On the back of its latest executive appointments—a new head of sales, and a new head of HR—AOL (NYSE: AOL) is pressing on with more reorganizing as CEO Tim Armstrong tries to turn around the fortunes of the jack-of-all-trades online company.

The news aggregating behemoth Huffington Post is continuing its march into new markets: the next stop is Spain, where the site will partner with respected national daily El Pais to produce a local edition.

The Huffington Post not only poached the Gray Lady’s popular “Motherlode” columnist, it also had the chutzpah to name the upstart blog “Parentlode.” Now, the Times thinks Arianna and friends need a timeout.

Arianna Huffington’s current legal battle over the rights to the idea for the Huffington Post isn’t her first encounter with the court system. Of course, anyone who makes it big in America gets sued at least once or twice along the way. But the Greek emigre’s legal tangles are a…

Two politicos who sued Arianna Huffington and her partner for stealing their idea for the Huffington Post will get to go forward after a New York judge refused to throw out the lawsuit.

Today, Arianna Huffington’s online news phenomenon The Huffington Post is making its European debut, with the launch of Huffington Post UK, the third site in what AOL (NYSE: AOL) hopes will become a rapidly-growing franchise by the end of this year. The launch of HuffPo UK has come with impeccable,…

The class-action lawsuit filed by Jonathan Tasini isn’t the only questionable legal claim that The Huffington Post is fighting off right now. Last year—that is, six years after The Huffington Post was founded, two Democratic political consultants, Peter Daou and James Boyce, filed a lawsuit saying that The Huffington Post…

There’s been plenty of discussion of Jonathan Tasini’s recent lawsuit against The Huffington Post and AOL (NYSE: AOL), much of it critical. When Arianna Huffington replied late yesterday, saying that the suit was nonsense and that the vast majority of HuffPo’s bloggers “are thrilled to contribute,” she had no shortage…

Life is pretty good at AOL (NYSE: AOL) these days, including the use of three “resting rooms” that the newsroom has dubbed “NapQuest,” Arianna Huffington told AdAge‘s Ed Lee at the close of the AdAge Digital conference. It sounds like staffers will need it, as AOL wants to put more…

What do Tim Armstrong and Arianna Huffington have in mind for the newest version of AOL? (NYSE: AOL)  At our recent conference paidContent 2011, the AOL CEO and the Huffington Post founder set the stage for the layoffs announced one week later, talked up new hires and spun a picture…

Last week, AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong told the crowd at paidContent 2011 that layoffs—aka “job changes”—were coming following the $315 million deal to acquire the Huffington Post. The layoffs started Thursday in India, where AOL’s operations are being dramatically downsized: 400 jobs lost, 300 outsourced, roughly 200 remaining,…

AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong said from the stage at paidContent 2011 that the company was within days of closing its $315 million deal to acquire The Huffington Post and the official word came this morning via a terse SEC filing—and a celebratory announcement that the new Huffington Post…

The $315 million AOL/Huffington Post merger could close next week, said CEO Tim Armstrong, seated next to his new partner Arianna Huffington and Staci D. Kramer, editor & EVP, ContentNext/paidContent in the closing session of the paidContent 2011. Armstrong began by talking about the many firsts they’ve shared: Huffington’s first…

AOL’s $315 million acquisition of The Huffington Post is still waiting for regulatory approval but Arianna Huffington is already in the thick of it. We’re pleased to announce that she’ll take time out from planning the transition to bring us up to date and answer questions during the closing session…

Late Monday afternoon, Arianna Huffington tweeted a picture from AOL (NYSE: AOL) headquarters with the note “Valentine’s Day transition meeting with ice cream sundaes afterward.” She’s already sent one from the AOL gym. The actual $315 million merger of the Huffington Post with AOL is weeks away but the transition…

Tim Armstrong, already the largest individual shareholder in AOL (NYSE: AOL) as well as chairman and CEO, nearly doubled his stake in the company following the deal to acquire the Huffington Post. Armstrong believes in having skin in the game—and, as it turns out, so does Arianna Huffington. She told…

Some of Huffington Post‘s 9,000+ bloggers have already announced that they won’t be following Arianna to AOL (NYSE: AOL) - either unhappy about the switch from ideological startup or, as Douglas Rushkoff wrote, disinterested in writing for the big corporation for free.

AOL (NYSE: AOL) Founder Steve Case has a sense of humor and a PhD in merger math. Here’s his response to current AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s rationale for spending $315 million for Arianna Huffington and The Huffington Post:

There will always be a place for mass marketing, but in the next three- to five years, a website that isn’t tailored to a specific user’s interest will be an anachronism, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told Arianna Huffington at the latter’s Advertising Week event. “People don’t want something targeted to…