AOL buys Huffington Post for $315 million

Q: Key Point 2: They got the TechCrunch network back in September and now...

They got the TechCrunch network back in September and now it's the Huffington Post with a reported $315 million in cash.

Abe Olandres February 7, 2011 · 1 min read

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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.

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34 Comments

Zion · 13 years ago

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

SportsGrouch · 15 years ago

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.

Carmina Topacio Fansite Admin · 15 years ago

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…

Teach · 15 years ago

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

Christian · 15 years ago

Soon AOL will buy Mashable :)

BRUNO · 15 years ago

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

techzone · 15 years ago

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

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 15 years ago

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.

deuts · 15 years ago

Why not require a login to comment na lng kaya?

Kuya`Dan · 15 years ago

@TopMace

I agree wahahahahah

Jonaflormicfren · 15 years ago

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TopMace · 15 years ago

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