A month after its hire of Politico's Ben Smith, BuzzFeed raises $15.5 million in Series C financing. How has the site changed over the past month?READ»
CNN paid $20 million for personalized iPad magazine Zite this week. But if you use it, odds are you won't get CNN's original news. So what's CNN getting for its money? READ»
The new-media baroness took a public tongue lashing from TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who called MapQuest "a huge piece of crap" and dared her to say she had ever actually used the service, which is owned by Huffington Post parent company AOL. Here's how the train wreck went down. READ»
Why do people treat NYTimes.com like Amazon.com? Why do women love AOL News? And what's ESPN.com's secret? A new report analyzes online news consumption data.
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1. AOL is expected to lay off between 400 and 500 people in the U.S. today (about 8-10% of its staff), as part of its push to make itself more profitable. The content side of AOL is likely to take the biggest hit, due to the new ...READ»
Verizon has donated to Tea Partiers Pat Toomey and Rand Paul, among others. AT&T also has tea on its hands. What happens when tech gets political?READ»
In just a handful of years, Arianna Huffington has gone from a media outsider with a vision for the "linked economy" to an editorial leader who's vision is driving pageviews and audience engagement. Now, as Curator-in-Chief, she can share her vision on a larger stage. READ»
It's been a year
since AOL bought the Huffington Post for $315 million, to beef up traffic. But year-to-year visitor
counts show slowed AOL media traffic--even with HuffPo's readers.
U.S. work and home visitor numbers ...READ»
One of the banned sites--the Huffington Post--reported yesterday that the source of Haiti's cholera outbreak could be from a Nepalese peacekeeping base.READ»
Foursquare's new layers let organizations create lists of annotated locations that are pushed to the user. Imagine following Zagat: When you check in near a hot new restaurant, you'd get a notification. The possibilities are endless.READ»
In roughly 24 hours, nearly 6,000 people have registered to participate in an experiment we started called The Influence Project. It's been written about by TechCrunch, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, and a score of personal ...READ»
News aggregator site Huffington Post has just made its first acquisition: Adaptive Semantics. It's a tech firm whose systems will help HuffPo with is main business of bringing together content, and comments from readers. Most ...READ»
