Amazon hits back against NYT report on working environment
Beyond 'no comment'
It’s been a few months since the New York Times published an in-depth look at what it’s like to work in Amazon’s…
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Facebook now has a fill-in-the-blank gender option
What took so long?
Facebook has taken another step towards embracing gender diversity. Along with its 58 gender options, users can now write in their own…
Ranking the disruption potential of industry forces
Don't diss disruption
Gigaom readers rated emerging technologies and overall connectedness as the most disruptive industry forces. But they might be underestimating how platforms shift into new markets.
The BlackBerry Classic is an explicit appeal to nostalgia
A quirky QWERTY phone
BlackBerry officially launched the BlackBerry Classic at an event in New York’s financial district on Wednesday. It’s the first new BlackBerry device since 2011 to…
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Android founder Andy Rubin is leaving Google
Andy Rubin is leaving Google a little over a year and a half after he moved from Android to focus on Google’s robotics efforts.
John Chen on the BlackBerry Classic: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”
Appealing to its faithful customer base, BlackBerry is building buzz for the upcoming BlackBerry Classic; a QWERTY-based handset with 3.5-inch square touch display that should appeal to long-time BlackBerry users.
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Ello makes a bold promise for an ad-free social network, but omits key details
An “anti-Facebook” company is making big promises not to sell ads or user data — but those promises will mean little until the company acts to be more transparent.
26 million iTunes users have downloaded U2’s free album. But how many deleted it again?
81 million iTunes users “experienced” U2’s latest album, according to Apple VP Eddy Cue. But how many of those experiences were voluntary?
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Hoping a cheaper unsubsidized price will bring sales, BlackBerry to sell Passport for $599
With most flagship handsets costing $650, $700 or more off-contract, BlackBerry hopes that a $599 unsubsidized base price, combined with a 4.5-inch square display and hardware keyboard, will propel sales of its new Passport handset.
Blackberry names its first COO since last November’s executive shakeup
Blackberry named Marty Beard to be its first chief operating officer since CEO John Chen took over the company last November.
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RadiumOne cans CEO after he pleads guilty to domestic abuse
Ad tech company finally cuts radioactive CEO Gurbaksh Chahal loose after he pled guilty to two misdemeanor counts of domestic violence and battery.
AT&T’s $500M online video pact with the Chernin Group: it’s all about the niche
AT&T and the Chernin Group want to spend $500 million on online video services. How will these services look like? Look no further than to Crunchyroll.
Google may boost search results of sites that use encryption
Many websites’ fate is tied to where to they appear in Google rankings. That’s why it’s significant that Google may one day give a boost to those that use encryption.
Not even extra cash helps: 94 percent of BlackBerry traders at T-Mobile switched platforms
After BlackBerry’s CEO expressed outrage over a T-Mobile promotion to get BlackBerry owners on iPhones, the carrier offered a new promo offering more cash to BlackBerry owners. Most took a lesser deal and ditched their BlackBerry.
Kids get their first Netflix series, and DreamWorks makes money on Turbo
Did you think Netflix was done giving you presents this year? Well, you’re wrong — though for the first time, this show is actually something your children can watch.
The answer to learning a new language: Moar Cats!!
Meet a mobile app series that’s like Rosetta Stone meets LOLcats: CatAcademy.
Elmo loves iPads: Close to half of Sesame Workshop’s audience now uses mobile devices
Can you tell me how to get to…the Sesame Street app: Close to half of Sesame Workshop’s audience now uses touchscreen devices.
Red Sox IT guy sounds off on the challenge of stuffing 21st century tech into a 20th century ballpark
Fenway Park is many things. Charming. Convenient. Cramped. Ancient. A true challenge for IT pros needing to inject modern-day tech into a century-old building.
Forget the Olympics, London’s becoming a hub for the other games, too
London is increasingly becoming one of the most important places to give birth to the hottest web and mobile games. What is it that’s making the city a gaming haven? Three CEOs in London tells us why.
Seven years later, here’s how Facebook is changing your News Feed so you’ll read more stories
Nearly seven years after Facebook launched the News Feed, engineers are re-thinking how certain updates should show up in your feed, and how that plays into the Facebook experience. Here are some changes they’re making.
