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July 24, 2003
AOL's new CTO
AOL hired John McKinley, former CTO of Merrill Lynch, as its new Chief Technology Strategist and President of AOL Technologies. At Merrill, McKinley was a visible and respected leader in the move to Web services. Hiring him suggests that AOL, which has always defined itself as a company that doesn't care about technology, may be changing its tune. The Internet companies that have thrived while AOL faltered -- Microsoft, Amazon.com, eBay, Google -- have two things in commons. They are deeply technology-driven, but they see technology not as an end in itself but as a platform. Maybe I'm reading in too much, but this could be the direction AOL is going.
Posted by Kevin Werbach at July 24, 2003 11:08 AM
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