Arianna Huffington poses with Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan, among TIME magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2013.
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11:42 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Marcus Porcius Cato: aristocrat who walked barefoot and slept on the ground with his troops, political heavyweight who cultivated the image of a Stoic philosopher, a hardnosed defender of tradition who presented himself as a man out of the sacred Roman past - and the last man standing when Rome's Republic fell to tyranny. His blood feud with Caesar began in the chamber of the Senate, played out on the...
03:52 PM, Oct 23, 2012
New York: Popular South Indian dish Masala Dosa has made it to the list of '10 foods to try before you die', compiled by the Huffington Post. The list, prepared by travel blog viator for the newspaper, includes dishes from around the world as a must-try for travellers. Masala dosa features in the list alongside the Peking duck from China, BBQ ribs from the US and Teppanyaki from Japan. "The...
09:49 AM, Jul 09, 2012
New York: The Huffington Post doesn't have to pay bloggers for providing content for its website in part because they knew from the start they wouldn't be paid and could have taken their work elsewhere, a federal judge ruled Friday. US District Judge John Koeltl dismissed a lawsuit that bloggers filed last year. The lawsuit against the Huffington Post and its parent company, AOL Inc., argued they were unjustly denied...
12:48 PM, Mar 31, 2012
Washington: The New York Times Co has sued AOL Inc to force its Huffington Post online news website to rename a parenting blog with a similar name to its own. In a lawsuit filed late Friday in the US District Court in Manhattan, the Times said Huffington Post's "Parentlode" blog had caused reader confusion with the newspaper's 3-year-old "Motherlode" blog. Both blogs have been overseen by Lisa Belkin, who worked...
01:00 PM, Nov 08, 2011
New York: The Huffington Post unfairly pocketed more than $100 million from its unpaid bloggers when AOL Inc bought it in February, a lawsuit against the influential news website said on Tuesday. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, comes two months after Arianna Huffington, co-founder of the website, sold it to AOL for $315 million. Of that price, at least $105 million was the estimated value of the website's...
11:09 AM, Apr 13, 2011
New York: YouTube, the popular video site owned by Google Inc, said on Thursday it is adding 200 jobs, boosting its staff by more than 30 percent in its biggest hiring year. In a blog posting, the company also said more than 35 hours of video are uploaded to its site every minute, with videos viewed over 2 billion times a day. Youtube, with about 650 employees, said most of...
10:52 AM, Mar 11, 2011
New Delhi: AOL is in the midst of a big cut in its workforce, including those based in India, suggest media reports. Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital reports that the company is drastically cutting staff at its India unit. According to All Things Digital's sources, AOL will lay off about 400 employees in Bangalore and also transition 300 more to contractors working for their partners. This cut will reduce...
06:06 PM, Mar 10, 2011
New York: Tim Armstrong has looked like the unluckiest man in media for the past year. He used to be Google's ad sales maestro, the definition of digital success. But ever since May 2009, when he took the job of turning around AOL, he has overseen abysmal earnings, wretched morale and a local news strategy that has been slammed as a money-losing Web sweatshop. Then, in a move that not...
11:23 AM, Feb 09, 2011
New York: Online company AOL Inc is buying highly-trafficked website Huffington Post in a $ 315 million deal that represents a big bet on the future of online news. The acquisition, which will put Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington in charge of all AOL content, brings AOL an additional 25 million unique visitors a day. That could help AOL begin to turn around its display advertising business, which has struggled...
11:26 AM, Feb 07, 2011
