While there’s still few details and no official announcement, AOL is shutting down its AOL Music news properties and is firing their employees, according to tweets from the official AOL Music site Spinner’s account and some staff. Poor performance due to competition from independent bloggers may be to blame. However, reports indicate Winamp, SHOUTcast, and flagship music blog Spinner may survive. AOL Music operates a variety of music news websites for different genres, the SHOUTcast Internet radio site, and the historic Winamp player it acquired in 2009 along with Spinner in a $400 million acquisition of Nullsoft. Here’s how the pink slips flew this morning. First, Spinner tweeted: ” @Spinner : All of AOL Music is shutting down Read more »
Coders Can’t Put Writers Out Of A Job Yet, But We’d Better Watch Our Backs
Last week The New York Times ran a story by John Markoff about robots replacing human workers. Andrew McAfee, co-author of the excellent Race Against The Machine followed up with a post of his own . The gist: technology and automation lead to more job creation than job displacement in the past, but that may be changing Read more »
AOL Sells $1 Billion Worth of Patents to Microsoft
AOL just sold the majority of its patent portfolio to Microsoft . The price: about a billion dollars. The sale marks an end to AOL’s very public hunt for a buyer, and the company says Microsoft was the winner of a competitive auction Read more »
Can The Huffington Post Reinvent Cable News?
The Huffington Post Media Group revealed more details about its upcoming online news channel, the Huffington Post Streaming Network . The announcement takes place just days before Huffington Post celebrates its first anniversary since its acquisition by AOL. AOL purchased The Huffington Post on Feb Read more »
Osama bin Laden’s Death is AOL’s Top Story of 2011
The votes have been cast, the results have been tallied and the death of Osama bin Laden has been named the top news story of 2011 according to AOL’s “11 Days That Shaped 2011″ challenge. Organized in chronological order, Osama bin Laden’s death was sixth option on the site Read more »
AOL Names 11 News Stories That Shaped 2011
Gabrielle Giffords's Shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot, along with 17 others in Tucson, Arizona. Click here to view this gallery. In the constant hum and buzz of social media and digital chatter, how can we find out which stories truly defined the year that was Read more »