Kara Swisher broke the story last night, but for the record, here’s the AOL press release announcing the Time Warner unit’s umpteenth new sales boss. Meet Jeff Levick, a Google vet who replaces Yahoo vet Greg Coleman, who just started in February.
Everyone who wondered why Randy Falco and Ron Grant were still running AOL finally got an answer today: Time Warner was lining up their replacement. Google sales chief Tim Armstrong becomes chairman and CEO of the troubled Web property, effective immediately.
Apple, Research In Motion and Google are duking it out for consumers’ smartphone dollars this fall. But here’s an early winner: Time Warner’s AOL, which has landed a $1 million contract to push Google’s G1 phone for the next two days.
Wireless carrier T-Mobile, which is selling the phone in the U.S., is launching a big push on AOL’s Platform A ad network today. It has agreed to buy a billion impressions today and tomorrow.
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