Conflicts of Interest: TechCrunch, AOL, and WSJ

The Wall Street Journal’s leading technology reporter, Kara Swisher, has been raising a stink about TechCrunch founder, Michael Arrington’s, new venture capital play, CrunchFund, which just two weeks ago announced an $8 million investment from TechCrunch...

Radio Makes Happy Media Consumers + AOL Radio Relaunches

Radio listeners are happier than consumers of any other type of media, according to the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB). The industry association recently released the results of a study that it commissioned, which also indicated that people consuming media of any type...

Unpaid Bloggers Uprising: The AOL / Huffington Post Lawsuit

A blogger and activist has just filed a class action suit against AOL and its newest acquisition, The Huffington Post. The subject of the suit? HuffPo’s business model of not paying for freelance blog content. If you’d like to give it a once over, the...

AOL Buys The Huffington Post

AOL Inc. has agreed to buy news and opinion site The Huffington Post for $315 million, continuing its corporate turnaround mission to be an online content provider. The Huffington Post was co-founded in 2005 by Arianna Huffington and former AOL executive Kenneth...

AOL Acquires TechCrunch + More

AOL is slowly but steadily snatching up other online content providers. The company recently acquired influential technology news blog TechCrunch; it already owns online magazine Engadget. With TechCrunch’s 3.8 million unique monthly U.S. visitors, its ownership...
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