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Today in Tech: iPad 2 reviews, AOL layoffs today
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AOL plans to layoff several hundred employees starting today in editorial and other media product groups, as well as jobs in India -- areas like network and ad sales should remain unaffected. The move comes as AOL restructures its editorial division after MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 10, 2011 5:00 AM ET -
Today in Tech: The Twitter Quick Bar uproar, AOL closes Huff Post deal
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AOL closed its $315 million acquisition of The Huffington Post just one month after it was announced. Site founder Arianna Huffington will serve as AOL's President and Editor in Chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, which includes all of the company's media properties. The deal should MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 7, 2011 7:55 AM ETPosted in: Android, AOL, Apple, David Lawee, DoubleClick, Google, huffington post, iOS, Seth Weintraub, TechCrunch, Twitter -
Today in Tech: AOL layoffs confirmed, Facebook co-founder selling shares?
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"It was like being punched in the stomach." - Jack Dorsey on getting replaced as Twitter CEO by Evan Williams in 2008 (Vanity Fair)
Twitter creator and Square founder Jack Dorsey is profiled in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. Among the new revelations: his fortune may MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 4, 2011 8:31 AM ETPosted in: AOL, Apple, Facebook, huffington post, iPad, iPad 2, iTunes, Jack Dorsey, new iPad, Twitter -
Today in Tech: iPad 2 loses features, AOL layoffs coming?
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Sources tell The Wall Street Journal that AOL is considering layoffs as part of its new management structure integrating the Huffington Post, though no details yet on timing or just how many employees would be affected. While Arianna Huffington will serve as the newly-christened Huffington Post MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 25, 2011 7:28 AM ETPosted in: AOL, Apple, Arianna Huffington, BlackBerry, Boy Genius Report, Google, huffington post, iPad, iPad 2, Light Peak, Lotame Solutions, MacBook Pro, MySpace, new iPad, RIMM, Thunderbolt -
Today in Tech: iPhone 5 buzz, IBM's Watson on Jeopardy
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
The first (of three) days of Jeopardy featuring the IBM supercomputer Watson as a contestant ended in a tie. Watson and competitor Brad Rutter wrapped up the evening with $5,000 each on the scoreboard, while Ken Jennings, who had bested Watson in the much-publicized practice match, ended up with $2,000. (AllThingsD) AOL CEO Tim Armstrong invested more than $10 million in MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 15, 2011 8:31 AM ETPosted in: AOL, Facebook, Google, Google Chrome, HTC, IBM, iPhone, iPhone 5, Jeopardy, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mobile, Netflix, Tim Armstrong, Watson -
AOHuffPo? HuffOL? What the new media mashup really means
AOL needed a traffic hub and social media know-how. HuffPo needed an exit and a new job for its visionary leader. Was merging the right answer?
As big as the Super Bowl's viewership was, the biggest news to come out of last night's festivities wasn't the Green Bay Packers' victory or even the bevy of new, pricey commercials that emerged, but the media bomb two attendees dropped right after the event. MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 7, 2011 5:19 PM ET -
Today in Tech: Watch the Super Bowl ads, AOL buys Huffington Post
A curated selection of the weekend's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Still revved up from last night's Super Bowl shenanigans? You can relive the best parts -- or well, the commercials at least -- via YouTube's annual AdBlitz voting contest here. And if that's not enough, check out CNNMoney's excellent roundup of rejected ads for extra laughs. (YouTube and CNNMoney)
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 7, 2011 6:00 AM ETPosted in: Android Honeycomb, AOL, Arianna Huffington, Daring Fireball, Engadget, Google, huffington post, iPad, Mobile, Motorola, Motorola Xoom, Nokia, Stephen Elop, Tablets, TechCrunch, Tim Armstrong, Wi-Fi, YouTube -
The AOL Way: Broken, battered and hopeless
A leaked presentation on its "master plan" and its abysmal earnings report only confirm that AOL needs a new way.
By Dan Mitchell, contributor
Ken Auletta's profile in The New Yorker of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong last month was a grim assessment the company's prospects and a scathing indictment of the quality of AOL's content -- much of which, Auletta wrote, is "piffle." The company, he seemed to conclude, is more likely MORE
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Today in Tech: Nokia working on Windows Phone 7?
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Today, the FCC votes on Internet regulations that would mandate that companies treat all kind of Web content equally -- though as they are now, the rules would not apply to wireless data. Venture capitalist and former California State Controller Steve Westly explained why the net neutrality proposal announced by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is a must-have. (CNN MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 21, 2010 6:00 AM ETPosted in: Amazon, Android, Andy Rubin, AOL, Apple, Brad Garlinghouse, eBay, FCC, federal communications commission, Financial, Google, Google Voice, Groupon, HP, Hulu, Julius Genachowski, Mark Hurd, MeeGo, Microsoft, Mobile, Motorola, Net neutrality, Nokia, SEC, Steve Jobs, Tablet, TechCrunch, Windows Phone 7 -
The end of Internet history?
The author responds to our Scott Woolley's review of his new book, "The Master Switch."
By Tim Wu, contributor
"Time has upset many fighting faiths" – Oliver Wendell Holmes
My book, "The Master Switch" asks a simple, age-old question: Is history destined to repeat itself? Is the great revolutionary medium of our times, the Internet, destined to follow the path of its ancestors, radio and the telephone, a path of MORE
Nov 22, 2010 11:58 AM ETPosted in: AOL, AT&T, Google, History of the Internet, Jane Jacobs, NBC, Network Neutrality, Tim Wu, Time Warner, United States, Wall Street
