(Credit: ICQ) ICQ, which was released several months before AOL's own instant messenger, had 100 million registered users in 2001. But over time, ICQ lost out to competing instant messengers and ...

Instant messaging (IM) became popular after Israeli-based ICQ debuted in 1996, which was later acquired by AOL. There are more than three dozen IM services, and WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger ...

Time Warner Inc.'s AOL joins the ranks of Google and Yahoo with plans this summer to launch its own open mobile platform. The announcement for the AOL Open Mobile Platform was made yesterday at the ...