AOL buys Huffington Post for $315 million

This is the second blog network that AOL has bought in the last 6 months. They got the TechCrunch network back in September and now it’s the Huffington Post with a reported $315 million in cash.


Co-founder Arianna Huffington will remain as Editor-in-Chief of HuffPo under the AOL umbrella (attracting over 25 million unique visitors a month). The HuffPo sale is probably this biggest acquisition of a single blog in blogging history. This also makes AOL the biggest blog content producer today – they now own Engadget, TechCrunch and HuffPo and many more — the big names in the blogosphere.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

17 Responses

  1. Avatar for Zion Zion says:

    AOL is making a great investment with this! Definitely something to ponder.

  2. Avatar for SportsGrouch SportsGrouch says:

    Hi There, this was a extremely helpful article! I am just starting out with my site, and I decided to learn about other peoples blogs first. Your information will definitely come in handy. Thanks for writing a great article! Enthusiastic to be very a miniature splinter of this site .. by commenting here! Merci.

  3. Avatar for Carmina Topacio Fansite Admin Carmina Topacio Fansite Admin says:

    I think AOL is up for something bigger than this.
    My internet marketing instinct tells me that they’re just gathering ammos for now.
    Later, who knows…

  4. Avatar for Teach Teach says:

    Wow, Huffington Post really is very lucky…for hundred million wow!

  5. Avatar for Christian Christian says:

    Soon AOL will buy Mashable :)

  6. Avatar for BRUNO BRUNO says:

    Hahah!

    Really now Topmace??? Eh Ikaw din si Deuts eh! Hoy Walang bibili sa useless mong blog. Tagal na kitang napapansin dito sa Yugatech, saksakan ka ng yabang dude

  7. Avatar for techzone techzone says:

    bilin lng site ko kahit 100million usd ayos na ko haha

  8. Avatar for Abe Olandres Abe Olandres says:

    Hi guys! These spammers and impostors are taking a lot of my time while I moderate the comments. I will be making some slight changes in the commenting policy so comments don’t appear right away.

  9. Avatar for Kuya`Dan Kuya`Dan says:

    @TopMace

    I agree wahahahahah

  10. Avatar for Jonaflormicfren Jonaflormicfren says:

    A good and inspiring accomplishments. http://ritratos.blogspot.com/

  11. Avatar for TopMace TopMace says:

    It’s funny how spammers are getting smarter these days. Marunong na mag-Tagalog. Impostor pa! They could have been paid large sums to do all these efforts of collecting personal info like usernames, emails and website addresses.

    Or baka naman, binayaran tong mga to ng mga taong hindi napagbigyan ni yugatech, kaya sinasabotahe ang blog nya.

    Baka naman sir Abe meron kang chick na di pinagbigyan. O di kaya eh advertiser na hindi agree sa terms mo. Better watch your back! :D

  12. Avatar for csseyah csseyah says:

    Galing ah!

  13. Avatar for Robin Robin says:

    All I can say is wow.

  14. Avatar for Ople Ople says:

    asa k pa sa deuts na yan, wala nmankakwenta kwenta.

  15. Avatar for deuts deuts says:

    Hope AOL will buy my blog too! I’ll be fine even if they drop the last three zeros for Deuts.NET. LOL!

  16. Avatar for Hihey Hihey says:

    AOL is in shopping spree.

    Kelan kaya nila bibilin ang Yugatech :P

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