News - Verizon to buy AOL

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Price: 4.4 Billion USD
http://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-buy-aol-for-4-4-billion-1431428458

Here are the media properties owned by AOL, starting with HuffPo, this makes for a lot of readership.
http://advertising.aol.com/properties

These are all other companies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_AOL

So here we have the 2nd most valuable telecom company in the world acquiring a lot of mindshare.

Let's add some company politics to the mix.
Verizon is heavily anti-internet freedom, going as far as banning any and all mentions of net neutrality and NSA spying on their own tech site.

MFW

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This is a good article on the subject. Looks like it was all about the advertising:

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/aol-verizon/