It seems that the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism wants to get a better handle on what makes for a successful online business model and have hired the founder of Spot.us, David Cohn, to do some research on the matter. […]
Reeling after a massive drop in subscribers following their recent price hike, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has apologized to Netflix users, and has announced that its DVD business would be spun off into a separate company within the group called […]
Finnish newspaper and online publisher Sanoma News has acquired Latvia’s second-largest online news service, Apollo, from SIA Lattelecom BPO. Apollo.lv has 450,000 unique visitors a month and is the 10th most popular site in Latvia according to Alexa. The site […]
In perhaps one of the final episodes of the ongoing TechCrunch saga has played out this weekend with new editor Erick Schonfeld taking a strong stand against departing writer Paul Carr. Outspoken Englishman Paul Carr, long a controversial figure at […]
In a post published on Saturday night Tech Crunch writer Paul Carr announced his resignation from the tech site, a move that likely surprised nobody after Michael Arrington was fired from the company by Arianna Huffington. In his post Carr […]
News Corp. has brought its iPad newspaper app The Daily to the UK “quietly,” the Guardian reports. The app has been available in the iTunes store for about a week in the UK, and launched about seven months after its US […]
Netflix, you are having the worst week ever. In additon to a dismal performance in the stock market as well as the recent tiff that will lead to removal of popular Starz content from the service, it was rumored last […]
Well, of course- why not take a cut where you can get one? Still, it’s a bit of an interesting talking point and an indicator that companies like Cablevision are starting to think more aggressively forward in integrating- rather than […]
AOL’s strategy to purchase the Huffington Post has meant that the company’s traffic numbers were increasing even as they lost traffic among other properties, however a recent look at ComScore numbers shows that after months of falling pageviews the company […]
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Google isn’t the type of company to sit by and watch other software firms take control of any given market and now it appears they have Flipboard, AOL Editions and Yahoo’s Livestand in their sights, planning a new app of […]
I swear going to Facebook is starting to resemble going to a dentist appointment. You know you have to go, but the whole time you are there you feel like you’re going to crap your pants because the experience is […]
Yesterday, Huffington Post head Arianna Huffington announced in a blog post that the site was adding a local Washington DC edition of the blog. HuffPo has been expanding into a variety of verticals lately, including channels for the black community, […]
…and as it’s indie, I’m obligated to use only the word “film” in this post in reference to its content. If the selection on Netflix and its ilk is a bit too mainstream for you or you don’t like your […]
Former AOL ad sales head Jeff Levick, ousted in July from the service provider turned content company, has been picked up by Spotify. At the time of his departure, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said in an email to AOL employees: […]
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