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Huffington’s Role Shrinks at AOL

Keach Hagey, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 4 at 5:00 am PT

Arianna Huffington acknowledged Thursday that her portfolio at AOL Inc. is being scaled back to include only the Huffington Post, undoing a structure put in place when her Web site was acquired by AOL last year.

Proxy Ho? Like Yahoo, AOL Could Face Alternate Board Slate From Irked Investor as Early as Today.

Kara Swisher in News on February 24 at 1:46 am PT

Is AOL ready to come about? Hard to see.

Sarah Lacy Debuts New Tech Site, PandoDaily — $2M+ in Funding and Guess Who’s Working for Her? (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on January 16 at 9:00 am PT

Here’s the brave woman who will be the new boss of Michael Arrington, M.G. Siegler and Paul Carr. (You read that right.)

Viral Audio: A Look Back at Tech in 2011, and Forward to 2012

Kara Swisher in Media on December 28, 2011 at 1:06 am PT

Should auld iPhone 5 be forgot and never brought to market …

Tech Blogger Starts a Company Around His Data Mining (a.k.a. Web Stalking) Skills

Liz Gannes in Social on November 11, 2011 at 1:10 pm PT

Longtime tech blogger (if there is such a thing!) Marshall Kirkpatrick is starting a data mining company devoted to discovering emerging information.

Exclusive: AOL’s Tim Armstrong Says He Doesn’t Want a Yahoo Deal (Video)

Peter Kafka in Media on November 2, 2011 at 8:11 am PT

Meanwhile, his AOL turnaround is still a turnaround.

AOL Beats Estimates, Posts Another Ad Sales Increase. But About Those Domestic Numbers …

Peter Kafka in Media on November 2, 2011 at 4:05 am PT

An 8 percent sales bump for Tim Armstrong. Enough?

On The Verge of a New Tech Site, Which Finally Debuts

Kara Swisher in Media on October 31, 2011 at 7:18 pm PT

Tonight at 1 am PT, techies who have nothing else to do — that would be me! — can click onto a brand new tech site called The Verge.

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Vladimir Putin’s Apprentices (Comic)

Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on September 26, 2011 at 4:10 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.

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Here He Is

Kara Swisher in Media on September 23, 2011 at 5:16 pm PT

We’ll admit, it’s clever, even if he can’t quite let go. Even the chest shot, but only because it says “Unpaid Blogger.” In other words, tech’s bad boy Michael Arrington has a new blogging home on a site called Uncrunched, after leaving AOL and the tech news blog he founded, TechCrunch, amid controversy. His first post is only three words, all in the title: “Here I Am.” Indeed.