04/18/13 The Raw AOL Newsfeed

Comprehensive Real-Time News Feed for AOL.

• AOL to Announce First Quarter 2013 Financial Results _{2013-04-18, 04:15 pm}
  AOL Inc. today announced that it will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss first quarter 2013 financial results on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time .
• AOL to Announce First Quarter 2013 Financial Results _{2013-04-18, 06:39 pm}
  AOL Inc. today announced that it will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss first quarter 2013 financial results on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time .
• James Grundvig: Making Big Data Small (and Accessible): Interview With SiSense CEO Amit Bendov _{2013-04-18, 06:35 pm}
  ... to be a Data Scientist" to mine big data -- and the 10x10x10 challenge for analytics. Last month, SiSense partnered with AOL to make sense of a decade worth of stored big data in the CrunchBase ecosystem of venture capital and technology startups ...
• 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Lisa Vanderpump's Naked Photo Scandal _{2013-04-18, 02:06 pm}
  ... celebrity and pop culture for over a decade. Sterling has contributed to People Magazine, The Times, Daily Mail, Yahoo, AOL among other national and international publications. Sterling received his PhD in Film and Visual Studies from The Harvard ...
• Al Jazeera America hires producers _{2013-04-18, 01:04 pm}
  ... the senior national correspondent for The Huffington Post, and prior to that served as the Washington bureau chief for AOL News and a reporter for USA Today. Karon is coming to Al Jazeera America from Time Magazine, where he spent the last 12 years ...
• Andrea Stone and Tony Karon Join Al Jazeera America _{2013-04-18, 01:36 pm}
  ... Stone most recently served as The Huffington Post's senior national correspondent. Prior to her time there, she was AOL News' Washington bureau chief. Karon comes to Al Jazeera America from Time , where he has spent the past 12 years, most recently ...
• Online media: AOL's second life _{2013-04-18, 10:03 am}
  ... for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. MOST Thursday afternoons at AOL's New York headquarters a bell rings to announce "happy hour", and staff flock to a keg in a meeting room. They hope they at ...
• Fairhaven Capital leads $10M round for NY's SocialFlow _{2013-04-17, 03:38 pm}
  ... y to be motivated to action." Fairhaven was joined in the Series B by existing investors SoftBank Capital, RRE Ventures, AOL Ventures and Betaworks, as well as new investors kbs+ Ventures and Rand Capital Corporation.
• Skimlinks Launches Tools to Help Publishers Affected by Google Affiliate Network Shutdown _{2013-04-17, 03:10 pm}
  ... Skimlinks processes 300 million clicks a month on over 140,000 sites around the web, including Conde Nast, Gawker, AOL Europe, WordPress, Hearst Digital, Haymarket Consumer Media, Telegraph Media Group, and many more. Skimlinks is a team of 55 with ...
• More Jobs Created Under Obama Than Bush, Non-Partisan Report Finds _{2013-04-17, 01:55 pm}
  This article was written by Dan Fastenberg and originally appeared on AOL Jobs .
• Takeaway: What's cooking in China? Miami-based NPN Media has signed a ... _{2013-04-17, 10:34 am}
  ... format, that would be a competitive advantage." NPN Media now has as clients 350 Internet outlets, including MSN, Yahoo, AOL and other national and international names. The company is growing in several directions at once. "One of things we're doing ...
• The Rise of the Rest _{2013-04-17, 06:56 am}
  AOL Co-Founder Steve Case has a great perspective on the country's vast and varied startup universe.
• SocialFlow secures $10 million in funding _{2013-04-17, 01:44 am}
  The round was joined by existing investors SoftBank Capital, RRE Ventures, AOL Ventures and Betaworks, as well as new investors kbs+ Ventures and Rand Capital Corp.
• See Steve Buscemi Give Vampire Weekend Sage Advice in 'Unstaged' Clip _{2013-04-16, 10:20 pm}
  ... has no problem fitting right in with the boys. He calls Rostam Batmanglij "Rasta," offers to promote the band from his AOL email address, and gets in on their rehearsal of "Unbelievers." He also comes up with some pretty good career advice - namely ...
• CEO Forum with Univision: 'Must Si TV' makes its move _{2013-04-16, 04:42 am}
  ... evolving ways in which people consume content, said Falco, who spent more than 30 years at NBC and served as CEO at AOL from 2006 to 2009. "None of the media companies today can afford to stay in place. They can't," he said. "They have to expand. ...
• Venture capital deals _{2013-04-16, 01:21 pm}
  ... led the round, and was joined by kbs+ Ventures, Rand Capital Corp. and return backers SoftBank Capital, RRE Ventures, AOL Ventures and Betaworks. www.socialflow.com LearnZillion , a Washington, D.C.based digital curriculum and professional ...
• Would You Rather Follow On Spotify Or Rdio? _{2013-04-16, 12:36 pm}
  ... friends as well as the ability to pull everyone (or select people) from your connected Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and/or Hotmail accounts. Once you're following people, you'll see the ones who are online listed in a column on the right, ...
• AOL and Lancsngfl proxy _{2013-04-16, 06:04 am}
  Hello all, I'm just wondering if anyone in a school in lancashire who hits the lancsngfl proxy could test AOL.co.uk for me, aol.com works perfectly well? When I attempt it, the site looks like it has no CSS file, it's just white with black text, photos and some blue links, also if you try and access aol email, the progress bar just stops two thirds ... (more)
• Photo release: 2013 User Experience Awards Submissions Window... _{2013-04-16, 07:05 am}
  ... gle), Paul Berry (RebelMouse, Huffington Post), Gary Chou (Union Square Ventures), Christian Crumlish (CloudOn, Bay-Chi, AOL), Bryan Hamilton (Razorfish), Peter March (IXDA NY, VML, Nicole Rubin (Creative Good), Beverly May (UX Awards)
• Quick help with AOL website/mail please - quick and easy _{2013-04-16, 04:27 am}
  ... helpful as heck so I have a quick favour for anyone willing ot help. One of my members of staff is all over me about his aol mail. if I go to AOL.com - News, Sports, Weather, Entertainment, Local & Lifestyle , the site loads fine. if I go to ...

