AOL Officially Separates From Time Warner
After seven months of preparation, AOL is set to be officially independent of media giant Time Warner Inc., closing the book on their disastrous 2001 ...
After seven months of preparation, AOL is set to be officially independent of media giant Time Warner Inc., closing the book on their disastrous 2001 ...
businessinsider.com | Nicholas Carlson|Dec. 4, 2009, 9:23 AM |3 | Posted 12.04.2009 | Technology
AOL wants 2,500 employees -- a third of its headcount -- to volunteer for layoffs. Today is the first day AOL employees can tell management that yes, ...
Anis Shivani | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books
We shall see if Larry and Sergey's collective brain can keep up with the spontaneous evolution of the Internet.
Bryan Monroe | Posted 11.30.2009 | Chicago
This week, the FTC will be convening a hearing looking at "How Will Journalism Survive The Internet." I am going to talk about how white the Web is, and the threat that represents to journalism for our diverse nation.
AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media
CEO Tim Armstrong tells the WSJ about plans he has previously hinted about -- a "a new digital-newsroom system that uses a series of algorithms to pre...
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media
The new Aol mark featuring lower case "o" and "l" and a dot at the end does a nice job of cracking open the brand for a new look.
Posted 11.22.2009 | Technology
AOL is introducing a new logo and "brand identity." The company's new look, which will be rolled out next month "when it is spun off from Time Warne...
AP | RACHEL METZ | Posted 11.19.2009 | Technology
SAN FRANCISCO — The struggling Internet company AOL plans to shed up to 2,500 jobs – more than a third of its work force – as it pre...
Michael Russnow | Posted 11.08.2009 | Technology
There ought to be a law preventing the computer hardware and software industry from shortchanging consumers, so that we get the full use of our equipment.
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media
The news last week that AOL has grown the number of journalists it employs - inclusive of full and part time, or freelance - to 3,000 from 500 since T...
Greg Coleman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Over the five months that I took off from work, I learned a lot of very valuable lessons and came out of the experience feeling like the luckiest guy in the world. But it didn't start out that way.
David Cohen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Denver
In Boulder entrepreneurship circles, there is a genuine desire to see others succeed and a general belief that karma matters. There's a sense that together we're building something here.
Wall Street Journal | JESSICA E. VASCELLARO | Posted 10.11.2009 | Technology
Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over. In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold--ser...
Sam Gustin | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Faced with the global menace of digital piracy, some of the largest entertainment companies in the world have banded together to beg the Obama adminis...
Sam Gustin | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media
Comcast is in talks to buy NBC Universal, the entertainment giant, from General Electric (GE) in a blockbuster deal that -- if true -- would reverberate throughout the media world.
Eric Shutt | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media
Presenters at IAB's MIXX Expo, a key event at NYC's Advertising Week, confirmed that advertising's future is now squarely focused on social media.
Andy Plesser | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Despite the gloom around the advertising and media world, we found Advertising Week and its many events has upbeat. I caught up with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong on Monday evening.
Jessica Rovello | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
Those of us in the games business know that grandma, grandpa, and great uncle Fred are the little secret that drive millions of game plays monthly across a host of sites.
Pam Spaulding | Posted 11.23.2009 | Technology
With web sites, blogs, and social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook, the online LGBT community has emerged as an example of both leadership and rabble-rousing success.
Posted 11.22.2009 | Technology
Yahoo's new ad campaign must have CEO Carol Bartz feeling pretty great about herself. So great she couldn't help taking a jab at AOL. Bartz hates Wal...
Sharon Glassman | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
Ditching a steady paycheck takes guts in an unsure economy.
New York Times | DAVID CARR | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media
But AOL, often derided as the original gated community, is now manufacturing a broad array of digital media that is free for the grabbing. There are 3...
Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media
The three-month-old venture has become a reemployment program for middle-aged journalists who lack the flash and dash of young bloggers -- and that is...
Business Insider | Posted 08.16.2009 | Media
During the question-and-answer portion of the all-hands, one staffer asked Tim if SAI's estimate that AOL will probably have to lay-off another ~2,000...
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media
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.
Wall Street Journal | Posted 12.09.2009 | Business