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 07.24.2009 | 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 07.13.2009 | 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 07.12.2009 | 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 07.06.2009 | 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 07.04.2009 | 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 07.02.2009 | 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 06.29.2009 | 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 06.29.2009 | 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 06.28.2009 | 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 06.27.2009 | 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 06.20.2009 | 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 06.19.2009 | Media
Tech innovators connect and conspire for a weekend to recharge their batteries and share ideas between gadgethons and power tool drag racing events.
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.31.2009 | Media
The era of "creative destruction" in media and entertainment is best thought of as a round-robin boxing match.
New York Times | Posted 05.30.2009 | 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 05.26.2009 | 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 05.10.2009 | 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 05.10.2009 | Media
Melinda Henneberger, editor of PoliticsDaily.com, AOL's forthcoming politics site, continues scooping up talent from the struggling newspaper and maga...
Michael Wolff | Posted 04.30.2009 | 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.
Media Memo | Peter Kafka | Posted 04.12.2009 | 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 (...
Business Insider | Posted 04.11.2009 | Business
A source relays rumblings from within Time Warner that the happy harmony between Randy Falco, Ron Grant, and Jeff Bewkes at the top of AOL is finally ...
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc.'s decision to sell its crumbling investment in longtime advertising partner AOL is the latest example of how the rec...
Charles Warner | Posted 03.07.2009 | Media
Once again Time Warner and AOL top brass blow up an ad-sales exec rather than take responsibility for their own stupidity.
AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business
LOS ANGELES — Media and entertainment giant Time Warner Inc. reported a fourth-quarter loss, hurt by a previously expected $24.2 billion writedo...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
To say Bush's defense is that his opponents want "political vengeance" is a non sequitur. Couldn't every trial in the country be characterized as some sort of "vengeance" based on this logic?
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media