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Video Search Engine VideoSurf Raises $16 Million

Peter Kafka in Media on April 14, 2011 at 12:01 am PT

Video search engine VideoSurf has found a big slug of new money: The five-year-old company has raised a $16 million round led by Israel’s Pitango Venture Capital.

A Clicker To Watch TV Online

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on November 24, 2009 at 5:43 pm PT

Katherine Boehret looks at Clicker.com, which helps viewers find their favorite shows online faster.

Liveblogging Fortune Brainstorm Tech: AOL CEO and Chairman Tim "The Plumber" Armstrong

Kara Swisher in News on July 23, 2009 at 12:09 pm PT

It did not start out too well for AOL CEO and Chairman Tim Armstrong, with a poll on the screen showing most of the attendees in the ballroom at Fortune Brainstorm Tech voting that the Time Warner online unit was either out of juice or irrelevant. Armstrong did not break any news in the interview with Fortune’s lively interviewer, David Kirkpatrick, relying more on projecting an I’m-in-charge-here attitude and saying confident things like “a challenge is also an opportunity.” In general, Armstrong tried to be upbeat about the prospects for AOL, which has for too long been the Web’s sad sack of an Internet company.

Exclusive: Patch Media CEO Brod Now Heading AOL's Venture Unit

Kara Swisher in News on July 17, 2009 at 2:39 pm PT

In yet another appointment of an exec close to AOL Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong, Patch Media CEO Jon Brod has taken over the new venture arm of the Time Warner online unit. He ran Patch for Armstrong and was president and COO of Polar Capital Group, Armstrong’s private investment company, which is focused on the media, technology and sports sectors. Now Brod will helm AOL Ventures, a new unit of AOL that Armstrong created as part of a larger new strategy to invest in new things, and he will manage a portfolio of some of its more difficult recent acquisitions.

Newer, Faster, Cheaper iPhone 3G

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on July 8, 2008 at 6:10 pm PT

Smart-phone shoppers who have been waiting for a cheaper iPhone that runs on faster cell networks might want to take the plunge on the iconic device’s latest iteration, but service costs have risen and battery life has dropped.

What Does Microsoft Really Want?

Kara Swisher in News on June 24, 2008 at 5:20 am PT

Microsoft does not have a secret plot to buy Yahoo. Maybe Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer should be hovering in the wings, like a digital Simon Legree ready to pounce again on poor Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. But he’s not. And still the hopeful, the suspicious and, most of all, the beaten down Yahoo shareholders continue to jump on any utterance from the software giant, even woefully mistranslating interviews with its top execs, to make it so.

MicroHoo: Jesus Is Coming, Look Busy

Kara Swisher in News on April 10, 2008 at 3:50 am PT

Everybody remain calm. While it might have looked like it was the rapture for major Internet players yesterday–what with everyone and his mother getting sucked up into the Yahoo-Microsoft takeover tussle and disappearing into the ether of confusion that now reigns over the situation–it is best to keep moving toward the light of harsh reality for illumination.

Can Yahoo Stop AOL's Talent Pool From Leaking So Much?

Kara Swisher in News on April 10, 2008 at 2:09 am PT

Gone, Tim Tuttle of Truveo. Gone, the Birches of Bebo. Gone, Dave Morgan of Tacoda. Gone, many Quigos. One of the more interesting little problems that AOL has had over the last few years, in regards to its acquisition of hot Internet companies, has been that it is situated deep in the bowels of the [...]

AOL's Obvious Shift (Keep Going, Jeff!)

Kara Swisher in News on February 7, 2008 at 12:02 am PT

Yesterday, newly minted Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes (pictured here) finally acknowledged the Web equivalent of the grass is green and the sky is blue related to its AOL unit. His move–separating the dying Internet-access business from its much more robust online ad business–was long in coming, and it has been perplexing as to why [...]

Don't Stop Believing in Online Videos!

Kara Swisher in News on December 13, 2007 at 1:56 am PT

AOL’s video search engine Truveo (which we posted on here–see the video with CEO Tim Tuttle below) made a list of the top 10 viral videos for 2007. Of course, the inane answers of Miss Teen South Carolina made the top of the list. And, however did we miss this gem at No. 4?–the “Paris [...]

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