Music Ally

David Eun was one of Google’s key execs when it came to dealings with the music industry – his MidemNet keynote interview last year famously began with the question ‘Why are you trying to screw the labels?’.

However, Google’s content partnerships boss is now leaving the company to take up a position as president of AOL Media and Studios. He’ll be in charge of the company’s network of content sites.

“David brings an impressive breadth of media experience to AOL at an exciting juncture as AOL forges a new future as a high-scale producer and partner in the content space” says the internal memo from CEO Tim Armstrong.

AOL has closed its acquisition of social network Bebo, and announced plans to combine it with its other community sites, as well as instant messaging divisions AIM and ICQ. Bebo boss Joanna Shields will head up the new division, which seems likely to spur a.) some kind of rebranding of those two IM platforms, and b.) no renewal of Bebo’s advertising deal with Yahoo when its contract ends in September next year. Meanwhile, AOL’s backing will see a fast expansion of Bebo to countries beyond its UK and US bases