Kara Swisher in News on March 8 at 7:02 pm PT
Another day, another,
well, you know …
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on May 18, 2011 at 6:05 pm PT
Walt answers a reader’s question on the pros and cons of a Mac for a small-business owner.
Kara Swisher in News on May 4, 2010 at 8:30 am PT
While in Washington, D.C., recently, I paid a visit to Jim Bankoff, who is now helming a fascinating start-up called SB Nation, a fast-growing sports blog and news platform.
With over 200 individual communities, it’s a mix of professional and user-generated content aimed at engaging passionate fans.
Kara Swisher in News on February 8, 2010 at 5:02 am PT
AOL has taken another step closer to selling off its ICQ instant messaging service, culling seven bids to four “serious” ones, said sources close to the situation.
The price for the service is hovering just under $200 million, several sources said, with one bid 15 to 20 percent higher.
Sources said that the solicitation of bids is now over, with the four remaining described by one source as a “U.N. of buyers.”
Peter Kafka in Media on December 9, 2009 at 10:15 am PT
AOL is about to cut ties to Time Warner, and CEO Tim Armstrong has been making his case to current and potential investors. Here’s one last pitch, delivered to the crowd at the annual UBS Media and Communications Conference in New York.
Kara Swisher in News on November 18, 2009 at 1:18 pm PT
AOL has hired a pair of New York investment bankers, Morgan Stanley and Allen & Co., to manage the sale of its ICQ instant-messaging unit.
Sources familiar with the situation said interest in buying the asset from two major non-U.S. companies prompted execs at the online service to put a process in place for a deal that will likely occur after AOL becomes an independent company in December.
AOL bought ICQ in 1998 for about $400 million–$287 million outright and $125 million in earnouts for the team.
Sources said AOL to looking to recoup $300 million.
Kara Swisher in News on September 7, 2009 at 8:45 pm PT
Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse–famous for his controversial “Peanut Butter Manifesto,” which correctly chided the Internet giant for becoming so lugubrious several years ago–is taking a job at AOL very similar to the one he left at Yahoo last year.
Garlinghouse, who will remain on the West Coast, will be named president of Internet and mobile communications at AOL, putting him in charge of the New York-based Time Warner online unit’s powerful email and instant-messaging properties, including ICQ and AIM.
He will also be, said AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, its “CEO of Silicon Valley for us.”