04/15/13 The Raw AOL News Feed

Comprehensive Real-Time News Feed for AOL.

• Racists in Restaurants, Part 2 _{2013-04-15, 08:00 pm}
  ... temporarily to do the kind of online chatrooom stuff that was big for a year or two before the dot-com bubble burst, for AOL. The mission: To open a metaphorical window for AOL users onto the world of college spring break in Panama City Beach, Fla. ...
• Vuguru & Fremantle Tout New Shows for International Market _{2013-04-09, 03:00 am}
  ... is pitching the shows for both linear and non-linear venues. Already, "Fetching" has logged millions of views on AOL, Nocas says. Here in the US, Vuguru is putting its energy into the upcoming New Fronts where it will tout several shows, including ...
• Join Gadling At The New York Travel Festival This Weekend _{2013-04-15, 03:00 pm}
  When Roni Weiss cornered me at the AOL offices a few years ago to pitch the concept of a new travel conference I had my doubts.
• Explosions near finish line of Boston Marathon _{2013-04-15, 02:48 pm}
  TV AND WEB RESTRICTIONS~**NO ACCESS USA/CNN/AOL/YAHOO/WIRELESS AND MASSCHUSETTS STATE MEDIA MARKETS Police on the scene after an explosion at finish line of the Boston Marathon.
• Which Media and Advertising Stars Will Be Immortalized? _{2013-04-15, 12:47 pm}
  ... market. He's the seventh richest person in the world and the three-term mayor of New York. Steve Case. As the founder of AOL, Steve Case provided Americans with their first onramp to the Internet. His company deluged millions with CD ROMs of his ...
• Software Industry Veterans to Join Virtual Piggy Board _{2013-04-15, 08:27 am}
  ... owned by HP). Mr. Copperman also brings over 25 years of board governance expertise including serving on the boards of AOL (NASDAQ:AOL) and EDGAR ONLINE (NASDAQ:EDGR). "I am very excited that Mr. Lyons, Mr. Tobia, and Mr. Copperman have agreed to ...
• Aol and Vuguru Present the Highly Anticipated Second Season of Hit Series Little Women Big Cars_{2013-04-15, 05:59 am}
  AOL and Vuguru, an independent studio founded by Michael D. Eisner that finances world-class story-driven content for digital and emerging platforms, today announced the highly anticipated premiere of Season 2 of Little Women BIG CARS.
• Welfare spending jumps 32% during Obama's presidency _{2012-10-18, 03:00 am}
  ... removed from a food assistance program. (AP Photo/Courtesy Michigan Lottery via Detroit Free Press) DETROIT NEWS OUT; AOL OUT In this Sept. 15, 2011 photo, Bill Ricker , 74, looks out the screen door of his trailer home on a rainy day, in Hartford, ...
• Peter Land becomes SVP at AOLThe former PepsiCo man will lead the... _{2013-04-14, 05:59 pm}
  AOL has named Peter Land senior vice president of corporate communications, based in New York and reporting to chief executive officer Tim Armstrong .
• Buzzfeed's Jonah Peretti: 'We're not like something that came before' _{2013-04-14, 01:00 pm}
  ... who founded the Huffington Post in early 2005, remaining at the helm of the news site and blog until its $315m sale to AOL in February 2011. After six years at HuffPo, 39-year-old Peretti said the acquisition represented a "natural breaking point" ...