Welcome Alex Colon, GigaOM’s new mobile writer
Expect to see more smartphone and tablet coverage as well as “how-to” pieces from Alex, a welcome addition to our mobile team.
Chinese compromise of U.S. weapon designs drives home painful lesson in cybersecurity
When it comes to valuable intellectual property, it’s a question of when, not if, it gets compromised, says security guru Dan Geer. Case in point: U.S. weapons designs.
A startup quietly delivers smart wires to big power players
Startup Smart Wire Grid in Oakland is making transmission lines act more like the smart infrastructure of the Internet. Using its power flow control devices, utilities can prevent outages by routing power around the transmission grid when it’s needed.
Email sender Sailthru gets $19M to expand custom content offerings
Sailthru helps sites deliver personalized content or shopping offers to their email subscribers. Now, the company has received a major investment from Benchmark as it expands its “smart data” products.
Mevio moves to Los Angeles, relaunches as Bitesize Entertainment
San Francisco-based online video platform Mevio has shifted almost all of its production to Los Angeles, where it is currently building a new studio. Next year, the company plans to relaunch under the name Bitesize Entertainment, and capture one billion views a month.
Catbird gets $2M from new VC fund founded by ex-Terremark CEO
Catbird, a company providing security for virtualized environments has taken on a small funding round from Medina Capital Partners, the venture firm set up by Manny Medina, the former CEO of Terremark. The new fund seeks to invest growth capital in enterprise IT deals.
Next Step Living raises $18M for home energy efficiency
A startup in Boston called Next Step Living, which is a one-stop shop for making buildings more energy efficient, has raised an $18.2 million series C round of funding. The decent-sized round is notable in a difficult funding environment for cleantech startups.
Banned from the theaters, Pop Secret tries to wow the Netflix crowd
Pop Secret just launched a year-long marketing campaign that will include apps meant to help people get more value out of services like Netflix, and have more fun with movie night at home. The reason? Orville Redenbacher’s has a tight grip on the theater popcorn biz.
Tea Party news site: mission or marketing scam?
A week before the Presidential election, a news site is branding itself as the real voice of Tea Party conservatives. The site’s editor, however, may not be a bona fide political activist.
Clearwire breaking ground on new LTE network
Clearwire is starting its LTE build in the next two weeks and will ramp up its network in the fourth quarter. Once complete next year, Clearwire will sell capacity to other 4G carriers in city-centered hot zones. First, however, Clearwire needs to get compatible devices.
The Guardian has a new chief digital officer
GNM is beefing up its digital and commercial leadership with US-style C-level appointments, including a new role for digital development director Tanya Cordrey.
News Corp picks Cheesbrough to lead technology strategy
About to split itself in two whilst still pursuing digital product development, News Corp is adding News International CIO Paul Cheesbrough as its chief technology officer, replacing John McKinley.
Hunger Games beats Harry Potter to become Amazon’s bestselling U.S. series
Amazon announced that “The Hunger Games” is now its bestselling series in the United States, beating Harry Potter. Publisher Scholastic said last month that the trilogy has sold over 50 million copies in the United States since its publication in 2008.
From ex-Facebookers, an online shopping engine for mobile apps
Leap Commerce, the company behind Best Decision, a mobile shopping app is working on a platform that would make shopping more easy and simpler. It wants to integrate other third party services such as Taskrabbit. Time for someone like Pinterest to snap them up.
Need disposable phone numbers? Burner has you covered
Need a stealth phone number that you can quickly use and dispose of? Say hello to Burner, the app that lets you create and manage new numbers through your iPhone without giving that phone’s number away.
Yahoo unveils version 3.0 of its IntoNow social TV app
The latest version of Yahoo’s social TV app lets users caption and share still images from shows, and it IDs music being played in broadcasts, even if the tune isn’t performed by the original artists.
Pay TV model won’t die anytime soon, analyst says
Busy Lazard Capital analyst Barton Crockett says there’s enough margin thickness and consumer elasticity to sustain 8 percent annual program fee increases for another dozen years. But as the system reaches its limits, Crockett also finds that programers like Disney will be hit hardest.
