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MG Siegler Joins CrunchFund As General Partner

by Jeff Weisbein October 3, 2011

According to the Michael Arrington’s new blog, UnCrunched, as well as an article on TechCrunch posted by Erick Schonfeld, MG Siegler has joined CrunchFund as a general partner. The news doesn’t come as too much of a surprise as most people who have been following the recent drama at TechCrunch probably expected something like this [...]

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3 Companies That Cannot Afford to Fail in 2011

by Jeff Weisbein December 19, 2010

The new year is right around the corner and for some 2011 will be a crucial year to rebound. For AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo 2011 is the year which will be the determining factor of each companies success in the future. If these companies do not step it up in 2011 it will drastically effect [...]

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I’ve Seen The Future And AOL Is Still In It.

by Jeff Weisbein October 27, 2010

AOL is currently in the process of not only restructuring the entire company, but also, making an attempt to change advertising on the web. Currently, Google is the dominant force for advertising on the web, they are to put it quite simply, the de facto standard. However, the web is a very dynamic market, especially when it comes [...]

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AOL-Yahoo Merger: Not Happening.

by Jeff Weisbein October 14, 2010

I just don’t see this AOL-Yahoo merger happening. It may make sense from several perspectives which all stem from the fact they are both in essentially the same businesses. However, in the end this merger would not benefit either company. In fact, I believe it would hurt them. Most significantly, I believe the merger would [...]

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Aol Buys TechCrunch, 5Min Media, and Thing Labs

by Jeff Weisbein September 28, 2010

It appears that it has been extremely busy the past few months in Aol’s Mergers & Acquisitions department. Today, Aol announced the acquisition of three companies – 5Min Media, TechCrunch, and Thing Labs.

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Aol Plans to Succeed in 2011

by Jeff Weisbein September 22, 2010

The Wall Street Journal reports that Aol CEO Tim Armstrong is expecting to see Aol rebound in 2011. ”I would be disappointed if we didn’t get back to what the market was doing,” said Armstrong at an investor conference. Aol is in the process of a massive restructuring changing their focus from being an ISP [...]

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AOL Launches HTML 5 Mobile Site

by Mike Mansell July 24, 2010

A spiffy HTML-5 based mobile web portal may not seem like a big deal for many content providers. I would even go as far as to call such a portal a “standard” for popular web services. But for America Online, the jump into the mobile market is a significant one, showing not only a change [...]

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TechCrunch Sues FusionGarage, Aol. Spins Off, and Apple Tablet for $1,000?

by Jeff Weisbein December 12, 2009

Tech News from 12-7-09 through 12-11-09. This week includes TechCrunch suing FusionGarage for stealing the CrunchPad. Mozilla is launching Firefox Mobile for Nokia phones, Windows Mobile, and Google Android. No Firefox Mobile for the iPhone has been mentioned yet (that I have seen). By the way, Firefox Mobile will support extensions such as Adblock. [...]

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