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>Microsoft trumps Amazon, others for AOL patents

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Microsoft trumps Amazon, others for AOL patentsBy Nadia Damouni and Jennifer SabaMon Apr 9, 2012 4:43pm EDT (Reuters) – Microsoft trumped Amazon, eBay and other tech giants with its more than $1 billion purchase of the majority of AOL Inc’s patent trove. AOL said it was selling more than 800 [...]

>Unpaid bloggers’ lawsuit versus Huffington Post tossed

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Unpaid bloggers’ lawsuit versus Huffington Post tossed By Jonathan StempelFri Mar 30, 2012 3:42pm EDT(Reuters) – AOL Inc on Friday won the dismissal of a lawsuit by unpaid bloggers who complained they were deprived of their fair share of the roughly $315 million that the company paid last March to [...]

>AOL, lacking better options, hires firm to sell its patents

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AOL, lacking better options, hires firm to sell its patentsAOL is said to have hired Evercore Partners to help it shop around its patent portfolio in hopes of making up for declining dial-up revenues. AOL’s effort to sell off a chunk of its patent portfolio keeps chugging ahead. The company has now [...]

>PATCH TO REDUCE STAFF, CHANGE EDITORIAL FOCUS

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PATCH TO REDUCE STAFF, CHANGE EDITORIAL FOCUS A Patch insider tells Romenesko readers that the AOL-owned hyperlocal news sites plan to cut staff and freelance budgets and start producing “easy, quick-hitting, cookie-cutter copy.” Examples: Best Ofs, and features like “What’s happening to this [...]

>AOL traffic down since HuffingtonPost acquisition

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AOL traffic down since HuffingtonPost acquisition Last Updated: 3:27 PM, January 30, 2012 Don’t expect Tim Armstrong to send Arianna Huffington flowers as an anniversary gift. One year after getting into bed with the media princess and plunking down $135 million to buy the Huffington Post, the AOL [...]

>AOL Needs ‘Immediate Action,’ Investor Says

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AOL Needs ‘Immediate Action,’ Investor SaysBy Edmund Lee – Dec 21, 2011 12:50 PM ET AOL Inc. (AOL), losing as much as $500 million annually in its display advertising business, must take “immediate action” to stem shareholders’ losses, activist investor Starboard Value LP said. Starboard, which [...]

>Disgruntled top talent deserts AOL

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Disgruntled top talent deserts AOLBy David Gelles in New York High quality global journalism requires investment. AOL is facing an exodus of top executive and editorial talent even as the owner of the Huffington Post and TechCrunch says it is betting on premium content to resurrect the fading [...]

>AOL CEO pitches investors on Yahoo deal: sources

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AOL CEO pitches investors on Yahoo deal: sources By Nadia Damouni and Jennifer SabaNEW YORK | Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:51pm EDT (Reuters) – AOL Inc CEO Tim Armstrong has been meeting with top shareholders in the past couple of weeks to push the idea of a sale to Yahoo Inc that could wring up to $1.5 [...]

>Huffington/ AOL merger more problems

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Huffington/ AOL merger more problems  Arrington out at AOL (for real this time) Not TechCrunch editor. Not AOL Ventures employee. Michael Arrington is on his own. It has been a very long week for AOL. And it’s about to get even longer. Last Thursday, word leaked that one of its employees, [...]

>AOL Gets Last, Best Hope in Private Equity

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AOL Gets Last, Best Hope in Private Equity By Joseph Ciolli and Rita Nazareth – Aug 17, 2011 10:39 PM ET For a private equity firm that’s looking for the cheapest way to get online, AOL Inc. (AOL) is trading for 57 cents on the dollar. The Internet pioneer spun off from Time Warner Inc. (TWX) in [...]

>AOL Struggles to Stay Positive After Second Quarter Loss

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AOL Struggles to Stay Positive After Second Quarter Loss By Adam Clark Estes | The Atlantic Wire – 20 hrs ago The timing of AOL’s second quarter earnings report was not so good. On Tuesday, the Dow Jones U.S. Tech Index sunk by 5.8 percent–just slightly higher than the Dow Jones Industrial average [...]

>AOL Lays Off 20% Following Huffington Purchase

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AOL Lays Off 20% Following Huffington PurchaseBy VERNE G. KOPYTOFFAOL said it would lay off 1,000 employees on Thursday in the wake of its acquisition of news and commentary site The Huffington Post. The cuts, which represent 20 percent of AOL’s work force, also include reductions in its operations [...]

>AOL buys Huffington Post for $315 million

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AOL buys Huffington Post for $315 millionone small voice Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington announced late Sunday that the site agreed to a $315 million buyout offer from AOL. This deal guarantees AOL will be closely watched not only by media observers but also by Silicon Valley [...]
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