Atlantic adds revenue exec for global business site
Atlantic Media rounds out the launch team for global finance publishing start-up Quartz by hiring Gawker vet to head revenue. Justin Smith, the man in charge of making the company’s biggest bet pay off, insists it’s a long-term play.
30 minutes or more: Why web content keeps getting longer
The rule of thumb used to be that web content shouldn’t be longer than five minutes an episode — a rule that’s pretty much dead here in 2012, with the spread of longer runtimes into least-suspected places, such as YouTube.
No telecommuting, please! We’re signaling
The case for telecommuting is solid and gets more so with each new study. But despite this mounting pile of evidence, the number of actual telecommuters hasn’t exactly skyrocketed. Why? Economist Bryan Caplan points to a paper that blames signaling.
A crazy dream to build a computer animation industry in Argentina
Behind the doors of Catmandu studios, on a quiet street in Buenos Aires, Argentina, dozens of young animators stare intently at their computer screens in low lit rooms, obsessing over the way a grass of blade bends or a character’s hair swishes as he moves.
Hachette lets you read free chapters from upcoming books on Facebook
Big-six publisher Hachette Book Group is making free chapters of upcoming books from bestselling authors like James Patterson and Michael Connelly available through a new Facebook app.
‘Hack weekends treat coders like monkeys in a cage’
Serial entrepreneur Ryan Carson says hack weekends are a blight on the landscape, cashing in on the ‘youth and optimism’ of coders to turn a quick buck. Adherents aren’t so sure. So who’s right?
Just how big is the Amazon cloud anyway?
Everyone knows Amazon’s cloud is huge but many want to know exactly how huge it is. The latest to try is Deepfield Networks worked with unnamed partners to find that 1/3 of all Internet users touch on AWS at least once a day.
GigaOM interview with Hollywood titan James Cameron
James Cameron and Vince Pace have been working together on 3-D for years, but now the two are hoping to revolutionize the 3-D video market. I got a chance to sit down with them and talk about the future of 3-D in the home.
DRM is crushing indie booksellers online
By requiring retailers to encrypt e-books with DRM, big publishers are essentially banning online indie bookstores and increasing their own dependence on the whims of Apple and Amazon. Emily Gould and Ruth Curry of Emily Books look at the problem DRM poses indie booksellers.
Ray Charles Foundation Sues To Stop Children Taking Back Copyright
Before his death, music legend Ray Charles gave $500,000 in trust to his children on the condition they would seek no claim to his musical e…
Arthur C. Clarke talks about Web Work, Internet and Social in 1974
This video from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) shows futurist/science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke talk about what sounds like the Internet and PC and what life will look in 2001. In 2011, we are all pretty much living that life he predicted.
Why The Wall Street Journal Isn't Adding Digital To Its Sunday Edition
Common wisdom says there’s no future in print newspapers and that the rest of the country is fed up with Wall Street. But both propositions…
Amazon: Early Data Shows Kindle Owners’ Lending Library Increases Sales
Amazon’s early data from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, which allows Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) prime members who are also Kindle owners to bo…
O3b’s super satellite broadband coming in 2013
O3b Networks, a Google-backed, satellite-based telecom company, says it will launch its revolutionary new satellite-broadband service next year. It launched with fanfare in 2008 and in 2010 raised a whopping $1.18 billion but had to limit its size and scope because of the global credit squeeze.
IBM buys Green Hat for cloud-based app testing
It’s four days into the new year and IBM just made its first acquisition of 2012 — it is buying Green Hat, a company that simulates application testing in the cloud. The deal is all about IBM building its automated software testing portfolio.
HTC Says Android Patent Fix Is Ready To Go, Google Hopes For 'Patent Peace'
HTC says it has already figured out how to ship Android phones in the U.S. that don’t run afoul of a patent held by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), the…
Comedian Louis CK Says $5 Rights-Free Content Is A Winner
Some bloggers have been likening popular funnyman Louis CK to Radiohead, pointing out that both have large passionate audiences and both hav…
How Crocs Are Helping Apple Stomp On Samsung
What do Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and its elegant iPads have in common with plastic, waterproof clogs that people love to hate? More than you might…
American Public Media Buys Crowdfunded News Site Spot.Us
Public radio programming producer American Public Media is acquiring journalism crowdfunding site Spot.Us and integrating it into its Public…
Emily Gould And The Rise Of The Indie E-Bookseller
Independent bricks-and-mortar bookstores are struggling, but indie e-bookstores may just be the next big thing. Author and former Gawker edi…
Is Qualcomm’s Brew (OS) dead?
