Gawker Sued For $10M By Wrongly ID’d Schwarzenegger Mistress

Gawker Sued For $10M By Wrongly ID’d Schwarzenegger Mistress

Gawker is being sued by a California woman for defamation by libel after she says she was wrongly identified as a former lover of Arnold Schwarzenegger during the height of his love child scandal. Tammy Tousignant was a flight attendant […]

Google News Begins Highlighting Unique Content With “Editor’s Picks”

Google News Begins Highlighting Unique Content With “Editor’s Picks”

Google on Thursday announced via their official company blog that Google News will now feature unique content hand picked by Google News publishers. According to Google the picks will involve: Long-form investigative features, compelling photo slideshows or interactive maps and […]

Rocketboom Taking $1m a Year

Rocketboom Taking $1m a Year

Andrew Baron’s long standing online video news show Rocketboom continues to thrive with news that one of the longest running videocasts is pulling in a neat $1 million a year. In an interview with Tubefilter, Baron stated that the site […]

Lady Gaga and Kanye West Invest in Turntable.fm

Lady Gaga and Kanye West Invest in Turntable.fm

Newish audio sharing site Turntable.fm has something interesting to boast about today with news that they have added music celebrities Lady Gaga and Kanye West as investors. The involvement of the two singers is said to have come through a […]

GigaOm Sued Over Alleged Privacy Breaches

GigaOm Sued Over Alleged Privacy Breaches

Tech blog GigaOm is one of a number of companies being sued in a class action lawsuit that alleges that US State and Federal privacy laws have been breached. The class action suit targets KISSmetrics and a range of their […]

TIME Says Tablet Versions Will Be Available For All 21 Titles by End of 2011

TIME Says Tablet Versions Will Be Available For All 21 Titles by End of 2011

While old media stalwarts have not always been super hot for the tablet format, one big name is embracing the medium with both arms. Time Inc. plans to release tablet versions for its entire portfolio of 21 titles by years’ […]

YouTube Next Launches YouTube Creator Playbook

YouTube Next Launches YouTube Creator Playbook

The team at YouTube Next (previously Next New Networks prior to their acquisition by YouTube in March) has launched the YouTube Creator Handbook, a new resource that helps YouTube producers target new audiences. According to the official blurb from the […]

Local.com Posts $5.4 Million Loss

Local.com Posts $5.4 Million Loss

New media firm Local.com has reported a $5.4 million GAAP net loss for the second quarter of 2011 compared to a first quarter loss of $1.3 million. The Irvine, California based firm reported that traffic monetization was challenging in the […]

HuffPo Taps Precocious Teen Reporter For New High School Vertical

HuffPo Taps Precocious Teen Reporter For New High School Vertical

The Huffington Post hiring spree continues unabated, with news that a relatively well-known 17-year-old media wunderkind has been selected to lead the network’s yet-to-be-described high school vertical. The role of teens in such media has recently been a hot topic- […]

Patch Sets Milestone, Publishes One Millionth News Article

Patch Sets Milestone, Publishes One Millionth News Article

AOL owned Patch.com on Wednesday announced that they have set a major milestone, posting their one millionth news article. Patch is currently powered by more than 850 websites with 1,000 editors that post an original piece of content every 12 […]

Booze, Customized Toilet-Paper And Other Perks At AOL Headquarters

Booze, Customized Toilet-Paper And Other Perks At AOL Headquarters

When Arianna Huffington became the “content chief” for Huffington Post after the online newspaper she formed was sold to AOL she arrived at AOL headquarters in Manhattan and immediately had “nap pods” installed on premise, but that wasn’t all she […]

CBS Doubles Second Quarter Gains, Credits Digital Distribution

CBS Doubles Second Quarter Gains, Credits Digital Distribution

“High margin revenue” largely stemming from older content licensed to distribution channels like Netflix has resulted in nearly doubled profit for CBS in the second quarter, CEO Les Moonves has confirmed. Much of the gains were derived solely from older […]

Former OWN CEO Christina Norman Snapped Up by HuffPo For Black Voices

Former OWN CEO Christina Norman Snapped Up by HuffPo For Black Voices

By all accounts, former OWN CEO Christina Norman’s tenure with the Big O was doomed from the start. Even Norman said when she first spoke to Oprah about the big deal gig, something was off. The meeting didn’t go well- […]

Patch Ranked No. 5 By OMMA Magazine List of 100 Most Important Online Publishers

Patch Ranked No. 5 By OMMA Magazine List of 100 Most Important Online Publishers

Patch.com currently offers more than 800 Patch sites which offer hyperlocal news across the United States and because of that fact the company now ranks No. 5 on OMMA Magazine’s list of the 100 most Important Online Publishers. The hyperlocal […]