Updated: Bonjour! AOL Takes French Le Huffington Post Live
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Huffington Post today took one more step in its ongoing march for a wider international reach: it has now officially opened Le Huffington Po… Read more »
ITN Unifying Ad Sales For Multi-Platform Video Syndication
UK TV video news producer ITN is unifying its online ad sales platform as it expands into a burgeoning number of online destinations. Read more »
HuffPo Partners With L'Espresso For 'L'Huffington Post Italy'
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The Huffington Post Media Group (NYSE: AOL) is partnering with Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso for the launch this year of an Italian edition,… Read more »
Paul Berry, CTO: I Left HuffPost For The Startup Bug-Or In This Case, Mouse
Today it was revealed that Paul Berry, the longtime-CTO of AOL’s Huffington Post, will be leaving his role at the news site, along with the… Read more »
All In The Family: AOL, Bonnier's Parenting Group Form Ad, Content Alliance
AOL (NYSE: AOL) may have recently had a high-profile rap on the knuckles from a shareholder not pleased with the company’s direction, but it… Read more »
Report: Yahoo To Name PayPal Head As CEO. Sign Of A More Commercial Push?
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) faced a pretty big whack of upheavals in 2011 — not least of which was the none-too-quiet departure of their outspoken f… Read more »
What's Coming In 2012: Digital Advertising, Up Close And Personal
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This is the fifth in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cov… Read more »
Highlights Of 2011: The Year In Advertising, By The Numbers
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This is the fourth in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we c… Read more »
AOL Ponies Up For Appssavvy's $7.1 Million Round As Social Ads Make Friends
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One of the consequences of the growth of social media has been the rise of that category of digital, interactive advertising referred to as… Read more »
News Corp./Time Warner's Prince Alwaleed Invests $300 Million In Twitter
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TW… Read more »
Samsung Electronics Reorg: Apple's Friends On One Side; Foes On The Other?
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It looks like Samsung Electronics, the flagship and biggest division of the Samsung Group conglomerate, is restructuring its organisation. W… Read more »
Digital Content Vet David Eun Joins Samsung To Lead Global Media
Samsung makes TVs, tablets, smartphones, music players, even refrigerators with connected displays. Now it wants to have a bigger say about… Read more »
Another AOL Reorg: Dial-Up, Mobile And Web Services Report Directly To CFO
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On the back of its latest executive appointments — a new head of sales, and a new head of HR — AOL (NYSE: AOL) is pressing on with more re… Read more »
Did HuffPo Just Get 'Sex-Squatted'?
Well, that was predictable. The chance to buy a “.xxx” domain is now open to the public and already someone appears to have used the opportu… Read more »
El Huffington Post: Arianna Goes To Spain With El Pais Partnership
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The news aggregating behemoth Huffington Post is continuing its march into new markets: the next stop is Spain, where the site will partner… Read more »
AOL Looks Internally For New Head Of Sales, Promotes Jim Norton
Another executive move at AOL (NYSE: AOL), which has seen a fair few of them in the last several months: the company today announced that it… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-18-11
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» Yelp Files to Raise $100 Million in IPO of Consumer-Review Internet Site (Bloomberg)
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AOL's Silicon Valley Face Garlinghouse Is Out; CFO Minson Gets Added Duties
A little over two years after returning to the portal business, Brad Garlinghouse is leaving AOL (NYSE: AOL) as president of the application… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-15-11
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» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Launches iTunes Match, But Puts Temporary Hold On New Subscriptions (paidContent)
» Gartner: And… Read more »
AOL Has A Profitable Mobile Business, But It's Not Because Of Apps Or Ads
AOL (NYSE: AOL) has banked a lot of its fortunes on selling advertising around a group of high-traffic web properties. But just as it still… Read more »
AOL, Microsoft And Yahoo Are Officially Ad Sales Allies
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The portal trio alliance between AOL (NYSE: AOL), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) that was being explored in September is now… Read more »
New York Times Sues HuffPo Over Mommy Issues
The Huffington Post not only poached the Gray Lady’s popular “Motherlode” columnist, it also had the chutzpah to name the upstart blog “Pare… Read more »
AOL Arrests Revenue Declines As Global Display Remains Up
AOL (NYSE: AOL) certainly went into Q3 with lowered expectations and it appeared to have beaten those benchmarks, as global display advertis… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-01-11
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» With Launch Of The Verge, SB Nation Parent Rebrands As Vox Media (paidContent)
» Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), Looking To Gra… Read more »
Arianna Huffington’s Colorful Court History
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Arianna Huffington’s current legal battle over the rights to the idea for the Huffington Post isn’t her first encounter with the court syste… Read more »
Mobile Ad Company 4INFO Raises $14 Million, Spins Out Its AdHaven Platform
More VC money getting invested into one more independent mobile ad network: 4INFO has raised $14 million in funding in a round led by Paul A… Read more »
Ex-MSLO Exec Janet Balis Returns To Chart AOL Ad Sales Strategy
AOL (NYSE: AOL) is bringing back former ad sales development head Janet Balis to lead sales strategy, marketing and partnerships for the com… Read more »
HuffPo Partners With Le Monde, LNEI On French Edition
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The Huffington Post is planning a French edition — Le Huffington Post — with two established partners who will share equity: The Le Monde… Read more »
Macquarie: Fall TV Promotions Lift Homepage Ads
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The three major portals and YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) sold more of the lucrative custom homepage ads in the second half of Q3, according to the l… Read more »
Update: Nuance’s Swype Buy Could See The Text Input System Go Large
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The other day, when a plane I was on landed in Newark, I noticed the elderly woman sitting next to me pull out a Droid Bionic and start answ… Read more »
Industry Moves: MSN UK, BBC.com, HuffPo Staff Up On Content; And More
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– MSN UK: Former BBC News interactive head Pete Clifton, who is now MSN UK’s exec producer, is hiring BBC Wales’ social media editor Darren… Read more »
The Latest From TechCrunch (You Cannot Make This Stuff Up)
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Well, you could if you’re the Daily Mail but barring that, who would make up a post about a tech writer who leaves to become general partner… Read more »
Pittman Gives Into Temptation; Takes Over As Clear Channel CEO
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It seemed like a no brainer back in November. If Bob Pittman was willing to return to radio after forays at MTV, AOL (NYSE: AOL), Time Warne… Read more »
Which Publishers Get Highest ‘Satisfaction Ratings From Marketers, Agencies
The continuing migration of audiences and ad dollars to digital has helped serve as a balm against growing economic fears that have resulted… Read more »
AOL Rejigs Europe Leadership: Burns Out, GoViral Chiefs Up
AOL (NYSE: AOL) is restructuring its European executive leadership in a reshuffle that sees AOL Europe CEO Kate Burns leave and two toppers… Read more »
Dazed and Confused? Welcome to the Club
In the past two weeks…
Facebook has revamped its layout and then announced a “timeline” where your living history will be displayed.… Read more »
Amid Promises Of Profitability, AOL Patch Sales Head Defects To Google
Scott Colontonio is leaving AOL’s hyperlocal network Patch after little over a year to join Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Business Insider reports. T… Read more »
Engadget Goes Old Media (Sort Of) With Distro Magazine…For Tablets Only
There may still be a good number of magazines that are turning away from the magazine format to focus more on their website distribution. Bu… Read more »
With Pressure On Display Sales, AOL Slips E-Commerce Into Devil Ads
A year after AOL (NYSE: AOL) first began promoting its “premium” Project Devil ads to much hype and fanfare, the company has succeeded in si… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-20-11
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» What Does AOL’s Life After Access Look Like? (paidContent)
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