• Online shows stealing buzz from traditional TV _{2013-04-14, 02:26 am}
  ... and creative spark from Hollywood A-listers like Tom Hanks and Jerry Seinfeld, online platforms including Yahoo! Screen, AOL On, YouTube, Hulu and Crackle are pushing into territory once reserved for traditional TV: long-form, scripted programming. ...
• Focus on the workplace: Telecommuting offers flexibility _{2013-04-13, 03:00 am}
  ... lives in Birmingham, where he's the social media manager of Autoblog.com, an online autmotive news website owned by AOL. There is no central office, as Tutor and his colleagues are scattered about the U.S. and overseas -- New York, California, ...
• PHOTO: Robin Williams Looks Unrecognizable _{2013-04-12, 04:34 pm}
  ... working on a new project in Georgia. North Druid Hills-Briarcliff Patch (which, like The Huffington Post, is owned by AOL) reports that Williams is currently in Tucker, Ga., filming a holiday comedy , "A Friggin' Christmas Miracle," with Lauren ...
• New public notice bill a lose-lose for consumers and newspapers _{2013-04-12, 02:47 pm}
  ... can qualify as a newspaper to increase business. Rendon agreed to carry the legislation at the specific request of AOL, who owns the Patch local news websites. Patch is all over California and was the brainchild of current CEO Tim Armstrong several ...
• Bill Morgan _{2013-04-12, 01:21 pm}
  ... sound design. I have voiced hundreds of promos, tags and commercials for radio and television including SNY, Sam Adams, AOL, Movado, Unisom, Comcast, GNC and Aeropostale. My animated projects include the carnegiehall.org interactive game "The Young ...
• Facebook Home: Midas Touch, Single Touch And 'The Holy Grail' _{2013-04-12, 12:35 pm}
  ... ). VRNG brings the immediate Google leverage as VRNG has already won a patent infringement suit against GOOG as well as AOL ( AOL ) and others. SITO, a company we have recently uncovered, may actually make a better fit for FB. It trades in the less ...
• Yahoo Close to Landing Former Departing AOL Executive _{2013-04-11, 10:46 pm}
  Yahoo Inc. is expected soon to hire a new chief of its crucial Americas division from Internet rival AOL Inc.
• Sailthru Tracks Your Online Behavior for a More Personalized Web _{2013-04-11, 10:41 pm}
  ... can personalize their content to get shoppers and viewers to return more often. Having signed 300 clients (including AOL, Oscar de la Renta and Fab.com ) and recently getting $19 million in funding , the company has set its sights on global ...
• Big Web Show: Greg Storey _{2013-04-11, 08:50 pm}
  ... media to politics. His amazing roster of clients includes Sundance Film Festival, The Nation , W3C, MSNBC, Today Show, AOL, New York Magazine, DiVX, and SpeedTV. Greg's ideas, and his work as a creative director and designer, have been profiled in ...
• Head of ad sales quits AOL after Yahoo job offer -report _{2013-04-11, 08:19 pm}
  AOL Inc's head of advertising sales has resigned after receiving an offer to take a key sales job at Yahoo Inc, according to a media report.

Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes' 2012 Pay Steady at $25.9 Million

... fiscal year is identical with the calendar year, are making these disclosures around this time of year. Internet giant AOL, which TW spun off into a separate company a few years ago, recently said that chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong made $12.1 ...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/time-warner-ceo-2012-compensation-430768?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thr%2Fnews+%28The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Top+Stories%29

AOL Canada Launches StyleList.ca

AOL Canada announced today the launch of StyleList.ca , an edgy, contemporary online destination for fashion, style and beauty, featuring Canadian-based content, celebrity guest editors and local contributors, all designed to inspire Canadians to look and feel their best.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/topix/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20130404005732&newsLang=en&ndmConfigId=1000639&vnsId=41

Today in Tech: Why Google paid this man $100 million

... with friends and family, but want it to be super easy to do so. For many people, Facebook is the Internet, just as AOL was before it. And just as Facebook is the best way for them to experience the Internet in a browser, Facebook Home is going to be ...

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/08/today-in-tech-why-google-paid-this-man-100-million/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fortunebrainstormtech+%28Fortune+Brainstorm+Tech%29

Vintage website seen as glimpse at teenage Zuckerberg

... his freshman year of high school, and that he made the site to promote a program he wrote for use at internet portal AOL. A website page hinted at an early interest in tapping the social potential of the internet with a project called The Web. "This ...

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/vintage-website-seen-as-glimpse-at-teenage-zuckerberg-20130408-2hfqr.html

04/05/13 Comprehensive Real-Time News Feed for AOL.

