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    Quigo CEO departs as AOL completes takeover

    By Nicholas Carlson, 1:01 PM on Fri Dec 21 2007, 788 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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    AOL finished up its $340 million Quigo acquisition yesterday. To celebrate, Quigo CEO Mike Yavonditte will head for the door. He'll spend the next six months pretending to work as an adviser to Curt Viebranz, president of AOL's Platform A advertising division.

    Guess Yavonditte doesn't want to stick around and find out if losing News Corp.'s business to Google will hurt as much as some are predicting. Dealing with that happy development falls to Quigo CTO Michael Fisher, who will become president of the subsidiary.

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    At AOL, Lynda Clarizio takes her revenge on Tacoda's people, not its technology

    Since it acquired Tacoda last summer, AOL has done little with it but push top executives out of the company. 97 employees came over in the buy. Today, only 35 remain. More »
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    Madison Avenue's revenge: New ad boss is AOL's seventh since 2001

    When new AOL ad boss Lynda Clarizio replaced Curt Viebranz, his head was the sixth to roll at AOL since 2001. Viebranz followed Myer Berlow, Robert Friedman, Robert Sherman, Lisa Brown and Michael Kelly.
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    New ad boss plans to lay off half of AOL's sales force

    With Curt Viebranz out, AOL's new advertising boss Lynda Clarizio plans to integrate the Time Warner subsidiary's various ad sales teams — those from acquisitions Tacoda and Quigo, for example —

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