Wall Street analysts and activist investors have called for changes at Twitter and Yahoo (and at our parent company Aol) so many times that perhaps everyone should just play CEO musical chairs: Dick Costolo can come to Aol, Tim Armstrong can go to Yahoo, and Marissa Mayer can go to Twitter.
Because Armstrong is a charismatic C.E.O., and came to AOL with an aura of success from Google, he was embraced as an inspirational team leader.
I came to AOL because it's a risk.
Rojas came to Aol via the acquisition of gdgt, which betaworks invested in early on.
Block came to AOL with the acquisition of GDGT in 2013 and has headed up AOL Alpha in recent years.
Engadget founders Rojas and Block came to Aol for the second time through the Gdgt acquisition and will have spent two years here as of February 2015.
AOL aol came in third, followed by Microsoft's own Web site, which offers information about the company's myriad software products.
We used AOL Paint, which comes free on the AOL CD and has this sweet UltraLogoMatic2000 feature.
On Time Warner's earnings call today, CEO Jeff Bewkes said the company will split AOL into two businesses: the dying access subscription business and the growing advertising network, Platform A. This comes a day after AOL picked up buy.at, an affiliate marketing network, and a few days after it bought Goowy, a Flash-based Webtop.
Just as AOL has propelled The Huffington Post, Adap.tv, TechCrunch, and other companies we have acquired, Verizon will propel AOL and comes to the table with over 100 million mobile consumers, content deals with the likes of the NFL, and a meaningful strategy in mobile video.
