Activist Shareholder Starboard Completely Trashes AOL In 96 Slides
We were aware that activist fund Starboard Value wasn’t exactly a fan of the way AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and co run the aging Internet giant, but this ‘investor presentation’…
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Major Shareholder to AOL: Thanks For Selling Your Patents, But ...
Starboard Value, a major AOL shareholder with approximately 5.3% of the company’s outstanding shares, has been making a lot of noise lately with its complaints about AOL management’s strategic, financial…
AOL Sells 800 Patents To Microsoft In $1.056 Billion Deal
Huge news this morning: Web services giant AOL (note: my employer until very recently) and Microsoft have struck a deal that will see the former sell more than 800 of…
About.me Goes In A Social Direction With New iOS app
The social profile network About.me, which was acquired by AOL in 2011 is continuing to expand its usefulness with a new iOS app that makes interacting with people easier. About.me…
AOL Swears that AIM Won't Be Killed, But It's Already Too Late
Oh, AOL. The company that opened the gates to the Internet for so many of us has definitely had its troubles as of late. It’s sad to see what is…
Ask.com Users are the Wordiest Web Searchers
When it comes to searching for things on the web, everyone goes about it in a different way. For example, I still know people who search for “YouTube” on Google…
Sirkel is a map based chat app
One of my favorite things to do online is chat. Real-time chats haven’t been done well since the old aol chatroom days where you could enter a room based on…
JustAbout.co is About.Me for business
With most businesses deciding that it’s time to have a Twitter account, Facebook page, and a blog, the need to bring all of these things into one place is necessary….
The future of education is technology
Last night, I attended a gathering of some of the smartest technology minds focusing on Education for grades K-12. I didn’t know what to expect, other than Newark Mayor Cory…
Another Facebook movie could be on the way
Facebook could be set to feature prominently in another movie as it has emerged that the screen rights to a new novel based around the social network have been sold…
Content control in the Age of AOL
This post is a designed meditation on publications that are strictly digital, and their future under the new reality of agglomeration through acquisition. Yes, the great landscape of blogs and digital media is…
Interview with the man suing The HuffPo
Jonathan Tasini was one of the very first writers to jump on board The Huffington Post blogging ship in 2005, reportedly at the request of Arianna Huffington herself. For the…
Unpaid Blogger Suing Huffington Post
A lawsuit has been filed from an unpaid blogger against AOL and the Huffington Post today, just over two months after founder Arianna Huffington sold the site that she co-founded…
The Huffington Post to launch in UK
As reported in the FT tech blog, The Huffington Post will be crossing the pond this summer to launch its first international version in Britain. Arianna Huffington announced the news…
Our bloggers are happy, says The HuffPo
The Newspaper Guild of America, which represents 26,000 media employees across the country, released a statement this week, encouraging all unpaid writers at The Huffington Post to stop working. Yesterday, I wrote…
