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Quigo, founded in 2000, makes two products for Internet advertising, the daily Ha'aretz reported on Friday.

A New Jersey man was sentenced to prison for more than two years by a New York judge for his part in a spamming operation that sent out millions of unsolicited emails to America Online subscribers.

Moeller and Adam Vitale of New York pleaded guilty earlier this year to breaking anti-spam laws and defeating AOL's filter system by using a variety of computer servers and changing the header information on e-mails to ensure they could not be traced, court papers said.

Truveo has announced plans to expand its rapidly growing service into several major markets for online video worldwide. The Truveo video search engine lets users search and browse through tens of millions of videos from thousands of sources across the Web, and reaches more than 40 million users a month in the US.

"Our goal with this program is to engender greater trust for targeted advertising by communicating with consumers in a more visible way, and by providing them more information about their choices," said Curt Viebranz, President of Platform-A. "AOL believes that doing more to explain to users the choices they have over the way their data is used, and helping them exercise those preferences will help them feel more in control."

Members of the National Union of Journalists at AOL UK have backed down from threatened industrial action after securing new terms for planned redundancies at the web portal.

WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Bernama) - America On Line (AOL), the internet unit of Time Warner has launched websites in Hindi and Tamil language to target Indian users, as part of its global expansion plan, PTI reported Friday.

AOL announced the launch of a consumer-awareness program that will give consumers enhanced notice and information about behaviorally targeted advertising. When fully implemented, the program will deliver millions of public service banner ads across AOL's owned-and-operated and third-party networks, which together reach more than 91% of the U.S. online audience. AOL also announced a substantial improvement to the current opt-out process by expanding the use of patent-pending technology developed...

So-called behaviourally targeted ads use cookies to anonymously monitor and track the websites a user has visited. Behavioural ad networks then send that user ads based on the sites the user has visited.

AOL LLC said Thursday it will allow users to opt out of online ads that are targeted to them based on their Web surfing habits.