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AOL Agrees to Acquire The Huffington Post

Acquisition will solidify AOL's strategy of creating a premier content network with local, national and international reach.

AOL Inc. announced today, Feb. 7, that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire The Huffington Post, the influential and rapidly growing news, analysis and lifestyle website founded in 2005 that now counts nearly 25 million unique monthly visitors.

Co-founded six years ago by Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer, The Huffington Post has grown to become an industry leader – one of the Web's most popular and innovative sources of online news, commentary and information.

This transaction will create a premier global, national, local and hyper-local content group for the digital age – leveraged across online, mobile, tablet and video platforms. The combination of AOL's infrastructure and scale with The Huffington Post's pioneering approach to news and innovative community-building among a broad and sophisticated audience will mark a seminal moment in the evolution of digital journalism and online engagement.

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The new group will have a combined base of 117 million unique visitors per month in the United States and 270 million around the world. Following the close of this transaction, AOL will accelerate its strategy to deliver a scaled and differentiated array of premium news, analysis and entertainment produced by thousands of writers, editors, reporters and videographers around the globe.

As part of the transaction, Arianna Huffington will be named President and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which will integrate all Huffington Post and AOL content, including PatchEngadget, TechCrunch, Moviefone, MapQuest, Black Voices, PopEater, AOL Music, AOL Latino, AutoBlog, StyleList and more.

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