BuzzFeed is one of my most favorite time-pass websites because they have interesting galleries and lists of pop culture. BuzzFeed has raised $15.5 million in Series C funding led by New Enterprise Associates. Other investors that participated include Lerer Ventures, Hearst Media, SoftBank, and RRE Capital. NEA General Partner Patrick Kerins will be joining the BuzzFeed board of directors. Ken Lerer, the Huffington Post co-founder and BuzzFeed board member, will become the BuzzFeed executive chairman.

AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) is having a hard time retaining some of their talent. Within the last couple of days, AOL saw Brad Garlinghouse and Sarah Lacy leave the company. Now former TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde is leaving the company. Harde became an executive at AOL after technology blog TechCrunch was acquired. It is believed that Harde was pissed when a Huffington Post CEO sent out an e-mail bashing TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington.

AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) has posted revenues of $532 million with an earnings loss of $0.02 per share. This is great news for the company because Wall Street was expecting the company to hit $524 million and a loss of $0.06 per share. The company was able to gain revenue from their gains in The Huffington Post and the TechCrunch acquisitions.

The Huffington Post Media Group has acquired online grassroots company Localocracy. The price of Localocracy was under $1 million according to sources with AllThingsD. The Huffington Post, which hit one billion page views in August, also announced that they were hiring New York Times senior columnist Lisa Belkin.

The Huffington Post has hit 100 million comments added to their website. The milestone was hit this past weekend. The Huffington Post averages about 175,000 new comments per day with over 4.45 million comments from last month itself.

Jai Singh has stepped down from AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) subsidiary The Huffington Post to join Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO). Singh will become the editor-in-chief of the Yahoo! Media Network. He was a managing editor at the Huffington Post Media Group. Singh will be responsible for increasing original content and performance at all of Yahoo!’s leading brands. [paidContent]

Jonathan Tasini is a freelancer that is suing The Huffington Post for not paying bloggers. You may remember that The Huffington Post was acquired by AOL for $315 million. It turns out that Tasini has a blog of his own where he invites people to contribute without pay also.

Lawsuit
AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) is being hit with a lawsuit by bloggers of the Huffington Post who believe that they should have been paid for their volunteer writing. The lawsuit is being led by lawsuit Jonathan Tasini. The class-action lawsuit was filed against The Huffington Post, AOL, and Arianna Huffington. AOL acquired The Huffington Post in February.