Submitted by logicalextremes
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When, in late September, rumors surfaced that Comcast was trying to buy NBC Universal from General Electric, Wall Street reacted with dismay. Grandiose attempts to combine media production and distribution — programming and p (Read More)
Submitted by mvndrvrt
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Comment of the week goes to "Grammargirl" on Yow! 'This Is Why Recruiters [Are] The Most Hated Folks On Everyone's List', a piece about a recruiter who sent the wrong e-mail to the wrong person:This is why people hate INTERNA (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
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There are mistakes and there are mistakes. Some mistakes we learn from. For example: Thinking that selling toys for pets on the Web is a great way to get rich. We're not going to do that again (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
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Even before Tim Armstrong joined Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to take AOL independent, the company was mixing in new brands with the familiar acronym. He’s pushed that strategy even harder, to the point where the question is what (Read More)
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Even before Tim Armstrong joined Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to take AOL independent, the company was mixing in new brands with the familiar acronym. He’s pushed that strategy even (Read More)
Submitted by stewbagz
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New York Ny Ahn - Thousands Of Aol Employees Can Expect An Unmerry Christmas Next Month As The Company Announced Thursday It Will Lay Off Or
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Submitted by mogston
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The queen of all New York real estate agents, Barbara Corcoran, is "all in" on the AOL spin-off, according to her Twitter account.She wrote: "Had a meeting at AOL. They have the most beautiful headquarters I've ever seen! Peo (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
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As AOL lays off a third of its work force as it prepares to go independent, it’s looking to drop its ICQ and MapQuest units, according to reports by Kara Swisher. But with the deluge of information hitting web users these day (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
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AOL, which has already told investors it will spend up to $200 million firing a good chunk of its staff, has now told employees. The company is looking for “up to 2,500 volunteers,” CEO Tim Armstrong told his staff today. Tha (Read More)
BoomTown:
BoomTown has learned that AOL is offering those who “volunteer” to leave the company now a departure package that ranges from three to nine months of pay, compared to one to four months for employees laid off in the first qua (Read More)
Digital Trends:
AOL Inc., the once mighty Internet company, will cut about a third of its workforce, or 2,500 jobs, to cut costs as it prepares to be spun off from its parent company, Time Warner. (Read More)
Android Phone Fans:
The gPhone is still dead.Despite two years of fighting off the gphone vs. android phone fallacy, people still didn’t get it. Starting with industry analysts who perpetuated the distant rumors, trickling all the way down to (Read More)
Valleywag:
Just in time for Christmas, AOL is asking 2,500 of its workers to volunteer for buyouts starting Dec. 4 (layoffs come after) as the company separates from Time Warner and a shadow of its former online conglomerate self.AOL CE (Read More)
TechCrunch:
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong this morning informed staff that the company will be looking for 2,500 people to voluntarily hand in their resignations, which would represent about one third of the company’s payroll. The news comes a m (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The social media data company Rapleaf has just released the final parts of their 3-part study involving the demographics and online behavior of webmail users. In the first part of the study, gender and age data was examined a (Read More)
Gizmodo:
After telling its investors that $200 million has been put aside to jettison a third of its payroll, AOL is looking for 2,500 staff to take voluntary redundancies—jump now, or be pushed later. It's all designed to shave about (Read More)
paidContent.org:
As it prepares for its Dec. 9 spinoff from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), AOL CEO Tim Armstrong may need to reduce one-third of the company’s workforce by one-third as it reorganizes itself, according to an SEC filing. The goal of (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
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When we update our status on Facebook, post those photos on Flickr, or shop for holiday gifts on Amazon, a whole lot happens behind the scenes. The more we do online, the more digital footprints we leave behind. Many sites we (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
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It's Time to Demand Our dotRights! Your life, your data. Or is it?When we update our status on Facebook, post those photos on Flickr, or shop for holiday gifts on Amazon, a whole lot happens behind the scenes. The more we do (Read More)
Submitted by gadgetboy
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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- (Read More)