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WaPo, Venture Beat Hook Up on the Web

WaPo, Venture Beat Hook Up on the Web

Tech blog VentureBeat has entered into a “content sharing partnership” with newspaper and news site the Washington Post, both companies have announced. VentureBeat wrote up a post on the new pairing, and says that a selection of VentureBeat’s daily offerings […]

EW.com Traffic Soars, Credits Video For Boom in Part

EW.com Traffic Soars, Credits Video For Boom in Part

Celebrity gossip is a huge driver of traffic on the web, and Entertainment Weekly‘s EW.com has surpassed the one billion pageview mark, it has been reported. The brand has experienced strong “digital media growth across platforms” in 2011, hitting the […]

Amazon Acquires Voice-To-Text Company Yap, Announces App Store For Kindle Fire

Amazon Acquires Voice-To-Text Company Yap, Announces App Store For Kindle Fire

Amazon in September quietly acquired voice-to-text company Yap a buyout that was recently revealed in the company’s financial filing. While Amazon is not directly named in the filing the company is said to have been purchased by an organization located […]

[Video] Martha Stewart Visits Google For Digital Media Chat

[Video] Martha Stewart Visits Google For Digital Media Chat

Domestic doyenne Martha Stewart stopped by Google to chat with Marissa Meyer for their @Google Talks series, discussing her new cookbook, her feelings on mobile publishing and how to engage a web audience. Stewart is releasing a new tome titled Martha’s […]

Saul Hansell Quits AOL To Join Venture Firm Betaworks

Saul Hansell Quits AOL To Join Venture Firm Betaworks

Saul Hansell left his 17-year post at the New York Times two years ago to join AOL and now the entrepreneur has announced his departure from the company to take a post at New York based venture firm Betaworks. According […]

Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft Engage In Display Advertising Agreement

Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft Engage In Display Advertising Agreement

Microsoft Corp., AOL and Yahoo! teamed up on Wednesday to offer advertisers the ability to buy non-reserved online display inventory from all three company’s. Agencies will still have the ability to choose who they partner with (Yahoo! Network Plus, AOL’s […]

Huffington Post Upgrades Election Tracking Tools For Politics Section

Huffington Post Upgrades Election Tracking Tools For Politics Section

With the current election cycle heating up the Huffington Post has announced upgrades to two of their major political tracking tools Pollster and HuffPost Fundrace. The newly enhanced options will be added to the company’s breaking news, original reporting and […]

Demand Media Up Slightly After Better Than Expected Q3 Earnings Call

Demand Media Up Slightly After Better Than Expected Q3 Earnings Call

After tumbling in the later part of October on news a glitch had impeded traffic significantly, stock in Demand Media was revealed to have slightly better than expected Q3 earnings on a call Monday. Losses were more than halved in […]

MSM Embracing Blogging, Study Finds

MSM Embracing Blogging, Study Finds

Mainstream media sources still like to have a bit of a go at the blogosphere, painting the same blogs they cite for a growing amount of their digital content as imprecise, unpolished opinion pieces published from the comfort of somebody’s […]

New York Times Files Lawsuit Over Huffington Post Parenting Blog

New York Times Files Lawsuit Over Huffington Post Parenting Blog

The New York Times on Friday evening filed a lawsuit  in the U.S. District Court of Manhattan which requests that the Huffington Post (owned by AOL, inc.) change the name of their parenting blog. The Huffington Post recently launched “Parentlode” which […]

Yahoo Wagers on iPad, Competes With Flipboard With ‘Livestand’ Launch

Yahoo Wagers on iPad, Competes With Flipboard With ‘Livestand’ Launch

After a delay, Yahoo has finally launched its Flipboard competitor Livestand, bringing much of the company’s copious content to the iPad. Like Flipboard before it, the app is tailored to take the content from across Yahoo’s third-party content network to […]

AOL Reports: Ad Revenue Rises While Total Revenue Declines

AOL Reports: Ad Revenue Rises While Total Revenue Declines

AOL on Wednesday announced a global ad revenue increase of  8% year over year in the three months ending September while the company also revealed a 6% decline in total revenues. According to a company report AOL pulled in $317.7 […]

Tumblr Talks Spam, Says They Are Actively Trying to Curb Fake Tumblogs

Tumblr Talks Spam, Says They Are Actively Trying to Curb Fake Tumblogs

Among this year’s traffic winners, hybrid blogging/social platform Tumblr is one of the- if not the- biggest standout. The site has experienced explosive growth, mostly in the summer and beyond, but it is not immune to the scourge that generally […]

Yahoo Shares Slide On News Of “Special” Dividend Payments, Share Buyback Program

Yahoo Shares Slide On News Of “Special” Dividend Payments, Share Buyback Program

Executives at internet content firm Yahoo! Inc. have not officially decided to sell the company at this time and news of a possible “special dividend” payment or a stock buyback program caused the company’s shares to fall on Monday, leading […]