Stuart Dredge
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Oct 5, 2010 6:35 PM
Facebook is a genuine 900lb gorilla in the social networking world now, with more than 500 million users. It is also an increasingly important platform for entertainment marketing. Its VP EMEA Joanna Shields – formerly a European MD at Google (NSDQ: GOOG), and president of Bebo – gave a keynote…
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Robert Andrews
Apr 1, 2010 4:09 AM
After former Bebo president Joanna Shields left last May ahead of the dismantling of her AOL (NYSE: AOL) People Networks division, she teamed with TV producer Shine Group CEO Elisabeth Murdoch to create a social content company. But now she’s getting back in to the social networking business proper, joining…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 23, 2009 10:26 PM
A few weeks after AOL (NYSE: TWX) denied it would hastily offload its $850 million Bebo acquisition, the social network is trumpeting a whole roster of new products offered not just through Bebo, but through AOL itself, AIM, ICQ and AOL’s mobile products, each of which is harmonizing user profiles.…
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Staci D. Kramer
May 18, 2008 7:25 PM
It’s official—AOL (NYSE: TWX) now owns Bebo, closing the $850 million acquisition roughly two months after making it public. The social media network will not stand on its own; instead, AOL is combining Bebo, AIM, ICQ and its other community platforms into a new business unit known as the People…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Apr 29, 2008 6:45 PM
AOL’s $850 million purchase of Bebo back in March was one of the big social media deals of the year. In a Q&A with ContentNext co-editor Staci Kramer and paidContent:UK Editor Robert Andrews, Ron Grant of AOL (NYSE: AOL) and Bebo’s Joanna Shields (live from London!) discussed the deal, and…
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Robert Andrews
Mar 13, 2008 8:38 AM
AOL (NYSE: TWX) and Bebo bosses hosted reporters and analysts on a conference call to explain the reasons for the $850 million acquisition. —AOL CEO Randy Falco (left): “This is a tremendous acquisition and one I think is game-changing for AOL - it puts us squarely as a leader in…
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