Technology publisher Ziff Davis is offering money to tech sites to secretly track their users, Medacity has learned exclusively. The publisher is pitching the “Ziff Davis Tech Co-Op” as “a closed door invitation only club of some of the best […]
Mountain News Corporation, publisher of ski portal OnTheSnow has acquired its main competitor SkiReport.com. OnTheSnow and SkiReport will be merged for the forthcoming winter ski season, delivering a combined audience of 12 million unique visitors a year. The acquisition would […]
UK newspaper The Guardian has joined the ongoing push by the UK press for American page views with the launch of a new US specific site: guardiannews.com. The Guardian’s US Editor in Chief Janine Gibson said that the new page was […]
Yahoo is rumored to be considering selling Right Media, the ad marketplace it acquired for $680 million in 2007. According to a report at Business Insider, the sale may occur as “[It] doesn’t seem Yahoo wants to be a tech […]
Just when we thought the TechCrunch/ AOL fiasco couldn’t get any more bizarre, Arianna Huffington has come out and (seriously) claimed that the whole saga had nothing to do with personalities, but everything to do with the principle. Huffington’s target […]
Michael Arrington has dropped his “nuclear card” against the New York Times, with the amazing! revelation! (insert sarcasm) that the New York Times company is (indirectly) an investor in the GigaOm blog network. Arrington starting hinting about the “nuclear card” […]
Female focused content provider Sugar Inc. has announced that former AOL executive Jennifer L. Wong has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Operations and Business Development. In the position, Wong will oversee the strategic growth of […]
Australian marketing and media blog Mumbrella has appointed Robin Hicks as its new Editor. Hicks takes over from founder Tim Burrowes, who has moved to the new role of Editor-in-Chief of parent company Focal Attractions. The company publishes screen industry […]
Video ad provider Tremor Video has taken $37 million in funding in a round led by New York-based W Capital Partners. Also included in the round were Keating Capital, Canaan, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth, General Catalyst, Meritech, Singapore’s EDBI, Time […]
The Boston Globe has followed others, including its parent The New York Times, in putting the majority of its content behind a paywall. Access to the site is free to all print subscribers, with a digital-only subscription being offered for […]
Following her acrimonious departure as Yahoo CEO last week, Carol Bartz has resigned from the Yahoo board. According to a statement from the company, Bartz stepped down as a director on September 9, shortly after slamming the board in Forbes, […]
Ten years on we remember those that fell in perhaps that most tragic day in American, let alone 21st century world history. The day that terror came to America’s shore. Nothing excuses the tragedy that was the 11th of September […]
Political site Talking Points Memo (TPM) was offline for a significant portion of Friday evening (9 September) following a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against it. The attack followed the publication of mugshots of people identified by authorities […]
The New York Times has launched its first country specific website, India Ink, offering news and analysis about Indian politics, culture, business, sports and lifestyle. The site, located at nytimes.com/indiaink, is edited by New York Times staff in India and […]
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