AOL, FAA, Google, and Steve Ballmer
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Tech News Watch | 3 days ago
AOL To Employees: Raise Your Hand If You Would Like To 'Volunteer' Or Be Fired!
...is looking to shed some parts of its business altogether. It has hired bankers to sell off its ICQ messaging service, and is also considering dumping Mapquest, among other assets. Armstrong's (expensive) goodwill gesture: He is giving up...
In this article: AOL, Time-Warner, and ICQ
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MarketWatch | November 04, 2009
On the verge of independence, AOL weighs on parent
...compared to the period last year. See related story. AOL includes Internet properties such as celebrity gossip site TMZ, social networking site Bebo and online mapping service MapQuest. In addition, AOL offers a search service that relies...
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MapQuest is a map publisher and a free online Web mapping service owned by AOL. The company was founded in 1967 as Cartographic Services, a division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons in Chicago, Illinois. It moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1969. When it became an independent company in 1994, it was renamed GeoSystems Global Corporation. MapQuest was acquired in 2000 by America Online, Inc. Company headquarters are in Lancaster and Denver, Colorado.
Donnelley began making maps with computers in the mid-1980s to generate maps for customers. Much of that code was adapted for use on the Internet to create the MapQuest web service in 1996. In 1999 the company was renamed to MapQuest to leverage the popularity of its online brand. For a while, MapQuest included satellite images, but later removed them. In September 2006, the web site once again began serving satellite imagery in a new beta program.
In 2004, MapQuest, uLocate, Research in Motion and Nextel launched MapQuest Find Me, a buddy-finder service that works on GPS-enabled mobile phones. MapQuest Find Me lets users automatically find their location, access maps and directions and locate nearby points of interest including airports, hotels, restaurants, banks and ATMs. Users also have the ability to set up alerts to be notified when network members arrive or depart from a designated area. In 2005 the service became available on Sprint and in 2006, Boost Mobile.
In July 2006, MapQuest created a beta version of a new feature in which users could now "Build Your Route" by adding additional stops, reorder one's route (and the stops along the way), to avoid any turns or roads en route.
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