AOL Alumni Seek Excitement of Start-Ups
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When Chris Marentis joined America Online Inc. 10 years ago, the fledgling Internet empire was growing at a frenzied pace. As senior vice president of business development, he worked 60-hour weeks and spent holidays closing multimillion-dollar deals. He held strategy meetings by trading instant...
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America Online is aiming to put itself in the vanguard of the Internet travel business. The Sterling, Va., Internet service provider plans to announce today that it will invest in an upstart that threatens
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As college students leave  home and head off to school, Internet entrepreneur Steve Case  has launched a new Web site to help them deal with being apart  from their families and handle depression.
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NEW YORK - Passwords alone won't be enough to get onto America Online under a new, optional log-on service that makes AOL the first major U.S. online business to offer customers a second layer of security...
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AOL co-founder Steve Case is starting an online credit card company called Revolution Money that combines a PayPal-like money transfer service with a credit card that can also be linked to a bank account.
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When an heir steps in to run a start-up after an entrepreneur dies, it can be a difficult undertaking.
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Build it (and make it free) and will they come? AOL likes to think so.
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Wanted to blog about this  but I'm about to walk out the door for the night.  "As the number of blogs, news services and other syndicated sources of online information balloons, a new crop of start-ups has emerged promising to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. And venture capitalists and veteran Internet investors Marc Andreessen and Ron Conway are right behind one of them."  "Rojo, a San Francisco start-up in the blog aggregation business, "is wrapping a communications capability around content consumption," said Andreessen, Web browser pioneer, Rojo investor and Opsware chairman. "And the killer app for the Internet is and always has been communication.""  ...  "Rojo founders Chris Alden, ...
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Boosting the bottom line isn't always about cutting costs or improving distribution channels. One company found success by building a better online community.
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AOL will move its headquarters from Dulles, Va., next spring as tries to retool itself as an advertising company that competes with the likes of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
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Entrepreneurs discover success requires a little reinvention.
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By JESSE NOYES  Buried treasure isn't the only thing AOL is looking for around Boston.
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By Beggs, Bill Jr  Nearly every established or up-and-coming company has an online component, but plenty these days have eschewed bricks and mortar to go virtually "virtual." Or they've been Internet-based from the get- go.
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IT executives who left startups after the Internet bubble burst in 2001 had a tough time finding new positions. It wasn't just the anemic job market: The widespread perception among traditional companies was that candidates from dotcoms were undisciplined managers, profligate spenders and senseless risk-takers.
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NEW YORK Last April, AOL gathered a group of prominent media buyers in New York to present five ambitious programming initiatives for 2007-08 at an upfront-like event dubbed First Look. Now, many of these same buyers are wondering when--even if--they will get their second and third looks at these concepts.
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If America Online wants a future, it needs to remember its past.
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The internet has dragged a âstuffy old businessâ into the 21st century.