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AOL made some management changes ahead of its integration of the Huffington Post, appointing Jon Brod as chief operating officer of the new Huffington group and saying David Eun would depart.

In the wake of AOL's deal to buy the Huffington Post, some marketing executives are expressing concerns about the liberal-leaning nature of the website and its potential to taint the broader AOL brand.

The deal would give AOL a major presence in journalism, demonstrating the company’s intention to rely more heavily on online advertising.

Another 17 of America's richest people, including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, junk bond pioneer Michael Milken and AOL co-founder Steve Case, have pledged to give away most of their wealth.

Project Phoenix isn’t a close sibling to the old AOL mail, more like a spiffed-up (very) distant cousin. The new system can aggregate other e-mail accounts (point one), allows for quick multimedia messaging (point two) and offers the chance to grab a user name that might actually be, well, your real name (point three).

AOL's earnings more than doubled amid gains from asset sales, though ad revenue dropped 27%. CEO Armstrong said AOL is on the path to recovery, with much of the revenue declines "self-inflicted."

Yahoo's inability to snap out of a financial funk may be about to turn the Internet company into a takeover target for the second time in less than three years.

AOL has been in talks to acquire technology blog TechCrunch, according to a person familiar with the matter.

AOL's Propeller Team has announced on their website that Propeller.com will be no longer active from October 1 2010.

AOL is preparing to introduce a larger, splashier ad format that it hopes will attract more ad dollars from big brands and help revitalize its business.