AOL President Bob Lord to Leave Company Next Year

Wall Street Journal: AOL president Bob Lord plans to leave the company, which is now owned by Verizon, sometime early next year. Lord, who joined AOL in July 2013 as the head of AOL Networks, has helped steer the company toward embracing programmatic, or automated, advertising technology. During his tenure, AOL acquired several companies in this industry, including the mobile ad company Millennial Media, the web personalization startup Gravity, and Convertro, which helps marketers track people across digital devices.