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The who’s who of the most viral news sites

There is no doubt that news these days does literally travel at almost the speed of light. What was once breaking news can be fish and chip wrap within minutes of hitting the web. Some news sites ... continue

HuffPo, Aol, Arianna hit with lawsuit by unpaid bloggers

Ariana Huffington's major cash out on the Huffington Post hasn't been without incident, and the noisy group of unpaid sweatshop writers who provided much of the site's multi-million dollar content haven't shut up- they've filed a class ... continue

HuffPo writers strike- why Arianna Huffington’s wildly successful media empire is harmful to web workers

Off the bat, I will admit to having an intense girl-crush on Arianna Huffington. I've been an ardent fan of both Politically Incorrect and Real Time with Bill Maher for a decade and a half, and I find ... continue

Thoughts On The AOL Huffington Post Deal

I was asked today on Formspring "What are your thoughts on AOL buying Huffington Post?". The response is informal 1st person, but I thought I'd share it here. It's an interesting buy on a couple of fronts. People are ... continue

AOL Huffington Post Acquisition Gets The Taiwanese Animation Treatment

AOL's acquisition of The Huffington Post for $315 million has delivered a smorgasbord of commentary this week, and who better to join the fray than our favorite Taiwanese animators. Highlights: we'll where do you start. Arianna gets ... continue

The Ultimate Snub: AOL Buys The Huffington Post and Doesn’t Tell TechCrunch

As we reported earlier, AOL has acquired The Huffington Post for $315 million, the largest buy for a stand alone new media property that we can recall, let alone a new media network. The size of the buy ... continue

Holy Crap! $315 Million later and AOL buys Huffington Post [VIDEO]

Wow. Holy Crap. This has to be some of the biggest deal to hit the blogosphere, over shadowing AOL's purchase of TechCrunch for a rumored amount of $10 million. Following the Super Bowl Kara Swisher from All Things D ... continue

Cost of HuffPo ‘Sanity’ buses? $250K so far

While fans of The Daily Show may have been surprised at Arianna Huffington's seemingly on the spot offer to bus any New Yorkers who required a lift to Jon Stewart's "Rally To Restore Sanity" or Stephen Colbert's ... continue

PubMatic Selected To Optimize Ad Revenue By The Huffington Post

8 October 2009 (Inquisitr Wire). - PubMatic (www.PubMatic.com), a global company that provides premium online publishers with a full service solution to manage and monetize non-guaranteed inventory, today announced that The Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost.com) will use its ... continue

Huffington Post teams up with Facebook – talk about deja vu

Kara Swisher has news today that Huffington Post is going to be collaborating with Facebook to launch a new feature on Monday called “HuffPost Social News”. The idea is that readers will be able ... continue

Huffington Post gets new CEO, spins departure of old one

Huffington Post's investors have seemingly undertaken a small coup d'état, dumping CEO Betsy Morgan in favor of Eric Hippeau of Softbank Capital. On the surface at least, the change in leadership would appear to be amicable, at least ... continue

Journalist whines while Huffington Posts tries to help

The $1.75 million Huffington Post investigative journalism fund is under attack by a journalist signed up by the fund on the grounds that The Huffington Post couldn't adequately edit her work. Freelance Wall Street reporter Teri Buhl tells ... continue

The Huffington Post acquires the New York Times

The Huffington Post today announced that it has acquired a majority stake in the New York Times Company. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed, but is believed to have been facilitated with the help of Mexican ... continue

Huffington Post announces investigative journalism venture

One of the things we are constantly hearing as we move from an old media world to a new media world is the danger of losing investigative journalism as newspapers head further in their downward spiral. ... continue

Huffington Post expanding into sport, tech and books

Arianna Huffington's uber-blog The Huffington Post is expanding its coverage into three new areas: sport, technology and book. An ad placed by the Huffpost at MediaBistro calls for editors as follows: The Huffington Post is looking for web editors ... continue

Media companies may challenge extract linking

Unnamed media companies may start taking to court blogs and sites that quote extracts and links, according to a report by the New York Times. The report specifically names The Huffington Post and The Business Insider (formerly Silicon ... continue

Mark this day: President now takes press conference questions from bloggers

Barack Obama addressed the nation this evening, before opening the doors to questions from the assembled media. Question number two came from Sam Stein from the Huffington Post. Stein asked about torture policy going forward and is anyone above ... continue