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Controversial comments coming from aol ceo tim armstrong surrounding the reasons why the company decided to cutback on retirement benefits for its employees. on cnbc armstrong placed the blame squarely on obamacare. >> obamacare is an additional $7.1 million competenexpense foa company. we have to decide whether to pass it on to employees or cut other benefits. >> later that same day in a company wide conference call armstrong appeared to shift the blame a bit citing two distressed babies born t...

Back to. i think brand, and even technology companies, we love to make sure we build these places for people. but at the end of the day, the end of that screen is a hume. and they have this finite amount of attention we have to focus them on. if youre a brand that helps calm the noise, youre able to get in the middle of that and facilitate the noise for them. >> its a funny thing because back in the day aol started out the walled garden strategy, you would come to one simple portal and have a co...

To make sure those babies were okay in general and those are things that add up into our benefits cost. aol employee listening to that call took some notes and sent them to a tech blogger who published them online, igniting a firestorm. joining me now to discuss this, the co-founder of moms rising, a group that supports womens issues. good morning and thank you for being here. >> good morning. >> first of all, i cant believe armstrong would say that on a conference call that included employees. ...

The administration is now considering yet another extension of obamacare. this one would allow individual market policy holders to keep their coverage for another three years. move is aimed at avoiding a new wave of problems if the prices on the exchange just go too high. businesses say that obamacare isnt helping them or their employees. the ceo of aol is now speaking out about how this has affected his company. >> we have to look at our benefits programs very seriously. in the ceo chair, let m...

For the administration and it certainly is a glaring admission of defeat. >> they didnt say theyre definitely doing it. under consideration. their consulting firm they hired said were looking at all these things. if youre concerned about the mid term elections -- and im not sure the democrats or republicans are worried about that. >> probably not. >> if youre concerned about that, you dont want to have people saying its been about a year and im about to give up my policy and so now you have a th...

Including these companies that have stepped forward in a big way today. >> all right. se see ya munoz, thank you very much. the wildly used social connecters is facebook, it was professionally officially called that. today the network with 1.2 billion actives users monthly worldwide celebrates its tenth anniversary. the ceo and creator of the company mark zuckerberg sat down with the "today" show s savannah guthrie to talk about early days of likes and status updates. >> i remember really vividl...

The internet, was the juggernaut of the internet for most people. so i mean, i can imagine a world without facebook or where facebook has been dethroned the way that ao, l has been detloends, what would do that, bring about that? i mean the privacy concerns that a lot of people have may make some people sour. the move into a mobile computering world away from laptops may cost them some of their experience. and facebooks main way of dealing with their competitors is just to buy them. just the way...

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Citizens to the nazis persecution of the jews. dan simon has more. >> reporter: he is worth an estimated $8 billion, owning one of the worlds largest yachts. >> this whole area is wide open and very airy. tom perkins built his wealth as a founder of one of silicon valleys most prominent venture capital firms, which made early investments in google, amazon and aol, among many others. >> i started back in 1972 with a fund of only $8 million, which, believe it or not, was the largest in the world f...

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