Jerry Levin

Health Sites Try to Diagnose Growing Market

Michael Hickins, Reporter, The Wall Street journal in News on March 4, 2011 at 1:02 pm PT

Health sites big and small are trying to get a bigger share of the audience for health and wellness-related content. But while the audience keeps getting bigger, the fact that each person’s medical situation is so different makes it hard for websites in the field to appeal to all.

Steve Case and Jerry Levin: Look on Our Works, Ye Mighty and Despair (About the AOL-Time Warner Merger, That Is, a Decade Later)

Kara Swisher in News on January 5, 2010 at 2:49 am PT

Since both former AOL CEO Steve Case and former Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin played such conflicting roles in my 2003 book–“There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL-Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future”–it was odd to see the pair together on the same television set yesterday morning on CNBC. But there they were, with Case as a guest co-host and Levin as his more peaceful self, talking about the 10th anniversary of what Levin aptly admitted was the “worst deal of the century.” Surprisingly, you can learn a lot about what it all meant in this very worthwhile interview with the pair.

Google Names Company Veteran Dennis Woodside to Replace Tim Armstrong as Ad Lead

Kara Swisher in News on March 17, 2009 at 4:16 pm PT

That was fast. Longtime–well, five years, which is a dog’s age at the search giant–Google sales exec Dennis Woodside will become VP, Americas Operations, replacing outgoing exec Tim Armstrong, who was named chairman and CEO of Time Warner online unit AOL last week. Woodside will start in the next few weeks, said Google in an internal communication about the appointment, as Armstrong transitions from Google to AOL.

How to Juice AOL: A Spin-Out, Of Course, But Also a Reunion at Dulles HQ?

Kara Swisher in News on March 16, 2009 at 6:32 pm PT

First came the go-go hello email, and now new AOL Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong will address all the troops tomorrow at 11 am EST and has chosen to do so from, of all places, AOL’s old center of power in Dulles, Virginia. Many at AOL hope that Armstrong will quickly and transparently lay out plans for a spin-out of the Time Warner online unit from the media conglomerate, where it has languished for years. And sources said Armstrong could further up the ante and help raise the layoff-weary morale by having some former AOL execs from its glory days as the top online player in person at the event.

The $125 Million-Sweet DailyCandy Revenge of Bob "Pitchman"

Kara Swisher in News on August 6, 2008 at 6:55 am PT

Oh, there had to be much, much gnashing of teeth in the corporate offices at the Time Warner Center in New York yesterday with news of the sale of DailyCandy to Comcast for $125 million. Why? Maybe because that tasty payment is going right into the hands of Bob Pittman’s Pilot Group Ventures, which bought the fashion and shopping newsletter business for $3 million in 2003. This is certainly different from the situation almost exactly six years ago when Pittman–nicknamed “Pitchman” for his smooth business stylings–was driven out of then-AOL Time Warner on the proverbial rail. If you want a taste of those once-grim times for Pittman, here is an excerpt from my book, “There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future.”

Imagine There's a MicroHoo (It's Easy if You Try)

Kara Swisher in News on March 14, 2008 at 12:06 pm PT

OK, we Photoshopped it, but only because we could not get our head around what the official Yahoo/Microsoft post-merger picture might look like.