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AOL’s CEO Calls for ‘Laser Focus,’ Fires People

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

AOL re-organized its upper management yesterday, booting COO Kim Patroll in the process. The timing is bizarre, considering newish CEO Tim Armstrong only named Kim to the post in July…

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Bing grabs 10 percent of search market

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

Microsoft’s new Bing search service is the fastest-growing U.S. search engine among the top 10, according to a Nielsen report released Monday. The total amount of searches on Bing rang in at 1.1 billion for the month of August, a leap of 22.1 percent over July, winning Microsoft a 10.7 percent share of the search [...]

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Former Yahoo and AOL Ad Exec Coleman Poised to Join the Huffington Post as President

Sep 16, 2009 2 Comments by admin

n the ongoing game of Internet exec musical chairs, Greg Coleman (pictured here), who has been a top exec at both Yahoo and AOL, is poised to become president of the Huffington Post, as well as chief revenue officer, several sources said…

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Interview: Brad Garlinghouse, President, AOL Internet and Mobile Communications

Sep 08, 2009 No Comments by admin

Until now, most of Tim Armstrong’s hires since he joined AOL (NYSE: TWX) as CEO have been in advertising or the business side, including a number from his former employer Google. Newest hire Brad Garlinghouse is a switch in both cases: a product guy from portal competitor Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Garlinghouse was exploring companies big [...]

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Former Yahoo Exec Brad Garlinghouse Joins AOL

Sep 07, 2009 No Comments by admin

AOL, under new management and with a spinoff IPO on the horizon, continues to fill out its executive ranks. The newest hire: former Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse will join AOL as President of Internet and Mobile Communications. Garlinghouse will report directly to CEO Tim Armstrong.

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