Spot.us founder hired by Berkeley J-School to research biz models

Spot.us founder hired by Berkeley J-School to research biz models

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. […]

Netflix Says Sorry To Customers, Spins Off DVD Business As Qwikster

Netflix Says Sorry To Customers, Spins Off DVD Business As Qwikster

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 […]

Sanoma News Acquires Latvian Online News Service Apollo

Sanoma News Acquires Latvian Online News Service Apollo

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 […]

Schonfeld Shines As New TechCrunch Editor, And Things Start To Look Up

Schonfeld Shines As New TechCrunch Editor, And Things Start To Look Up

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 […]

Paul Carr Uses TechCrunch Post To Announce Resignation

Paul Carr Uses TechCrunch Post To Announce Resignation

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 Launches ‘The Daily’ in the UK, Mostly US Content

News Corp Launches ‘The Daily’ in the UK, Mostly US Content

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 […]

Dish to Unveil Blockbuster Streaming Prices Next Week, Says Source

Dish to Unveil Blockbuster Streaming Prices Next Week, Says Source

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 […]

Cablevision Exec Says He’d Love to Sell Netflix as an Add-On Service

Cablevision Exec Says He’d Love to Sell Netflix as an Add-On Service

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 Traffic Slide Reverses, Users Flock Back To AOL Owned Properties

AOL Traffic Slide Reverses, Users Flock Back To AOL Owned Properties

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 […]

Google Working On Flipboard Competitor [Rumor]

Google Working On Flipboard Competitor [Rumor]

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 […]

What the hell Facebook, are you trying to drive us all crazy?

What the hell Facebook, are you trying to drive us all crazy?

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 […]

Arianna Huffington Launches HuffPo DC

Arianna Huffington Launches HuffPo DC

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, […]

Prescreen Offers Streaming Films With an Indie Twist

Prescreen Offers Streaming Films With an Indie Twist

…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 […]

AOL’s Jeff Levick Lands at Spotify

AOL’s Jeff Levick Lands at Spotify

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: […]