Entries tagged "Tim Armstrong"
Brad Garlinghouse, known for a leaked memo comparing Yahoo!'s strategy to peanut butter spread too thinly on toast, will head up AOL's Silicon Valley Operations, including AOL Ventures.
This has been the summer of location. AOL bought two hyper-local services, and MSNBC bought one. Now Twitter says it will add location detection to its popular service.
The new venture arm will nurture technology inside and outside of AOL.
AOL chief Tim Armstrong's first test will likely be a massive restructuring of the Time Warner spinoff. A new unit called AOL Ventures will seek VC funding.
An internal memo names another Google sales veteran to fill in for Tim Armstrong as the search engine's new head of sales, as Armstrong takes over top spot at AOL.
"Twitter is the shizzle," Howard Lindzon would tell AOL employees if the co-founder of StockTwits and the creator of Wallstrip had snagged Tim Armstrong's new job as CEO of AOL.
