CIO Breakfast at Advocacy Day • April 13, 2011
You’re invited to the CIO Breakfast at Advocacy Day 2011 – State of TN: HIT Workforce Challenges!
Join us for the CIO Breakfast to kick off TN HIMSS Advocacy Day! The breakfast will take place in the Veranda at the historic Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, Tenneseee at 7:00 a.m.
To attend, RSVP with your name, company name, and preferred e-mail address to Laura McClellan.
View the invite and agenda here. Register for the Breakfast here.
AOL acquires Huffington Post for $315 million
AOL, the online media company that has recently snatched several smaller content firms, has agreed to purchase news blog service The Huffington Post for $315 million, the two companies announced Monday. The companies said Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post’s co-founder and editor-in-chief, will be named president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which will include all Huffington Post and AOL content.
Read more about it here. Read AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s internal memo here.
Wired UK Shocks Some Readers with Personalized Covers
For its latest issue, technology magazine Wired UK launched “ultra-personalized” covers for select users. The magazine printed on the covers personal data like telephone numbers, email addresses and even making references to photos the recipient was in. The magazine claimed the reason for this was to emphasize the cover story on “what the end of privacy means for you”.
It managed to get hold of the sensitive information through social networks, the Land Registry and the edited electoral register. Read more about here.
