AOL working on something new that could be huge
AOL has hinted that they have been working on something new and they plan to showcase it in the coming months.
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong was speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit. He said: “We have been working on something for the last three months that [...]
Nielsen: Bing now has 10% market share in USA
Market research firm Nielsen has reported that Microsoft Bing search engine has now gained a 10% market share in USA.
The latest data from their research report claims that Bing now enjoys around 10.7% of the market.
Google continues to dominate with 64.6% of all the [...]
Brad Garlinghouse joins AOL
AOL has announced that they are now hiring services of Brad Garlinghouse who was once working for Yahoo.
Brad Garlinghouse is great addition to the AOL team as they prepare to separate from Time Warner.
Garlinghouse is known for his internal memo at Yahoo which had predicted in 2006 that the internet [...]
Yahoo acquires OMG.com for just USD 80,000
TechCrunch is reporting that the US based internet media giant Yahoo has just acquired a cool domain name.
Yahoo has acquired OMG.com for just around USD 80,000. This is a pretty good buy for the company considering the domain name sounds pretty hip and has just three letters.
Yahoo [...]
Google sells their stake in AOL for just $283 million
Google has accepted that they made a very bad deal by investing in AOL a couple of years ago.
Google had acquired 5% stake in AOL for around USD 1 billion.
They have now sold the same stake in the company for just around $283 million.
This means the [...]
Time Warner close to spinning off AOL
Time Warner has hinted that they are close to finding a future plan for their subsidiary AOL.
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said: “We believe AOL will then have a better opportunity to achieve its full potential as a leading independent Internet company.”
This is just another way of saying that [...]
Jeff Levick is the new head of AOL online advertising business
AOL has announced the appointment of former Google Inc. executive Jeff Levick as the new head of their global advertising and strategy.
He would also be leading the company’s Platform-A ad business operations.
Things are not looking good for the company as this is the fourth [...]
Tim Armstrong is the new CEO of AOL
Time Warner owned AOL has announced the appointment of Tim Armstrong as chairman and chief executive officer.
Tim Armstrong comes to AOL from Google. He is the President of The Americas Operations & Senior Vice President at Google.
Randy Falco (CEO) and Ron Grant (COO) would both be [...]
Google wants to be out of AOL shareholding
Search engine giant Google is now planning to move out of their shareholding in AOL.
The company had invested in AOL three years ago.
Time Warner said that they have received a request from Google that they want to exercise its “demand registration statement” on the AOL [...]
Gregory Coleman is the new head of AOL Advertising Unit
Internet media company AOL has announced the appointment of Gregory Coleman as head of its online advertising unit.
Coleman was previously with AOL rival Yahoo.
He is also the third person to be in this position in the last couple of years.
He replaces Lynda Clarizio [...]
