AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong dreamed of building a national platform for hyper-local journalism, but after spending more than $300 million and six years, the company has finally thrown in the… Read more »
Patch, the networks of sites that was supposed to bring local news to every community in the country, is set to shrink significantly. This reveals – again – why the business… Read more »
AOL announced Marketplace, an effort to consolidate the stack of tools publishers use to serve ads. AOL is competing with Google in the ad tech field as it tries to diversify… Read more »
Back from near-death, AOL feels vindicated that it bet on a content strategy when everyone else was turning to platforms and technology. CEO Tim Armstrong shared some thoughts on content, hyper-local… Read more »
Looking for the turnaround story of 2013? Stop looking at Yahoo — it’s AOL that’s the real deal. The company has quietly put in place a powerful strategy based on media,… Read more »
AOL has been a basket case for years as it tried to figure out if was a tech or a content company. But today it announced earnings and a strategy that… Read more »
In a move to increase community and social networking and decrease reliance on paid editors and writers, Aol’s struggling hyperlocal site Patch is rolling out a redesign today in five Long… Read more »