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 reorganizing as CEO Tim Armstrong tries to turn around the fortunes of the jack-of-all-trades online company.

AOL’s move to funnel its 53 sites into 20 “super brands” (listed below) is meant to offer a streamlined, more coherent set of content brands for advertisers and consumers, says CEO Tim Armstrong in an interview with paidContent. He also noted that the changes reflected the completion of the integration…

AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong suggested Q1’s earnings proved that the company was back on track, mainly due to the first increase in years for display dollars, despite continued decline in profits and total revenues. He sought to portray a more streamlined AOL in light of two years of…

What do Tim Armstrong and Arianna Huffington have in mind for the newest version of AOL? (NYSE: AOL)  At our recent conference paidContent 2011, the AOL CEO and the Huffington Post founder set the stage for the layoffs announced one week later, talked up new hires and spun a picture…

AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong warned that layoffs would be coming last week, and today, the pink slips were released. Armstrong spoke about the decision during a Q&A keynote session this morning at the Bloomberg Businessweek Media Summit. In a separate interview with paidContent when he left the conference,…

Update: CEO Tim Armstrong’s full memo to staffers. AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong took the stage at Bloomberg Media Summit and confirmed last night’s big news: the company is cutting 900 jobs; in India, 400 people were laid off and 300 jobs were outsourced and in the U.S., 200…

Last week, AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong told the crowd at paidContent 2011 that layoffs—aka “job changes”—were coming following the $315 million deal to acquire the Huffington Post. The layoffs started Thursday in India, where AOL’s operations are being dramatically downsized: 400 jobs lost, 300 outsourced, roughly 200 remaining,…

AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong said from the stage at paidContent 2011 that the company was within days of closing its $315 million deal to acquire The Huffington Post and the official word came this morning via a terse SEC filing—and a celebratory announcement that the new Huffington Post…

The $315 million AOL/Huffington Post merger could close next week, said CEO Tim Armstrong, seated next to his new partner Arianna Huffington and Staci D. Kramer, editor & EVP, ContentNext/paidContent in the closing session of the paidContent 2011. Armstrong began by talking about the many firsts they’ve shared: Huffington’s first…

Last week we announced Arianna Huffington as the closing act for a jam-packed paidContent 2011: The Next Decade in Digital, March 3, at TheTimesCenter in New York. Now we’re going to try a little of her 1+1 math and add AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong to the Q&A. They’ll…

Tim Armstrong, already the largest individual shareholder in AOL (NYSE: AOL) as well as chairman and CEO, nearly doubled his stake in the company following the deal to acquire the Huffington Post. Armstrong believes in having skin in the game—and, as it turns out, so does Arianna Huffington. She told…

AOL (NYSE: AOL) Founder Steve Case has a sense of humor and a PhD in merger math. Here’s his response to current AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s rationale for spending $315 million for Arianna Huffington and The Huffington Post:

In a scene from Casino Jack, when a partner complains about a negative story in Newsweek, Kevin Spacey as Jack Abramoff has that week’s Time ready with a different take. The Jan. 24 issue of The New Yorker is a bit like both when it comes to AOL: a six-page…

AOL (NYSE: AOL) spent an astounding $9 billion in the last decade on an M&A strategy that didn’t make much sense, said CEO Tim Armstrong in a conversation with Bloomberg TV anchor Betty Liu at the Paley Center’s International Council conference. Armstrong reiterated a point he’s made a lot lately,…

Any search deal with AOL (NYSE: AOL) would start with the same given: search-advertising revenue will continue to decline as it loses access subscribers. But AOL CEO Tim Armstrong says the deal with Google to extend their search partnership through 2015 should make each search it does get more lucrative—and…

Two quarters in to life as a public company, AOL (NYSE: AOL) is looking for a new head of corporate communications. Tricia Primrose, the top spokesperson since 2007, is leaving the role as soon as a replacement is found. Primrose, who has been at AOL for more than 13 years,…

*Google* vet David Eun has kept a low profile since he joined AOL (NYSE: AOL) in March as president of AOL Media and Studios. But this week he’s breaking out of the self-imposed shell, first to accept a digital power award from The Hollywood Reporter and now to explain just…

Luckily for internet-related conference organizers, *AOL* CEO Tim Armstrong doesn’t seem to be getting tired of answering the question: “What was wrong with AOL (NYSE: AOL) when you got there?” Answering that query from FM’s John Battelle at the CM Summit, Armstrong said that there was a flawed emphasis on…

The end of May is a memory and AOL (NYSE: AOL) has yet to announce the fate of Bebo, the $850 million bet made by previous management. I was told earlier this week an announcement could still be weeks away. This might be one reason: CEO Tim Armstrong just said…