Internet search and content firm Yahoo Inc. spent $620,000 in the third quarter of 2011 as they attempted to fight off U.S. lawmakers and regulators, an increase of 15% over the same time last year when they spent $540,000. Spent […]
One and a half century old publication The Atlantic has adapted well to the medium of web-publishing- beating out much younger titles in its transition to digital publishing- and announced earlier this week that it is adding to its web content […]
Although it’s only been around for ten months, popular dude-centric advice site Brotips got backing in the millions yesterday from Dallas Mavericks owner and general billionaire Mark Cuban. Details of the deal were not disclosed, but one of the site’s […]
It’s only a few days in to Louis CK’s DRM-free “Live at Beacon Theater” experiment, during which the comic is circumventing traditional distribution channels like Hulu and iTunes to sell the show directly to fans on a dedicated website. (Disclaimer, […]
On Monday AOL announced the hiring of John Reid-Dodick,the former Global Head of Human Resources for Thomson Reuters Markets. Reid-Dodick will take over as the company’s new “Chief People Officer” within their human resources department. According to the company John […]
A lot of sites have struggled with paid content and the implementation of paywalls as customers switch largely to digital, and transitions to a web and app-based audience have not always been easy. The New York Times profiled one success story, […]
This is definitely a case of good luck luck with that whole profit making idea given that Spotify is having to deal with some recently leaked secret demands from the record labels. It’s not bad enough that the record labels […]
Even though bloggers in the US and Canada still have problems being accepted as legitimate news outlets we at least don’t have to deal with repressive regimes that have no problem jailing, or worse, those that they deem dangerous to […]
Bill Maher, whose Real Time With Bill Maher on HBO has been doing well for nearly a decade with politically-based content and humor, is going to be heralding the launch of a new comedy channel on Yahoo with a February […]
The New York Times on Thursday released a 2012 Election App for iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Curated by a Times editor the app is meant to act as a news feed and includes blog posts, videos, tweets from external sources […]
Suddenly, your local paper’s $10 a month access fee doesn’t look all that unreasonable, does it? If you’re a fashion student or style maven, the idea of viewing content from every single issue of Vogue dating back to 1892 sounds pretty […]
As the paywall experiment at the New York Times continues, another major regional newspaper has adopted the selfsame model used by the Gray Lady and a growing number of area news outlets to allow limited free access before charging for content. […]
I think it’s not entirely alarmist to say “everybody panic” right about now. If you write for blogs, and have done for any reasonable amount of time, you’ve probably been sneered at with the oft-misspelled comment “what do you think […]
Yahoo! may be on the verge of a sale, hostile takeover or the release of their Asian assets but that hasn’t stopped the company from moving forward with plans for new offerings in South Africa. The company announced on Wednesday […]
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