AOL hires new president of Internet and mobile communications.INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. company AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. has hired Brad Garlinghouse as president of Internet and mobile communications, the company said on Tuesday. Gralinghouse will focus on expanding the reach of the company's e-mail and instant messaging solutions, it added. 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 Silver Lake Partners is a notable American private equity firm founded in 1999 and headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. It focuses its activities in the information technology industry. 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 chief executive Tim Armstrong. ((Comments on this story may be sent to info@m2.com)) |
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