07/15/13 The Raw AOL News Feed

Comprehensive Real-Time News Feed for AOL.

• Guttman Joins Softbank Capital _{2013-07-15, 04:50 pm}
  ... local startups, Guttman was part of the early team at the content recommendation engine, Sphere, which was acquired by AOL in 2008. He served as the company's CEO post-acquisition and led its divestiture from AOL and sale to Outbrain in early 2011 ...
• Young Hollywood, Momentum Plan New World Cup Digital Channel _{2013-07-15, 04:47 pm}
  ... syndicates its content to such partners as YouTube, where it is an Original Channel Partner, as well as Hulu, Yahoo, AOL and others. Momentum Entertainment Group is the content development and production division of Momentum Worldwide and is part of ...
• Young Hollywood, Momentum Entertainment Group Launching New Channel for Rio 2014 _{2013-07-15, 03:55 pm}
  ... its content to several other high profile media partners, including YouTube (an Original Channel Partner), HULU, Yahoo!, AOL and numerous mobile and broadcast television outlets. ABOUT YOUNG HOLLYWOOD Young Hollywood is a multi-platform media brand ...
• Former About.me Engineers Launch Finally.io To Monitor Cloud Server Performance _{2013-07-15, 02:50 pm}
  ... who were both early employees at About.me. According to Gotszling, the two decided with the spinout of the company from Aol that it was time for them to try something new. So the two have been working on Finally.io since February, recently running ...
• IPEC, Computer Companies Unveil Ad Net Best Practices _{2013-07-15, 10:56 am}
  Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and others have teamed up on the release of best practices for ad networks to help fight online piracy and counterfeiting, but the Motion Picture Association of America, which represents major rights holders, says even more needs to be done and that the guidelines put too much onus ... (more)
• Internet Privacy - Why not use what Edward Snowden uses, and other suggestions _{2013-07-13, 02:08 pm}
  ... in Russia, it was from an Email carrier called Lavabit. We all know from Mr. Snowden's releases that Gmail, Outlook, AOL, and Yahoo are all out of the question because these companies participate in the NSA's PRISM program, so obviously Mr. Snowden ...
• Inspired in New York Honors Real Housewives of NY Star Sonja Morgan _{2013-07-12, 12:51 pm}
  ... Editor at Precious Times Magazine and as an Advisory Board Member at Harlem World Magazine. As a Programming Manager at AOL, she oversaw all...
• YouSendIt rebrands to Hightail _{2013-07-12, 03:33 am}
  ... following a shake-up at the executive level last year. Brad Garlinghouse left his job as head of consumer products at AOL to take over as CEO and has since brought in new faces across the executive level, working towards this bold move. "The launch ...
• Former Staffer Becomes Partner at Rational 360 Firm | Hill Climber _{2013-07-11, 03:00 am}
  Tricia Primrose, a longtime AOL public relations official whose Capitol Hill experience dates back to when Sen. Richard C. Shelby , R-Ala., was a Democrat, has become a partner at Rational 360, a Washington, D.C., PR firm.
• Corporate Maryland: Geico and Marriott Are Most Famous Companies _{2013-07-06, 03:00 am}
  ... of choice in Maryland for creators of the United States map. To the south, Virginia was most known for being home to AOL (in Dulles) and Northrop Grumman (in Falls Church). In other parts of the country, California was most closely associated with ...
• YMCA of San Francisco Celebrates 160th Anniversary by Launching 'Your ... _{2013-07-11, 05:30 pm}
  ... networks online, Livefyre is powering real-time social experiences for over 200 leading brands including American Idol, AOL, Bravo, CBS, Conde Nast, Dow Jones/WSJ, FOX, Newsweek/Daily Beast, Showtime, Sports Illustrated and The New York Times. ...
• Aol Ceo Tim Armstrong on the mood at Sun Valley and where the growth is. _{2013-07-11, 04:19 pm}
  ... I think its own brands. -- open auditions for anchors here in Manhattan as they focus on new -- contents are calling it AOL live at Dennis our jobs think -- on -- earlier I had a chance to speak with -- -- chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong about that ...
• AOL's Fishbowl Labs raises threshold for startups: report _{2013-07-11, 10:29 am}
  Fishbowl Labs, the co-working spot launched last year at AOL's cavernous Dulles campus, has upped the minimum funding threshold for startups to take space there, according to a report this week from Elevation DC.