• 'My name is Mark': Facebook head's teenage website resurfaces _{2013-04-05, 07:56 pm}
  ... his freshman year of high school, and that he made the site to promote a program he wrote for use at Internet portal AOL. A website page hinted at an early interest in tapping the social potential of the Internet with a project called The Web. "This ...
• Report: An update on Terrafugia's flying car, one year after its NY debut _{2013-04-05, 10:14 am}
  ... that the paucity of press releases has been a result of the company working hard on bringing the Transition to market. AOL Autos reports that the folks at Terrafugia are hard at work with the dual certification process that makes the vehicle such a ...
• Could this be Zuckerberg's first site? _{2013-04-05, 10:20 am}
  ... his freshman year of high school, and that he made the site to promote a program he wrote for use at Internet portal AOL. A website page hinted at an early interest in tapping the social potential of the Internet with a project called The Web. "This ...
• An update on Terrafugia's flying car, one year after its NY debut _{2013-04-05, 10:14 am}
  ... that the paucity of press releases has been a result of the company working hard on bringing the Transition to market. AOL Autos reports that the folks at Terrafugia are hard at work with the dual certification process that makes the vehicle such a ...
• CEO Tim Armstrong AOL not going the way of the dodo bird _{2013-04-05, 09:15 am}
  ... networked throughout the social media spectrum and is administered by Mainstream Media EC on behalf of Big News Network. AOL Inc. CEO Tim Armstrong defended his company's battered brand Thursday at a Washington, D.C., conference, the Washington ...
• Luxury Travel on Shoestring _{2013-04-05, 09:07 am}
  ... way to get a 4-star room for a 2-star price. People who are unfamiliar with a city's travel seasons can use sites like AOL Travel to find average temperatures and when travelers are most likely to visit (e.g. see the New York travel seasons here ). ...
• CEO Tim Armstrong: AOL not going the way of the dodo bird _{2013-04-05, 07:07 am}
  AOL Inc. CEO Tim Armstrong defended his company's battered brand Thursday at a Washington, D.C., conference, the Washington Business Journal reported.
• Arianna Huffington Being Sued for Trashing NY Apartment _{2013-04-04, 08:36 pm}
  ... apartment multiple times, is holding onto $93,000 dollars in deposits, which he has refused to return," she added. The AOL-Huffington Post boss reportedly paid between $27,000 and $32,000 a month to rent the place for her parties and renewed the ...
• Mustard banned on plane for good reason _{2013-04-04, 12:26 pm}
  ... has been passing off fiction and hyperbole as insight since 1997, has run his own website since the Jurassic era of AOL, and was online when today's college sophomores were a year away from being born. So get off his lawn. I always buy a sandwich ...
• Meet the 7Search Team at AdTech San Francisco April 9th and 10th. _{2013-04-04, 07:01 pm}
  ... for Content Marketing." The opening keynote on day 1 of the AdTech Conference will be delivered by Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, responsible for taking the company public in 2009. Day 2's keynote address will be delivered by Google's Susan Wojcicki, ...
• Acclaimed 'Baby-sitters Club' author Ann M. Martin... _{2013-04-04, 05:09 pm}
  ... panel. The panel begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be moderated by Bethanne Patrick, a 1985 Smith graduate who started the AOL Books Channel, where her book critic channel, "The Book Maven," was born. Mary Irwin, gift and development officer for the ...
• The AOL On Network and The Publishing Group of America to Form Strategic Partnership _{2013-04-04, 04:24 pm}
  Dual-Syndication Agreement Gives Publishing Group of America Access to The AOL On Network's Massive Video Library and Distributes Original PGOA to New Audiences Around the Web )--AOL Inc.
• Janet Yellen Remarks _{2013-04-04, 04:00 pm}
  The Society of American Business Editors and Writers Spring Conference BRIEF SUMMARY: The conference opens at noon on April 4. Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, will be the first keynote speaker .. Read More The Society of American Business Editors and Writers Spring Conference BRIEF SUMMARY: The conference opens at noon on April 4. Tim Armstrong, CEO of ... (more)
• 13 Essential SEO Power Tools _{2013-04-04, 12:00 pm}
  ... marketing power tools, which comes courtesy of Simon Heseltine ( @SimonHeseltine ), Director of Audience Development at AOL. Heseltine shared his list of SEO tools you should be using with SES New York attendees last week. It sounds obvious, but it ...
• HLN to Present 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, 6/16 _{2013-04-02, 03:00 am}
  ... on June 23, 2012. In that ceremony, an additional non-Emmy award was awarded by the program's social media partner, AOL, for Best Viral Video Series.With 912,000 viewers, the broadcast was "the most watched regularly scheduled, non-news telecast" ...
• Aol Canada Launches Stylelist.Ca _{2013-04-04, 08:59 am}
  A new Canadian destination for all the best in fashion, style & beauty inspiration TORONTO, April 4, 2013 -- AOL Canada announced today the launch of StyleList.ca , an edgy, contemporary online destination for fashion, style and beauty, featuring Canadian-based content, celebrity guest editors and local contributors, all designed to inspire ... (more)
• Rare Look at Mark Zuckerberg's Very First Website _{2013-04-04, 05:02 am}
  ... remodeled this website in an attempt that perhaps some search engine will recognize it. I am trying to promote my new AOL Program, The Vader Fader, which you can download elsewhere on this site. It is a decent fader. If you have any comments about ...
• Is this Zuckerberg's teenage website? _{2013-04-04, 03:17 am}
  ... site was set up to promote a program Zuckerberg built called the "Vader Fader" - a program which manipulated the text in AOL (US telco America Online) chat texts, instant messages and emails. For a teenager, Zuck seemed to have his finger on the ...
• The UMCOR Hotline for April 3, 2013 _{2013-04-03, 06:42 pm}
  ... and for the workers who minister to them. BE SURE TO RECEIVE THE WEEKLY HOTLINE. Some Internet Service Providers like AOL, Yahoo!, Hotmail, and Juno use email filtering software that allows you to add email addresses to a "buddy," "trusted," "safe," ...
• AOL On Network and Publishing Group of America to Form Strategic Partnership _{2013-04-03, 03:52 pm}
  NEW YORK, April 4, 2013 AOL Inc. today announced a strategic partnership with the leading multimedia publisher Publishing Group of America .