The falling fortunes of Symbian, the chaos as WebOS withers, and hiccups at BlackBerry are pretty visible signs of the upheavals in the mobile operating systems. The change obviously is because of the rise of Internet and touch centric operating systems. Is Brew OS next?
Updated: Honolulu Star-Advertiser Latest Paper To Add Paywall
The announcement is accompanied by a picture of publisher Dennis Francis wearing a Hawaiian shirt, but the news is all business: Honolulu S…
Carmack: Mobile Gaming Power Growing With ‘Good Enough’ Approach
It’s fashionable in the video games industry to proclaim the death of PC gaming in favor of the console experience. John Carmack, founder of…
CleanPath amassing $800M fund for stalled solar projects
CleanPath, the solar investment fund co-founded by solar entrepreneur Matt Cheney, is raising an $800 million fund to develop mid-to-late stage solar projects, in particular ones that have stalled and need financing.
Twitter-Based Ad Firm 140 Proof Hires Ex-Gawker Exec Cascio To Head Sales
As Twitter tries to build traction with its “promoted tweets” for marketers, other companies have sprung up recently to build a business on…
NBCU Refines Integrated Media Division With Promotions
NBC Universal (NSDQ: CMCSA), settling into life with Comcast, is continuing to refine the structure of its Entertainment & Digital Networks…
IBM Buys Tririga for Smarter Building Software
IBM has long talked about making acquisitions in the smart grid space. Here’s the latest: Tuesday morning, IBM announced it has acquired Tririga, a startup that makes sustainability and building energy management software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Yahoo’s European IPTV Head Is Leaving
The director of Yahoo’s Connected TV business in Europe, Shirlene Chandrapal, is leaving to join video ad network Smartclip as connected TV…
Ex-Rubicon Exec Raj Chauhan To Head Up OpenX Publisher Business
Display ad tech firm OpenX is looking to build up its publisher services business and has tapped former Rubicon Project executive Raj Chauha…
How Keyboard Cat Is Keeping its Creator in Business
The original Keyboard Cat video was filmed in 1984. Its star died in 2000. But the legacy of Keyboard Cat lives on, thanks to creator Charlie Schmidt, who has taken the brand and, with some inspiration from Banksy, found a meeting place between art and commerce.
SunShot: New DOE Program Seeks Solar At $1/watt
Energy Secretary Steve Chu on Friday said his agency has offered $27.3 million to nine companies through a new initiative — called SunShot — that he said will help cut down solar electricity pricing dramatically, down to $1 per watt, by the end of the decade.
Interview: John Menzies Reboots Its Digital Publishing Business
John Menzies is returning to digital publishing by launching a consultancy agency to jump aboard booming publisher interest in digital editi…
How Bradford Cross Plans to Save the Media Industry
The web continues to disrupt the media business, both in terms of distribution and monetization, and publishers are desperately trying paywalls, iPad apps and anything else they can think of to cope. Bradford Cross wants to help change all that with his new startup, Woven.
KleenSpeed Launches $15K Electric Car System
KleenSpeed, an electric vehicle tech startup that uses the racetrack as a testbed, has launched a $15,000 electric vehicle power system that can be used to convert internal combustion engine cars into EVs. It’s a step closer to its goal of becoming an auto maker.
Singh Cassidy Out As Polyvore CEO
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, the former head of Google
Paul Crik: Is He Real, Or a Trick?
Let’s talk about Killin’ It With Paul Crik, the work of a self-help philosopher who supposedly offers a 21st century approach to living the life you want. He is ridiculous, yet entertaining — but is it an act, or is it real?
Status Kill Targets the Social Networking Experience
Social networks, for the online and addicted, already take up a lot of time and brainspace — but what might happen when the interfaces intrude even more on “real life”? That’s the idea taken to the point of farce with Status Kill.
Test Drive Video: CODA’s Electric Sedan
Check out our test drive video of Coda’s electric sedan — the first mainstream all-electric car to hit the market from a startup. Coda’s CEO tells us it’s got a more reliable and longer range than competitive all-electric car the Nissan LEAF.
