Archive for category: Content

Amazon, Time Inc. Ink Deal to Bring Mags to Kindle Fire

Amazon, Time Inc. Ink Deal to Bring Mags to Kindle Fire

As the Kindle Fire makes its way into consumers’ hot little hands all around the US and Barnes & Noble readies to launch the Nook Tablet, it seems magazine publishers are scrambling to get their content onto the devices sooner […]

Helium Seeking Canadian Bloggers…and Lots of Them

Helium Seeking Canadian Bloggers…and Lots of Them

Online content producer Helium is expanding their local coverage into Canada, and is seeking Canadian bloggers and writers to take a large number of new positions. The new jobs come as Helium has signed a new deal with an unnamed […]

Nuts: The Village Voice Sues Time Out Over Use of the Term “Best of NYC”

Nuts: The Village Voice Sues Time Out Over Use of the Term “Best of NYC”

New York rag The Village Voice is suing Time Out New York because the latter used the term “Best of NYC” without permission. In a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, the publisher of the Village Voice claimed that the […]

Fathoming Amazon: 9 Things to Know (Infographic)

Fathoming Amazon: 9 Things to Know (Infographic)

Just how big is Amazon? The following infographic explains the 9 things you need to know about Amazon. (via Frugaldad.com)

Condé Nast Launching All Titles on Nook Tablet

Condé Nast Launching All Titles on Nook Tablet

Publisher Condé Nast is bringing all of its titles- with the exception of heavy fashion tome Vogue- to the soon-to-be released Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet, the publisher announced today. 17 of the 18 titles, Vogue excepted, will be available by the […]

New York Times Launches Fashion/Style App ‘The Collection’

New York Times Launches Fashion/Style App ‘The Collection’

Earlier this week, the New York Times branched out specialized iPad apps with the launch of new iPad magazine The Collection. Per Women’s Wear Daily, the app- updated daily- will pull content from Times properties such as Styles, On the Runway, […]

CNN.com Eyes Yahoo, Not Fox or MSNBC, as Big Competitor

CNN.com Eyes Yahoo, Not Fox or MSNBC, as Big Competitor

In the realm of web news, who would you peg as major players? CNN? Fox? MSNBC? You can probably tell where this is going, since you read the headline. But CNN.com’s vice president and managing editor Meredith Artley says when it […]

Blackstone Joins Investors Bid For Yahoo Takeover

Blackstone Joins Investors Bid For Yahoo Takeover

Yahoo buyout talks have continued to heat up and jumping into the mix is private-equity firm Blackstone (BX_) who are now working with Yahoo!’s Asian partners Alibaba and Softbank to create a buyout package that Yahoo will agree to. News […]

Paul Berry Stepping Into New Role At Huffington Post After Directing Company’s Platform Development

Paul Berry Stepping Into New Role At Huffington Post After Directing Company’s Platform Development

A large part of the Huffington Post’s success has come from their user friendly technology which allows for hyper fast responsiveness from editors and writers while providing useful tools for users and now the man behind much of the company’s […]

Parul Sehgal Accepts Associate Editor Position For NPR Books

Parul Sehgal Accepts Associate Editor Position For NPR Books

Parul Sehgal is joining NPR as the company’s new digital associate editor for books. Previously Sehgal served as the editor for Publishers Weekly and has worked for The New York Times Book Review, The Literary Review and various other publications. […]

Disney shows some serious mommy blogger love – buys Babble Media

Disney shows some serious mommy blogger love – buys Babble Media

Say what you will about groups like PETA but I would definitely rather take them on than get into it with any serious mommy blogger – those ladies don’t mess around. Disney isn’t a company to pass up any opportunity […]

No brands on social media for us says majority of Britons

No brands on social media for us says majority of Britons

I have never been much of a believer in the whole marketing aspect of social media services like Twitter or that people want to become friends, or followers, of brands. As far as I am concerned, especially after being a […]

Amazon Kindle Fire To Offer Free 3-Month Subscriptions [Wired, New Yorker And More]

Amazon Kindle Fire To Offer Free 3-Month Subscriptions [Wired, New Yorker And More]

When the Amazon Kindle Fire goes on sale this Tuesday the company plans to offer more than 400 magazine and newspaper subscriptions to go along with various other Amazon App Store programs and now we’ve learned that some of those […]

Kate Gosselin Begins Blogging Career At CouponCabin But She’s Hardly An Expert

Kate Gosselin Begins Blogging Career At CouponCabin But She’s Hardly An Expert

I’m not a fan of Kate Gosselin and her now defunct Kate Plus 8 show on TLC but apparently enough women follow her advice that top online coupon website CouponCabin.com has hired Gosselin as their newest resident blogger despite no […]