This morning, Verizon seemed to be on the verge of taking ownership of one of the Internet's flagship news sites, The Huffington Post. But now doubts are swirling around whether the mega-blog will be part of Verizon's $4.4 billion acquisition of AOL.
AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong's memo to his staff certainly didn't make it sound like media maven Arianna Huffington's brainchild would be exempt from the purchase, but now insiders are reporting that Armstrong is being somewhat evasive on HuffPo's fate::
Someone just asked: Is HuffPost part of the deal? "I was under the impression that HuffPost was part of AOL" Tim: "Depends who you ask."
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