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AOL Unloads Social Networking Site Bebo

by MIGUEL HELFT on Jun 17, 2010

AOL’s $164 billion acquisition of Time Warner in 2000 is widely remembered as one of the most disastrous deals in corporate history. By comparison, AOL’s acquisition of the social networking site Bebo for $850 million two years ago was tiny. But relatively, it proved to be as much of a fiasco.

AOL's Screechy Tween Video Site, Cambio, Debuts Tuesday

by Dan Nosowitz on Jun 15, 2010
AOL's Screechy Tween Video Site, Cambio, Debuts Tuesday

AOL's been having a tough half-decade or so, but are looking to turn things around with a new content partnership with none other than the tween obsession of the moment, the Jonas brothers. Cambio, a partnership between AOL and the Jonas Group (that is the actual name of the company; it's run by the father of the Jonas brothers and also represents other tween idols like Demi Lovato and Jordin Sparks), is a new video project that will be launching this Tuesday.

AOL's Hundreds of New Content-Generators: Journalism or Content Spam?

by Kit Eaton on Jun 10, 2010
AOL's Hundreds of New Content-Generators: Journalism or Content Spam?

Abandon hope, all ye traditional journalists who enter here: AOL has plans to be the "world's largest producer of high-quality content" and is hiring "hundreds" more content-generators to fill up its 17 new "super networks" of content.