Comments on: AOL Gets a New CEO: Google Sales Boss Tim Armstrong (Plus the Whole Press Release)

By: AOL Veteran Bill Wilson Hires Team for Townsquare Radio | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:40:00 +0000

[...] was one of the last high-profile AOL execs to leave after former Google sales boss Tim Armstrong took the reins in the spring of 2009; he has since restocked the company with a long roster of ex-Googlers. [...]

By: benholloway

benholloway — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:05:00 +0000

At least with aol you can recover your email. Google has 0 customer service.

By: Finance Geek » AOL’s Golden Parachutes: $28.4 Million For Four Former Executives (AOL)

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:05:20 +0000

[...] payouts are part of a broader reorg CEO Tim Armstrong has put into place since coming aboard from Google (GOOG) a year ago. And most of the eye-popping sums are really a reflection of employment contracts [...]

By: AOL’s Golden Parachutes: $28.4 Million For Four Former Executives | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:45:56 +0000

By: HuffPo Needs Ad Dollars. Can Yahoo Sales Vets Deliver? | SEO Land - Get Latest News about SEO

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:57:35 +0000

[...] last year as head of AOL’s (AOL) sales group but left less than three months into the job when new CEO Tim Armstrong brought in his [...]

By: HuffPo Needs Ad Dollars. Can Yahoo Sales Vets Deliver? | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:31:26 +0000

[...] year as head of AOL’s (AOL) sales group but left less than three months into the job, when new CEO Tim Armstrong brought in his [...]

By: AOL's Advertising Challenge | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:41:00 +0000

[...] not a coincidence that Armstrong is a career sales guy, but the sotto voce criticism of his tenure at Google (GOOG) is that he never really needed to sell anything because Google’s ad product sells [...]

By: Meet the New AOL: “Aol.” | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:51:19 +0000

[...] new AOL will differ than the old one in several ways: New boss, smaller headcount, different owners. So it gets a new logo, too. This one will look awfully [...]

By: Another AOL Org Chart Shuffle: COO Partoll, Search Boss Kannapell Out [MediaMemo] | UpOff.com

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:04:01 +0000

[...] who took over the Time Warner (TWX) unit earlier this year and is prepping it for a spin-off that’s supposed to happen by the end [...]

By: Another AOL Org Chart Shuffle: COO Partoll, Search Boss Kannapell Out | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:58:33 +0000

[...] who took over the Time Warner (TWX) unit earlier this year and is prepping it for a spin-off that’s supposed to happen by the end [...]

By: Digital Management Musical Chairs: The Tooth-Free Edition [BoomTown] | UpOff.com

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:31:04 +0000

[...] And, of course, there’s always is Garlinghouse’s new boss, former Google ad head Tim Armstrong, who took over at AOL earlier this year. [...]

By: Google Still Shuffling Sales Force: "Self-Serve" Exec David Fischer Steps Aside [MediaMemo] | UpOff.com

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:19:23 +0000

[...] months after Google (GOOG) sales boss Tim Armstrong left for Time Warner’s (TWX) AOL, his old company is still re-shaping its sales group. The latest move: David Fischer, who ran the [...]

By: Google Still Shuffling Sales Force: “Self-Serve” Exec David Fischer Steps Aside | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:53:38 +0000

[...] months after Google (GOOG) sales boss Tim Armstrong left for Time Warner’s (TWX) AOL, his old company is still re-shaping its sales group. The latest move: David Fischer, who ran the [...]

By: More Layoffs For Google: 200 Axed From Sales | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:56:47 +0000

[...] the fact that these cuts come from sales and marketing, which just lost its high-profile leader Tim Armstrong to Time Warner’s AOL (TWX) and replaced him with Google veteran Dennis Woodside, is interesting. As is SVP Omid [...]

By: New AOL Chairman and CEO–and About-To-Be-Ex-Googler–Tim Armstrong Speaks! — Ads Sanrego

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:30:20 +0000

[...] Finally today–after longtime speculation that Armstrong had long wanted and would eventually leave his post at Google (GOOG) in order to try his hand at being top dog–he took over as chairman and CEO of the once-mighty, but now-not-so-much, AOL. [...]