Huffington Post Adds Sites

The AOL-owned Huffington Post news website said Tuesday it would expand its Canadian operations with regionally focused editions for Alberta and British Columbia.The move comes nearly a year after the launch of the Huffington Post Canada in May, 2011, and follows a February launch of the French-language site Le Huffington Post Quebec."The sites will feature HuffPost's signature mix of news, blogging, community and social engagement, to capture the unique cultures of both provinces," the group said in a statement.

Albert Babayev submits:AOL is all too familiar with lousy deals. Almost 11 years after AOL (AOL) merged with Time Warner (TWX), the company created some buzz with its announcement to acquire The Huffington Post for $315 million. AOL agreed to pay $300 million in cash and the rest in stock for the mostly liberal news site.

AOL (AOL) said today it has agreed to buy news and lifestyle website The Huffington Post for $315 million. AOL said the combination of its infrastructure and scale with The Huffington Posts pioneering approach to news and community building among a broad and sophisticated audience will mark a seminal moment in the evolution of digital journalism and online engagement.

The Huffington Post announced plans Thursday to launch an Italian edition in the latest international expansion of the news and opinion website.L'Huffington Post Italy will go online before the end of the year and will be a partnership with Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, publisher of La Repubblica newspaper and L'Espresso news magazine.The Huffington Post was launched by Greek-American author and columnist Arianna Huffington in May 2006 and sold to Internet company AOL in February of last year for $315 million.

Trefis submits: AOL (AOL) recently acquired Huffington Post for $315 million, which is another one in the series of acquisitions that AOL has done since its spin-off with Time Warner (TWX) in December 2009. Since its spin-off, AOL has struggled to grow its advertising business. AOL’s revenues from the U.S.

Jeff Jarvis submits: They laughed when Arianna sat down to the keyboard. They were wrong. I was wrong, too. I hadn’t imagined that Huffington Post would become the force in media and politics that it became. Tim Armstrong and AOL are smart to acquire Huffington Post as a media property and Arianna Huffington as the head of content.

The Huffington Post on Thursday marked the first anniversary of its acquisition by AOL with an announcement that it plans to launch an online video streaming network.The HuffPost Streaming Network will launch this summer with 12 hours a day of original programming, to be increased to 16 hours a day by the end of 2013, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington said in a blog post.Huffington said the network will "live on every platform -- computer, smartphone, tablet, Over-the-Top TV -- with the goal of creating the most social video experience anywhere."

US Internet provider AOL will buy The Huffington Post, a rapidly growing news website with nearly 25 million monthly visitors, for $315 million, the company announced Monday.Approximately $300 million will be paid in cash, it said.The Huffington Post is privately owned, but the proposed transaction is subject to government approvals.The boards of directors of each company and shareholders of The Huffington Post have approved the transaction, expected to close in the late first- or early second-quarter of 2011, the announcement said.