(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 ...

The iconic instant messaging ... dial-up connections. AOL purchased the company from Israeli developer Mirabilis in 1998 for ...

Meanwhile, AOL highlighted a pact Wednesday with instant messaging ISV IMLogic to target its Enterprise AOL Instant Messenger service, launched in 2002, to the corporate crowd. Sunnyvale ...