When Media Giants Attack! Cease-and-Desist Letter to News Reader Zite Claims...
A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app. The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty Images, Time, Dow Jones and many other media...
View ArticleExclusive: AOL Fires Moviefone Editor Who Offered Fired Freelancers the...
Yesterday, AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to...
View ArticleAnother Big Media Aggregator: Washington Post Unveils "Trove"
While News.me, the social news service built with the help of the New York Times, gets ready to launch, another big media aggregator is already out the door: The Washington Post has rolled out Trove, a...
View ArticleAmazon and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
If you had any doubt about how large a footprint Amazon Web Services has upon the modern Web, it became readily apparent today as dozens of companies suffered service failures they blamed on the...
View ArticleFab.com Launches as Deal Site for Designed (Not Designer) Goods
No longer just another pretty domain name, Fab.com launches today as a new deal site for designed goods. Led by CEO Jason Goldberg, the site’s opening offers are on the sorts of things one might find...
View ArticleWashington Post Chairman -- and Facebook Director -- Don Graham Talks About...
Last week at Facebook’s f8 developers confab, I ran right into my old boss, Washington Post Chairman Don Graham. While I could go on about what a privilege it was to spend my formative journalism...
View ArticleWashPost's Narisetti Takes Over WSJ.com
Raju Narisetti, who is currently managing editor of the Washington Post, has been named managing editor of The Wall Street Digital Network. Narisetti, who has worked for the News Corp.-owned WSJ in the...
View ArticleMore Media on Social Media: Slew of New Apps Hit Facebook's Timeline
A few months ago, AllThingsD’s Liz Gannes questioned why it seemed as though all of her friends on Facebook were reading articles from the Washington Post online; turns out she, like many users, was...
View ArticleHere Come the First D10 Speakers: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg,...
Even though our D: All Things Digital conference always sells out well in advance every year without our announcing even one single speaker (like this one, too), it’s the action on stage that truly...
View ArticleViral Video: Hollywood Loves Obama Again
This has got to be the mother of all political ads — directed by Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim, narrated by Tom Hanks, and lasting 17 minutes — all part of the campaign of President Barack...
View ArticleBig Win for New Old Media
While it’s tempting to see the Huffington Post’s Pulitzer as a “big win for new media,” or something like that, the real story is that these organizations — the Huffington Post, the New York Times, the...
View ArticleDigg's Tech Team Heads for the Washington Post, and Digg Looks for a Lifeline
Digg isn’t done. Yet. But it’s looking pretty close. The Washington Post is in the process of buying/hiring the news aggregator’s technology team, but isn’t purchasing the business itself, according to...
View ArticleAnother Big Newspaper Says Digital Ads Shrank Last Quarter
Newspapers are supposed to be relying on the Web for new revenue streams. But the digital ad business may be letting them down. The Washington Post reported this morning that its online ad revenue...
View ArticleWarren Buffett Says He May Buy More Newspapers
Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett, who owns the Buffalo News, the Omaha World-Herald and a big chunk of the Washington Post, told shareholders today that he may buy more newspapers. “I think there is...
View ArticlePaid Newspaper Aggregator Ongo Shuts Down
Ongo, a newspaper-backed startup that tried to sell digital subscriptions to a variety of publications, is shuttering after less than two years. The New York Times, the Washington Post and Gannett each...
View ArticleWashington Post Finishes Digg Deal
The Washington Post has closed its deal to acquire some of Digg’s technology staff, who will go to work for SocialCode, a Washington Post subsdiary that helps marketers buy ads on Facebook and Twitter....
View ArticleIn the Race to Win Social Video, Is One App Gaming the System Too Much?
There’s a popular maxim in Silicon Valley: Find your user base and the revenues will come later. For a while, it seemed to be the easiest way for a founder to explain his or her way out of a proper...
View ArticleFacebook's "Social Readers" Still Fading
A quick follow-up on this month’s stories pointing out the decline of the “social reader” on Facebook. Upshot: They’re still in free fall. Two quick snapshots, via Cristina Cordova, using stats from...
View ArticleThe Washington Post Taps Socialcam for Summer Olympics Coverage
In a partnership for the coming Summer Olympic games in London, the Washington Post will work with the makers of Socialcam, the mobile video-capturing application currently circulating widely across...
View ArticleWashington Post Invests in Education Tech Site
EdSurge, a site that covers the boom in education technology, has raised a $400,000 seed round led by the Washington Post Co. and NewSchools Venture Fund, along with angels like Allen & Co.’s Nancy...
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