AOL Uses Amazon for Video Sales

December 1, 2007 By JESSICA MINTZ, AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- AOL on Friday scrapped its year-old pay-for-download service in favor of Web retailer Amazon.com Inc.'s technology for selling movies and TV shows online.

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