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Bartz on Yahoo’s Board: They ‘F—ed Me Over’

Bartz on Yahoo’s Board: They ‘F—ed Me Over’

Recently dismissed Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz didn’t pull any punches or give her recent boot from the ailing search engine the corporate gloss-over in her first interview following the much-discussed firing. In a notably frank assessment absent of the typical […]

Newsweek Daily Beast Hires New President

Newsweek Daily Beast Hires New President

Newsweek Daily Beast has hired Maxim and Rolling Stone veteran Stephen Colvin in the newly created position of President. Gregory comes to the old/new media company following a stint as President of cable company Plum TV. In his role as […]

AOL Arrington Scandal Proves Only One Thing: It’s Time For Tim Armstrong To Go

AOL Arrington Scandal Proves Only One Thing: It’s Time For Tim Armstrong To Go

The AOL Michael Arrington conflict of interest/ who is in charge/ and a whole bunch of other things spat that has dominated tech columns across the web since last week can only lead to on conclusion: it’s time for AOL […]

HuffPo Launches First E-Book, Others to Follow

HuffPo Launches First E-Book, Others to Follow

Arianna Huffington has placed her busy little fingers into another pie, adding “publisher of e-books” to the Huffington Post’s lengthy list of functions. The release of A People’s History of the Great Recession marks the blog’s first venture into ebook […]

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 […]

The flap over Netflix ‘supposedly’ restricting simultaneous streaming shows how ludicrous tech blogging can be

The flap over Netflix ‘supposedly’ restricting simultaneous streaming shows how ludicrous tech blogging can be

This morning when I started going through my feed reader and getting ready for another day of writing about tech and the such, the one story that was flowing fast and furious was that Netflix had decided to start enforcing […]

Why buying Hulu would be nothing but a mug’s game

Why buying Hulu would be nothing but a mug’s game

As my colleague James Johnson here at Medacity has written about a few times here, Hulu is apparently up for sale to any company dumb enough to fork over the money, and lots of it, only to quite possibly end […]

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 […]

Oprah Winfrey Meeting With Industry Leaders, Hoping To Boost Oprah.com Presence

Oprah Winfrey Meeting With Industry Leaders, Hoping To Boost Oprah.com Presence

Here’s something you don’t hear everyday, Oprah Winfrey is asking other business leaders to help her boost her presence. The former queen of Talk plans to meet with various web leaders to figure out how to increase visitor numbers at […]

Tumblr Growth Intensifies, Platform Nears 10 Billionth Post

Tumblr Growth Intensifies, Platform Nears 10 Billionth Post

Social blogging platform Tumblr may get less attention than more singularly-focused entities- the microblogging site Twitter, for instance, the social network Facebook, or the blogging and CMS platform WordPress- but the company’s explosive growth over the past year is likely […]

Oprah to Sit Down For Facebook Live-Stream

Oprah to Sit Down For Facebook Live-Stream

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey, now helming the newbie network OWN, will appear in a live-streamed video with Facebook late next week. In addition to the interview- which will take place at Facebook’s headquarters- the big O will be sitting down […]

‘Martha Stewart Living’ Introduces iPad Subscriptions

‘Martha Stewart Living’ Introduces iPad Subscriptions

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia- the media empire of ruler of all things domestic, Martha Stewart- is the latest print mag to hook readers in digital formats with an attractively priced subscription option for iPad users. Two of the publishers’ titles- […]

Blogger Finally Gets Much Needed Updates, Google Adds Cleaner Editor UI, Analytics Help

Blogger Finally Gets Much Needed Updates, Google Adds Cleaner Editor UI, Analytics Help

Blogger hasn’t had a major update in years and has lost much of it’s ground to the likes of WordPress, Tumblr and arguably even Twitter and now to combat those losses and to bring the program inline with Google’s new […]

Gawker, Future to Launch Gizmodo UK Edition

Gawker, Future to Launch Gizmodo UK Edition

Gawker Media and Future Publishing are bringing Gawker’s tech-focused property, Gizmodo, to the UK this fall. Future, who owns T3, TechRadar and MacFormat in the UK, will be publishing the site- and former Gizmodo US contributing editor Kat Hannaford, who is […]