AOL showed signs of life in its Q2 2012 earnings report today, beating Wall Streets expectations and sending a clear signal that the company is doing well under CEO Tim Armstrong.
AOL reported revenue of $531 million for the quarter, …
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It may have taken a while, but the age of web portal dominance is finally starting to show visible signs of erosion.
For the first time, media and advertising startup Glam Media now has a higher global audience reach than …
Six months after reorganizing, AOL has done it again. This time, the Internet, advertising and content company will split into three parts: AOL Membership, Brand Group and the Advertising.com Group.
“Brands are at the center of our company and we …
In case you weren’t aware, patents are big money.
AOL and Microsoft have finally closed a deal that has Microsoft dishing out $1 billion in exchange for over 800 of AOL’s 1,100 patents. While roughly half of the patents are …
Emurse, a company in the increasingly hot recruiting and job search industry, is being shuttered by AOL. AOL bought the online resume site in mid 2009, but has done effectively nothing with the service, and now as part of the …
Unlike Yahoo, AOL’s activist shareholders won’t be able to boot out the company’s CEO due to false information on a resume.
Instead, Starboard Value LP, which owns 5.3 percent of AOL, decided to create a 96-page presentation outlining all of …
In response to recent rumors, AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong said his company has no plans to sell some of its largest tech news properties, including TechCrunch and Engadget.
Both properties were said to be part of a package of …
Continuing its trend of stemming the bleeding, AOL reported an increase in overall revenue in the first quarter 2012 to $529 million at 22 cents a share, which bests analysts estimates of $527 million at 7 cents per share.
Profits …
Arianna Huffington is taking a step back from her role of directing all content across tech/media company AOL, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Huffington became Editor-In-Chief of all AOL media properties in February 2011 after her Huffington Post news site …
Local advertising startup Signpost grew its business a little bit Tuesday with a $3.75 million investment and a new employee. Christopher DePatria, former head of sales at AOL Patch, joined the team as the vice president of revenue.
Signpost tackles …
We’ve known for a while now that AOL has aspirations of transforming its media empire into a fully fledged TV network built for the web. It announced a new live streaming video channel for the HuffingtonPost web publication back in …
Microsoft announced today that it will be selling hundreds of patents to Facebook, a sign that it wants to protect its investment from litigation as the social network heads towards an IPO next month. But this wasn’t a sudden change …
The Huffington Post has just made history as the first blog to ever win a Pulitzer Prize.
Only in the past two years have digital media outlets made the Pulitzer cut. ProPublica, an independent nonprofit journalism outfit that syndicates content …
Patch editor-in-chief Brian Farnham announced today he is leaving the network of hyper-local news and its parent-company AOL. The news was revealed in an all-company call and Farnham let it all hang out on the Patch Blog.
“It turns out …
Update 2 p.m. Pacific: AOL stock closed up 43 percent for the day. News hit the wires this morning that AOL plans to sell 800 of its 1,100 patents to Microsoft for $1 billion in cash, money CEO Tim Armstrong …
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s claims of the company’s patent library being worth an estimated $1 billion might prove true, according to patent research firm Envision IP.
AOL has struggled over the past few years to transition itself from relying primarily …
IAC-owned video-sharing-site Vimeo has appointed former AOL and Yahoo executive Kerry Trainor to chief executive officer, the company announced Monday morning. Trainor will replace Dae Mellencamp, who will continue working at the company as President.
“Under Dae’s guidance, Vimeo has …
AOL will try to add some cool to its mobile team with the just-announced acquisition of iOS and Android photo-sharing app Hipster.
Hipster was launched in 2011 and is probably best known as the startup that offered a year’s worth …
