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| Monday, March 23, 2009 |
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 How Tim Armstrong Can Fix AOL's Sales ForceWhile its pageviews soared, AOL display ad sales declined 24% between 2008 and 2007. That drop -- steeper than rival Yahoo's, by far -- cost CEO Randy Falco, COO Ron Grant and Platform-A sales boss Lynda Clarizio their jobs. If new AOL CEO Tim Armstrong wants to keep his, fixing AOL's sales force will be his principle challenge. Because we're always trying to help, we've figured out what's wrong with AOL's sales force. Read > | |
| Hearst Had Offers For The Seattle P-I, They Just Weren't Any Good How bad were they? We asked one source familiar with a group of local investors who submitted a bid to describe the size of their offer. He said it was "the price you would offer for GM right now." We pressed him further. "Let's just say it was less than $10." And you know what? That's not a terrible price for the paper. Read > | |
| Source: I Worked With Vivek Kundra, Don't Blame Him For DC Bribery Scandal Is "America's CIO" Vivek Kundra being unfairly tarnished by the FBI investigation into bribery and money laundering at his old offices, the DC municipal government's tech dept? At least one staffer who worked with Vivek tells us "yes." Read > | |
| Why I Quit Google Google's top designer Doug Bowman quit the company to join Twitter. His reasons for leaving reveal that Google is a company that relies too heavily on data for each decision and has grown much too fast. Read > | |
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In Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America, Julia Angwin chronicles the site's raffish (a nice way to put it) origins. She also devotes a good deal of space to the corporate tug-of-war over this unlikely prize. (Doubters beware: Murdoch recouped nearly his entire purchase price when he sold the site's search rights to Google for $900 million.) In this interview, the author chats about entrepreneurial smarts, the fusion of Old and New Media, and the odd MySpace founders. Read > The New York Times's 10 Rules For Blogging Last week, the New York Times standards editor Craig Whitney wrote a memo on style for bloggers. It's cranky and pompous. But our main gripe is that it's just packaged wrong. Read > Next-Gen iPhone Rumor: Faster Internet Speeds Most of the rumors we've seen about Apple's next-generation iPhone are around increased processing and graphics power. But will the next iPhone also come with faster Internet access? That's some scuttlebutt we've heard from a plugged-in source in the mobile industry. Read > Barron's Boots Immelt From Top CEOs List What a difference a year makes. Just ask Jeff Immelt. Or Ratan Tata. Both got themselves booted off Barron's list of the Top 30 CEOs in the world. All told, Barron's knocked a dozen off and added a dozen new ones to its 2009 list. Read > Al Gore Talks Cell Phones -- And Bans The Press, Again Al Gore will be keynoting the CTIA Wireless mobile phone conference next month. But don't expect the speech to be webcast -- it's not supposed to be reported: Al Gore is banning press from the event. Read > | |
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