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HuffPo Hires Google Engineer Dierks

Kara Swisher in Media on September 7, 2011 at 8:08 am PT

AOL’s media arm, the Huffington Post Media Group, has hired longtime Google techie Tim Dierks to oversee its growing programming engineering team as SVP of engineering.

Exclusive: Yahoo Nabs Jai Singh From AOL's HuffPo as Editor-in-Chief

Kara Swisher in Media on May 2, 2011 at 7:28 pm PT

According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo has grabbed one of Huffington Post’s top editors, Jai Singh, to become its editor-in chief. Before moving to the HuffPo as managing editor in 2009, which is now the key content unit of AOL, Singh ran CNET.

Godspeed on That Investing Thing, Yertle–But I Still Have Some Questions for Your Boss, Arianna

Kara Swisher in News on April 28, 2011 at 10:19 am PT

Would it surprise you to know that BoomTown doesn’t really care anymore if TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington sidelines as a blogger while he makes investments in tech companies his tech news site covers? Especially after reading his post yesterday that made a good argument about who he is and, frankly, who he has always been. But that does not mean his boss, AOL content head Arianna Huffington, doesn’t have some ‘splainin’ to do.

AOL-HuffPo Deal Officially Closes Today–More Big Media Hires Signal New Content Direction Under Arianna

Kara Swisher in News on March 7, 2011 at 4:01 am PT

AOL will officially close its $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post today, sources said, only one month after it was struck. To celebrate, the now-official content head Arianna Huffington will be poaching another clutch of big journalists to add to AOL’s new Huffington Post Media Group unit.

You've Got Labor Problems, Again! AOL's HuffPo Gripe Seems Very Familiar.

Peter Kafka in Media on February 11, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

The good news for angry HuffPo bloggers who want to get paid for their unpaid work: AOL volunteers made the same argument during Bubble 1.0 and ended up winning! The bad news: It took a lawsuit, and more than a decade, to extract the cash. (And the HuffPo writers may not have a case, anyway.)

Arianna Huffington on Her New AOL Job: "I Want to Stay Here Forever"

Peter Kafka in Media on February 7, 2011 at 5:55 am PT

“I want this to be the last act of my life,” says AOL’s new content boss. CEO Tim Armstrong’s translation: It’s a “multiyear contract”

AOL + Huffington Post Won't Go to 11. But It Does Make Sense.

Peter Kafka in Media on February 7, 2011 at 3:30 am PT

Former AOL CEO Steve Case is right to call out current AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s fuzzy math. But that doesn’t mean this is a bad deal.

Viral Video: Huffington Post's Two-Minute Facebook Privacy Fix-It

Kara Swisher in News on May 14, 2010 at 5:09 am PT

The Huffington Post has done a video that Facebook probably should have churned out weeks ago: Easy-to-follow instructions on how to take back control of your privacy settings. The huge social networking site has gotten into media hot water of late due to its aggressive push to suck up every known piece of salable data in the universe before Google does so. Kind of like a giant digital vacuum gone berserk.

ComScore’s Gift to Web Publishers: (Almost) Free Traffic [UPDATED]

Peter Kafka in Media on January 22, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Web publishers love to grouse about comScore’s traffic estimates. But many of them are much happier these days: A new measurement system is giving some sites a dramatic boost in Web visitors.

HuffPo Needs Ad Dollars. Can Yahoo Sales Vets Deliver?

Peter Kafka in Media on January 5, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

The political (but not just political!) site has a lot of eyeballs, and now needs revenue to match. That’s up to newish ad boss Greg Coleman, who’s bringing in a group from his old employer in Sunnyvale.