So blogging is dead, huh? Not too long ago, it would have been difficult to imagine Tumblr toppling Twitter in use stats- but the little social blogging platform that could has beaten back the Tumbeasts long enough to triple in […]
Single Touch Systems, a mobile media company that holds 140 patents in the market, have sent “Letters of Notification” to streaming video companies including Netflix, Disney and Hulu claiming ownership of certain technologies used by the companies to stream media […]
When Glenn Beck was working for Fox News he pulled in $2.5 million annually, not a bad sum of cash for basically acting like an uneducated nitwit, yet it turns out he was being vastly underpaid. Utilizing his new GBTV […]
Michael Arrington has dropped his “nuclear card” against the New York Times, with the amazing! revelation! (insert sarcasm) that the New York Times company is (indirectly) an investor in the GigaOm blog network. Arrington starting hinting about the “nuclear card” […]
Hey everyone, 30% of Reddit has a girlfriend! Well, maybe a boyfriend. Rapidly-growing social aggregator reddit has surveyed 30,000 of the users of the popular aggregator, releasing some of the collected demographic data in a handy CSV file. In a […]
I love optimism. Really I do, but with every press release from spanking new start-up promising all kinds of innovation I look no further than my last months bills for internet access and wireless mobile service to see how laughable […]
Female focused content provider Sugar Inc. has announced that former AOL executive Jennifer L. Wong has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Operations and Business Development. In the position, Wong will oversee the strategic growth of […]
Australian marketing and media blog Mumbrella has appointed Robin Hicks as its new Editor. Hicks takes over from founder Tim Burrowes, who has moved to the new role of Editor-in-Chief of parent company Focal Attractions. The company publishes screen industry […]
Video ad provider Tremor Video has taken $37 million in funding in a round led by New York-based W Capital Partners. Also included in the round were Keating Capital, Canaan, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth, General Catalyst, Meritech, Singapore’s EDBI, Time […]
The Boston Globe has followed others, including its parent The New York Times, in putting the majority of its content behind a paywall. Access to the site is free to all print subscribers, with a digital-only subscription being offered for […]
Following her acrimonious departure as Yahoo CEO last week, Carol Bartz has resigned from the Yahoo board. According to a statement from the company, Bartz stepped down as a director on September 9, shortly after slamming the board in Forbes, […]
In this new media world blogs, and the people, like myself, who write for them, are sort of the old timers and as such we see the recycling of ideas and topics, both interesting and stupid, as an inevitable part […]
Ten years on we remember those that fell in perhaps that most tragic day in American, let alone 21st century world history. The day that terror came to America’s shore. Nothing excuses the tragedy that was the 11th of September […]
Fans of NBC properties like 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation and Community with iPads will be pleased to hear that the network’s iPad app was updated to allow viewing of entire episodes on Thursday. GigaOM reminds readers that it originally called the app […]
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