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AOL to buy online Huffington Post for $315M

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AOL to buy online Huffington Post for $315M - USATODAY.com




NEW YORK (AP) — Online company AOL is buying online news hub Huffington Post in a $315 million deal that represents a bold bet on the future of online news.

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Perhaps just as important as picking up a news site that ranks as one of the top 10 current events and global news sites, AOL (AOL) will be adding Huffington Post co-founder and media star Arianna Huffington to its management team as part of the deal.

After the acquisition closes later this year, Huffington will be put in charge of AOL's growing array of content, which includes popular technology sites Endgadget and TechCrunch, local news sites Patch.com and online mapping service Mapquest.
 
AOL continues it's efforts to be the least relevant information source in the world.
 
AOL continues it's efforts to be the least relevant information source in the world.
according to the article, the huffington post is 'one of the top 10 current events and global news sites'....could be a good move for aol
 
You two sound very bitter. Do Ed & Who own AOL stock? Perhaps this is the big move by AOL to restore its relevance.
 
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according to the article, the huffington post is 'one of the top 10 current events and global news sites'....could be a good move for aol

They gave Huffy editorial control of AOL newz. If they wanted to be taken any less seriously, they would have hired Michael Moore.
 
You two sound very bitter. Do Ed & Who own AOL stock? Perhaps this is the big move by AOL to restore its relevance.

You confuse bitterness with bemusement. The news might as well have said MSNBC hires Bill Maher as their news director.

I am enjoying the view of the media dinosaurs sinking into the tar pits.
 
You confuse bitterness with bemusement. The news might as well have said MSNBC hires Bill Maher as their news director.

I am enjoying the view of the media dinosaurs sinking into the tar pits.

I strongly suspect that you and Albert are NOT their target demographic.
 
They gave Huffy editorial control of AOL newz. If they wanted to be taken any less seriously, they would have hired Michael Moore.
again, top 10 .....she must be doing something right.
 
again, top 10 .....she must be doing something right.

HuffPo can crack the top ten in the raves of youthful ignorance and the twilight hippy, but the mainstream is not so gullible.

AOL is a dinosaur, a relic of old tyme interwebby. it's a dial-up brontosaurus.
 
HuffPo can crack the top ten in the raves of youthful ignorance and the twilight hippy, but the mainstream is not so gullible.

AOL is a dinosaur, a relic of old tyme interwebby. it's a dial-up brontosaurus.
25 million visitors a month...lots of potential for advertising revenue...good call by aol i think.
 
25 million visitors a month...lots of potential for advertising revenue...good call by aol i think.

Buying the site was a good call, giving Huffy top spot was suicide.
 
Buying the site was a good call, giving Huffy top spot was suicide.
that has yet to be seen...her being in 'charge' could end up making aol relevant again.
 
I admire your patience randel.
 
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AOL's previous media mergers have worked out so splendidly, why not give it another go? :lol:
 
Can anyone tell me what AOL's actual core business is? Do they even have one, or do they just overpay for profitable businesses and then screw them up?
 
Overpaid by 300+%.

Spent 40% of their cash.

They dived into bed with the far left, who's media outlets are getting beaten like a female adulterer in Iran.

Yes... 1+1=11 for these folks. Phew... sign this set of clowns up for Dumb and Dumber 11 (that's 1+1).

Hey idiots! I have Air Amerika to sell for $35 million. A great bargain to go with your recently purchased 3nd rate Olbermann, I mean Huffington Post Socialist website.

What happens when Huffington croaks? The site is worthless... it's tied 100% to her screeching personality.

Yes, they will appeal to a certain market segment, and might get a trickle of profit from it (but enough to recoup investment??? No chance), but in the process they have just painted themselves as leftists in a world growing less tolerant of them and their ailed and failed world view.

Good-bye AOL. A footnote in media histoire.

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Buying the site was a good call, giving Huffy top spot was suicide.

Aww.. is your conservative head exploding in jealously? How about you loot make something similar to the Huffington Post and then come back and discuss it like adults?
 
Aww.. is your conservative head exploding in jealously? How about you loot make something similar to the Huffington Post and then come back and discuss it like adults?

Don't drink and post.
 
I would have thought that all the right wingers here would have been overjoyed that a few new multi-millionaires were created yesterday.
 
AOL's stock has dropped almost 20 percent in the last 10 days.

LOL
 
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