Un-encumbered by the weighty media assets of Time Warner, AOL has discovered the joys of smallness online, and the ability to publish freely according to the range of human interests and emotions.
walletpop.com | Amanda Gordon | Posted 06.23.2009 | Living
The key to thriving in the new economy is understanding why we do things, not just knowing how to do them. That was one of the takeaways of a panel l...
Shelly Palmer | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media
Today marks the end of Analog Television; AOL acquires local news site Patch and events site Going.com; Yahoo announces that Timothy Morse will serve as the company's new CFO.
AP | RACHEL METZ | Posted 06.11.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — AOL said Thursday it bought two companies that build community-based Web sites, marking its first acquisitions since former Google ad...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.05.2009 | Media
Earlier this week, we mentioned how Playboy had published a sociopathic, hateful, and unfunny listicle by Guy Cimbalo, listing the ten conservative wo...
Charles Warner | Posted 06.03.2009 | Media
The day Time Warner announced it was spinning off AOL, a former colleague of mine at AOL (I was a VP there from 1998 to 2002) Twittered, "After nearly...
Fortune | Allan Sloan Senior Editor at Large | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business
Time Warner's plan to distribute AOL stock to its shareholders in a tax-free transaction is benefiting from a little-noticed change last year in the r...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.29.2009 | Business
It has been more than a decade since America Online dominated headlines as the future of media. Oh how times have changed! AOL rose from a company tha...
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media
Time Warner confirmed yesterday that it will spin off AOL as a stand-alone public company at the end of the year. So endeth one of the more notable chapters in the history of the Internet, so far.
Yahoo! Finance | Posted 05.28.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (AP) -- Time Warner Inc. says its board has approved plans to spin off AOL, the company's lagging Internet unit. The New York company, whi...
AP | RACHEL METZ | Posted 05.27.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — When AOL flashed $147 billion in stock puffed up by the dot-com boom, Time Warner, one of the world's biggest media companies, fell i...
Charles Warner | Posted 05.20.2009 | Media
The cover of the current (May 25) issue of BusinessWeek features Good to Great author Jim Collins, and inside the issue is an exclusive excerpt from h...
Juliette Powell | Posted 05.19.2009 | Media
Tech innovators connect and conspire for a weekend to recharge their batteries and share ideas between gadgethons and power tool drag racing events.
Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.06.2009 | Media
The rumor mill surrounding Twitter is buzzing and this time pundits believe Apple, Microsoft, Google and News Corp are in talks to purchase the micr...
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media
The era of "creative destruction" in media and entertainment is best thought of as a round-robin boxing match.
Shelly Palmer | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media
Time Warner noted in it's quarterly report that it will indeed buy back Google's 5% share of AOL. Meanwhile, Jeff Bewkes told reporters that TW is "...
New York Times | Posted 04.29.2009 | Business
Time Warner on Wednesday reported a 14 percent decline in profit for the first quarter and said it expected to spin off its AOL unit, which continued ...
US News and World Report | Paul Bedard | Posted 04.25.2009 | Media
Dismiss the rumors. Neither AOL nor news is dead. The proof: AOL is jumping into news with both feet. Its latest venture is a site devoted to Washingt...
Tamar Chansky | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media
The same cyber detectives who have spied on me on facebook will no doubt be deployed to the new Twitter. It'll become a writ-small version of the invasive infomercials that plague late night television.
Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media
Melinda Henneberger, editor of PoliticsDaily.com, AOL's forthcoming politics site, continues scooping up talent from the struggling newspaper and maga...
Shelly Palmer | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media
A month before its scheduled premier, a work print of X-Men Origins: Wolverine has leaked to the Internet. While Fox claims the leak is a "rough cut...
Michael Wolff | Posted 03.30.2009 | Media
This is an inside Internet baseball column, which you might not be interested in if I don't begin with the punch line: Murdoch buys Twitter. Here's why.
Shelly Palmer | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media
Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer went head to head on the Daily Show last night after a week of Stewart laying into Cramer for recommending Bear Sterns st...
Media Memo | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business
Everyone who wondered why Randy Falco and Ron Grant were still running AOL gets an answer: Time Warner (TWX) was lining up their replacement. Google (...
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 03.12.2009 | Style
In better economies, the word "free" seemed to mean there was a catch. Nothing is free, nothing: no free lunch, free tickets to the opera, or free bee...
Long before $150,000-gate, Sarah Palin seemed to...
The Obamas dropped by the Vatican on Friday, with daughters...
Yesterday evening, Greg Sargent reported on The Plum Line that one of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's key reasons...
I was sorry to watch, live on CNN, Edward R. Murrow and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and...
I never actually heard the words made famous by a certain man on a certain TV show. Instead I got a lot...
Jim Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The former fiance of Gov. Sarah Palin's...
Hermione herself, Emma Watson, charmed David Letterman and...
OH NOES! What happened on Fox and Friends today, people?
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The Daily Show's John Oliver is unhappy with mainstream journalism, and even drearier...
It's summer, the time for weddings! A few of my friends are getting married this summer and fall, so lately...
SYDNEY — Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets...
In an interview this week with Good Morning America Warren Buffett, the legendary...
"What's for dinner?" A lot of us ask that question right...
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Jarvis Coffin | Posted 07.01.2009 | Media