AOL’s strategy to purchase the Huffington Post has meant that the company’s traffic numbers were increasing even as they lost traffic among other properties, however a recent look at ComScore numbers shows that after months of falling pageviews the company […]
Yesterday, Huffington Post head Arianna Huffington announced in a blog post that the site was adding a local Washington DC edition of the blog. HuffPo has been expanding into a variety of verticals lately, including channels for the black community, […]
Yahoo is limping like a wounded animal at the moment and the vultures are swooping overhead, preparing to buy out the company as soon as that option is made available. According to the NYT: Several buyout shops and strategic investors, […]
For most of the life of Web 2.0 the rallying cry has been “Free is the way to go” with the majority of new media going with the tried and true ad supported model of making money. Then slowly we […]
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 […]
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’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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Content company Demand Media has announced a “major extension” of the integrated community platform Pluck, called Pluck 5. In a press release, the content company boasts upgraded Pluck features that promise “number of new and improved capabilities that enable brands […]
Immediate kudos to Jezebel for their characterization of Mario Lavandeira, also known as Perez Hilton, as a “noted penis scribbler.” Perez- who, as the feminist and makeup blog points out is well-known for his short and snarky posts of celebrities […]
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 […]
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 […]
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