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more about #timarmstrong more comments → Mediahohoho: Synergy! #timeinc more » Rock tha Hizzee: It takes a long time to get all those layoff CDs printed and mailed out. more » FormerEnglishMajor: Well, as an investor-type, I can tell you that the reason these things are postponed is so that, when Newco is public, they can make this really posit... more » Unsolicited Advice: Time Warner doesn't want to compensate exiting employees. AOL can't afford a "deep restructuring" to be taking place during the sales process for the... more » BadUncle: All that laser focusing isn't a good idea if you're in a hall of mirrors. more » Moonshine Mike: Whatever the effect, it seems like creating content is the next direction for companies, as evidenced by Gawker, inc. I think AOL is taking their fam... more » ChillbearLatrigue: I watched some of this today on CNBC. Where else would I have learned how to make a fortune cornering the candy market? more » overunderover: Other than serving as an email domain of choice for perverted auto body shop workers named Randy who troll dating sites looking for flings, and Midwes... more » The-Littlest-Hobo: This is actually a pretty good idea. Kids love Warren Buffet. Especially skateboarding Warren Buffet. I read about it in a report from Morgan Stanley. more » Tremonius: Lennin say: "When the train of history rounds a bend, all the intellectuals fall off the top." AOL was ridiculed even as it was the largest ISP around... more » MrInBetween: Ryan, You should post some of @SteveCase's tweets today. He blames everyone for this merger-debacle but himself, of course. more » macbeach: I eagerly await a fresh supply of 3.5" floppy disks showing up in my mailbox. more » atlasspanked: Hey, who knew the world didn't want a slow, ad-plastered browser that headlined Britney Spears 24/7? I saw the merger as a smart chance for AOL's foun... more » jasonelias: This is bad news. Now AOL will be a useless, virus-filled site that should have been put out of its misery 11 years ago. Oh yeah, that's right... more » TedSez: You've Got Fail! (What? Jokes were bad in the '80s, too.) more » -
#secondmarriages
AOL and Time Inc CEOs Meet to Discuss Merger?
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#spinoffs
Why Delay AOL's Mass Layoffs?
Everyone knows Tim Armstrong is planning more layoffs at AOL once the company is spun off from Time Warner. So why let them hang over the company's return to the markets as an independently-traded stock? More » -
#internalmemos
AOL's CEO Calls for 'Laser Focus,' Fires People
Tim Armstrong has begun to shape AOL to his liking, four months after Time Warner announced the much-diminished internet conglomerate's spinoff. Here's the internal memo in which the CEO calls some serious buckling down — and jettisons two executives. More » -
#television
Why Warren Buffett and Martha Stewart Just Showed Up at an AOL Meeting
Domestic doyenne Martha Stewart and legendary investor Warren Buffet are on stage at a big AOL meeting. "People are going fucking nuts," a tipster writes. Why are the business celebrities at AOL? To make children's programming, naturally. More » -
#conflictsofinterest
AOL's Shameless CEO Bailout
Tim Armstrong, AOL CEO, just bought a company from... Tim Armstrong, investor. The official line is that the deal is on the up and up, since the consummate salesman won't be taking any profits off his stake. Rich. More » -
#spinoffs
The AOL-Time Warner Saga Bookends One Sorry Decade
The 21st century dawned with news that two media megaliths, AOL and Time Warner, were to merge. Critics howled that the vast tentacles of a combined AOL-TW would subsume us all. Today, Time Warner confirmed it's spinning off AOL, ending a business saga that defined whatever you're calling the 2000s. More » -
#rumormonger
Google's 'Darth Vader'
In flusher times, Google geeks set the agenda for company sales executives; distracting sidelines were encouraged. The recession — assisted by a new sales chief who apparently doesn't mind his diabolical reputation — foreclosed on such coddling. More » -
#housekeeping
Valleywag: An Instruction Manual
Dear Ryan:
As I head to NBC to run its Bay Area site, I'm leaving you one Silicon Valley gossip blog, used but in good condition. A few thoughts on how to keep it that way. More » -
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#rumormonger
New AOL CEO Wants to Buy Twitter's Web Cool
An AOL tipster tells us incoming CEO Tim Armstrong, the Google sales veteran, wants to buy Twitter, the hot message-broadcasting startup. One problem: He hasn't even started at AOL yet. More » -
#exits
AOL Boots Loser CEO for Google's Tim Armstrong
At last, AOL has done something right: The Time Warner Internet unit has hired Google's Tim Armstrong as its new CEO, booting the laughably incompetent duo of CEO Randy Falco and COO Ron Grant.
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#bloggingfordollars
New New York Times Survival Strategy: Become a Fancy Blog-Software Company
Why has the Gray Lady assigned full-time reporters to communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey? Even a Times editor admits the paper will never make money on microjournalism. But they could market software to bloggers. More » -
#deathofprint
The New York Times Battles a Googler for New Jersey
Why is the Gray Lady building websites for the obscure suburbs of South Orange, Maplewood, and Milburn? Perhaps because those are the exact same towns Google executive Tim Armstrong picked for Patch, his local-news startup. More » -
#journalismism
At Last, Google Funds a Bailout for Reporters
Journalism pundits have been begging Google to put its billions behind the project of saving journalism. At last, a Google executive has come through. Here's Tim Armstrong's secret plan to save the local news business. More »
