Peter Kafka in Media on January 10 at 3:42 pm PT
Like almost every other top Huffpo executive from the pre-AOL days, Paul Berry is on to something else — which happens to involve working with a lot of former Huffpo executives.
Kara Swisher in Media on September 7, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
While the Yahoo board has yet to begin a search, I have already been hard at work on selecting the next CEO.
News Byte
Voices in News on February 9, 2011 at 3:24 pm PT
Yahoo today
made official what
BoomTown reported last week–effective April 1, Eric Hippeau, a director since 1996, will step down and David Kenny, president of Akamai Technologies, will take over the still-warm seat at the table.
Kara Swisher in News on February 8, 2011 at 10:17 am PT
One of the more interesting pieces of news that got pushed deep down in stories in the noisy swirl around AOL’s $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post was the move of its CEO Eric Hippeau back to the investor side.
He’ll be going to Lerer Ventures, which is run by HuffPo co-founder, chairman and major investor Kenneth Lerer, and is contemplating a big expansion of its efforts.
BoomTown talked to both about it today.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 7, 2011 at 5:55 am PT
“I want this to be the last act of my life,” says AOL’s new content boss. CEO Tim Armstrong’s translation: It’s a “multiyear contract”
Peter Kafka in Media on February 7, 2011 at 3:30 am PT
Former AOL CEO Steve Case is right to call out current AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s fuzzy math. But that doesn’t mean this is a bad deal.
Kara Swisher in News on February 6, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT
In a bold and definitive move, AOL is paying $315 million, mostly in cash, to buy the Huffington Post, one of the Web’s most prominent news and opinion sites.
As part of the deal, Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington–who was derided by some when she co-founded the left-leaning site in 2005 with investor and well-known communications exec Kenneth Lerer–will become editor in chief of a new unit that has purview over all of AOL content properties.
The deal was signed just this afternoon.
Kara Swisher in News on February 4, 2011 at 4:32 pm PT
Eric Hippeau, longtime Yahoo board member and one of its earliest investors, will be stepping down as a director, according to sources close to the situation.
In a related move, sources said Akamai President David Kenny will be joining the board of the Internet giant.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on November 15, 2010 at 2:37 pm PT
After a very, very long search, Forbes Media has finally tapped a new leader: Softbank Capital’s Mike Perlis, who will become president and CEO of the business magazine and Web site. Perlis fills holes left by former
Forbes.com publisher Jim Spanfeller, who left in 2009, and Forbes magazine publisher Jim Berrien, who left in 2008. The move also means that COO Tim Forbes will no longer run the company day-to-day. Curious what this means for Softbank, which has already seen partner
Eric Hippeau head out to run Huffington Post in 2009? Nothing, says Perlis: “Business as usual”.
Kara Swisher in News on October 14, 2010 at 9:00 am PT
With all the noisy swirl around Yahoo of late–from its executive turmoil to its flat growth to its dashed partnerships in Asia to its brash CEO–its board has been unusually quiet of late.
Comatose, some might say.
But with private equity firms, media companies, Web rivals, big shareholders, Wall Street and others all machinating about trying to grab all or some of the Internet giant, it will be interesting to see if its directors will shake themselves out of their typical comfort zone of inactivity to actually do their job.
Thus, time for their moment in the BoomTown spotlight!
