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AOL Names Jim Norton as New Head of Sales

Kara Swisher in Media on December 9, 2011 at 10:00 am PT

Hey kids, it’s a new ad honcho at AOL! Replacing that other guy, who replaced that other guy.

AOL Moves the Furniture Around Some More, With Brod to Patch

Kara Swisher in News on June 28, 2011 at 6:05 am PT

Here’s an internal memo just sent out by AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, in which he buries the lede by noting the business partner of content czar Arianna Huffington, Jon Brod, will move to work on its local Patch effort and Mapquest mapping unit full time. There’s also some branding streamlining, which is akin to moving the couch over near the window where it looks better.

At Tomorrow’s AOL Investor Day, Will “Execution” Focus Mean Cylinders Firing or Heads Rolling?

Kara Swisher in Media on June 15, 2011 at 6:04 am PT

Talking to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong earlier this week about its investors day tomorrow, he used the word “execution” a lot. No, not the kind evoking a firing squad if he did not succeed at turning around the New York-based Internet giant soon as he has long promised. He means the good kind.

You've Got Arianna: AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million in Cash and Stock, Appoints Huffington Editor in Chief

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.

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Websites Ally Against Google to Sell Local-Business Ads

Emily Steel, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 30, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

A band of Internet rivals is joining together in hopes of jump-starting sales of online ads to local businesses, and of defending their turf in the emerging local market from Google Inc.

A Device Does Everything But Sing

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on December 14, 2010 at 3:02 pm PT

Katie reviews HP’s Photosmart eStation e-All-in-one, with its detachable Zeen tablet.

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AOL's MapQuest Looks to Wikipedia Model for Mapping

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 9, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

MapQuest, the No. 2 Internet-mapping service after Google’s, is taking the first steps toward a Wikipedia-like model — in which users would generate the maps themselves and combine the results for everyone to use.

Let's Go to the Videotape: SB Nation's Jim Bankoff Speaks!

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.

Tim Armstrong Makes One Last Pitch for AOL: “No More Hail Marys”

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.