Ingrid Lunden
Jan 23, 2012 5:03 AM
Huffington Post today took one more step in its ongoing march for a wider international reach: it has now officially opened Le Huffington Post for business. This is not the first non-U.S. edition of the news site, but it is the first to produce the content in partnership with an…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 19, 2012 5:15 AM
UK TV video news producer ITN is unifying its online ad sales platform as it expands into a burgeoning number of online destinations.
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Staci D. Kramer
Jan 19, 2012 1:59 AM
The Huffington Post Media Group (NYSE: AOL) is partnering with Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso for the launch this year of an Italian edition, paidContent has learned. The partnership, to be announced today, follows a pattern already in place for the French edition debuting Monday and for the Spanish edition due to…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 10, 2012 5:54 PM
Today it was revealed that Paul Berry, the longtime-CTO of AOL’s Huffington Post, will be leaving his role at the news site, along with the unrelated departure of the site’s managing editor, Nico Pitney. We spoke to Paul earlier about the social-media focused startup that he plans to launch next,…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 30, 2011 7:00 AM
This is the fifth in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. According to figures from ZenithOptimedia, global advertising revenues will reach $486 billion…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 22, 2011 6:00 AM
This is the fourth in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we cover, from publishing to mobile to advertising. Despite the economic slowdown, digital advertising and marketing revenues grew in 2011 and remained a cornerstone…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 19, 2011 6:37 AM
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is turning his attention now to social media: he and his investment group, Kingdom Holding Company, today became the latest investors in Twitter, putting up $300…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 12, 2011 7:37 AM
The news aggregating behemoth Huffington Post is continuing its march into new markets: the next stop is Spain, where the site will partner with respected national daily El Pais to produce a local edition.
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 13, 2011 7:17 PM
AOL (NYSE: AOL) has banked a lot of its fortunes on selling advertising around a group of high-traffic web properties. But just as it still derives a large part of its online revenues from its legacy internet access business, in mobile it has a legacy business to thank for its…
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David Kaplan
Nov 2, 2011 7:12 AM
AOL (NYSE: AOL) certainly went into Q3 with lowered expectations and it appeared to have beaten those benchmarks, as global display advertising grew for the third consecutive quarter and total revenues were down only 6 percent, the smallest decline in five years.
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David Kaplan
Oct 10, 2011 5:00 AM
The Huffington Post is planning a French edition—Le Huffington Post—with two established partners who will share equity: The Le Monde Group and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendante. It was not clear if the three will own an equal share.
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Robert Andrews
Oct 5, 2011 7:42 AM
—MSN UK: Former BBC News interactive head Pete Clifton, who is now MSN UK’s exec producer, is hiring BBC Wales’ social media editor Darren Waters (pictured) away to be his head of devices and social media, “building and maintaining thriving communities of users in key MSN channels and on leading…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 27, 2011 1:09 PM
AOL (NYSE: AOL) is restructuring its European executive leadership in a reshuffle that sees AOL Europe CEO Kate Burns leave and two toppers from GoViral get called up.
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Robert Andrews
Sep 20, 2011 6:47 AM
Many folks, including Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings, suggest AOL (NYSE: AOL) should drop its declining ISP business. In fact, it already did that in Europe several years ago.
AOL’s operation there is a prototype for AOL’s life after access. So what does it look like… ?
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David Kaplan
Sep 15, 2011 4:23 PM
A couple of months after being jettisoned in an executive restructure, former AOL (NYSE: AOL) global advertising president Jeff Levick has surfaced as the guy to lead Spotify’s advertising ambitions.
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Laura Hazard Owen
Sep 7, 2011 4:45 PM
The AOL (NYSE: AOL) Huffington Post Media Group is the latest news organization to become an e-book publisher. The site will release two titles this month. The first, Arthur Delaney’s A People’s History of the Great Recession, is available now. The second, Aaron Belkin’s How We Won: Progressive Lessons from…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 1, 2011 8:27 AM
—FT Video: Financial Times’ head of video, Richard Edgar, has left to join ITV (LSE: ITV) News’ new business team, alongside new business editor Laura Kuennsberg.
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David Kaplan
Aug 11, 2011 6:19 AM
AOL (NYSE: AOL) appears to be aiming to sweeten alarmed investors by repurchasing $250 million of its outstanding common stock.
The surprise stock repurchase will shore up earnings-per-share for holders of remaining shares.
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Robert Andrews
Jul 28, 2011 7:54 AM
AOL’s post-HuffPost content restructuring is coming to Europe. It is closing its main music and sports sites in the UK - AOL Music and FanHouse - paidContent has learned.
A number of staff are in consultation.
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Sam Gustin
Jul 13, 2011 5:10 PM
Wall Street analysts expect Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to deliver solid earnings results Thursday afternoon, but investors who have seen the company’s stock fall 10 percent this year will want more, particularly status reports on the company’s mobile, social, and local efforts. They’ll be keen to hear from co-founder Larry Page,…
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