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By admin 2/21/11 11:46am

Departures

The AOL Way or the Highway: Engadget Editors Paul Miller and Ross Miller Quit

No one could say Paul Miller wasn’t prolific, as he worked his way up the food chain — contributing, associate, senior associate editor — of Engadget, one of the web’s biggest tech blogs. 

Over the weekend Miller announced his departure by blog post, noting that, “I’d love to be able to keep doing Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 2/14/11 2:12pm

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Come Work for Me, Darling!: Arianna Huffington Sings Siren Song to Journo-Kids

On Saturday night at the Columbia Club on West 43rd Street–really just a warren carved out of the Princeton Club, but who’s keeping score?–Arianna Huffington was making a lot of promises. The keynote speaker of the Columbia Daily Spectator Awards Dinner, and newly minted face of AOL, addressed a room of college journalists and recent Read More

By Mike Taylor 2/10/11 6:30pm

means of production

Labor Union Mobilizes Huffington Post Contributors

As talk of payouts for the exposure-hungry bloggers who contribute content to The Huffington Post ramps up, California’s Media Worker’s Guild is sponsoring a Facebook campaign asking Arianna Huffington to “spare a dime” out of the $315 million pricetag her company fetched in a recent merger with Aol.

Says the Media Worker’s Read More

By Laura Kusisto 2/08/11 5:02pm

lease beat

HuffPo Bloggers to Invade Dial-Up Daddy’s ‘Funhouse’

The last time AOL was cool, big bookstores made money and Tom Hanks had hair, but the same cannot be said of the dial-up king’s futuristic funhouse at 770 Broadway. 

The company’s New York headquarters, Times scribe David Carr once opined,

But, in 2007, AOL moved its headquarters to the former Wanamaker department Read More

By Mike Taylor 2/07/11 2:25pm

Acquisitions

Meet The NY Investors Who Profited From Aol’s Huffington Post Buyout

Following the news of Aol’s $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post, we thought it’d be interesting to see what early tech investors might’ve profited handsomely from Tim Armstrong’s largesse. Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures got us thinking about this:

This is clearly a good deal for Arianna Huffington who I am Read More

By admin 2/07/11 12:25pm

content is king

’1+1 = 11′: AOL Buys Huffington Post For $315 M.

In his bid to turn AOL around by creating a content empire, CEO Tim Armstrong has pulled out all the stops, purchasing the Huffington Post for $315 million and appointing Arianna Huffington as editor in chief. 

According to Kara Swisher at All Things D, the pair have a new motto for the empire within Read More

By Mike Taylor 2/01/11 9:19pm

Evil Schemes

Aol’s Insidious Plan to Run Profitable Content Business Revealed

The Business Insider earlier today obtained a 58-slide document detailing Aol’s content business plan, and the result has been a distinct bout of queasiness among journalists and media pundits. 

“The Aol Way” reveals the company’s desire that its consumer-facing websites be able to compete with rival sites without the considerable traffic subsidy offered by Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/25/11 4:22pm

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Aol Email Users Have Not Got Mail

Did you know Aol’s email service was down for more than 12 hours yesterday?

Exactly.

About 4 percent of Aol Mail users were frozen out of their accounts yesterday and emails sent to them were rejected, MSNBC’s Wilson Rothman reports. Aol Mail users are still missing emails that disappeared during the outage.

That’s Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/24/11 2:37pm

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Aol's David Eun Puts His Hands Up In the Air Sometimes

Kara Swisher at Boomtown unearthed this video of an autotuned David Eun, Aol’s head of media, singing, “A-O-L, come on let’s go” in a song about the company’s 2010 earnings to the tune of Taio Cruz’s club hit, “Dynamite.”

“We’re making content with a tail that’s long, singing A-O, L, come on let’s go,” Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/24/11 1:00pm

Watch this space

Inside General Assembly, the Shiny New Hub of New York's Startup Scene

“Everyone I bring here runs into someone they know,” said 24-year old Brad Hargreaves, beaming over the spacious, warmly-lit common room of General Assembly, the shiny new 20,000-square foot coworking space near Union Square where more than two dozen of New York’s hottest startups have set up shop.

Entrepreneurs are sprawled over couches, talking Read More

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