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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
You've Got Arianna: AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million in Cash and Stock, Appoints Huffington Editor-in-Chief — In a bold and definitive move, AOL is paying $315 million, mostly in cash, to buy the Huffington Post, one of the Web's most prominent news and opinion sites.
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New York Times:
Betting on News, AOL Is Buying The Huffington Post — The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants.
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
When HuffPost Met AOL: “A Merger of Visions” — I've used this space to make all sorts of important HuffPost announcements: new sections, new additions to the HuffPost team, new HuffPost features and new apps. But none of them can hold a candle to what we are announcing today.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive Video: AOL's Tim Armstrong and HuffPo's Arianna Huffington Talk About Their Acquisition Touchdown From the Super Bowl — Here's an exclusive video interview BoomTown did with Huffington Post Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong this morning …
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Edmund Lee / AdAge:
AOL Bets $315 Million on Arianna, Buys Huffington Post to Build ‘New American Media Company’ — Patch, TechCrunch, Engadget and the Rest of AOL's Sites Will Form New Entity, Huffington Post Media Group — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — In one of the biggest digital publishing deals in recent memory …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Armstrong's Internal Memo To AOLers About The HuffPo Deal — At midnight, AOL announced that it will buy the Huffington Post for $315 million. Below is the internal memo AOL CEO Tim Armstrong sent to all AOL employees (except us, they don't trust us with anything) about the transaction.
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Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
I, For One, Welcome Our New Huffington Overlord — We really have to stop being scooped by rivals on news affecting our own company. — Tonight, courtesy of a press release that our parent company sent to everyone but us, we learn that AOL has acquired the Huffington Post for $315 million.
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The Daily:
We're Listening — Thank you for all the feedback. We hear you and we are committed to making The Daily the best possible experience. That's our entire focus. — In five short months we've brought The Daily from vision to version 1.0, created a custom content management system …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Super Bowl XLV: The Daily's Gamble — With a value of $3 million and a reach that can't be matched, an ad on the Fox broadcast of Super Bowl XLV is one of the biggest marketing weapons in the News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). arsenal. Getting one of the house spots is a great opportunity for The Daily …
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John Gapper / John Gapper's blog:
The Daily lacks news stories, not multimedia
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
The Daily Gets a $3 Million Super Bowl Spotlight
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John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
Nick Denton: What I Read — How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? Do they have some secret? Perhaps. We are asking various people who seem well-informed to describe their media diets. This is from a conversation with Gawker Media owner Nick Denton.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Al Jazeera Hopes Reports From Egypt Open Doors in U.S. — DOHA, Qatar — “Our bureau in Cairo has been attacked.” — Phone calls and e-mail on Friday spread that short message through the Doha headquarters of Al Jazeera, the satellite news network. It was an ominous start to the day …
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Amy Wicks / WWD Media Headlines:
Memo Pad: Rolling Stone Expands Licensing Business — ROLLING ON: The Hard Rock Cafe has a new competitor in Rolling Stone. With a restaurant on the way and a new deal signed with IMG, the magazine plans to extend its licensing business into new categories, including electronics and gaming …
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