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AOL to buy Huffington Post for $315 mil

Technology Feb. 07, 2011 - 02:57PM JST ( 10 )

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888naffFeb. 07, 2011 - 04:03PM JST

relevent to who?
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donkusaiFeb. 07, 2011 - 07:02PM JST

Apparently relevant to 25 million unique visitors a day, though not to me.
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yabitsFeb. 07, 2011 - 08:01PM JST

Nice to see good things happening to good people.
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gogogoFeb. 07, 2011 - 10:48PM JST

Good stuff, way to kill it, just like the ICQ and winamp purchases.
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gaijintravellerFeb. 08, 2011 - 08:56AM JST

gogogo, I agree, but would like to add Spinner, a previously excellent internet radio station, and, of course, Netscape Navigator.
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sf2kFeb. 08, 2011 - 09:41AM JST

aw nooooo..... AOL is the kiss of Internet death
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WinTheFutureFeb. 09, 2011 - 01:10PM JST

I feel like such a tool. I posted at HuffPo for years. Ariana used us. They never paid us anything. Now she gets 18 million dollars.
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SolidariTeaFeb. 10, 2011 - 06:19PM JST

I see the editors are not too interested in the follow up story. AOL's stock lost 315 million in the days following this deal - iow, the amount they paid for HuffPo.

Arian Huffington started that silly site with a million bucks and a partner ponying up the same.

She played on the Obama hype, launching the site to coincide with his historic run .And she played a lot of progressives like she was conductor of the largest symphony ever assembled. What a great biz model - get thousands of narcississtic 'liberals' to blog for you, in one gigantic online orgy of self-congratulation and snarky social signaling.

Are libs aware that the sale of HuffPo by its founders (it was the biggest political site online) is basically one massive short-selling of the Obama label and product???

The stock-buying public sure is.That 's why they have dumped AOL.

I remember her from the 90s as a conservative. I am thinking she never changed, that the progressive firebrand image was just marketing.

She must be happiest Greek in the world today, overjoyed she left for America when she did.

Well done, Arianna. I have to hand it to this woman. She has lived the American Dream, but a lot progressives left holding the bag...
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JunnamaFeb. 10, 2011 - 06:23PM JST

How much would aol pay for the freep?
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SolidariTeaFeb. 11, 2011 - 02:24AM JST

How much would aol pay for the freep?

who knows ? Completely off-topic.

Who cares??