AOL chief executive's bumpy journey to the big Verizon offer
Tim Armstrong's success came from deals that put AOL on cutting edge for placing ads
Add BT as a preferred source
San Francisco
AOL Inc chief executive Tim Armstrong's six-year path to transforming the venerable dial-up Internet provider into a marketable mobile ad specialist has been filled with bumps.
He spent hundreds of millions on the money-losing hyper local news site Patch. He presided over - or encouraged - the exit of a string of high level executives. He was inadvertently recorded firing an employee in an audio clip that ricocheted around the Internet. Perhaps most infamously, he publicly blamed an AOL employee's "distressed baby" as the reason for the company's escalating healthcare costs.
TRENDING NOW
When every phone becomes a satellite phone, what happens to Asia’s telcos?
Jardine C&C selling Singapore, Malaysia dealerships to Indonesia’s Chandra Asri for US$221 million gain
Digital Realty, STT GDC among data centre operators awarded 50 MW of new capacity in Singapore
Upbeat outlook for CDL, UOL after strong H1 earnings
