AOL has acquired Huffington Post for $315 million in its biggest move since it became an independent company in 2009.The acquisition will create a new online media conglomerate that already owns news websites TechCrunch and Engadget… Tweet This Post

The company that brought dial-up Internet to millions of people is dead. In its place is a massive media empire that refuses to be ignored.With its blockbuster acquisition of Huffington Post, AOL has catapulted itself back into relevancy… Tweet This Post

Q&A site Answers.com announced yesterday that it’s going to be acquired by private equity firm Summit Partners. But the decision still needs approval from the company’s shareholders, and according to a report in Business Insider, some of those shareholders aren’t very unhappy with the deal… Tweet This Post

Verizon has agreed to acquire IT and cloud services company Terremark Worldwide for a price of $19 per share, a total equity value of $1.4 billion. Terremark, which controls 13 data centers throughout the U… Tweet This Post

Social photo-sharing service Plixi, once known as TweetPhoto, has been acquired by Lockerz, a members-only e-commerce site. The terms of the deal aren’t known, but what we do know is that pairing a photo service with a shopping site seems like a bit of a head-scratcher at first glance… Tweet This Post

In the wake of new Google Voice announcements, we’ve just learned that Google has acquired SayNow, a startup in the telephony space. The terms of the deal have not yet been released. In a brief annoucement on its website, SayNow’s co-founders write, “Through the web, smartphones, and even land lines, our products brought communities together [...]

Mark Bao, creator of viral vanity app ThreeWords.me, has just sold his site and service to Kevin Ham, we’ve learned. Ham is a dot-com mogul whose portfolio includes around $300 million worth of domain names… Tweet This Post

Members-only restaurant reservation and deals service VillageVines has raised $3 million in a Series A round led by Hearst Interactive Media, the investment arm of the Hearst Corporation. GrandBanks Capital and High Peaks Venture Partners also participated in the round… Tweet This Post

O2, a division of Telefonica, a Spanish telecommunications company, is in talks to acquire Jajah, a VoIP startup, for about $200 million, Reuters reported today… Tweet This Post

Nokia has been on an acquisition tear lately, albeit mostly small deals (Plum, Cellity and Bit-Side all this year). A source close to the deal says that they’ve just made one more acquisition: boutique travel social network Dopplr, headquartered in London… Tweet This Post

Google just announced that it has acquired reCAPTCHA, one of the leading providers of CPATCHAs, the hard-to-read puzzles you often have to solve before you can sign up for a new web service. Google, of course, isn’t so much interested in owning software that can generate CAPTCHAs – that’s an easy problem to solve – [...]

Update: The “rumor that Google is buying Brightcove is in fact false,” claims Web video analyst Dan Rayburn. He cites an employee “I trust” at one of the companies, who would not talk on the record… Tweet This Post