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AOL Chooses Yahoo!’s Right Media Exchange For AOL Ad Inventory Control

AOL Chooses Yahoo!’s Right Media Exchange For AOL Ad Inventory Control

Yahoo!’s Right Media Exchange has been selected as the program of choice for serving AOL ad inventory. The announcement follows the company’s Q4 2011 partnership with Yahoo. According to Yahoo: The inventory AOL makes available under the display advertising agreement […]

Patch Traffic Triples Year-Over-Year As AOL Continues To Pump In Cash And Expand Reach

Patch Traffic Triples Year-Over-Year As AOL Continues To Pump In Cash And Expand Reach

In 2011 AOL reportedly paid $160 million to get hyperlocal news website Patch.com off the ground and while the company continues to lose money on the project new numbers show tripled traffic year-over-year. According to analytics firm comScore Patch.com overall […]

AOL Autos To Announce “Technology of the Year (TOY) Awards” At CES 2013

AOL Autos To Announce “Technology of the Year (TOY) Awards” At CES 2013

AOL Autos on Tuesday announced that the leading  automotive research and news site will feature a new Technology of the Year (TOY) Award at the 2013 CES event. According to AOL: The award is designed to give shoppers a clear grasp of […]

AOL Teams With Bonnier Parenting Group, Hopes To Reach ‘Moms’ Demographic

AOL Teams With Bonnier Parenting Group, Hopes To Reach ‘Moms’ Demographic

AOL Inc. announced on Thursday that it had formed a partnership with publisher Bonnier Parenting Group. Under the agreement AOL will receive content from Parenting.com, a move meant to lure in online advertisers for the lucrative “moms” demographic. Under the […]

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) Upgrade Wreaks Havoc On User Privacy

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) Upgrade Wreaks Havoc On User Privacy

If your online privacy is of great concern to you it’s a good idea to avoid downloading the new preview version of AOL Instant Messenger. Privacy rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) discovered that AOL was storing more logs of communications […]

AOL Still Charging Unsuspecting Customers For Email

AOL Still Charging Unsuspecting Customers For Email

In case you haven’t heard the good news email is now free, I know that might sound ridiculous to mention but as it turns out some AOL customers have been paying for their AOL.com email addresses for the last decade […]

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Starts 2012 With Motivational Memo To Employees, Highlights Company Successes

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Starts 2012 With Motivational Memo To Employees, Highlights Company Successes

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong wants his employees to know that the company accomplished a lot in 2011 and will accomplish even more in 2012 and that’s why he sent off a 2,000-word motivational memo to his thousands of staffers on […]

AOL Responds To Starboard Value Shake-Up, Moves Forward With Business As Planned

AOL Responds To Starboard Value Shake-Up, Moves Forward With Business As Planned

Activist investment fund Starboard Value has purchased a 4.5 percent stake in AOL Inc. and have requested a meeting with company CEO Tim Armstrong to discuss what they consider to be strategic failings. In their letter the company calls AOL […]

AppsSavvy Picks Up $7.1 Million From AOL Ventures

AppsSavvy Picks Up $7.1 Million From AOL Ventures

Social media advertising firm AppsSavvy announced on Tuesday that they have raised a new $7.1 million round of funding from AOL’s AOL Ventures group. News of the funding comes just one week after social ad network MediaBrix managed to secure […]

Sarah Gavin Steps Down At AOL Europe

Sarah Gavin Steps Down At AOL Europe

AOL Europe is losing its vice president of marketing and communications as Sarah Gavin steps down from her role as the company looks to cut certain roles and consolidate others. Gavin has been with the company for almost six years, moving […]

Meet AOL’s New ‘Chief People Officer’ John Reid-Dodick

Meet AOL’s New ‘Chief People Officer’ John Reid-Dodick

On Monday AOL announced the hiring of John Reid-Dodick,the former Global Head of Human Resources for Thomson Reuters Markets. Reid-Dodick will take over as the company’s new “Chief People Officer” within their human resources department. According to the company John […]

AOL CEO Armstrong Says Company Hopes to Get 10% of Revenue via Mobile in Next 18 Months

AOL CEO Armstrong Says Company Hopes to Get 10% of Revenue via Mobile in Next 18 Months

This year, AOL has seen a lot of big expenditures- like in the hyperlocal market with their Patch product- seemingly without revenues to balance out the spending. CEO Tim Armstrong said back in September that profitability is a huge concern […]

Orbitz Signs Multi-Year Deal With AOL Travel

Orbitz Signs Multi-Year Deal With AOL Travel

AOL Travel and Orbitz have announced a new multi-year agreement that will make Orbitz.com the web destinations primary travel booking agent. As part of the deal Orbitz will provide AOL travel readers with discounts on hotels, vacation packages, flights, rental […]

AOL To “Rethink Core Purpose” For European Homepage

AOL To “Rethink Core Purpose” For European Homepage

AOL is aware that they are in need of “innovation and a rethinking of its core purpose” and for that reason the company is preparing to revamp the homepage for their European property. According to AOL executives they have been focused […]