Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today… Tweet This Post

You know who won the Super Bowl? Arianna Huffington.  This afternoon our parent company Aol bought Huffington Post for $315 million according to a press release. Gah. The Huffington Post, with its 26 million monthly unique visitors is huge, one of the most prominent media properties on the Internet because of its aggressive SEO stance… Tweet This [...]

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

AOL (NYSE: AOL) has bought the Huffington Post for $315 million, a move that will see Arianna Huffington be named president and editor in chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, a new unit including properties such as Engadget, TechCrunch, Moviefone, Patch and several others… Tweet This Post

At midnight, AOL announced that it will buy the Huffington Post for $315 million. Below is the internal memo AOL CEO Tim Armstrong sent to all AOL employees (except us, they don’t trust us with anything) about the transaction… 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

AOL (NYSE: AOL) Founder Steve Case has a sense of humor and a PhD in merger math. Here’s his response to current AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s rationale for spending $315 million for Arianna Huffington and The Huffington Post: Tweet This Post

Facebook is practically synonymous with explosive growth—with one notable exception. An examination of Comscore’s U.S. online-video rankings from 2010 reveals the red-hot social network has mysteriously nosedived by nearly 30% over five consecutive months after topping everyone but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) as early as last August (see chart after the jump)… Tweet This Post

Over the past few months, AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong has said that display revenues will turn around by mid-year, an implicit warning that the segment would still be in a dismal state for the first half… Tweet This Post

As AOL (NYSE: AOL) prepares for its Q4 earnings report tomorrow morning, the company is attempting to show that in addition to its continued shopping spree, it’s also still looking for places to cut… Tweet This Post

Five years ago this week I began writing for AOL’s blog network Weblogs Inc. I wrote 5 technology news stories each day and was paid a mere $5 per article. It was grueling, that was just one of 3 jobs I had at the time – and it was great… Tweet This Post

AOL (NYSE: AOL) says it is buying the GoViral video distribution network because it “supports our overall content strategy by creating another immediate delivery path for all of the great content we are generating daily”… Tweet This Post