Verizon buying AOL for $4.4 billion

[thewayne]

I'd forgotten that AOL had bought Huffington Post and Tech Crunch. Still, I can't say that it makes much long-term sense to me.

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/verizon-buying-aol-4-4-billion-twitter-reacts/

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Hm! I suppose it's all about the eyeballs these days, and whilst HuffPo's not exactly a stellar model of journalism, everyone can agree they know how to manage clickbaiting headlines. =:/ TechCrunch can also be rather "popular" in its style, but nonetheless, often quite a decent read.

Similarly, Yahoo isn't somewhere especially in vogue, but it also sees a lot of traffic across all its different segments, and Flickr remains at the forefront of photo sharing services, with a lot of good communities, including Bunny Lovers Unite, where my work is not entirely unknown. ^_^ (Along with Springwatch et al, it's one of the groups I routinely post to)