By: Magento Themes
Huffington post is really a great acquire, I would say it is the best of this year too…
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Well the year is quite young. Then again, I don't think I could have called this from even ten feet away.
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By: benito_a
What a horrendous precedent for a company that was supposedly aiming to shakeup the corporate news structure online… not that HP hadn't already devolved into a pile of sensationalist garbage anyway....
View ArticleBy: Matt Lynley
I dunno. Maybe it's because I worked at a local paper in college, but I don't see local papers going anywhere any time soon. At least, assuming Groupon doesn't somehow provide a more lucrative local...
View ArticleBy: benito_a
I agree to an extent… the most frightening thing I'm noticing are the papers who sit alone or only have one competitor in a mid-size market and are absolutely clueless about an online approach. Small...
View ArticleBy: svdude
On the sports front Bleacher Report is the ultimate POS content farm out there so maybe it can fill the FanHouse void. SB Nation is led by a former AOL exec but seems to be destined to join...
View ArticleBy: jaysportsfan
FanSided is a bigger, older, better recognized sports content network than Bloguin.
View ArticleBy: svdude
I am not sure how you drew that conclusion. I lead BD at a internet media company and did analysis on both for potential partnerships a couple months back Fansided might be older but per Comscore and...
View ArticleBy: jaysportsfan
That's why all the rumors have FS getting acquired and Bloguin sitting on the sidelines. Bloguin has most of that comScore/Quantcast info hidden, far as I can tell, and word is they don't own a lot of...
View ArticleBy: svdude
I see your avatar has you pegged as someone affiliated with Fansided so I can understand your defensive nature. Don't know/havent heard about any acquisition rumors. If so, good for them/you as there...
View ArticleBy: jaysportsfan
Was affiliated with Lake Show Life, along with other non-FanSided blogs, but am no longer. Hey, Bloguin is good stuff, but as someone who has watched the sports mediasphere for a half decade comparing...
View ArticleBy: donfelipe
AOL is making a comeback. A lot of influential people read the Huffington Post. I think even Obama reads and comment on the Huff. AOL is making bold moves to recover its leadership.
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[...] Yahoo does buy Hulu, the company could easily follow the same strategy pursued by AOL, which acquired the Huffington Post in February and installed Arianna Huffington as editor of all [...]
View ArticleBy: Salon CEO Gingras headed to Google to run news products | VentureBeat
[...] spearheading talks to potentially sell the company earlier this year. The talks fell apart after AOL acquired the Huffington Post for $315 million and Salon’s board wondered whether it was worth...
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[...] to Newser, an aggregation site founded by Michael Wolff, but they fell through in February after AOL acquired the Huffington Post for $315 million and Salon’s board reportedly wondered whether it...
View ArticleBy: Why Time Warner should reacquire Aol | VentureBeat
[...] two years since its divestiture from Time Warner. CEO Tim Armstrong has been incredibly aggressive, acquiring the Huffington Post, the leading online pure play for news, restructuring Aol’s...
View ArticleBy: HuffPo hits 1 billion monthly page views, snaps up Localocracy | VentureBeat
[...] has been growing rapidly since it was acquired by AOL for $315 million earlier this year. Today’s news is a sign that the site has no intention of slowing down [...]
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