While Ms. Shaker, a community-relations manager for Patch, a network of community-news websites owned by AOL Inc.
Click here to read a recent story by the Wall Street Journal's Rachel Emma Silverman about a crowdsourcing project at AOL Inc.
After AOL Inc. bought the Huffington Post, the media site's co-founder, Kenneth Lerer, left to focus on his new seed investment firm, Lerer Ventures.
He said Time Warner Cable Inc. and AOL Inc. have both done better as independent companies, after Time Warner Inc. spun them off years ago.
Microsoft and Facebook declined to discuss the patents, which represent the lion's share of the patent portfolio the software giant agreed to buy earlier this month from AOL Inc.
"Momentum has been growing over the last two years to get something done and we are in a unique political moment to make it happen, " said Steve Case, co-founder of AOL Inc.
The company and its chief executive, Carol Bartz, are grappling with issues including flat revenue, executive departures and news that private-equity firms have been exploring deal possibilities that include merging Yahoo with AOL Inc.
Among the largest underlying components of TYH, in trading today AOL Inc. ( NYSE: AOL) is up about 0.8%, AVX Corp. ( NYSE: AVX) is up about 1%, and Acme Packet Inc ( NASD: APKT) is relatively unchanged.
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Among the largest underlying components of FXL, in trading today Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. ( NYSE: VSH) is off about 0.1%, Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. ( NYSE: FCS) is off about 0.1%, and AOL Inc. ( NYSE: AOL) is lower by about 0.3%.
The merger that brought AOL and Time Inc. together under the same roof 13 years ago is widely regarded as the single worst deal in corporate history.
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Everything from dumping Time Inc. to selling AOL's access business to a Time Warner Cable (nyse: TWC - news - people ) spinoff is a possibility under his reign.
Armstrong, who recently said he sort-of, perhaps, possibly might be interested in buying Time Inc. even though the AOL- Time Warner merger of 13 years ago was widely considered one of the worst in business history, opened the advertising technology conference ad:tech in San Francisco today with a packed keynote address.
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Brad Hill is a former Vice President at AOL, and the former Director and General Manager of Weblogs, Inc.
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Brad Hill is the VP, Audience Development at AOL. He is the former Director and General Manager of Weblogs, Inc.
Along the way he outwitted Rupert Murdoch and John Malone for control of TV Guide Inc. and forced or coaxed the giants Microsoft, Motorola and AOL into licensing deals, using his patents as weapons.
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