Wow! AOL buys HUFFINGTONPOST for $315M

[$5 submissions]

Pretty damn huge blog acquisition. HP knows how to pull them in though and its thoroughly wedded to social media channels.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110207/...uffington_post

[Seth Manson]

http://www.gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1009253

[Agent 488]

wonder how the 6000 bloggers who built it by churning out 300 blog posts per day - for free - feel about that.

[u-Bob]

Wow indeed

[Mikey]

i never even heard of it...

[Seth Manson]

wonder how the 6000 bloggers who built it by churning out 300 blog posts per day - for free - feel about that.

Nobody cares about how the content feels.

[cooldude7]

never heard of it.

[seeandsee]

Pretty damn huge blog acquisition. HP knows how to pull them in though and its thoroughly wedded to social media channels.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110207/...uffington_post

315M, JESUS even facebook cant get sold for it kidding

[zseano]

315M, JESUS even facebook cant get sold for it kidding

AOL bought bebo for $850million and bebo was never as big as facebook, so i'm betting if facebook (it never will though) go up for sale, it would fetch a large sum of dollars.... lol

[selena]

I saw the chick that started Huffington post give a short talk recently. (on the net, I mean).

She is one smart cookie.

[woj]

congrats to all the winners

[bns666]

aol usually fucks up and the site just dies after the acquisition

[CamChameleon]

I saw the chick that started Huffington post give a short talk recently. (on the net, I mean).

She is one smart cookie.

You have a link or was a live feed?

[CaptainHowdy]

Wow, money wow ...

[DateDoc]

Big sale. Build it, pump it up, sell it and go live life!

[Phoenix]

holy cow...nice job...cash out time

[selena]

You have a link or was a live feed?

No, sorry, I don't remember the link. If I think of it, I'll post back.