• Irish tech movers and shakers revealed _{2013-07-10, 10:14 pm}
  ... Vodafone's Jeroen Hoencamp and Xerox's Jerry Carey. In Multinational Internet-led Companies: Amazon's Paul Conlon; AOL's Tim Armstrong; eBay's Gary Hagel; Facebook's Gareth Lambe; Google's John Herlihy; Groupon's Eric Lefkofsky; Linked-in's Kevin ...
• YouSendIt rebrands as Hightail to take on Dropbox, Box, Drive, & SkyDrive _{2013-07-10, 03:52 pm}
  When former AOL exec Brad Garlinghouse took over as CEO of file-sharing service YouSendIt a year ago, it was clear he had plans to shake up the company.
• Why YouSendIt had to change its name _{2013-07-10, 03:38 pm}
  ... already knew a major change was needed when he arrived at the company in May 2012. To the former Yahoo ( YHOO ) and AOL ( AOL ) executive, YouSendIt remained a widely-used service with more growth potential hampered by a dated user experience and ...
• In New Challenge to Dropbox and Box, YouSendIt Morphs Into Hightail _{2013-07-10, 08:55 am}
  ... portfolio included Yahoo Mail and its other communications products. He was also president of consumer applications at AOL. Today, YouSendIt is changing its name to Hightail , and is rebranding itself as more of a broad-based file-sharing and ...
• YouSendIt Changes Its Name To Hightail As It Aims To Become Known For More Than Just Storage_{2013-07-10, 08:13 am}
  ... and the semiconductor industry newsletter Electronic News. Disclosure: Colleen holds a small amount of shares in AOL, which were awarded as part of her employment contract with TechCrunch. She personally... Learn More YouSendIt has accumulated some ...
• Citigrooup Initiates Coverage on AOL _{2013-07-09, 09:23 pm}
  Several other analysts have also recently commented on the stock. Analysts at Needham & Company reiterated a "buy" rating on shares of AOL in a research note to investors on Friday, June 21st.
• Jonathan Miller Joins Advancit Capital _{2013-07-09, 09:14 am}
  ... Officer and Chairman and CEO, Digital Media Group for News Corporation and prior to that served as Chairman and CEO of AOL. An active investor for many years, he was a founding partner of Velocity Interactive Group, an investment firm focusing on ...

07/03/13 Comprehensive Real-Time News Feed for AOL

• More _{2013-07-03, 08:32 pm}
  ... worth between $5,000 and $20,000 of several major companies, including IBM, Anheuser-Busch, JPMorgan, Hasbro, Disney and AOL. Skelos is "of counsel" to the firm of Ruskin, Moscou Faltischek, which recently set up a lobbying arm. He was paid between ...
• FreeWheel's Heller: Video Audience Is Still Untapped _{2013-07-01, 03:00 am}
  ... Beet.TV in this video interview. "What we've seen is untapped volume. There's lot of untapped audience available." At AOL's NewFront event this April, Freewheel announced FourFront , a partnership with MediaOcean through which AOL will offer ...
• Turnpike Troubadours coming to fund-raiser _{2013-06-27, 03:00 am}
  ... with the single "Gin, Smoke, Lies" reaching No. 1 on Texas Music Chart. The Wall Street Journal, MTV Hive, MSN Music, AOL The Boot and many others responded to Goodbye "Normal Street" with praises: "...these Troubadours make a unique rackets, and ...
• Michael Birch Buys Bebo Back For $1 Million After Selling It For $850 Million _{2013-07-02, 12:38 pm}
  In 2008, Michael and Xochi Birch sold their startup, Bebo to AOL for $850 million, netting nearly a $300 million profit for each of them.
• Obama wraps up Africa tour _{2013-07-02, 12:05 pm}
  TV AND WEB RESTRICTIONS~**NO ACCESS USA/CNN/AOL/YAHOO/WIRELESS *~ Tanzania gives U.S. President Barack Obama a colourful send off as he wraps up an eight-day tour of Africa on Tuesday.
• Revolution Ventures quietly amasses $150 million fund _{2013-07-02, 10:54 am}
  Revolution Ventures , the venture capital firm led by former AOL chief executive Steve Case, is quietly putting together the pieces for a new $150 million fund, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing published on Monday .
