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Begin: WordPress Article Content It was an interesting day at AOL.As you probably saw, Verizon has reached an agreement to acquire AOL for $4.4 billion. There’s a general feeling that this deal was mostly about AOL’s ad business (Verizon’s John Stratton said “the principal interest was around the ad tech platform”) — so what does…
According to numerous sources, while it has been negotiating its deal to sell to Verizon, AOL has also been in advanced discussions with a number of parties to spin off its flagship Huffington Post content unit. The talks have been most serious with Axel Springer, the German media conglomerate, but a number of private equity…
AOL’s short second life as an independent media and online advertising company will end as it’s agreed to be bought by Verizon for $4.4 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. The all-cash deal will give Verizon, a wireless and internet data provider, a digital video and advertising business, along with AOL’s expensively acquired news properties like…
Verizon Communications Inc. agreed to buy AOL Inc. in a $4.4 billion deal aimed at advancing the telecom giant’s growth ambitions in mobile video and advertising. The all-cash deal values AOL at $50 a share, a 23% premium over the company’s three-month volume-weighted average price. AOL shares rose 18% in morning trading to $50.18. Verizon shares fell 1.7% to $48.98….
When he joined Vocativ, Gittrich told Poynter he planned to grow the newsroom between 25 and 30 percent this year; he later announced that expansion would be focused around coverage of national security, technology, gender, culture, criminal justice and real-time news. Capital New York reported in February that Vocativ laid off about eight staffers in…
Feb. 3, 2013 (Patrick Smith/Getty) On Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, the Baltimore Ravens won the NFL Super Bowl game against the San Francisco 49ers. Fans went wild and took to the streets of Baltimore in “celebrations” and “victory riots.” They were called “rowdy fans” who took “their celebrations too far” by local Baltimore CBS news….
Unrest in Baltimore, like any other dramatic event these days, created a surge of activity on social media. In the age of the selfie and ubiquitous cameras, many people have become compulsive chroniclers of all their activities — sometimes unwisely so. Reactions ranged from shock and disgust to disbelief and amusement when a series of images started…
January 21, 2015 What Does a Better Push Notification Feel Like? I really dislike headline push notifications. They’re boring, they’re impersonal, and when breaking news occurs, every news outlet sends one so I end up with 5-6 variants on a headline. That’s boring and it makes me tune out and probably turn off notifications. To…
paging_filterOn Thursday afternoon, Gawker senior writer Hamilton Nolan announced that Gawker’s editorial staff had decided to try to form a union. The day before, Nolan wrote, Gawker staffers had met with representatives of the Writers Guild of America. Shortly after Nolan’s post was published, Gawker employees discussed the potential union during their weekly “all-hands” editorial meeting. A…
WSJ Homepage Redesign Process Work As part of the WSJ.com site redesign, our process involved figuring out a new responsive grid, a new editorial strategy and an overall rebrand. The ultimate goals were to simplify and increase time on site. [if (lt IE 9) & (!IEMobile)]> < ![endif] One of the initial things we did…