Articles By: James Johnson

Deadline.com Sues Hollywood Reporter For Copyright Infringement

Deadline.com Sues Hollywood Reporter For Copyright Infringement

Penske Media Corporation, the company behind Deadline.com and other leading online web sources has filed a lawsuit against Premetheus Global Media LLC which operates The Hollywood Reporter. The company is citing copyright infringement and intellectual property thef in the case […]

Yahoo Set To Launch Barrage Of New Offerings Following Bartz Firing

Yahoo Set To Launch Barrage Of New Offerings Following Bartz Firing

Yahoo’s board of directors will attempt to take focus off their firing of CEO Carol Bartz by releasing a slew of new products over the coming months, a move meant to turn the company around while removing themselves from a […]

Mashable Extends Editorial Content: Launches Entertainment Section, Announces Promotions

Mashable Extends Editorial Content: Launches Entertainment Section, Announces Promotions

Social media news reporting website Mashable on Tuesday announced the creation of a new site section Mashable Entertainment, an offering sponsored by Samsung Mobile. According to Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore: “We’ve spent the last year growing our coverage of […]

Major Yahoo Shareholder Demands New Board Of Directors

Major Yahoo Shareholder Demands New Board Of Directors

Just days after Carol Bartz left Yahoo one of the company’s largest shareholders Daniel Loeb is demanded that the company overhaul it’s board because the directors have made “serious misjudgments” which have “destroyed value” for shareholders. Loeb is the CEO […]

Flipboard CEO Says New Media and Other Sites Will Eventually Look More like Print

Flipboard CEO Says New Media and Other Sites Will Eventually Look More like Print

With all this talk that old media is dying and new media is taking over Flipboard CEO Mike McCue chimed in this week, telling visitors at the TechCrunch Distrupt conference that he believes new media and much more of the […]

Glenn Beck Embraces New Media To The Tune Of $100 Million

Glenn Beck Embraces New Media To The Tune Of $100 Million

When Glenn Beck was working for Fox News he pulled in $2.5 million annually, not a bad sum of cash for basically acting like an uneducated nitwit, yet it turns out he was being vastly underpaid. Utilizing his new GBTV […]

Want To Charge For Your Publication? Release Tablet Based Content

Want To Charge For Your Publication? Release Tablet Based Content

Charging for content these days can be a hard sell unless you’re the New York Times or another equally large or respected company (Wired, WSJ) but that doesn’t mean you can’t build a paid subscriber base, you just have to […]

Huffington Post And Patch Hiring 13-Year-Old Writers, Still Not Paying Them

Huffington Post And Patch Hiring 13-Year-Old Writers, Still Not Paying Them

The Huffington Post has received a lot of slack from bloggers who can’t understand why anyone would write for the site without being compensated, then again those writers are adults who are free to make up their own minds, many […]

Huffington Post Releases First “E-Book” With More On The Way

Huffington Post Releases First “E-Book” With More On The Way

The Huffington Post on Thursday jumped into uncharted waters, releasing their first e-book titled “A People’s History of the Great Recession.” The book was penned by a young Washington D.C. HuffPost writer by the name of Arthur Delany and it […]

Michael Arrington Gets Smacked Down In AOL Battle [Cartoon]

Michael Arrington Gets Smacked Down In AOL Battle [Cartoon]

The team at Taiwan’s Next Media Animation has released their newest video and it’s a hilarious explanation of all the craziness that happened at AOL Huffington Post Media Group this week as TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington was fired at the request of […]

Dish Network Launching Blockbuster Streaming Movies Next Month, Will Compete Against Netflix

Dish Network Launching Blockbuster Streaming Movies Next Month, Will Compete Against Netflix

Dish Network is rumored to be preparing a new Blockbuster streaming-movie service that will directly compete with Netflix. Sources close to the program say it will be launched in October and has been designed to coincide with price increases implemented […]

Meet Hulu’s Expanded Advertising Options, Find Your Own Brand Experience

Meet Hulu’s Expanded Advertising Options, Find Your Own Brand Experience

Nearly 24 million people use Hulu every single month and those users account for more than 1 billion video ads across the company’s network and now Hulu is utilizing their large advertiser network to provide their visitors with more advertising […]

Google Making Hulu Move, Plans To Offer More Money For Better Terms

Google Making Hulu Move, Plans To Offer More Money For Better Terms

As I reported on Monday the Hulu bidding wars have already begun with Amazon, Yahoo and Dish Network each offering in the vicinity of $1.5 billion to $2 billion for the rights to the company and now rumors are circulating […]

Arrington and Arianna Declare War On Each Other, AOL Idly Sits By And Watches

Arrington and Arianna Declare War On Each Other, AOL Idly Sits By And Watches

Wouldn’t it be great if you could sell your company to a larger firm and then cry foul when they don’t do exactly what you want after the sale? That’s what’s happening right now at AOL as TechCrunch founder Michael […]