Politics and culture site Slate is laying off four writers in a round of layoffs that came after the site dropped 13% in ad revenues in the second quarter. Slate currently maintains a staff of about 50, and among the […]
Sports news site Bleacher Report has gotten a fresh infusion of cash, with an additional $22 million in funding from Oak Investment Partners made available to grow the site. The newest round of funding brings Bleacher Report’s total available cash […]
Zombie MySpace is coming back, says a new marketing director for the reforming and mostly dead social network, but this time around, the site isn’t aiming at futilely grabbing market share from Facebook. In a move the A.V. Club calls […]
Facebook users in America, Europe, Australia, Canada and New Zealand will soon be able to use Facebook credits to purchase episodes of the massively popular automotive show Top Gear for streaming through the social network, it has been revealed. BBC Worldwide […]
Chalk it up to the long tail end of summer and a lot of bored people at understaffed offices on Hump Day- but one of the bigger stories relating to YouTube this afternoon and evening had to do with a […]
One of the things that makes Reddit so well-loved in its space on the social web is its unusually strong, trusting and closely-knit community- maybe a bit like the message boards that used to reign the web before social media […]
Digital Media company PMC has paired off with ION Television for a new initiative in the “Hollywood news” vertical. PMC, headed up by entrepreneur Jay Penske of Nikki Finke’s Deadline.com, will produce short 60-120 second long news segments with ION […]
Amazon has been edged out by Walmart’s Vudu in movie streaming market share for the first two quarters of 2011, a research report has revealed. IHS Screen Digest reports that Vudu’s market share shot to 5.3% in Q1 and Q2 […]
DirecTV and Sony are hooking up to deliver streaming NFL content from their “Sunday Ticket” package to subscribers and non-subscribers using web-enabled PlayStation 3 gaming consoles. The initiative is said to be a “test” to determine the marketability of […]
Former New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer- known for his tough stance and vigorous pursuit of white collar crime on Wall Street when he served as the state’s Attorney General- is facing two massive lawsuits after a column he posted […]
I find inevitably if someone tries Reddit and doesn’t get hooked on it, it’s because they never got the hang of customizing the site with the subreddits most relevant to their interests. For some people. it’s a bit too much […]
Spanish-language network Telemundo has announced a deal with Netflix’s streaming service to be evaluated on a year by year basis, according to Telemundo Internacional. In July, Netflix announced that their reach would be expanding into 43 countries in Latin America and […]
Music subscription service Rdio has tossed a bone to subscribers that have more than one user in the same household. The service announced that they’re rolling out a plan not too unlike cell phone family plans, perhaps as a response […]
Maxim fans that are also iPad users will have to get their fix of scantily clad women soaked in unknown substances and partially covered in sand from some other place for the time being, as the company is yanking their iPad […]
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