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* AOL Time Warner Inc.’s America Online unit appointed Lisa Brown as head of advertising sales a week after former ad chief Robert Sherman resigned. Brown joined the Internet unit in November. Her new post was announced by America Online Chief Executive Jonathan Miller, her former boss at USA Interactive.

* Computer Sciences Corp. of El Segundo and partners BT Group and Xansa won a $2.4-billion, 10-year contract to manage the British postal service’s data systems.