Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Schadenfreude @ Gmail

<p>Masters of their domain: Aol CEO Tim Armstrong, author Agapi Stassinopoulos and her sister, Arianna Huffington (Patrick McMullan)</p><p>The morning that Aol CEO Tim Armstrong announced the $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post, he stood beside a beaming Arianna Huffington in the company's Broadway headquarters.</p><p>Watching from the back of the room, I remember Huffington proudly declaring that her sister, Agapi Stassinopoulos, whom she had brought with her, still used an Aol e-mail address.</p><p>The couple hundred assembled Aol workers, already disoriented by the surprise merger, greeted this with a tentative cheer that seemed to trail off into a question mark. Even employees found it hard to reconcile the company's ambitions as a world-beating tech giant with the unfashionable reality of having Aol e-mail.</p><p><a href="http://observer.com/2013/09/schadenfreude-gmail/">Keep reading...</a></p>

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