As we speak, there are professional networks for women executives, mothers, owners of small and medium-sized businesses, and many more. Medley, a new membership-based community that launches today, is
Late last night the Financial Times reported that HuffPost, arguably one of the crown jewels of Verizon Media Group’s remaining network of media properties (which includes TechCrunch), is up for
Tim Armstrong will leave Verizon Communications with an awards and benefits package worth more than $60 million. The Wall Street Journal calculated the total amount based on a securities filing from l
Direct-to-consumer startups — making products that leverage the internet to bypass third-party marketplaces and retailers to engage with and sell directly to their customers — have been on
Confirming rumors that have been circulating all summer, Verizon Communications confirmed today that Guru Gowrappan will be replacing Tim Armstrong as the CEO of Oath (owner of TechCrunch). This is a
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Tim Armstrong is in talks to leave Verizon as soon as next month. Armstrong heads up the carrier giant’s digital and advertising division, Oath (formerl
Verizon has initiated another round of layoffs as a result of its acquisition of Yahoo and subsequent combining of the company with its existing business property AOL to form a new division -- called
It’s been a little over a year since Fred Wilson and Tim Armstrong appeared onstage at Disrupt in New York to launch Tech:NYC. The two titans of New York City’s tech scene were angling t
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is no stranger to the stage at Disrupt, but his job's gotten a lot bigger in recent months with the acquisition of Yahoo.
So Armstrong will be with us again at Disrupt SF. He'
Following a months-long bidding process, Verizon announced this morning that it’s acquiring Yahoo’s core business for $4.83 billion. The goal, it seems, is to merge Yahoo with AOL (which V
Against a backdrop of a New York investment scene that’s been long on promise and press and somewhat lacking in terms of exits, tech icons Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures, and T
Will Verizon snap up Yahoo’s web assets — and what might that look like? We don’t have an answer just yet, but there’s one person who might have some ideas about what it would loo
All the leaves are falling, and the sky is gray. That’s because we’re in London, on a winter’s day. Disrupt is entering Day Two and the agenda is jam-packed with awesomeness, includi
Tim Armstong has had a busy year. Back in May, AOL (owner of TechCrunch) <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/12/verizon-aol-4-4b/">got acquired</a> by giant U.S. carrier Verizon for $4.4 billion.
AOL* CEO Tim Armstrong on Wednesday night defended the user data tracking practices his company is set to adopt next month as part of its acquisition by Verizon. Earlier yesterday TechCrunch reporte
It was an interesting day at AOL.
As you probably saw, Verizon has reached an agreement to acquire AOL for $4.4 billion. There's a general feeling that this deal was mostly about AOL's ad business
During today's call with analysts, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong laid out some of his plans and priorities for 2015, and he elaborated on those plans in a short TechCrunch interview afterward.
This comes a
In the past few weeks and months, conversations about women in our industry have run the gamut from companies such as Apple and Facebook willing to pay to freeze women’s eggs so they can put off hav
Tim Armstrong, CEO of TechCrunch’s owner AOL, today confirmed at TechCrunch Disrupt that AOL is in early discussions to spin off CrunchBase, the database of tech companies and people that becam
Update: AOL says implications that Patch is closing down are inaccurate. A New York Times article stated that AOL is reportedly planning to "dismantle Patch or perhaps sell it off to various partners,
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