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Macy’s Launches New Blog, mBlog, Focusing on Beauty, Fashion

Macy’s Launches New Blog, mBlog, Focusing on Beauty, Fashion

With the tagline “Macy’s news, reviews, magic & more,” department store Macy’s has launched a new blog attached to its site Macys.com. The newly minted blog will have a predictable editorial schedule, covering topics centered on the store’s departments on […]

Ellen DeGeneres Hooks Up With Yahoo’s Shine

Ellen DeGeneres Hooks Up With Yahoo’s Shine

In a partnership announced Friday, talk show host and comedienne Ellen DeGeneres is hooking up with Yahoo’s female-oriented content network Shine. As Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network struggles to find its way in a new digital age, it seems DeGeneres has […]

AOL HD Launches On Samsung Smart TV And Google TV

AOL HD Launches On Samsung Smart TV And Google TV

Extending their reach into the TV market AOL HD announced on Friday that their AOL HP app is now available for immediate download on the Samsung Smart TV and Google TV platforms. The announcement comes just three months after AOL […]

UK Online Newspapers Witness Declining Traffic

UK Online Newspapers Witness Declining Traffic

September wasn’t a good month to be a UK national newspaper. According to figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulation major newspapers in the country all witnessed declining site numbers including MailOnline which fell below the 70 million mark. […]

Style.Com/Print Hits… The Newsstand

Style.Com/Print Hits… The Newsstand

It’s opposite day on Medacity, and I’m telling you about the expansion of a successful, decade-old web property to print. To further enhance the oddness of the web-to-print venture, Style.com has titled their new print version Style.com/Print, perhaps a nod […]

Huffington Post Lawsuit to Go Ahead, Says Judge

Huffington Post Lawsuit to Go Ahead, Says Judge

A lawsuit filed in New York alleging Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer may have lifted the idea for the Huffington Post will go ahead after a judge ruled the claim potentially had merit Wednesday. HuffPo has been around and kicking since 2005, […]

Blogger Gets TSA Agent Disciplined After Inappropriate Note

Blogger Gets TSA Agent Disciplined After Inappropriate Note

Transporting sensitive or personal goods through the airport, especially in this age of tightened security- is always a bit of a nail-biter, and pretty much everyone is afraid that the TSA is sifting through their tampons and Ben-Wa balls, giggling […]

TMZ’s Harvey Levin Says MSM is Doomed, Needs to Adapt or Die

TMZ’s Harvey Levin Says MSM is Doomed, Needs to Adapt or Die

Few blogs have the straight out pull that celebrity gossip powerhouse TMZ seems to maintain- despite concise content and occasionally woeful grammar, the site tops the hell out of every story it posts, and usually manages to scoop competitors on […]

Glam Media Hires Veteran Apple Executive As New CFO

Glam Media Hires Veteran Apple Executive As New CFO

16-year Apple veteran Jeanne Seeley was named on Monday as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and executive vice president for content firm Glam Media. Describing their new CFO Glam’s chairman and chief executive officer Samir Arora called her one of “the […]

HuffPo Sent Cease and Desist Letter From NYT After Poaching ‘Motherlode’ Blogger

HuffPo Sent Cease and Desist Letter From NYT After Poaching ‘Motherlode’ Blogger

It really burns a company’s biscuits when you go after their top talent, but it gets even further under their skin when you bite off their properties, which is what the New York Times accused Arianna Huffington’s Huffington Post of doing […]

Huffington Post Will Launch French-Canadian Website

Huffington Post Will Launch French-Canadian Website

Several weeks ago I reported that The Huffington Post was preparing to launch a french version of their website in France by the end of the year and now the group is planning a second french portal for their French-Canadian […]

Obama’s Tumblr: Commander in Chief Experiments With Growing Platform For 2012 Campaign

Obama’s Tumblr: Commander in Chief Experiments With Growing Platform For 2012 Campaign

Okay, Tumblr, after a year of explosive growth and exponentially increasing user base, it’s probably safe to say you’ve made it. President Barack Obama now has a Tumblr account, adding the blogging/social media hybrid service to the stable of places where citizens […]

Demand Media Stock Tumbles As Business Falls Apart

Demand Media Stock Tumbles As Business Falls Apart

Demand Media on Thursday watched as their price per share stumbled to $5.60 upon news that a technical glitched eroded traffic at their main property eHow.com while also announcing that nearly 85% of their freelance writing staff was essentially being […]

Newspaper Guild Drops Boycott Against Huffington Post

Newspaper Guild Drops Boycott Against Huffington Post

The 26,000 members of the Newspaper Guild are no longer boycotting the Huffington Post over the company’s refusal to pay bloggers for their work. The boycott began seven months ago and on Friday the guild released the following statement: We […]