New York - Time Warner's (NYSE: TW) AOL announced on Monday that it has acquired Yedda, an online question-and-answer social search service. Founded in 2006, Israel-based Yedda has developed technology that automatically matches questions to other related questions and topics, while selecting the best available users from relevant Internet communities to answer the questions posed.

Los Angeles - Yedda, an Israel-based developer of semantic search technology, has raised $2.5 million in a new round of venture capital financing, led by Genesis Partners.