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 ...