If you’ve ever had to rely on local news sources for information on a story relevant to your location, you probably are well familiar with the failings of many regional news outlets on the web. It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly […]
Remember when Google Labs existed (a short month ago) and the company would test all of their new products in a fun environment that encouraged only the best products to continue their path of development, well now the New York […]
The hotly anticipated Spotify US launch has been a big boon to the company’s bottom line, bringing the company’s valuation to $1.1 billion. Despite a stringent invite-only model for free users, the service has done fairly well on both the […]
New media narrative creation site Storify has announced a new partnership with Twitter account @BreakingNews and BreakingNews.com which are owned and operated by MSNBC. The Storify system allows users to create news narratives by combining information from Twitter, Facebook status […]
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On September 14 the Huffington Post will launched a new website called Huff/Post 50 geared towards Baby Boomers and today HuffPost Editor-at-large Rita Wilson took some time to speak about the new site and what it will offer. For Baby […]
Hyperlocal publisher NearSay has announced a new white-label version of their local marketing platform LocalVox. The advertorial publishing tool is a widget used alongside larger hyperlocals and niche verticals with existing sales and marketing teams. The program allows publishers to […]
Online audio streaming provider Pandora has strong prospects for growth going forward, according to two brokerages that have given the company positive ratings. JP Morgan and Wells Fargo Securities, both of which started covering the company this week, rated stock […]
Documentary film maker Morgan Spurlock is forgoing his usual corporate activism for something a bit more gentile with news that he is to appear in a new original series on Hulu. The series “A Day in the Life” will feature […]
In February 2010 local journalist Richard Jones setup the Saddleworth News, a hyperlocal news website and on Friday he announced that the paper which generates 22,000 unique monthly visitors would be handed over to the UK-based University Campus Oldham (UCO) […]
Fast growing Australian podcast network The Lifestyle PodNetwork (LPN) has announced that three new shows have debuted on the network in July 2011. The new shows are Plane Crazy Down Under, covering aviation developments from an Australian point of view; […]
When The Daily Beast acquired Newsweek in 2010 there was talk of great things to come from the newly merged companies, even though Barry Diller said he expected the partnership to lose $50 million before it crosses over into […]
Media company Local.com, which recently acquired Groupon-clone Screaming Daily Deals’ Screaming Media Group, has secured $12 million in revolving credit through Square 1 Bank. In a press release, the company said the credit infusion would in part be used to […]
High-profile women’s blog network BlogHer has entered into a partnership with conglomerate P&G to “deliver support, connections and convenience” to the site’s 26 million monthly readers. A press release announcing the BlogHer/P&G deal was notably scant on details- lacking information […]
After an announcement earlier this week that Arianna Huffington had picked up ousted OWN CEO Christina Norman, the Huffington Post’s “Black Voices” channel has launched. Hosted at huffingtonpost.com/black-voices, Black Voices “covers news and cultural trends from a black perspective” and […]
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