'Last man standing' flees AOL Europe exec team
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LLU pioneer Sky-bound? AOL Europe's CTO Colin McQuade, described by one insider as "the last man standing", has quit the firm, which is struggling for a niche after flogging its broadband customers to Carphone Warehouse.â¦
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Aged Operator Leftovers The boss of media omnicorp Time Warner said yesterday he is considering selling off the AOL dial-up business Stateside.â¦
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AOL laid off more than 450 employees at its corporate headquarters yesterday as part of plans announced earlier this year to cut costs and change the company's business strategy.
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(InfoWorld) - Less than two years after its last major reorganization, AOLÂ  is again redrawing its internal business architecture to better align it with its new strategy toÂ focus on online advertisingÂ and retreat from the Internet access market. In an e-mail message to employees Wednesday, AOL Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Miller said AOL's four business units -- Access, Audience, Digital Services and Europe -- will be replaced by "smaller, nimbler product groups with more authority and greater accountability." AOL must become a global business led fully by its products, he wrote. "We made progress breaking down the matrix, but we did not, in my opinion, go far enough. Now we will go further," reads the e-mail, a copy of which was obtained by IDG News Service. While product leaders will become general managers with wide-ranging authority over product development, the ad sales operation will remain centralized, as will the legal, human resources, finance and public relations operations. Having companywide oversight and services is important, he wrote. "The recent Search data debacle is a prime example of why, even with the best of intentions, without proper oversight, costly mistakes can be made," Miller wrote, referring to the scandal that erupted last month from AOL's release of search engine records. Although the reorganization is in flux, Miller has defined several roles. Randy Boe has been entrusted with a unit dedicated to AOL's protection of consumers, and he will soon appoint AOL's first chief privacy officer. Boe's replacement as general counsel will be announced next week. There is no mention in the e-mail about what role, if any, Tatiana Platt, AOL's senior vice president of integrity assurance and chief trust officer, will play in this unit led by Boe. Boe will report to Ted Leonsis. A high-ranking AOL veteran of 13 years, Leonsis willÂ give up his day-to-day management dutiesÂ as president of the Audience business in January, while retaining his role of vice chairman, AOL announced last week. Joe Redling will be in charge of AOL's international, mobile and customer relations businesses. AOL needs to boost its international business and will announce a new international structure "soon", Miller wrote. Mobile efforts also need strengthening, because it's an area where the company hasn't had enough focus and investment, Miller wrote. Jim Bankoff will continue in charge of AOL's programming and the AIM instant messaging service, while Kevin Conroy will oversee AOL-branded products such as the AOL.com portal, Web mail service and video offerings. Mike Kelly will continue to run the ad sales operation. These four executives will provide further organizational details about their teams in coming weeks. Last month, AOL announced its intention toÂ slash as many as 5,000 jobs worldwide, or just over a quarter of its workforce, anticipating the shrinkage of its access business.
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AOL chief technology officer Maureen  Govern, who oversaw the division responsible for accidentally  releasing search data for more than a half a millions Internet  users, has resigned from the company, according to an internal  company memorandum.
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A Fool sees the CEO of a company he owns step down. What now?
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By Benjamin J. Romano, The Seattle Times  Sep. 6--Brian Valentine, who herded the past three versions of  Microsoft's flagship operating-system software toward completion, left the  company Friday to take a senior position at Amazon.com.
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Blogging software maker Six Apart  said on Friday Chairman and Chief Executive Barak Berkowitz was  stepping aside and would be replaced by Chris Alden, who had  run the company&#39;s professional software unit.
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Michel Mayer is leaving his dual role as chairman and CEO for the semiconductor company.
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EADS Deputy Chief Executive Jean-Paul Gut, who oversaw strategy for Airbus' parent, is departing after "a divergence in views," the company said Monday.
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The exit of Chief Marketing Officer Tod Nielsen is the sixth confirmed executive departure from the company in the past two months.
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AOL employees clutching navy-blue folders stuffed with severance package information started walking out of the company's Dulles campus gates at about noon yesterday.
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Cory Ondrejka, one of the founders and guiding lights behind the virtual world, leaves the company. CEO Phil Rosedale says the two had "strategic differences."
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The executive who led Microsoft Corp.'s Web search division is leaving the his post with the software maker to start his own business, Microsoft people aware of the situation said Wednesday.
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AOL, a unit of Time Warner Inc , said on Monday it will move its corporate headquarters to New York City from Dulles, Virginia, amid a realignment of its advertising business.
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AOL Media Networks executive David Lebow has been hired as president and chief executive officer of Internet Broadcasting Systems in Minnesota.  Lebow, who was executive vice president and general manager of AOL Media Networks, succeeds Reid Johnson as Internet Broadcasting's CEO.
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Rumors suggest that AOL, which hired a new CEO last November and has suffered a precipitous drop in revenue recently, is getting ready for massive layoffs.