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According to an internal memo and now on his LinkedIn profile , Yahoo has just hired longtime McKinsey exec John DeVine as SVP of global operations.

About 15 years ago, you were greeted with, "You've got mail," when you turned on your computer.

An institute created to support entrepreneurial projects, the Founder Institute, had announced it would be holding a boot camp in the Tampa Bay-area, but has now cancelled it due to a lack of qualified applicants, it said.

Cambio, one of AOL's leading entertainment destinations, announced a partnership with Billboard Magazine to serve as the exclusive digital partner for the 2013 Billboard Music Awards.

Self-taught coder who set up Tumblr in his mother's New York apartment could be the newest rich kid on the internet block David Karp has become the latest high school dropout turned twentysomething multimillionaire after selling his internet creation, Tumblr , to Yahoo for $1.1bn. The 26-year-old New Yorker founded the microblogging site in 2007 ... (more)

Is there room for another subscription commerce business among the Birchboxes and Dollar Shave Clubs of the world? AOL apparently has been weighing that very question.

Yahoo agreed to buy blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion. The WSJ's Amir Efrati tells Deborah Kan why this is a good move for the Internet giant's expansion into social media and mobile phones.

With consummate timing, two major figures from the digital economy chose the same day to announce the death of conventional TV.

AOL announced last week that Columbia Journalism Review Editor-in-Chief Cyndi Stivers had accepted the editorship of AOL.com , the company's storied Web gateway.

This April 30, 2013 file photo shows television personality Nicole Richie at AOL's web series NewFront to promote her series "#CandidlyNicole" in New York.

This April 30, 2013 file photo shows television personality Nicole Richie at AOL's web series NewFront to promote her series "#CandidlyNicole" in New York.

When I listened to AOL, Inc. 's conference call last Wednesday, I was thrown for a loop by the intense efforts company execs made to convince listeners that the seemingly long-suffering Patch network is not on its last leg.

They currently have a neutral rating on the stock. AOL has been the subject of a number of other recent research reports.

AOL announced a collaboration with Nielsen to measure the audience viewing AOL's library of over 620,000 premium videos.

AOL, FreeWheel, and Mediaocean announced a partnership which, upon implementation, will allow AOL to enable marketers to extend their existing television buying workflow and systems to reach target audiences at scale across premium digital video inventory.

New York is a media city. We know that. In fact, by any reasonable measure it currently holds the title of the center of the media universe.

Hindsight is admittedly 20/20. But looking back on the evolution of AOL's Patch, it's hard not to wonder where the network might be today if the 2011 focus had been on rolling out around 80 nationwide hubs rather than shooting for a ridiculous, illogical year-end target of 800+. The fallout from that misguided tactic remains clear and present ... (more)

A Mercer Island home in the Faben Point neighborhood is listed at $16.75 million -- the most expensive current real estate listing in Washington , according to AOL Real Estate.

The internet: A glorious place where everyone is connected to everyone and anyone can say anything.

"Remember, EOG Resources has better assets but Harold Hamm does a good job. I'd rather be in EOG," Cramer said.