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Way To Go, Tim! (Are You Paying Attention, Yahoo?) (AOL, YHOO)

Nicholas Carlson

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong at NYSE

AOL just announced that it will sell 800 patents to Microsoft for $1 billion cash.

Way to go, Tim Armstrong!

Attention Yahoo's Scott Thompson: this is how you make big money off a patent portfolio without poisoning your rep in Silicon Valley (and getting counter-sued in the process).

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9 Apr 2012

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Neil deGrasse Tyson On Making Humans Immune To The Deadly Forces Of Space

www.businessinsider.com William Wei 158 days ago

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Neil deGrasse Tyson is disappointed that robots are being sent into space instead of humans, and he is wondering if we can make ourselves immune to the deadly forces of space. Filmmaker and futurist Jason Silva goes one step further and says that we would be able to code biology and create post-humans that will be able to overcome the physical limitations of regular humans and venture farther than ever imaged. In part one of Building the Future – an episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson's popular StarTalk podcast which was recorded at Business Insider's IGNITION conference – Tys... Read similar

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10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (GOOG, AMZN, AAPL, YHOO, SSNLF)

www.businessinsider.com Nicholas Carlson 73 days ago

Hello! Here's the news. Remember to come back to SAI during the day for the latest news and analysis. Samsung's new flagship phone will have eye-tracking software; it will be able to tell where you are looking on its screen. Former Yahoo exec Michael Katz says he was fired in a bar, just two weeks before Yahoo was to pay him a $1.35 million bonus. China is worried about how much of its smartphone market Google controls. Apple thought about calling the iPhone the "TriPod" instead. Or Mobi. Phew! Apple is going to sell a computerized watch later this year. What will it look like? Dunno! But her... Read similar

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Ex-Yahoo CFO Tim Morse Takes CFO Gig At Adap.tv (YHOO)

www.businessinsider.com Nicholas Carlson 130 days ago

Former Yahoo CFO Tim Morse has a new job. He'll be CFO of Adap.tv, a video ad network. Morse was at Yahoo from June 2009 until October 2012, when he was washed out in the Marissa Mayer tidal wave. Morse spent most of Fall 2011 as Yahoo's interim CEO, after Carol Bartz got booted. Hiring a CFO of Morse's stature and experience is a pretty clear sign Adap.tv would like go public in the next couple years. In an email, Adap.tv shared some data about itself: "Adap.tv is transforming the $78 billion TV and Video Advertising industry by putting all major buyers (seven of the top 10 agenci... Read similar

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Why AOL Is The Weirdest Successful Tech Company In America Right Now

www.businessinsider.com Derek Thompson 97 days ago

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Yesterday was a historic day for one of America's most confounding companies. AOL ended an eight-year money-losing slump in 2012, the company announced this morning, as all of its divisions ended the year "quasi-profitable" for the first time under Tim Armstrong's reign as CEO. AOL was dubbed by some the "hottest tech stock of 2012." You might question the use of the word "hottest" in that label, but it's kind of true. Here's a 12-month look at AOL shares (in light blue, at the top) followed by Netflix (dark blue), Yahoo (red), Google (green), Apple (yellow), and Microsoft ... Read similar

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AOL's Dial-Up Subscription Business Produces More Than All Of The Company's Profit (AOL)

www.businessinsider.com Henry Blodget 98 days ago

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AOL just released quasi-profit numbers for each of its divisions for the first time. As expected, AOL's dial-up subscription business--the business that powered AOL to astounding global success in the 1990s--still accounts for the vast majority of AOL's profits. In fact, AOL's subscription business generates more than all of the company's profits, after accounting for AOL's corporate costs. On the one hand, this is really bad news, because AOL's subscription business is still shrinking. On the other hand... This shrinking business still throws off an amazing amount of cash--about $500 million ... Read similar

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10 Things You Need To Know This Morning

www.businessinsider.com Nicholas Carlson 36 days ago

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www.businessinsider.com Nicholas Carlson 59 days ago

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, we're told, is a big fan of forms, bureaucracy, and granular control. Some people find it frustrating. But maybe it's the only way to re-order the chaos that is Yahoo? Back in September, we reported that Mayer was taking the time to personally approve every single hire the company made. Last week, Alexei Oreskovic of Reuters reported that Yahoo employees openly questioned the merits of the practice at a recent all-hands meeting. Oreskovic said Yahoo employees complained that the company was losing out on talented hires because its process was taking so long.... Read similar

