With New CEO Spin Out Ahead For AOL

Tim Armstrong, till recently senior V.P. of sales at Google will become the new chairman and chief executive of AOL, the troubled division of Time Warner, replacing much un-loved Randy Falco. Sure AOL is big, but so is General Motors. So why is he taking on this mission impossible? To put it simply, Armstrong wants to run a public company. That isn’t likely to happen at Google, where Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt are firmly entrenched at the top. If he goes to AOL and does a good job