9.29.2020

Clueless in New England, or Who Knows This Stuff?

 Verizon scrambling to unload HuffPost as losses mount

Verizon owns the Huffington Post? Verizon is the telephone company, right? Well, one of them.
The telecom giant — which acquired the site formerly known as the Huffington Post as part of its $4.4 billion purchase of AOL in 2015

AOL owned the Huffington Post?

Verizon has pitched the property to prospective buyers including Thrillist-owner Group Nine Media, Rolling Stone publisher Penske Media Corp., Bustle Digital Media and J2 Global, insiders said.

And where did these guys come from?

[Disclosure: Nobody owns us. Except Google, of course. Google owns everybody. Everybody just doesn't know it yet.]

Also…

In 2016, Lydia Polgreen took the reins as top editor from Huffington, who left to build a wellness and lifestyle company…

What is a wellness company? 

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