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As part of AOL’s effort to expand display ad sales across its advertising and programming networks, the company named Greg Coleman President of Platform-A, which is the industry’s largest online advertising platform.  Coleman, a 25-year media sales and publishing veteran, was former head of global sales at Yahoo! AOL Chairman and CEO Randy Falco said that  “Greg Coleman is perfectly suited to build on the foundation we created at Platform-A and drive branded display sales across our fast-growing MediaGlow programming network.”

NEW YORK, N.Y., February 3, 2009 – AOL today named Greg Coleman President of Platform-A as part of the company’s effort to expand display sales across its advertising and programming networks. Coleman, who has more than 25 years of sales and media experience, will lead Platform-A, the industry’s largest online advertising platform.

AOL is one of 20 companies that has joined the AEGIS Project -- a consortium led by Sun Microsystems to help define new approaches and solutions for building accessibility support into information and communication technologies. Funded by a grant awarded by the European Commission, the AEGIS Project -- which stands for “open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards” -- will leverage open source technologies wherever possible. More information can be found at http://www.aegis-project.eu.

AOL’s Legal team, together with law firm McGuireWoods LLP, was named Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year this week by the Northern Virginia Pro Bono Law Center, the first time an in-house legal department in the area has been given this award. AOL and McGuireWoods created a pro bono legal clinic in Reston, Va., and the award recognized their creativity, initiative and hard work in developing and operating the clinic. Read more in the release.

DULLES, Va. – December 3, 2008 – McGuireWoods LLP and AOL have been selected by the Northern Virginia Pro Bono Law Center as the joint recipients of the “Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year.” The award was presented at the Fairfax Bar Association’s annual State of the Judiciary Luncheon held earlier this week at The Country Club of Fairfax.

The recipients were cited for creating a first-of-its-kind working relationship between a corporate in-house legal department and a law firm solely to perform pro bono work in the Northern Virginia community. The project teams AOL in-house attorneys with lawyers from McGuireWoods’ Tysons Corner, D.C. and Richmond offices to provide a monthly neighborhood outreach clinic in the Reston/Herndon area.