To get a sense of just how polarizing a figure new media innovator Andrew Breitbart was, get a load of this tweet from Slate's Matt Yglesias that went out mere hours after the news of Breitbart's unexpected death at age 43 broke: "The world outlook is slightly improved with @AndrewBrietbart dead."
CNN looks at what might happen to Shirley Sherrod's defamation suit against Andrew Breitbart now that he's died.
One year ago at his annual TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Michael Arrington -- founder of the blog that functions as Silicon Valley's hometown newspaper -- took the stage and shocked the audience with a deal to sell his venture to AOL.
You know who you are. You leave your phone on during flights, maybe do a little text messaging and otherwise break rules about cell phone use on planes once the doors close for departure.
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said Thursday the company is cutting 200 jobs in the U.S. and 700 in India following its $315 million purchase of the Huffington Post.
CNN's Howard Kurtz talks with Kara Swisher, Felix Salmon, and Mark Potts about AOL's purchase of Huffington Post.
AOL has agreed to purchase The Huffington Post for $315 million, the two entities announced in a joint news release Monday.
AOL's purchase of The Huffington Post is the splashiest in a long line of acquisitions -- but the buying spree likely ends here. AOL had to part with almost half of its cash to secure the deal.
Internet provider AOL is to buy news and blog website The Huffington Post for $315 million, the latest in a long line of innovative start-ups snapped up by established big-name firms.
AOL, the online media company that has recently snatched several smaller content firms, has agreed to purchase news blog service The Huffington Post for $315 million, the two companies announced Monday.
An airline passenger has a beef with liberal commentator Arianna Huffington, but it's her BlackBerry use -- not her politics -- that's apparently ticked him off.
CNN's Howard Kurtz sits down with Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington to talk about the Stewart/Colbert rally.
There are times when a journalist must gather his strength, brave the elements, go out and feel and touch the story at hand.
User comments on news sites, while vital to interactive storytelling in the digital age, often read like scribblings on a bathroom stall: anonymous, offensive and full of hate.
It's the financial equivalent of a dysfunctional relationship.
It is the awards show where techies are greeted like rock stars.
Arianna Huffington and Tony Blankley comment on former Presidents Clinton and Bush joint appearance.
The Web helped elect Barack Obama as president of the United States. Now many of the social media sites that spread his message of change during the campaign are heading to Washington, only this time they are focused on community service and conversations about social policy.
The Democratic National Convention that kicks off Monday in Denver will be a transforming moment in politics. But it could be almost as big an event in the annals of American media, the moment when the new kids on the block eclipse or at least grab equal footing with the establishment.
CNN's Suzanne Malveaux looks at the pressure to offer the VP spot to Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday that he and Sen. Hillary Clinton will be "having a conversation in the coming weeks," but will they talk about sharing the ticket?
Bobbing through a sea of air-kissing and neck-craning, Arianna Huffington is in her element. "Meet the new cooking columnist for the Huffington Post," she coos as she introduces me to Katie Lee Joel, a winsome young woman who writes about food, has served as host of Top Chef, and happens to be married to Billy Joel.
What does Google have to do with failure? Leading a panel called Understanding the Internet's Future at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit in early October, Arianna Huffington flogged her new book, On Becoming Fearless, and tossed out an intriguing fact about Google's culture of fearlessness: "Whatever products Google is developing, they are incorporating a 60 to 70 percent failure rate," the Huffington Post founder/editor noted to Google VP Marissa Mayer, who shared the stage with Morgan Stanley Internet analyst Mary Meeker and Motorola chief technology officer Padmasree Warrior.
When Arianna Huffington collected $2.5 million from eight friends to create a website in May 2005, it seemed unlikely that she'd ever turn a profit. But the Huffington Post drew 2.3 million unique ...
GARY COLEMAN Has a lock on the sizable (and growing!) washed-up ex-child-star vote.
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