The Townsquare announcement is timely in that AOL has been in the news lately reportedly trying to figure out a way to combine with Yahoo. One latest path to marriage: AOL is exploring a breakup, that could including dumping its dying but still lucrative dial up business and combining the rest of the company with Yahoo. Some of the hires include: Sun Sachs joins as vice president, product design and engineering. At AOL, he was vice president design and product for AOL Media; Jared Willig is vice president digital strategy and op. At AOL, he was VP/GM of Moviefone, AOL TV and PopEaster; and Pete Schiecke joins as director, digital media from AOL where he was a programming director at AOL Radio.
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