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Media Decoder Blog: Watch Out, TV: AOL and HuffPo Jump Into Live Video

The Huffington Post Streaming Network, expected to be introduced this summer, is described by its founders as a "never-ending talk show."

AOL Profit Declines but Beats Expectations

Fourth-quarter earnings declined to $22.8 million, compared with $66.2 million a year ago.

AOL: Ads Up By 10%; Not Enough To Make Up For Subscription, Other Declines

AOL (NYSE: AOL) today reported that its strategy to turn around its advertising business is definitely paying off, with sale up by 10 percent on the year before. But that wasn’t enough to make up for declines in subscriptions and other areas, resulting in a net decline in revenues for Q4.

BuzzFeed Bulks Up Again, With a Tech Section Run by Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan

Another well-known writer for a site that used to specialize in other people's writing. This one says he'll write about "tech for humans."

Yahoo: Revenues Slightly Down, Investors Await Words Of Wisdom From New CEO

In its first earnings announcement since recently appointing Scott Thompson as its new CEO and the seeing off founder Jerry Yang, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) today reported Q4 revenues of $1.169 billion, down three percent on the same quarter last year.

The forgotten history of Access Atlanta, one of the early web’s most innovative newspapers

Not many people remember it now, but the Atlanta Journal-Constitution was one of the leading pioneers of the early Internet age. It was the first newspaper on the Prodigy Internet service — one of America Online’s two main competitors back in the early 1990s — and within 90 days of launching its Access Atlanta service,...

David Kenny Replacing Mike Kelly As CEO Of The Weather Channel Companies

In a surprise move, The Weather Channel Companies is swapping out CEOs. David Kenny is replacing Mike Kelly as CEO effective immediately; the Akamai-Digitas vet also will be chairman of the company owned by a consortium of Bain Capital, The Blackstone Group, and NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Universal.

Updated: Bonjour! AOL Takes French Le Huffington Post Live

Huffington Post today took one more step in its ongoing march for a wider international reach: it has now officially opened Le Huffington Post for business. This is not the first non-U.S. edition of the news site, but it is the first to produce the content in partnership with an established...

ITN Expands Online News Content Strategy With Multi-Platform Ad Sales

UK news broadcaster ITN, producer of all news programming for ITV (LSE: ITV), Channel 4 and (from February) Channel 5 in the UK—and content provider to CNN, NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) and PBS, among others—also has its own, online consumer-facing business through portals like Facebook and YouTube: today, it’s announcing a new deal with...

HuffPo Partners With L’Espresso For ‘L’Huffington Post Italy’

The Huffington Post Media Group (NYSE: AOL) is partnering with Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso for the launch this year of an Italian edition, paidContent has learned. The partnership, to be announced today, follows a pattern already in place for the French edition debuting Monday and for the Spanish edition due to...

Web Piracy Bills Invite a Protracted Battle

The Obama administration’s statement of opposition to antipiracy legislation let the technology industry claim a victory, but few in Silicon Valley or Hollywood consider the battle over.

Huffington Post Tech Boss Leaves AOL, For Real

Like almost every other top Huffpo executive from the pre-AOL days, Paul Berry is on to something else -- which happens to involve working with a lot of former Huffpo executives.