Holy Crap! $315 Million later and AOL buys Huffington Post [VIDEO]
From the archive: published Feb 6, 2011, 15 years ago. Details may have changed since.
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 got the scoop of a lifetime as AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Arriana Huffington, Editor-in-Chief of Huffington Post, announced that AOL has purchased Huffington Post for the sum of $350 million.
Here is the video of Kara interviewing Armstrong and Huffington about the announcement.
By the way – this means that Arriana Huffington is Michael Arrington’s boss. I’m sure this is going to go over well.