Huffington Post's First Acquisition: Hardcore Comments Moderation, and Future-Proofing

News aggregator site Huffington Post has just made its first acquisition: Adaptive Semantics. It's a tech firm whose systems will help HuffPo with is main business of bringing together content, and comments from readers. Most publishers are satisfied with licensing someone else's technology to do this sort of thing. So why did HuffPo decide to buy? Because the business is hotting up.

Huffington Post has a long history of controversy, blended with an innovative business model that has...