Aol CEO Tim Armstrong and Arianna Huffington, who will be president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group once the merger between Aol and The Huffington Post closes, spoke at the paidContent 2011 conference in New York Thursday, as captured by Beet.TV.
Huffington said she “won’t mess” with Aol properties such as TechCrunch and Engadget, adding that the platform for bloggers will be larger and more attractive post-merger. Armstrong touched on Aol’s video plans.
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It’s gotten so you can’t look at any blog or news site without seeing at least one story on the upcoming launch of Apple‘s iPhone 3G. Some of the more interesting ones we found this morning:
News.com: UK Demand for iPhone 3G Halts O2 Preorders
UK operator O2 decided to take pre-orders for the iPhone 3G on its Web site, so it sent texts to its customers yesterday morning giving them a heads up that they could sign up for the upgrade early. Demand was so high that O2′s site crashed minutes after it started taking pre-orders, forcing it to shut down the system.
MSN MoneyCentral: A Billion-Dollar Weekend for Apple
MSN’s MoneyCentral blog predicts that Apple will rake in a billion dollars this weekend from the iPhone alone if it sells just two million units. The figure doesn’t include all that potential revenue from application downloads on the iTunes AppStore.
