February 28th, 2013

John Battelle Returns As CEO At Federated Media, Deanna Brown Steps Down

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Online advertising company Federated Media just announced that current CEO Deanna Brown is stepping down, while founder and former CEO John Battelle will be taking on the role again.

The company says that Battelle and Brown will be working together during March “to ensure a seamless transition.” Brown joined Federated in 2009 as president and chief operating officer, and replaced Battelle as→ Read More

November 17th, 2010

John Battelle On Why It's Not Web 3.0 And More (TCTV)

There are very few people that give better interview than Federated Media’s John Battelle. I am seriously impressed with how he manages to moderate high level speaker after high level speaker without breaking a sweat. Especially since I usually run out of smart things to say 5 seconds into a conversation. → Read More

October 13th, 2010

Web 2.0 Acquisitions, The Game

Who isn’t a sucker for maps, and especially maps about the Internet, and especially interactive maps about the Internet that also function as a “Who should acquire whom” acquisition guessing game, where people can add their suggestions about what companies should by what other companies, just like you guys do in our comments sections. Thus I present to you the Web 2.0 Summit “Points Of Control”→ Read More