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 ...