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AOL Buying Huffington Post for $315M

Internet company AOL Inc. is buying news hub Huffington Post in a $315 million deal that represents a bold bet on the future of online news. AOL, once the king of dial-up Internet access known for its ubiquitous CDs and "You've got mail" greeting in its inboxes, is in the midst of a turnaround effort as it tries to find...

Rosa Parks Honored by Google With Montgomery Bus Doodle

(Dec. 1) -- The folks at Google are commemorating the 55th anniversary of one of the civil rights movement's great heroes. On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, which sparked the 381-day Montgomery, Ala., bus boycotts and turned the 42-year-old seamstress into a critical symbol...

The Results Are In: The Media Officially Loves (Covering) Christine O'Donnell

(Nov. 2) -- Has navel-gazing reached an all-time low? Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study of the most news covered candidates. And the result is that everyone in the media is now covering a study of what they already covered. Pretty meta. Seriously though, Christine O'Donnell has the most media...

Yahoo Hires Former News Corp. Executive to Fill Void

SAN FRANCISCO (Oct.27) -- Yahoo Inc. is turning to a former Internet sharpshooter at News Corp.'s media empire to fill a big hole on its management team. In a hiring announced late Wednesday, Ross Levinsohn will be Yahoo's executive vice president in charge the company's advertising sales, media division and business...

What Hindenburg Omen? Stocks Close at 4-Month High

(Sept. 20) -- Disaster averted? At least for now, some traders are breathing a sigh of relief. The stock market closed at a four-month high today following three straight weeks of gains, The Wall Street Journal reports. This just over a month after the first sighting of the Hindenburg Omen (HO) -- a doomsaying technical...