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HuffPost is reportedly on the auction block

Late last night the Financial Times reported that HuffPost, arguably one of the crown jewels of Verizon Media Group’s remaining network of media properties (which includes TechCrunch), is up for

Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global is buying a startup that uses neuroscience to boost app usage

When Arianna Huffington stepped down from her role at the Huffington Post to start Thrive Global, she said the goal of her new business was to help a generation “avoid the burnout that all too o

India’s Times Internet isn’t ceding ground to US rivals Facebook and Google

The aggressive push by Silicon Valley companies and Chinese firms to win India, one of the last great growth markets, has decimated many local businesses in recent years. With each passing day, Amazon

News in VR with RYOT

RYOT, the Culver City, California-based virtual reality outfit snapped up by the Huffington Post last year, works on the cutting edge of the news business, bringing audiences straight to the scene. Th

Arianna Huffington leaves Huffington Post for new wellness startup

Arianna Huffington, the cofounder and Editor-in-Chief at the Huffington Post, is today stepping down from her role at the HuffPost to focus on a new startup called Thrive Global. Huffington announced

I Can Has New CEO? Cheezburger’s Ben Huh Steps Down After 8 Years

After acquiring a tiny little site called I Can Has Cheezburger? in 2007, Ben Huh took it to levels that went way further than the internet. The site, and at one time Huh himself, were a bit of a hous

Facebook’s New Comments Plugin Syncs Conversations Between Sites And FB Pages

Facebook has a new commenting system it unveiled at F8 today that should help keep conversations in sync across FB itself, on brand pages and on sites that use its embedded comments. The revamped comm

Mentors Are The Secret Weapons Of Successful Startups

“I’ve probably revised this investor pitch deck 200 times,” a founder told me recently. She’d met with more than 50 potential investors before closing a seed round last month. This might sound

Hurricane Sandy Attacks The Web: Gawker, BuzzFeed and Huffington Post Are Down (UPDATED)

If Hurricane Sandy wasn’t scary enough, it’s newest victims are in the blogosphere. We’ve just learned that Gawker’s fleet of sites, including Gizmodo are down. Also Hurricane Sandy victims?

HuffingtonPost Launches Italian Edition, 9 Months After Announcing It. UK Now Has 4.1M Monthly Users

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com">HuffingtonPost</a> continues ahead with its international expansion: the news blog today formally announced its Italian edition, <a target="_b

Huffington Post Now Has Its Own “Labs” Site For Online News Experiments

News publishers are becoming tech companies, right down to the Google Labs style experimental sites: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytlabs.com/">The New York Times Company Research & Develo

Huffington Post Hits 37 Million Monthly Visitors, 1 Billion Pageviews; Acquires Localocracy

<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/">The Huffington Post Media Group</a> (HPMG), which I should point out is <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/huffingtonpost">owned</a> by our parent comp

Nico Pitney To Replace Jai Singh As AOL HuffPo's Managing Editor

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-299481" title="nico_pitney_x200" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/nico_pitney_x200.jpeg" alt="" />Earlier tonight, Yahoo announced that th

An Hour In A Room With Arianna Huffington (Guest Starring Biz Stone!)

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-7-02-27-pm.png" />As part of the AdTech conference yesterday, a gaggle of press got together to talk to Huffington P

In Baffling Move, The Huffington Post Erects Paywall Solely For NYT Employees

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/huffpo.png" /> In a move sure to irk at least two or three people who work for <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/newyorktimes">The N

It Worked! HuffPo Ends Up Hiring Creator Of Viral Infographic Resume

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/chrisspurlockgraphicresume-edit1.jpg" alt="" /> Sister site <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com">The Huffington Post</a> just went on a jo

Confirmed: AOL Gives Over 200 U.S. Employees Pink Slips

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/aol-picture.png" class="shot2">As we've heard over the past few days, AOL has started implementing layoffs across its properties in the wake o

AOL Closes $315 Million Huffington Post Acquisition; Expands Editorial Team

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/huff.jpg" class="shot2">Well that was fast. AOL has <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110307005622/en/AOL-Huffington-Post-Close

Stephen Colbert Launches HuffPo Parody Clone "The Colbuffington Re-Post"

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/screen-shot-2011-02-17-at-1-21-47-am.png" alt="" />Aside from Sarah and Paul's strange <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/15/witn-is-just

First AOL Q1 Luge Update Since HuffPo Acquisition: We've Got Work To Do (No Kidding)

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/luge-shot.jpg" alt="" /> It's <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/06/armstrong-memo-aol-huffpo/">rare </a>that we get access to insider i
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