• Poland Denies Political Asylum to US Whistleblower _{2013-07-02, 06:42 am}
  ... Snowden's findings, Washington Post points the tech giants Microsoft , Apple , Google , Facebook , YouTube , PalTalk , AOL and Yahoo as participants in the program called PRISM . Tags: United States , Prism , Yahoo , AOL , PalTalk , youtube , ...
• TechMedia Network Acquires Bestofmedia Group -- Home to Venerable... _{2013-07-01, 09:43 pm}
  ... Webby award distinctions and has made it a leading content source for the world's top news sites, including Yahoo, CBS, AOL, MSNBC, and Fox, expanding its audience reach to nearly 100 million unique monthly visitors. "Digital publishers are moving ...
• 849 million reasons why Bebo was a mistake for AOL _{2013-07-01, 09:37 pm}
  ... Bebo for $1 million. He announced the deal via a tweet , a sharp contrast to the big splashy press events organized by AOL (then part of Time Warner) five years ago. AOL had sold the company to LA private equity firm Criterion Capital Partners in ...
• The Top 10 Reasons I Loved Working At Gadling _{2013-07-01, 05:00 pm}
  ... for 8 a.m. the next day. I'll miss stratifying features throughout every morning and wrestling with the frontpage of AOL.com for article placement. Being that connected with the news world is incredibly stimulating, and it's something that I may ...
• Bowery Capital, AOL Ventures Plan New Reward For Top Startup Workers: Luxury Weekends _{2013-07-01, 03:35 pm}
  ... firm that's creating an annual weekend retreat for the best employees at the startups in its portfolio and that of AOL Ventures . The idea, said Mike Brown Jr., who launched the $33 million Bowery Capital this year after co-founding and running AOL ...
• After Selling Bebo For $850 Million Then Watching It Die, Founder... _{2013-07-01, 02:27 pm}
  In 2008, Michael and Xochi Birch sold their social network Bebo to AOL for $850 million.
• Man Buys Back $850 Million Company for $1 Million, Just for Funsies _{2013-07-01, 02:11 pm}
  Bebo was supposed to be a very, very big social network-so big, AOL paid $850 million for it back in 2005 .
• Adobe Acquires Marketing Company Neolane; Expands Digital Marketing Services _{2013-06-27, 03:00 am}
  ... of the Web into a video-centric and interactive medium, says co-founder Edo Segal, a technology entrepreneur and former AOL exec who is a co-founder of TouchCast. Users of the free App can create videos with various interactive elements ... CANNES - ...
• Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Joins The Verge to Host Web Series _{2013-07-01, 05:31 am}
  ... The launch of the show continues an expansion by the tech-oriented site, launched in fall 2011 by staffers who left AOL's Engadget, into becoming a destination for original, TV-quality online video. The series, Small Empires With Alexis Ohanian , ...
• Inside AOL's Live Experiment _{2013-07-01, 12:03 am}
  ... dons a green mask - which on camera will make it look as if Angel took his head off. it's day two of the auditions for AOL Anchor Quest, which brought a thousand dreamers to AOL's studios in New York, where they tried out to become AOL's newest ...
• Edo Segal on the Launch of TouchCast and the Emergence of the "Video Web" _{2013-06-26, 03:00 am}
  The launch of TouchCast is part of the inevitable evolution of the Web into a video-centric and interactive medium, says co-founder Edo Segal, a technology entrepreneur and former AOL exec who is a co-founder of TouchCast.
• Brand Measurement is Key Focus of Programmatic Efforts at IPG's Magna Unit _{2013-06-26, 03:00 am}
  ... of the Web into a video-centric and interactive medium, says co-founder Edo Segal, a technology entrepreneur and former AOL exec who is a co-founder of TouchCast. Users of the free App can create videos with various interactive elements ... CANNES - ...
• The Next Opportunity for Programmatic is Television, Rubicon's Jay Sears _{2013-06-26, 03:00 am}
  ... of the Web into a video-centric and interactive medium, says co-founder Edo Segal, a technology entrepreneur and former AOL exec who is a co-founder of TouchCast. Users of the free App can create videos with various interactive elements ... CANNES - ...
• Mindshare CEO Emery: We are Focused on Real-Time "Adaptive Marketing" _{2013-06-25, 03:00 am}
  ... studio in the box," is how co-founder Erick Schonfeld describes the company's offering. Beyond editing, the ... CANNES - AOL has an agreement with video discovery engine Taboola to increase video views both on and off AOL properties, explains Ran ...