Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees at the Web 2.0 Summit that Microsoft was lucky to be locked out of Yahoo buyout in 2008. Speaking to the crowd about his company’s original $44 billion bid he said “sometimes you’re lucky” […]
ProPublica on Tuesday announced that Daniel Victor is joining their investigative newsroom as the company’s new social media editor. Daniel will join the team in November. Victor is an accomplished editor who helped launch Philly.com’s hyperlocal site and he currently […]
AOL on Tuesday announced that Janet Balis has been named as its Head of Sales Strategy, Marketing and Partnerships. In her role Janis will help develop AOLs marketing strategy for AOL Advertising’s products and services. Janet has been put in charge […]
BlogWorld definitely isn’t above trying new and different things and this year’s Expo is no different as they just announced that Jim Farley, Ford Group Vice President, will be delivering this year’s keynote. Farley is vice president for global marketing, […]
Demand Media, for better or worse, is always looking for ways to increase the quality of the content that gets pumped through their system, and their newest effort is making more than a few of their writers a little angry. […]
I can understand, sometimes, the reluctance of old media to jump into the new media world with both feet but sometimes you come across statements that make you wonder if some of these old media dinosaurs even have a clue. […]
Wikileaks has, since almost its inception, been held up as some standard of how news will be delivered, and discovered. Far from it says Tom Kent, Standards Editor and Deputy Managing Editor with Associated Press, pointing to the famous Pentagon […]
Alibaba founder Jack Ma announced on Monday that he has the cash needed to buy Yahoo, inc. It should come as no surprise that Ma made the announcement at an Alibaba company event on Monday since the CEO has long […]
News International, owners of The Sun have denied rumors that they have decided to institute a paywall at their newspapers website after competitor News of the World was shut down by News Corp. Chief Executive Tom Mockridge told paidContent on […]
Music streaming service Spotify announced on Friday that they have now teamed up with streaming video service Boxee. The partnership is a natural course of action for both company’s since Spotify provides Boxee TV viewers with the option to grab […]
It looks like BlogWorld and New Media Expo will be joining forces once again this years with what they are billing as a mega social media event in Los Angeles on November of this year. The line up of speakers […]
According to a new report out from Marin Software’s Paid Search Quarterly Benchmarking Report click through rates on paid-search ads is better on tablets than what they are on PCs. The results of the report come from 800 advertisers and […]
Spotify on Thursday announced that their paying U.S. userbase has already surpassed 250,000 paying customers, not bad for a service that only launched in July 2011. With that announcement Spotify also revealed that they now service more than two million […]
After months of speculation and various billion dollar bids from the likes of Google, Amazon, Dish Network and Yahoo the owners of Hulu have decided not to sell the popular TV and movie streaming website. In a joint statement regarding […]
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