Communications

NEW YORK, N.Y. – September 8, 2009 – AOL today named Brad Garlinghouse as President of Internet and Mobile Communications, spearheading AOL’s global efforts to expand the reach of its e-mail and instant messaging. Garlinghouse will also take on an expanded leadership position for the company, heading up AOL’s Silicon Valley operations from its Mountain View campus and serving as the West Coast lead for AOL Ventures, the company’s venture capital arm headed globally by Jon Brod. Garlinghouse was most recently at Silver Lake Partners as an in-house Senior Advisor. Prior to Silver Lake, Garlinghouse spent nearly six years at Yahoo!, where he led that company’s communications and community products. Garlinghouse will report directly to AOL’s Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong.

AOL named Brad Garlinghouse as President of Internet and Mobile Communications, spearheading AOL’s global efforts to expand the reach of its e-mail and instant messaging. Garlinghouse will also take on an expanded leadership position for the company, heading up AOL’s Silicon Valley operations from its Mountain View campus and serving as the West Coast lead for AOL Ventures, the company’s venture capital arm headed globally by Jon Brod. Garlinghouse was most recently at Silver Lake Partners as an in-house Senior Advisor.

Users of the AIM iPhone apps can get alerts when a new IM arrives, even if they’re doing other things on their iPhone. The new push notifications feature comes as part of the iPhone’s new 3.0 operating software. Read more about the benefits of this to AIM users on the AOL iBlog. The AIM apps, along with other AOL apps, are available for download on the iTunes App Store.

New York, NY and Burbank, Calif. – May 05, 2009 – AOL today announced that Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG) will launch Socialthing, a new online platform for socializing websites across WBTVG’s digital destination businesses, such as CWTV.com, TheWB.com, KidsWB.com, DCHeroZone.com, Essence.com and Momlogic.com. Socialthing leverages the power of AIM’s social graph coupled with advanced community tools to enable social networking publishers to attract new users and keep them engaged on their site. The announcement was made today by Joanna Shields, President of AOL People Networks, and Craig Hunegs, Executive Vice President, Business Management, Warner Bros. Television Group.

New York—April 28, 2009—AOL today announced Socialthing™, a revolutionary new platform that brings social networking services to websites and enables publishers to attract new users and keep them engaged wherever they are on the Web.  MediaGlow, AOL’s centralized publishing unit, is in the process of deploying Socialthing across its network of more than 75 sites – reaching approximately 181 million* unduplicated users worldwide.  Last week Socialthing premiered on ‘TheBoot,’ the #1 online country music destination in terms of unique visitors** and will launch on Cinematical, the blog for movie enthusiasts, in the coming weeks.