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AOL Seeks to Cut 2,500 Jobs

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:20:14 +0000

NEW YORK—AOL Inc. plans to cut its work force by about a third, or roughly 2,500 jobs, as it prepares to spin off from Time Warner Inc. next month. AOL Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong will surrender his 2009 bonus, which was expected to range from $1.5 million to $4 million. “That ...

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Exclusive: AOL Hires Bankers to Sell Off ICQ, As Internet Service Starts to Shed Non-Core Assets

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:54:21 +0000

AOL has hired a pair of New York investment bankers Morgan Stanley and Allen & Co., to manage a sale of its ICQ instant messaging unit. Sources familiar with the situation said interest in buying the asset from two major non-U.S. companies prompted execs at the online service to put ...

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AOL To Spin Off December 9, Begin Trading December 10

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:50:00 +0000

AOL will officially be spun off from Time Warner on December 9, with trading to begin the next day. Shareholders of record at 5 pm ET on November 27 will get one share of AOL for each 11 shares of Time Warner (TWX) on the day of the long-expected spin-off of the Internet service. AOL will ...

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AOL: Layoffs Coming With Spinoff From Time Warner | Kara Swisher | BoomTown

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:07:40 +0000

pinkslip Essentially–although AOL is located in New York and not California–it’s going to be like tremors before the Big One at the online company today, as about 100 employees are laid off. Sources said the cuts, first reported by Valleywag’s Ryan Tate , will be widespread across AOL, even as ...

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Video - News Hub: A Slimmer New AOL

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:05:34 +0000

AOL announces will lay off a third of its staff as part of its restructuring. Barron.com's Eric Savitz comments on the news and the company's efforts to reinvent itself with Kelsey Hubbard and Simon Constable in the News Hub.

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AOL: We Need to Fire 2,500 "Volunteers"

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:26:40 +0000

AOL, which has already told investors that it will spend up to $200 million firing a good chunk of its staff, has now told its employees. It is looking for "up to 2,500 volunteers," CEO Tim Armstrong told his staff today. That's a third of the company's payroll.

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AOL Also Likely to Eye Sale of MapQuest–Is Microsoft a Possible Buyer?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:22:32 +0000

Yesterday, BoomTown wrote about AOL’s efforts–including hiring investment bankers–to sell its ICQ instant-messaging unit . But that’s probably not going to be the end of the shedding of assets at the online site. In fact, according to sources inside and outside ...

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comScore Releases October 2009 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:26:12 +0000

RESTON, VA, November 17, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In October 2009, Americans conducted 14.3 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.4 ...

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With AOL Spinoff, TMZ To Move To Time Warner/Telepictures, As Expected; $25M 2008 Revenues

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:28:06 +0000

As we have been reporting for a while , celeb powerhouse site TMZ will now be part of Time Warner, after operating as a JV between AOL and Warner Bros-owned Telepictures for a while. First TMZ took ad sales away from AOL earlier this ...

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The beginning of the end? AOL to go its own way Dec 9

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:20:57 +0000

Back in the mid-90s, I really thought that AOL (America Online) couldn’t keep competing against the tidalwave of new ISPs that were offering Internet connectivity for much less, not to mention without the horrible bandwidth-sucking AOL application in an age of dial-up modems. I was quite ...

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AOL's Mass Layoffs Will Cost $200 Million

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:18:39 +0000

AOL formally acknowledged that it plans on a round of very large cuts: In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Time Warner unit said it plans on taking up to $200 million in restructuring charges through the first half of 2010. Earlier this week, Kara Swisher reported that ...

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AOL Begins Layoffs; 100 To Be Let Go Today

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:46:18 +0000

AOL is laying off 100 staffers today, sources tell paidContent, confirming earlier reports by AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher and Valleywag . The moves are part of CEO Tim Armstrong’s “Project Everest,” which he has ...

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The Best Travel Gadgets of 2009

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:27:49 +0000

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Time Warner Sets AOL Spin For December 9

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:39:15 +0000

Time Warner (TWX) has set the terms for its spin off of AOL , which will be made December 9 to holders of record November 27. Holders will get one AOL share for every 11 shares of TWX they hold. Fractional shares will not be issued; instead they will be aggregated and sold in the open market, ...

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AOL Layoffs Tomorrow To Kick Off Depressing Holiday Season?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:21 +0000

'Tis the season to rush up layoffs so they don't fall in the sacrosanct Thanksgiving-to-Christmas period: An AOL insider tells us the company is slated to let go around 100 people tomorrow, following 1,500 firings Electronic Arts announced today. AOL is expected to complete mass layoffs after ...

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AOL: Small Layoff Today, a Voluntary Buyout and, Then…the Big One

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:15:22 +0000

Essentially–although AOL is located in New York and not California, it’s going to be like tremors before the Big One at the online company today, as about 100 employees are laid off. Sources said the cuts, first reported by Valleywag’s Ryan Tate , will be widespread ...

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UPDATE 2-Time Warner to spin off AOL on Dec. 9

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:19:43 +0000

* Holders get 1 AOL dividend for 11 Time Warner shares * AOL will start trading as 'AOL' on NYSE on Dec. 10 (Adds analyst, background) By Yinka Adegoke NEW YORK, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc ( TWX.N ) said on Monday it will spin off its AOL unit to shareholders on Dec. ...

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Time Warner Declares Spin-off Dividend of AOL Shares

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:34:18 +0000

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX - News ) and AOL Inc. today announced the timing and details regarding the spin-off of AOL from Time Warner. The Time Warner board of directors has approved the final distribution ratio and declared a pro rata dividend of the shares of AOL ...

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Video: Layoffs Begin at AOL

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:25:25 +0000

AOL lays off roughly 100 employees. Plus, Droid sells well and the EU objects to Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun.

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Facts about Google's acquisition of AdMob

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:22:12 +0000

The deal will bring new innovation and competition to mobile advertising, and will lead to more effective tools for creating, serving, and analyzing emerging mobile ads formats. This deal will benefit developers, publishers, and advertisers by improving the performance of mobile advertising, and ...

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