4 posts and columns on Will Hearst

Yahoo Is Teed Up to Buy a Sports Site–BoomTown Is Betting on Citizen Sports for the Score!

in News on March 15, 2010 at 3:48 pm PT

According to numerous sources inside and outside the company, Yahoo is poised to slam dunk–I apologize, but sports puns are so easy–an acquisition of an online sports site this week. And, predicted several of those sources, it is likely to be San Francisco-based Citizen Sports, a maker of popular apps and games that allow fans to interact on the Apple iPhone and Facebook.

Sphere Leader Has Exited AOL–But Staying on as "Special" Venture Advisor

in News on November 4, 2009 at 9:30 am PT

Tony Conrad, CEO and co-founder of Sphere–the contextually relevant content engine AOL bought in the spring of 2008 for upward of $25 million–left the Time Warner online unit last month, several sources have told BoomTown in recent weeks. But, in an effort by AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong to hold onto entrepreneurial talent, Conrad has agreed to become “Special Advisor” to its AOL Ventures Unit. Apparently, he is also mulling a new start-up and remains a VC too.
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AOL's Big Give and Whirling Dervish Show!

in News on April 15, 2008 at 3:03 am PT

AOL is turning into the Oprah Winfrey of the digital world, it seems, opening up Time Warner’s (TWX) checkbook to as many start-ups as it can. Last month, it was $850 million in cash for social-networking site Bebo. And, today, it’s a much smaller slug for Sphere, which started as a blog search engine and [...]