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AOL has a new content site in open beta called Love.com - it's been live since early this month but hasn't attracted any press attention to date. AOL hasn't announced it, and it isn't linked to from any other AOL properties. But it's already a vast site covering 350,000 topics that attracts 100,000 unique visitors a week through search engine links and word of mouth on Twitter, Facebook and other sites. The site has a home directory at love.com, and topic sites are organized under subdomains.

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE J.C. Penney Co., up $1.21 at $17.61 A Maxim Group LLC analyst said that the struggling retailer's return to discounting should drive traffic back into stores. AOL Inc., down $3.68 at $37.74 The Internet company's first-quarter net income jumped 23 percent, but adjusted earnings fell short of Wall Street predictions. Live Nation Entertainment Inc., up 68...

I worked at a real estate law firm as a student in high school. It was very stressful but it piqued my interest in law and, when I went to college in the District, I used the city as my university. I did internships with companies that lobbied on the Hill, researched papers at the Library of Congress and interviewed ambassadors on Embassy Row. I knew I wanted to be in the community that establishes the laws, practices and procedures that make all of this possible. Upon graduating from law school, I worked at a law firm, focusing on employment...

NEW YORK — The Dow Jones industrial average held above 15,000 a day after it closed above the landmark level for the first time. With no major economic releases due out Wednesday, investors focused on company earnings as reporting for the first quarter draws to a close. Whole Foods and Electronic Arts rose sharply after the companies predicted higher profits. AOL plunged after its profit came up short of what analysts were looking for. The Dow rose 48 points to 15,105, a gain of 0.3...

AOL is getting new leadership again, just two years after the outgoing executives were chosen to turn around the struggling dial-up and content company. Google Senior Vice President Tim Armstrong will take over as chairman and chief executive, replacing Randy Falco, said Time Warner, AOL's parent company. Ron Grant, AOL's president and chief operating officer, will leave with Falco after a transitional period of a few weeks. "Tim is the right executive to move AOL into the next phase of its evolution," Time Warner chief executive Jeffrey...

A year ago Aol trumpeted the launch of MediaGlow , a new business unit led by exec Bill Wilson . Sometime recently, though, the MediaGlow website, at MediaGlow.com , vanished. It now redirects here . The unit included all of Aol's content sites, including the aol.com home page and dozens of sub brands like Engadget and TMZ. All those sites are still there, of course, but Aol seems to be killing off the MediaGlow brand itself. Last June the company issued a press release boasting...

With Microsoft walking away from the Yahoo deal, there's been a lot of talk about what it's next best option would be. Going after AOL is an obvious choice. It has the ad inventory (aka pageviews) Microsoft needs, has its own collection of growing online advertising businesses, and has a very willing seller in parent Time Warner. The Times of London is reporting that Microsoft and AOL are in "preliminary talks" about an acquisition. And AOL isn't exactly hitting on all cylinders right now, so it could be...

Just last week, Aol celebrated its re-emergence as an independently-traded company . But its one main advantage is that it still commands a large audience, and in fact was the fourth largest Website in the U.S.?until last month. ComScore data for November, 2009 shows that Facebook surpassed Aol with 102.9 million unique visitors in the U.S., versus 99.7 million for Aol. Although Aol's unique visitors grew by nearly a million since October 2009, Facebook grew by more than 5 million.

Former AOL chief financial officer John Michael Kelly has agreed to pay $260,000 to settle an SEC complaint alleging that he oversaw a scheme to artificially inflate the company's revenue, the agency said Thursday. Under the court-approved settlement, Kelly neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing. The case is related to AOL's disastrous merger a decade ago with Time Warner. While the merger was pending, AOL faced a crisis as the market for online advertising began shrinking, and the company used accounting...

Microsoft 's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo on Friday revived debate about AOL's plan to remake itself as an online advertising company and whether it might too become a target for acquisition. AOL has been on a tear assembling an advertising network called Platform A that is meant to be the basis for the company's future growth. At the same time, discussions have surfaced occasionally at AOL's corporate parent, Time Warner, over whether the subsidiary should be spun out in part or whole.

NEW YORK — AOL Inc. said Wednesday that its first-quarter net income jumped 23 percent, helped by an increase in global advertising revenue. But its adjusted earnings fell short of Wall Street predictions and AOL shares slumped more than 9 percent in midday trading. The New York-based internet company earned $25.9 million, or 32 cents per share, for the three months ended March 31, up from $21.1 million, or 22 cents per share, in the same quarter of 2012. Excluding one-time...

Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly named technology start-upThinkBinder. This version has been corrected. Washington welcomed a new publicly traded company last week. Intelsat raised $472 million through a pair of public stock offerings as the company, which delivers information and entertainment via satellites, looks to pay down its debts. The company, which has its U.S. headquarters in the District, sold 19.3 million shares at $18 a piece in an initial...

Sterling-based Neustar has been at the heart of one of the biggest technology revolutions in recent decades, yet it's a company that few people outside of the telecommunications industry have ever heard of. The firm got its start in 1996 by winning a contract to transfer telephone numbers among carriers, allowing customers to switch from one provider to another with little hassle and, in turn, forcing companies to compete more fiercely for...

Local entrepreneur Mark Walsh is the new president of FedBid , the Vienna-based company that Ted Leonsis and Steve Case made a $25 million investment in earlier this year for through their Revolution Growth venture capital firm. Walsh, 58, who is well-known among Washington tech entrepreneurs, will give up his executive role at Bethesda-based GeniusRocket to take on his new responsibilities. "I'm totally pumped," Walsh said. Thousands of government agencies, from the State...

AOL , not exactly known for its cutting-edge innovation, might have its smartest product in ages with Alto — a new email client that promises to clean up your Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, and AOL inboxes and generally make your email life easier to manage. While AOL nicely revamped its own email service in July, the company doesn't expect users that it lost to Gmail and other services to come back. The email redesign was mostly to keep its 24 million monthly users from fleeing elsewhere.

Don't expect any ads for President Obama across the top of Prospect.org, the online incarnation of liberal monthly magazine the American Prospect. However warmly editors there may feel about him, it is blocking ads from his campaign as part of a pricing dispute that has pitted many political Web sites — on both the left and right — against their ideological allies. The standoff is an unintended consequence of a broad shift in political advertising this campaign season....

AOL has updated its webmail application to include a set of plugins that allow users to quickly access current news topics as well as third party services, most notably Yahoo Mail. Historically portals have been reluctant to give users access to their messages on other services, but they have been recently been opening up (which makes sense, given that they want to be a one-stop hub for all of your internet needs). Last month AOL gave users access to both their Yahoo and Gmail accounts from its homepage, and is now integrating the...

Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) has filed its 10-Q quarterly, and some interesting language about how it continues to value its 5 percent stake in AOL: "We review our investment in AOL ( NYSE: TWX ) for impairment in accordance with FSP SFAS 115-1, The Meaning of Other-Than-Temporary Impairment and Its Application to Certain Investments ("FSP 115-1"). Based on our review, we believe our investment in AOL may be impaired. After consideration of the duration of the impairment, as well as the reasons for any decline in value...

Curtis G. Viebranz, an entrepreneur and former president of HBO International, has been named president and chief executive of George Washington's historic Mount Vernon estate, the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association announced Tuesday. Viebranz, 59, spent nearly two decades in leadership positions at Time Warner and its predecessor Time Inc. before leaving in 1997 to work with Internet start-up companies. He oversaw the digital advertising network TACODA as it grew from $3 million in annual revenue and 10 employees in...