AOL Loses Another High-Profile Executive in Reaction to Huffington being on board
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AOL Loses Another High Profile Exec
VP, North American Sales Headed for Yahoo
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
By Chris Crum
AOL has made some bold acquisitions lately - most notably that of The Huffington Post. Since then, however, the company has been losing some key staff members.
Two editors of AOL's popular tech blog Engadget announced their resignations, citing "The AOL Way" of content production as a catalyst. Then last week, David Eun, President of AOL Media and Studios, told staff he was leaving, as he didn't feel there was a place for him at AOL any longer with Arianna Huffington coming in and taking over.
Now, Kara Swisher at AllThingsD is reporting that Executive Vice President, North American Sales, Mark Ellis is leaving to take a similar position at Yahoo....
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AOL Loses Another High Profile Exec
VP, North American Sales Headed for Yahoo
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
By Chris Crum
AOL has made some bold acquisitions lately - most notably that of The Huffington Post. Since then, however, the company has been losing some key staff members.
Two editors of AOL's popular tech blog Engadget announced their resignations, citing "The AOL Way" of content production as a catalyst. Then last week, David Eun, President of AOL Media and Studios, told staff he was leaving, as he didn't feel there was a place for him at AOL any longer with Arianna Huffington coming in and taking over.
Now, Kara Swisher at AllThingsD is reporting that Executive Vice President, North American Sales, Mark Ellis is leaving to take a similar position at Yahoo....
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mdbl
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AOL has been free to use since 2007 for anyone with a broadband or other dialup connection - unless it's changed. Of course, I still don't use it.
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mdbl:
mdbl, I'd refer you the January 24th New Yorker article on AOL by Ken Auletta.
I posted the specifically germane quote on the payment issue from an AOL exec on the other Current article on AOL/HufPo. - 1 year ago
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Do a good deed today. Show your aging sweet mothers, aunts, and grannies that they don't need to waste money making monthly payments to AOL as a gatekeeper to the internet; a gatekeeper by the way, whose only interest is to sell your weary eyeballs to onslaught of manipulative advertising, and whose business model is to make up fake news to do so.
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