Google Targets Yelp, OpenTable With Zagat Purchase

Google Targets Yelp, OpenTable With Zagat Purchase

Until the web came along and popularized local restaurant review outfits like Yelp and OpenTable, Zagat was the source for finding out whether an unexplored establishment might or might not have been worth the trip. But Zagat’s transition to a market […]

TechCrunch and getting all sour lemons over discovering you’re not so damn special after all

TechCrunch and getting all sour lemons over discovering you’re not so damn special after all

Aren’t delusions of grandeur and chest puffing self-righteousness a riot to watch take place when you know in the end it’s all just for show. I mean what else can your take away from this last couple of days of, he […]

Huffington Post Releases First “E-Book” With More On The Way

Huffington Post Releases First “E-Book” With More On The Way

The Huffington Post on Thursday jumped into uncharted waters, releasing their first e-book titled “A People’s History of the Great Recession.” The book was penned by a young Washington D.C. HuffPost writer by the name of Arthur Delany and it […]

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 […]

Spotify Gets Pandora-Like Echofi Music-Matching Function

Spotify Gets Pandora-Like Echofi Music-Matching Function

It seems that streaming music listeners fall into one of maybe two categories- the control freaks, who need to select every track that is played for them and prefer more micromanagable services like Grooveshark and the open-minded type that likes […]

Cry Me A River TechCrunch

Cry Me A River TechCrunch

As the Arrington/ AOL/ CrunchFund scandal enters yet another day, TechCrunch writer MG Siegler and founder Michael Arrington have started using their yet to be revoked access to the site to fire shots across the bow of parent company AOL […]

Steven Hodson Joins Medacity As Opinion Columnist

Steven Hodson Joins Medacity As Opinion Columnist

Medacity (a publication of Nichenet Pty Ltd) is proud to announce that tech opinion writer Steven Hodson has joined the team as its first dedicated opinion writer. Hodson, who previously worked for Nichenet is a similar role at The Inquisitr, […]

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 […]

‘Time’ Jumps On the Tumblr Train

‘Time’ Jumps On the Tumblr Train

One of the older mainstream media titles will be helping Tumblr work toward its ten billionth post, the magazine has announced. Legacy magazine Time– which has created a decent presence for itself on the web after experiencing some standard print […]

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 […]

Reuters ‘Experiments’ With New Aggregator Counterparties

Reuters ‘Experiments’ With New Aggregator Counterparties

International news agency Reuters is dipping its toe into the somewhat hot aggregator game with a new linkblog called Counterparties. Drawing more than one comparison to the Drudge Report, Counterparties will carry between 20 and 30 of the day’s more […]

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 […]