AOL CEO Tim Armstrong hinted that this was coming, but this morning Google and AOL announced a five-year renewal of the search deal between the two companies. Google will continue to power search across AOL’s content network and properties. The partnership will be expanded to include mobile search and YouTube. Armstrong said in a statement [...]

Mobile Social Networking – A Two-Way Partnership Social networking has become a favourite pastime of the younger generations as people find more and more ways to stay in touch and connected online. The growth in popularity of these sites has much to do with the constant advance of technology that ensures people have the opportunity [...]

When asked about Google’s partnership with Zynga, Mr. Schmidt said “we haven’t announced it” but “you can expect a partnership with Zynga” in the future. Google’s partnership with Zynga was reported earlier by the blog TechCrunch. That sure sounds like an announcement to me, buried 13 paragraphs deep in an article summarizing an interview with [...]

In our tech-obsessed bubble, wherein we obsess over how many millions of iPhones have been sold or how many tens of thousands of apps are in the Android Market, it’s easy to forget something: not everyone carries a smartphone. A massive number of people, from soccer moms to Arrington, still carry their good ol’ trusty [...]

Barnes & Noble continues to makes inroads into the education, um, space. It just announced that it has teamed up with Blackboard, the Web site/software suite that is used in colleges all over the U.S. (Lord knows I had to use it all the time.) The deal should ensure that college students, starting with the [...]

We’re hearing that Facebook and Malaysian payments company MOL Global will be holding a press conference shortly to announce a significant new partnership around gaming and payments in Asia. MOL, you may recall, was in the news when it acquired Friendster earlier this year. TechCrunch

Warner Music Group (WMG) has partnered with MTV’s Music Group to give MTV exclusive rights to sell ad inventory around WMG’s music video content in the U.S. across MTV Music Group digital properties and mobile services, as well as on WMG’s artist sites and third-party affiliate sites. Through the new partnership, WMG artists will also [...]

Facebook and Zynga have just announced a five year partnership and the expansion of use of Facebook Credits in Zynga games. After months of discord, Zynga and Facebook have made peace— at least for now. Despite Zynga’s earlier frustrations and reports that it was ready to abandon Facebook, the two companies were able to agree [...]

DreamBox this morning announced that it has been acquired by a new partnership between Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and the Charter Fund, a non-profit venture capital firm. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, although we know the agreement includes a $10 million R&D investment and newly appointed board members. Dreambox Learning was backed [...]

AP – Facebook and Omniture, the Web analytics software maker, said Wednesday they are working together to help companies use the world’s largest social network as a marketing channel. View full post on Yahoo! News: Technology News