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CES Hangover: What You Might Have Missed

Lauren Goode in News on January 17 at 7:59 am PT

We came, we saw, we conquered … but we couldn’t possibly write about every one of the more than 20,000 products showcased in Las Vegas last week. Here’s a quick catch-up.

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.

Remaking AOL in Huffington's Image

Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 7, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

The Huffington Post made a name for itself through a formula of buzzy political commentary splashed with celebrity gossip and traffic-grabbing tricks. Now its co-founder, Arianna Huffington, is plunging into a campaign to rescue AOL Inc.

AOL-HuffPo Deal Officially Closes Today–More Big Media Hires Signal New Content Direction Under Arianna

Kara Swisher in News on March 7, 2011 at 4:01 am PT

AOL will officially close its $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post today, sources said, only one month after it was struck. To celebrate, the now-official content head Arianna Huffington will be poaching another clutch of big journalists to add to AOL’s new Huffington Post Media Group unit.

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AOL Buys Local Aggregator Outside.In

Peter Kafka in Media on March 4, 2011 at 7:11 am PT

AOL has purchased Outside.In, one of many startups that’s tried to figure out how to make local and “hyper-local” news work. The New York-based startup didn’t seem to crack the code either, but at least you can see why AOL might be interested in its team or technology, given Tim Armstrong’s focus on local with his Patch program. Business Insider first reported the transaction.

Arianna Huffington on Her New AOL Job: "I Want to Stay Here Forever"

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”

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Twitter Explains This Morning's Glitch

Beth Callaghan in News on September 21, 2010 at 12:48 pm PT

Twitter has posted an official explanation of the “onMouseOver” security flaw that hit users of the Web site this morning and has since been resolved: “The security exploit that caused problems this morning Pacific time was caused by cross-site scripting (XSS)…In this case, users submitted javascript code as plain text into a Tweet that could be executed in the browser of another user.” Security team member Bob Lord said that the issue had been discovered and patched last month, but a recent site update resurfaced it.

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