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Hot Adds for Atlanta: Yelp, Twitter, ESPN, Angie's List

Have you made up your mind to join hundreds of your colleagues at Leading in Local: The National Impact in Atlanta May 7-9? We're deeply excited about the event and its unique focus on leveraging the franchises, multi location outlets…

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ILM East: AOL’s Big Bet on Local

"AOL has a huge bet on local and Patch in particular," said Mark Josephson, senior vice president of revenue at AOL Local during our afternoon session at ILM East. Patch hyperlocal sites reach 865 communities that Josephson describes as "under…

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Blinkx to Power AOL Video Search

Blinkx, a British video search company, will now power video search on AOL.com. Its video platform includes the ability to listen to the sound track using speech-to-text technology, look at the images on screen using advanced video analytics, and read…

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AOL Buys Huffington Post; Huffington to Run AOL Local

AOL will buy The Huffington Post for $300 million in cash and $15 million in stock, and put Arianna Huffington in charge of the AOL Local sites (MapQuest, Patch, MovieFone) as well as its growing collection of opinionated tech and…

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Hyperlocal in 2011: A Break in the Clouds?

I take great delight in the Carlsbad Patch updates on my smartphone every morning. And the Fwix local app on my iPad. But why do I feel they are my “guilty pleasures”? Because there is a rap out there that…

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AOL: Happy 25th Anniversary

AOL today celebrates its 25th anniversary, and the thought of it leaves me a little nostalgic, but also really proud of the great role it has played in the development of interactive -- and local -- media and services. AOL’s…

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AOL’s Patch.com Set for ‘Hundreds’ of Communities

Jon Brod, EVP, AOL Ventures Patch.com, AOL's hyperlocal network, will grow from its tally of 30 sites today to "hundreds" by the end of 2010, per an internal memo read by Business Insider (and that we saw on www.netnewscheck.com). The…

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