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AOL Head of Applications and Commerce Group Brad Garlinghouse Reportedly Leaving
Brad Garlinghouse is the President of the Applications and Commerce Group and the head of Silicon Valley operations at AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL). Garlinghouse is reportedly leaving the company. You may remember Garlinghouse from his famous 2006 Peanut Butter Manifesto letter that discussed all of the problems that Yahoo! has.
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AOL SVP of Global Message David Liu Leaving Next Month
The AOL exodus continues. America Online SVP of Global Messaging David Liu is stepping down next month. Liu worked at AOL for only a year and a half. Liu was the man behind hiring Brad Garlinghouse from Yahoo! Garlinghouse is now going to be responsible for AIM/ICQ, AOL SMS services, and AOL E-mail (“You’ve got mail”). Liu also helped integrate Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks with AOL services. No word yet on where Liu is headed, but this post will be updated when we find out.
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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Lays Off COO Kim Partoll and SVP John Kannapell
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has fired two major executives recently. Armstrong fired COO Kim Partoll and SVP of search and local media John Kannapell. Armstrong is preparing to spin AOL off from Time Warner as a public company again. People within the organization said that they are not planning on replacing the two anytime soon either.
Partoll was responsible for AOL’s mobile initiatives which will now be delegated to new hire Brad Garlinghouse. Kannapell’s job will be given to Jeff Levick.
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Brad Garlinghouse Becomes AOL President of Internet and Mobile Communications
This past week former Yahoo! SVP of Communications & Communities Brad Garlinghouse joined AOL as the President of Internet and mobile communications. One of Garlinghouse’s core strengths at Yahoo! was voicing his opinion about the company’s flaws. Ever since Yahoo! had their IPO, the company went on a buying binge and struggled to properly integrate companies into their properties. While Yahoo! was busy integrating companies, they lost focus on their search engine. Google quickly sprang up and took over a huge chunk of Yahoo!’s market share.
As a result, Garlinghouse wrote The Peanut Butter Manifesto while working at Yahoo! The memo can be read after the jump. At AOL, Garlinghouse will be in charge of ICQ and AIM. Garlinghouse was mulling over offers from VC firms and other start-ups since he left Yahoo! about a year ago.
Before joining AOL, Garlinghouse worked as an in-house senior advisor at Silver Lake Partners. Silver Lake was one of the investors that bought Skype from eBay for $1.9 billion. Garlinghouse supposedly participated in the Skype deal.
Garlinghouse will run AOL’s operations from the Mountain View, California campus. The Mountain View AOL office used to be the headquarters of Netscape Communications. AOL has a few hundred employees in Silicon Valley.
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