Tag archive: Arianna Huffington

Last week we reported that TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington was leaving the site to start a venture capital fund named Crunchfund. At that time it was reported that Arrington will most likely remain as an employee of the blog, but no longer retain any editorial power. This was confirmed by Arriana Huffington who is the editor and chief for all of AOL’s blogs, when she said that Arrington will no longer report to her. Since Friday there have… Read More

A group of bloggers has filed a class action lawsuit against the Huffington Post, its founder Arianna Huffington and its new parent company AOL, reports Fortune. The lawsuit's lead plaintiff is union organizer and journalist Jonathan Tasisi, who wrote for the Huffington Post from December 2005 until three days after AOL purchased the left-leaning news and blog site for $315 million, on February 6 of this year. Filing of the suit follows… Read More

Struggling online media company AOL has announced it has entered into a definitive deal to acquire the news, analysis, politics, and lifestyle site The Huffington Post for some $315 million. AOL views the acquisition as a means to create a “premiere global, national, local, and hyper-local content group for the digital age” by combining The Huffington Post's approach to news and community building with AOL's broader… Read More

If you've long been turned off to watching presidental debates on television Yahoo, The Huffington Post and Slate are all hoping that during the 2008 presidental election you'll get turned on to two online only debates being planned. These debates are scheduled to take place after Labor Day. The online debates, which will be hosted on all three Web sites, will occur one for each major political party. In these debates voters… Read More