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Thursday, February 26, 2009

AOL Ad Head Greg Coleman Reorgs Too! (It’s Spreading Like the Flu at Web Firms Today)

Another Web company, another management restructuring!

Yahoo reorg fever struck AOL today too, as its advertising head, Greg Coleman (pictured here), moved the exec chairs around his domain at AOL’s Platform-A unit.

Coleman–who actually once was Yahoo’s sales head before taking the new gig at the Time Warner online unit earlier this month–is replacing some execs and elevating others.

You know the drill!

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

AOL CEO Randy Falco’s Entire Memo to the Troops on Layoffs

Here is the letter AOL CEO Randy Falco has penned to the entire staff about its layoffs of 10 percent of its workforce–or 700 people–and other cost cuts, which the online service is announcing today.

“We’re at a pivotal point in AOL’s transformation, and need to be even more strategically focused and operationally efficient as we weather the economic storm,” wrote Falco, in part, about the move.

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Friday, May 18, 2007

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do With a Bigger Bag of Money

For those who think Microsoft did not have the guts to make big purchases on the Web, the $6 billion all-cash price they ponied up for advertising network aQuantive should quash that sentiment.

That’s more than 10 times its revenue last year, and, yipes, close to 50 times its cash flow. And that is double what [...]

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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