Google on Wednesday implemented several changes to the Google News website, making it more “tablet-friendly” for iPad and Google Android tablet users. Among the sites new optimized look is a homepage and section pages that feature columns so users can […]
Despite Google Panda taking a huge chunk out of their traffic, Demand Media on Tuesday announced the renewal of their global advertising initiative with the search giant. Under terms of the three year agreement Google will monetize Demand Media’s properties […]
Nick Davies, the Guardian journalist who helped blow the lid on the UK phone hacking scandal has traveled to the US to join the news organizations fledgling US operation. Arriving two weeks ago Davies is hoping to blow the lid […]
The Google Panda algorithm which was launched to combat what the company calls “Content Farms” was successful in killing traffic for various big content providers including Hubpages, Suite101 and most notably properties owned by Demand Media (Ehow, Livestrong, Cracked, etc.) […]
Guardian News and Media, the company behind Guardian.co.uk and various other publications and online platforms has announced plans to consolidate user information into a single, more manageable database system. The company will gather information from their various apps, dating site, […]
Digital weekly magazine publisher Nomad Editions has announced that David Sleight has joined the company as their new Chief Technology Officer. Sleight comes from an online digital background having served as the deputy creative director of BusinessWeek.com and the founder […]
For the first time in three years AOL on Tuesday posted an increase in global advertising revenue during the company’s earnings call. The newly reorganized media publisher posted a net loss of $11.8 million for the quarter, compared to a […]
Premium Publishers who rank in the top 100 ComScore websites are more effective at attracting and converting users in performance-based campaigns than sites that rely on long-tail keywords according to a recent study conducted by retargeting firm Criteo. Criteo used […]
Hyperlocal sites such as Patch.com and Outside.In allow users to write news stories about their local communities, however we currently live in a video centric society and for that reason BitFlx was thought up and initiated. BitFlx is an iPhone […]
Last week it was reported that while The Daily Beast was seeing upticks in their own website traffic, recently acquired company Newsweek is down 24 percent in the past year and now it turns out that those numbers could have been […]
Let’s be honest for a moment, Digg is a former shell of itself in many ways, however despite all of the site hate lately they did take a major step by attempting, albeit it as a massive failure, to […]
Remember when Google Labs existed (a short month ago) and the company would test all of their new products in a fun environment that encouraged only the best products to continue their path of development, well now the New York […]
New media narrative creation site Storify has announced a new partnership with Twitter account @BreakingNews and BreakingNews.com which are owned and operated by MSNBC. The Storify system allows users to create news narratives by combining information from Twitter, Facebook status […]
On September 14 the Huffington Post will launched a new website called Huff/Post 50 geared towards Baby Boomers and today HuffPost Editor-at-large Rita Wilson took some time to speak about the new site and what it will offer. For Baby […]