-- AOL: AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) Platform-A advertising Hydra, which recently appointed Brendon Condon as London-based international head, has made a series of UK appointments. Just as AOL UK’s MD Michael…

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-- BBC: Beeb developers have unveiled a better way to discover music being played across the broadcaster’s outlets. The /Music section has added persistent artist profile pages that show which…

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eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) is switching on its AdChoice system in the UK - a behavioural targeter that uses buyers’ and sellers’ profile data to better target display adverts. eBay unveiled…

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AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) Platform-A ad network has won display ad business from Turner Media Innovations (TMi) - its first significant European deal since landing The Spectator magazine’s website in February.…

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Less than a month after naming Brendan Condon international head for its Platform-A (NYSE: TWX) network of ad firms, AOL is continuing its European integration with a radical reshuffle that…

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Paris-based ad holding company Publicis Groupe has formed an ad network relying on all four of the major ad serving systems run by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Google/DoubleClick, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)…

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AOL (NYSE: TWX) aims to complete the global integration of its Platform-A ad network components by end of 2009, following today’s announcement it is taking the consortium to Europe. And…

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Having recently completed its purchase of UK social net Bebo, AOL (NYSE: TWX) is finally ready to bring Platform-A, its collection of ad units, to Europe. Time Warner vet Brendan…

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No surprise here, but AOL (NYSE: TWX) is to export its new vertical lifestyle content strategy to Europe, with recently-debuted men’s blog Aylsum and music blog Spinner planned to launch…

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— AOL (NYSE: TWX) Europe’s Chad Wollen is quitting the internet company for ITV (LSE: ITV), where he becomes director of marketing strategy, where he will develop the marketing and…

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AOL (NYSE: TWX) has started replicating its recently launched Last.fm-powered AOL Radio in its European markets, starting with France, Germany and the UK. Despite living at radio.aol.co.uk, the site is…

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AOL president Ron Grant, appearing on our EconSM panel, suggested new acquisition Bebo would be used to thread social features throughout AOL’s new-look websites. In a later chat with my…

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AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) $850 million purchase of Bebo back in March was one of the big social media deals of the year. In a Q&A with ContentNext co-editor Staci Kramer…

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Though he no doubt took a healthy slice of that $850 million, Bebo’s English co-founder Michael Birch went to ground when AOL (NYSE: TWX) bought the site in March -…

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AOL (NYSE: TWX) is installing AOL Canada GM and SVP Jonathan Lister as VP operations of AOL Europe. Mad.co.uk: “Lister will be based in London and oversee programming, search, marketing,…

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Bebo founders and husband-wife team Michael and Xochi Birch will make about $600 million in the sale of the social networking site to AOL (NYSE: TWX) for $850 million. The…

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After a late night finalizing the announcement of today’s $850 million acquisition and a hectic morning, Bebo’s affable president Joanna Shields spent some time with Staci and I on a…

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So we reported on the return the investors got, but not on Bebo’s actual revenue numbers. Kara Swisher digs in and reports on some of the real revenue numbers: Bebo’s…

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—Spencer Wang, Bear Stearns: Cash flow at Bebo is likely to be pretty light, so the buy will cause some dilution at AOL (NYSE: TWX), although it will not have…

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For more information on Bebo, check out our archives: -- AOL Buying Bebo For $850 Million -- Rumourbusting: Bebo/Murdoch, Free Indie, WAYN/AOL -- Bebo Opens Platform To All Comers; Widget…

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In a major and rather unexpected deal, AOL (NYSE: TWX) is buying social net Bebo for $850 million (£417 million) in cash. Rumors had swirled around Bebo of either an…

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AOL (NYSE: TWX) is steadily winning more content and advertising kudos after jettisoning its European ISP businesses, this time agreeing on a deal to sell ads for The Spectator and…

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Regardless of what Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) has planned for it down the road, AOL continues to make acquisitions… the latest is UK-based affiliate marketing network Buy.at. The acquisition will…

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- AOL: AOL (NYSE: TWX) Europe is promoting head of software and product engineering Paul Cutter to VP technology, leading engineering, infrastructure and development teams based in Bangalore, India, The…

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- Bebo/Murdoch: Up to its usual entertaining tricks, Valleywag points to Bebo employee Emma Carlsgaard’s profile update reporting Rupert Murdoch visited the site’s San Francisco office. After concluding News Corp…

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