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Here's Why AOL Never Spun Out Ad.com, Despite All The Rumors (AOL)

www.businessinsider.com Nicholas Carlson 98 days ago

Over coffee a couple months ago, a former AOL executive told us that Ned Brody, the CEO of what used to be called AOL's Advertising.com Group, once lobbied with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong for a spinoff from the larger company. The idea makes some sense. The Advertising.com Group, particularly the Ad.com ad network it is named after, has been growing much faster than the overall company. Wall Street loves the kind of revenue growth its producing. And it's not always clear that Ad.com's interests are precisely aligned with AOL's overall. AOL wants to be a company with lots of premium content br... Read similar

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www.businessinsider.com Kamelia Angelova 158 days ago

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Tim Armstrong Personally Auditioned Dancers For AOL's New Ads (AOL)

www.businessinsider.com Laura Stampler 164 days ago

There's an incredible tidbit about Tim Armstrong hidden in a Wall Street Journal article about how AOL just parted ways with Jolie Hunt, its fourth major AOL marketing exec to leave this year — allegedly right before the company unveils a $10 million campaign. The WSJ reports: AOL hired McCann Worldgroup to handle the campaign, according to people familiar with the matter. The campaign includes television commercials that Mr. Armstrong wanted to end with dancers dancing around an AOL logo – a move that not everyone involved in the campaign’s creative process agreed with, acco... Read similar

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www.businessinsider.com Laura Stampler 157 days ago

Although AOL's $10 million rebranding campaign was slated to launch during Monday Night Football with a dance-filled TV commercial, CEO Tim Armstrong told BI's Henry Blodget that the premiere has been delayed. "I think it was good," Armstrong said. "It wasn't great." The commercial — which was supposed to have a Jonah Hill voiceover, feature Armstrong-approved dancers, and be styled by the woman responsible for the "Mo Money Mo Problems" music video — has already made headlines for allegedly causing creative dissension within the company. Now-former CMO Jolie Hunt was ove... Read similar

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Tim Armstrong Explains Why He Personally Auditioned Dancers For AOL's New Ads

www.businessinsider.com Kamelia Angelova 158 days ago

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A couple of interesting items have come up from AOL's marketing department in recent days. First, the company's chief marketing officer Jolie Hunt left only after 5 months on the job due to corporate restructuring. And then, the WSJ reported that Tim Armstrong personally auditioned dancing girls for the company's new ad campaign. Armstrong stopped by our office on Friday and talked about the CMO's departure, and he set the record straight on why and how he spent his time at the auditions for a campaign, which he later canceled. Watch below. Please enable Javascript to watch this... Read similar

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AOL Hires A CMO For Ad.com (AOL)

www.businessinsider.com Nicholas Carlson 156 days ago

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AOL's Plan To Steal TV Ad Dollars Is Totally Working

www.businessinsider.com Jim Edwards 17 days ago

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www.businessinsider.com Nicholas Carlson 130 days ago

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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong will take a seat on Priceline's board. Smart. AOL is trying to execute a nearly impossible turnaround on the Web. Once-doomed Priceline executed the best turnaround in Web history. Here's the press release: The Board of Directors of priceline.com Incorporated announced today that it has named Timothy (Tim) Armstrong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AOL Inc., as priceline.com's newest Director, effective immediately. Mr. Armstrong joined AOL in 2009 from Google, where he served as President of The Americas Operations, overseeing North American and L... Read similar

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www.businessinsider.com Jay Yarow 170 days ago

When Marissa Mayer took over Yahoo she made it pretty clear she was going to emphasize "mobile," and "products." This is very different than what her immediate predecessor, interim CEO Ross Levinsohn was envisioning for Yahoo. He was thinking Yahoo, with its giant audience, should become a killer digital media company. He didn't get the CEO job, though. And speaking on stage at IGNITION today, Levinsohn and his good friend Jon Miller, formerly the chief digital officer at News Corp., said this is a good thing for — surprise! — Tim Armstrong and AOL. Now that Mayer is taking the co... Read similar

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www.businessinsider.com Nicholas Carlson 177 days ago

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Google Says 'Asymmetric Warfare' Against 'Trolls' Costs $30 Billion A Year (GOOG)

www.businessinsider.com Jim Edwards 41 days ago

Google — along with Blackberry and other tech companies — has asked the FTC to pay greater attention to patent trolls, who embroil companies in expensive litigation over bogus claims on the ownership of new technologies. Patent trolls, or "patent assertion entities," cost U.S. companies $30 billion a year in "direct costs" for fighting off legal challenges from companies that don't make anything but simply want to be paid to stop suing, Google wrote on its public policy blog. Their latest tactic is "asymmetric warfare," in which a company that possesses legitimate patents may split... Read similar

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AOL COO Artie Minson May Step Down (AOL)

www.businessinsider.com Nicholas Carlson 79 days ago

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