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Representatives from AOL and American online newspaper The Huffington Post first met in November last year at a conference in the United States. Since then, they were little more than two months of talks for the sale was announced in The HuffPost. The deal closed for $ 315 million is the largest acquisition by AOL since 2009, when it was separated [...]

The Huffington Post, one of the most prominent news, analysis, and lifestyle website boasting of 25 million unique monthly visitors has been bought by AOL for $315 million. Yahoo had also been in talks with Huffington Post for a possible acquisition in June but apparently that deal did not go through and AOL’s offer stuck. With this deal, Arianna [...]

In what can only be seen as one of the most remarkable event in the technology world for the year 2010, one of the biggest technology blogs on the Internet, TechCrunch, is about to be acquired by the newly rejuvenated AOL. TechCrunch, that was founded by the former lawyer, Michael Arrington, is seen in the tech world as one of the most respectable and [...]

It seems that one of the oldest IT companies in the U.S, AOL which had recently spun off from Time Warner as an independent vertical had not through the acquisition of social network Bebo for $850 million. Now, AOL it seems rather than shutting down Bebo, has made up its mind to sell off the liability that Bebo has become to Criterion Capital Partners, [...]

Since its spin off from Time Warner, AOL Inc. has begun its solo journey into the abyss of the online world and as its first monumental step, the company has announced the acquisition of StudioNow Inc and online video creation and distribution service. AOL had recently begun its very own content management program, called Seed.com and the this latest [...]

Now that, AOL is all set to venture in the online world all on its own, the about to be independent internet entity has already taken the measures necessary to show to the world that, AOL is soon going to be free. It has been reported that, AOL has let go of its traditional triangle logo and has adopted an all new logo for itself. The new AOL logo will [...]

Google Inc. that had acquired a 5% stake in Time Warner’s AOL, has sold it all back to the media giant, but at quite a depreciated rate of just $283 million as against the $700 million that Google spent while acquiring the stakes in AOL. Time Warner is planning to do a public spin off on AOL and with the amount it paid to Google to reacquire the [...]