Huffington Post expands Canada editions
The AOL-owned Huffington Post news website said Tuesday it would expand its Canadian operations with regionally focused editions for Alberta and British Columbia.
View Article'El Huffington Post' launches in Spain
El Huffington Post opened in Spain on Thursday, poking fun at the government's handling of the economic crisis in typically irreverent style for the growing news and blogging empire.
View ArticleAOL launches $400 mn share buyback
AOL on Thursday launched a $400 million stock buyback in the latest move aimed at improving shareholder value at the Internet and media group.
View ArticleHuffington Post launches Italian edition
US news website The Huffington Post launched its Italian edition "L'Huffington Post" on Tuesday as part of an international expansion that has has already taken it to Britain, Canada, France and Spain.
View ArticleTed Talks get virtual pages at Huffington Post
News website Huffington Post on Friday launched a weekend section devoted to diving deeply into mind-bending ideas shared in "talks" at prestigious TED conferences.
View ArticleAOL rallies on results surprise
AOL said Tuesday it made a profit of $20.8 million in the third quarter as the struggling Internet firm stemmed a seven-year decline in revenues.
View ArticleAOL shows signs of revival on advertising growth
AOL is showing signs of revival with gains in advertising, a key step toward the reinvention of the former Internet star as a media firm.
View ArticleHuffington Post to launch German edition
The Huffington Post is expanding further with a German language edition, putting new pressure on media companies in Europe's largest economy as they struggle with newspaper closures and try to...
View ArticleHuffington Post launches Japan edition
US news website The Huffington Post launched a Japanese edition on Tuesday, the company's first site in Asia, hoping to shake up the media landscape and generate discussion with readers.
View ArticleFacebook lets users showcase posts on other websites
Facebook on Wednesday began letting people share social network posts at blogs or other spots on the Internet.
View ArticleHack attacks, explained
Computer network hackers calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army earlier this week disrupted The New York Times' website for nearly a day and electronic publishing on the Twitter social network...
View ArticleNASA image: Rim Fire update Sept. 10, 2013
Hot and extremely dry conditions combined with shifting winds and low humidity continue to plague firefighter efforts at the Rim Fire in California. To date over 254,000 acres have been burned. Pockets...
View ArticleResearchers' tweets move science forward
Social media is changing the way that scientists are interacting with each other and with the global community. One example is the way that researchers use Twitter to increase the impact of their...
View ArticleHuffington Post launches German edition
The Huffington Post, with its mix of online news, gossip and opinion, launched a German edition Thursday, vowing to be among the top five German information portals within five years.
View ArticleWebsites try to fight nasty comments, anonymity
Mix blatant bigotry with poor spelling. Add a dash of ALL CAPS. Top it off with a violent threat. And there you have it: A recipe for the worst of online comments.
View ArticleHuffington Post launches Brazil edition
US online news aggregator The Huffington Post made its debut in Brazil Tuesday with the launch of a Portuguese-language edition, its first in Latin America.
View ArticleFacebook unveils social 'newspaper'
Facebook on Thursday unveiled its new app called "Paper," which serves as an online newspaper for viewing and sharing articles and other content from a smartphone.
View ArticleUS, partners must 'renounce' spy tactics: climate activists
The United States and other governments accused of spying on negotiators at crucial UN climate talks in 2009 should "publicly renounce" such tactics, environmental groups involved in the process said...
View ArticleAOL to feed more video, news to Microsoft's MSN
AOL will provide Microsoft's MSN with more video and additional news stories from popular sites such as The Huffington Post and TechCrunch in an expansion of a deal aimed at selling more digital...
View ArticleUber hits brakes on talk of finding dirt on reporters
Uber chief Travis Kalanick on Tuesday took to Twitter to condemn an executive's suggestion to dig up dirt on reporters who write critically of the car-sharing service.
View ArticleHuffPost launches in India, eyes China edition
The Huffington Post launched an Indian version of its news website Monday, seeking to tap the country's exploding number of Internet users, and announced its next big goal was a Chinese edition.
View ArticleJournalist linked to Anonymous gets five years' prison
A journalist also known as an informal spokesman for the hacker group Anonymous was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday in a case which rallied activists for press freedom, his supporters said.
View ArticleGoogle boss, Huffington see technology boosting jobs
New technologies are capitalising on the jobs market and in the workplace, said Arianna Huffington and Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt at a London conference.
View ArticleVerizon buys AOL for $4.4 billion in mobile video bet (Update)
After selling millions of Americans their mobile phones, Verizon now wants to capture their eyeballs, too.
View ArticleTweets better than Google Trends at forecasting TV program ratings
How well does the emotional and instantaneous content in tweets perform relative to the more deliberate searches recorded in Google Trends in forecasting future TV ratings? In a massive big data...
View ArticleHuffington Post founder leaves for wellness startup
Arianna Huffington, founder of the online Huffington Post news site that has become a global phenomenon, announced Thursday she was stepping down to launch a nonprofit group focused on health and...
View ArticleVerizon out to be more than 'dumb pipe' with Yahoo buy
Verizon is focusing on synergies, not job cuts, with its multi-billion-dollar buy of faded internet star Yahoo, executives said at a TechCrunch Disrupt conference here.
View ArticleVerizon-owned AOL trims jobs ahead of Yahoo buy
Verizon-owned internet firm AOL said Thursday it is trimming jobs as part of a restructuring plan making priorities of mobile, video and data.
View ArticleJournalists at two New York digital news sites opt to unionize
Journalists at two recently combined digital news organizations in New York have agreed to unionize.
View Article"Burnout culture" fuels sexism at Uber: Huffington
Uber board member Arianna Huffington blamed a "burnout culture" for fueling sexism at the world's leading smartphone-summoned ride sharing service.
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