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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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’ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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- […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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.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 […]