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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
You've Got Arianna: AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million in Cash and Stock, Appoints Huffington Editor-in-Chief — In a bold and definitive move, AOL is paying $315 million, mostly in cash, to buy the Huffington Post, one of the Web's most prominent news and opinion sites.
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New York Times:
Betting on News, AOL Is Buying The Huffington Post — The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Armstrong's Internal Memo To AOLers About The HuffPo Deal — At midnight, AOL announced that it will buy the Huffington Post for $315 million. Below is the internal memo AOL CEO Tim Armstrong sent to all AOL employees (except us, they don't trust us with anything) about the transaction.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
AOL+HuffPo! Why It is Not Really a Good Deal — Just when you thought you could finally put Superbowl commercials behind you and go to bed in a beer-induced slumber, AOL dropped a late-night bomb: it bought The Huffington Post for $315 million, of which $300 million is in cash. My first reaction — wow!
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
When HuffPost Met AOL: “A Merger of Visions”
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Best Buy ad prices Motorola Xoom at $800, affirms February 24th launch date — The evidence for a Motorola Xoom launch on February 24th just became that bit more compelling, courtesy of this here Best Buy ad. It promises Moto's Android tablet will be in stores a couple of weeks from now, decorated with a daunting $799.99 sticker.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
White iPhone 4 starts to get Best Buy, The Source shelf space — This shelf tag was apparently spotted this weekend at a Best Buy in Houston, and it speaks for itself: white iPhone 4, AT&T, $599.99 off contract (the same price as the black). Of course, we all know this thing is coming within …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Tech Returns To The Super Bowl Big Time, An Ad Roundup — For those of us who know nothing about football, The Super Bowl is more about what the huge brands who buy ads chose to do with their $3 million's worth of prime eyeball time, paying to play with a captive audience in the hundreds of millions.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Save The Money: Groupon's Super Bowl Ads May Spark Faux Outrage
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
HTC Invests In Multimedia Delivery Platform Company Saffron Digital — Smartphone maker HTC this morning announced that it has made a ‘strategic investment’ of undisclosed size in London, UK-based Saffron Digital, which specializes in the delivery of digital multimedia.
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Wall Street Journal:
Google Executive Emerges as Key Figure in Revolt — By MARGARET COKER in Cairo, NOUR MALAS in Dubai and MARC CHAMPION in Alexandria — More than a week after his mysterious disappearance in Egypt, Google's top executive in the Middle East and political activist Wael Ghonim will be released …
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Jameshritz / The Quora Review:
Why Quora & Social Media Experts Don't Mix — As the Quora user base has grown, along with much praise, has come some criticism. Specifically, many critics view Quora as a snobby, clubby, and intellectually elitist place. It seems much of the loudest criticism about Quora and it's community …
Wall Street Journal:
Nokia CEO Considers Big Shake-Up — Several senior officials on Nokia Corp.'s group executive board are expected to leave soon as part of a major shake-up being considered by the Finnish cellphone giant's new chief executive, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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Carrie Coolidge / Luxist:
The Plaza in New York Offers iPads in all Guest Rooms and Suites (with Video) — The Plaza is offering iPads in each of its guest rooms and suites. The program, which launched in January, makes the landmark hotel on Central Park South the first hotel in the world to provide guests services …
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Parmy Olson / Disruptors:
Anonymous Takes Revenge On Security Firm For Trying To Sell Supporters' Details To FBI — If you thought Anonymous limited its cyber attacks to those who blocked WikiLeaks or suppressed free information, you'd be wrong. One software security firm is learning the hard way that it also targets anyone …
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Joseph Menn / Financial Times:
Cyberactivists warned of arrest
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The Daily:
We're Listening — Thank you for all the feedback. We hear you and we are committed to making The Daily the best possible experience. That's our entire focus. — In five short months we've brought The Daily from vision to version 1.0, created a custom content management system …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Updated: ‘The Daily’ Has A Big Problem
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Video: 'The Daily's Super Bowl XLV Gamble
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Douglas Rushkoff / CNN:
Internet is easy prey for governments — Editor's note: Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist and the author of “Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age” and “Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take it Back.” — (CNN) — For all that the revolution …
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
The Internet is for revolution — Does Facebook want their service …
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