Tim Armstrong's Nike Envy

AOL CEO talks shoes, tech, and better debate coverage

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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong wishes his company's technology was as good as Nike's.

"I think they have a better integration of their Web platform and their mobile platform than most of our properties do," he said Thursday morning during an Advertising Week panel at the Nederlander Theatre. "So I've got a problem I need to fix, and I mean that sincerely."

The discussion, titled The New York Times CEO Summit—which was moderated by the paper's advertising reporter Stuart Elliott—also featured R\GA chairman Bob Greenberg, whose agency helped Nike develop the brand's personalized-exercise-tracking Fuelband product.

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