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The event begins at noon and is free for members, $10 for everyone else. Wednesday, May 23 The two-day American Society of Association Executives ’ Marketing, Membership & Communications Conference begins at 8 a.m. at the Walter E. Washington... Full Article at The Washington Post

AtLeast one of the check box should be selected You are following news about Follow the latest news about AOL NEW YORK, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 3, 2012, the Rosenfarb Law Firm filed a class action lawsuit ("Complaint") in the United States... Full Article at PR Newswire

Correction Appended Facebook’s initial public offering has been looming over the tech landscape for what feels like forever. But while Facebook may be by far the biggest I.P.O. to come out of Silicon Valley, history will judge it as less creative than... Full Article at The New York Times

Late Wednesday the company’s chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong took the gloves off in responding to Starboard. “We do not believe [Starboard Value CEO and chief investment officer] Jeffrey Smith and his Starboard nominees have demonstrated an understanding... Full Article at MediaWeek

U.S. automaker General Motors, one of Facebook's biggest accounts, is quitting the social media Web site, saying it is not cost effective to advertise there. U.S. automaker General Motors, one of Facebook's biggest accounts, is quitting the social media... Full Article at United Press International

But if you think FB shares give you a piece of the next Google, think again. Amazon, circa 2008: Facebook virtually invented the social media category (not by being the first social media site, but by introducing social media to the Internet masses), in... Full Article at Advertising Age

YouSendIt, Inc. is the first cloud collaboration service to offer an integrated approach for sending, sharing and signing documents online. With over 20 million registered users in 193 countries, YouSendIt helps enterprises and business professionals... Full Article at TechCrunch

NFTE supports active programs in 18 states and nine countries around the world. Entrepreneurs are a powerful driver of economic growth and NFTE sows the seeds of innovation in students worldwide. For more information, visit www.nfte.com. Having helped... Full Article at PR Newswire

The tool, called Genome, is designed to help companies deliver more targeted online advertising and marketing campaigns. Genome is scheduled to become available in July and will let online advertisers sift through and analyze massive amounts of... Full Article at PC World

Google bought IBM patents. Microsoft bought AOL patents, then sold many of them to Facebook. Now, Nvidia is buying IPWireless patents as the industry continues playing patent musical chairs in an increasingly litigious environment. Nvidia and... Full Article at Top Tech News

That means founder and CEO Howard Lerman is about as close to a Disrupt veteran as you can get, seeing as though he was launching at Disrupt before we even called it Disrupt (tickets here). I asked him to come into the AOL headquarters to discuss what... Full Article at TechCrunch

“It’s a certain level of gravitas and erudition and mission focus,” she said. Based at Twin Cities Public Television, in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Next Avenue has 73 public-television affiliates that can customize the site in their markets with local content. Full Article at The New York Times

Google, Microsoft and AOL are hoping that their web video offerings and NewFront presentations will help them extract a healthy slice of the TV industry's upfront money this year. Unfortunately, as the "Leaving Brooklyn" billboard on the Gowanus... Full Article at Advertising Age

Externally, any distraction from Yahoo's core ad business makes the prospect of recovery that much more difficult. As recently as 2009, Yahoo owned nearly 16% share of the overall online ad market in the U.S. , according to eMarketer. But by the end of... Full Article at Advertising Age

To imply that AOL’s sales team hasn’t caught up with the market’s needs, or isn’t trained to sell in a modern fashion, is a rather stunning admission for Armstrong to make. Did AOL in the past not actually sell display ads based on brand goals? The... Full Article at AdWeek

Rudd and Amy Poehler. (Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg; Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty) Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd are set to co-star in a rom-com parody titled “They Came Together” directed by their “Wet Hot American Summer” friend David Wain, Variety reports. ... Full Article at The Washington Post

2012 with 13 products – cleansers, moisturizers, eye care products and wipes – that are hypoallergenic, non-comedogenic and pH balanced to gently yet effectively address the needs of the 58% of women with sensitive skin*. Simple is sold at all... Full Article at PR Newswire

The asking price for the combined AOL tech package? Allegedly a cool $70 million, or $10 million more than the original purchase price. But I bet they'd settle for $70 and a personally autographed copy of the Steve Jobs biography. That's what I'm... Full Article at PC World

He also opined, pretty counter-intuitively, that the only way to truly control your own online identity is to hand over control of it to Facebook. Whether such scare tactics motivate a few more people to join Facebook remains to be seen. A Slate poll... Full Article at PC Magazine