The Weather Channel Hooks Up With Twitter to Up Engagement

The Weather Channel Hooks Up With Twitter to Up Engagement

Getting weather news over network TV is something that may feel as if its going the way of the phone book. but The Weather Channel is not going down without a fight- the service is teaming up with Twitter in […]

Hulu Bidding Expected to Start at $1.5B

Hulu Bidding Expected to Start at $1.5B

Initial bids on video streaming service Hulu are expected to be in by the end of next week, with a price tag of around $1.5 billion being batted around as a starting point. Earlier estimates placed a possible sale price […]

ESPN Goals Partners With Bet365 to Finance Football App

ESPN Goals Partners With Bet365 to Finance Football App

Sports news network ESPN is trying harder to break into the UK market with football-based app ESPN Goals, and has moved the app from paid to free due to a sponsorship deal with online gambling company Bet365. ESPN Goals is […]

HuffPost LatinoVoices Launches, Provides “American Bicultural Experience”

HuffPost LatinoVoices Launches, Provides “American Bicultural Experience”

AOL Huffington Post Media Group on Thursday announced the launch of HuffPost LatinoVoices, an online community that celebrates and investigates bicultural Hispanic American culture. The new site offering is headed by senior editor Gabriel Lerner, a former News Editor for La […]

Viacom, Cablevision Settle iPad Streaming Suit

Viacom, Cablevision Settle iPad Streaming Suit

A lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court in late June instigated by Viacom against Northeast regional cable provider Cablevision over iPad streaming permissions has been resolved today outside of court, and neither party disclosed the terms of the settlement. Earlier this […]

NewsDrink Launches News Discovery Service In Private Beta, Delivers 30,000 Publications

NewsDrink Launches News Discovery Service In Private Beta, Delivers 30,000 Publications

NewsDrink has announced the private beta launch of their publication-centric news discovery and delivery service. Using the service customers can browse and subscribe to their favorite publications while discovering stories from those publications on a growing variety of device. The […]

Disney to Add Paywall For Online TV Content

Disney to Add Paywall For Online TV Content

On this week’s third quarter earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger spoke at length about the future of Disney content on the web and other streaming services. Iger was reserved about the prospect of big deals, with wariness that has […]

Nichenet Announces The Launch of New Media News Site Medacity

Nichenet Announces The Launch of New Media News Site Medacity

MELBOURNE, Australia, August 12, 2011 – Web content development company Nichenet Pty Ltd today announced the launch of its latest online property Medacity (medacity.com.) The new site focuses on the latest news from the new media sector, covering big content […]

AOL to Buy Back $250M in Stock After Selloff

AOL to Buy Back $250M in Stock After Selloff

After shares of AOL stock lost more than a third of their value this week, the company announced a plan to buy back $250 million in AOL stocks in order to protect the stock’s price. AOL CEO Tim Armstrong confirmed […]

Rebekah Brooks Officially Resigns From All News Corp. Positions

Rebekah Brooks Officially Resigns From All News Corp. Positions

Bye bye Rebekah. News Corp. employee Rebekah Brooks is now a former employee after she official resigned from all of her various posts at the company. As previously reported Brooks was relieved of her duties at News of the World […]

Vimeo Rolls Out Big Improvements To “Couch Mode” Feature

Vimeo Rolls Out Big Improvements To “Couch Mode” Feature

In October 2010 Vimeo rolled out Couch Mode, a new feature that made it easier to watch full screen videos from the streaming service while sitting on your couch, today Vimeo announced some rather impressive improvements to that service. The […]

Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Fark Settled

Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Fark Settled

Aggregator Fark has settled a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Gooseberry Natural Resources LLC in January 2011. The lawsuit alleged that Fark, along with Digg, Reddit, AOL and a range of other sites infringed upon a patent that covered a […]

Maura Egan Leaves Huffpost After Five Months

Maura Egan Leaves Huffpost After Five Months

Huffington Post deputy entertainment, culture and lifestyle editor Maura Egan is leaving The Huffington Post after serving in the position just shy of five months. WWD reported that Egan wrote in an email simply that “I’d like to leave it […]

Charges Dropped Against Gizmodo Over Lost iPhone 4 Prototype

Charges Dropped Against Gizmodo Over Lost iPhone 4 Prototype

The team at tech blog Gizmodo are breathing a touch easier today with news that police will not being pursuing charges against any writers of the site over the now infamous lost iPhone 4 prototype story. The investigation occurred after […]