MySpace Hires Former AOL Exec As SVP Of Business Development
MySpace (NSDQ: NWS), which has overhauled its management team in recent months and is preparing for a major relaunch of its site, has hired…
Ex-AdAge Editor Bloom Exits Breaking Media
Just over half-a-year since they left Advertising Age, Jonah Bloom and Matt Creamer have left their posts at B2B blog network Breaking Media…
Why I’m Not Excited About Childrens Hospital‘s Adult Swim Premiere
A web series getting transferred to television should feel like an inspiring win for the online video world. And yet in this case, Childrens Hospital‘s move from TheWB.com to Turner’s Adult Swim doesn’t feel like a victory — for at least three reasons.
BBC’s Interactive TV Exec Chakkara Heads To TalkTalk
After Anthony Rose, another BBC iPlayer exec may be Canvas-bound for his next challenge.
BBC future media TV platforms controller Rahul Cha…
Key Yahoo Search Executive Leaves
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) VP of search consumer products Larry Cornett, who was central to the company’s message that it remained dedicated to the…
Kevin Costner, the New Face of Entrepreneurs
Kevin Costner is becoming a spokesman for entrepreneurs who claim their products can do wonders to clean up oil spills. The actor testified on a U.S. Senate’s Committee yesterday about a centrifuge technology from his company Ocean Therapy Solutions that separates oil from water.
TheWB’s Exposed Uneven But Intriguing
The pitch on TheWB’s new drama/thriller is a pretty simple one — good-looking medical student with a secret past tries to keep from destroying his future. The mystery is intriguing, but a number of awkward moments might raise the eyebrows of the nitpicky.
Silicon Valley, Wake Up and Smell the Net Neutrality
The issue of network neutrality is a big one for Silicon Valley, but you might never know it given the head-in-the-sand response from tech executives whose very livelihood depends on their ability to send the content they develop to millions of consumers over broadband pipes.
AudioBoo Lands Funding, Partners, Radio Deals
Sound recording service AudioBoo seems ready for its first big tilt at making itself in to a real business, having secured a first venture f…
Cpedia Founder Says Errors Are "Intentional"
Cpedia founder Tom Costello has lashed out in a blog post at critics of his automated encyclopedia engine, which is a spinoff of the Cuil search engine he founded with his wife, ex-Google Anna Patterson. Costello says the errors found in Cpedia are “intentional.”
Yet Another Yahoo Director To Leave
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz now has a third board seat she can fill. John Chapple, the president of PE firm Hawkeye Investments (and…
reMail Going Open Source
On Friday, reMail founder Gabor Cselle made a second announcement with some good news for reMail’s fans: reMail’s code is being made open source. It’s being distributed under an Apache 2.0 license via Google Code.
Viacom Taking Its Laughs Off Hulu; March 9 Last Day For Stewart, Colbert
It’s not the end of online access to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert but next week tracking them down may be a little less convenient for th…
Video Interview: Marc Cenedella, CEO, TheLadders.com: We’ll Hit $100M Revs This Year; IPO Coming?
Last week at DLD in Munich, I did a short video interview with Marc Cenedella, the CEO of higher end jobs site TheLadders.com, on the compan…
AOL Acquires StudioNow For $36.5M; Ex-Google Reynar’s In, CTO Cahall’s Out
AOL (NYSE: AOL) has come out with a pair of announcements this morning… The company has made it first acquisition since spinning off from…
Social Media Marketer Shoutlet Raises $2 Million First Round
Shoutlet, a company that connects brands with social media, has raised a $2 million first round. The round was co-led by Origin Ventures and…
Sale Or No Sale: Mashable To AOL Talk Is Just That
So far, AOL (NYSE: AOL) is sticking to the “no comment” on speculation rule but if the portal is on the verge of acquiring Mashable from Pet…
Livestream: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on Broadband Policy
Today we’re coming to you live from the GigaOM HQ in San Francisco, where FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has joined us to talk about broadband. The hour-long forum will kick off at 10 a.m. PT — we hope you can join us!
Celebrate the New Year By Contributing to Project Midnight
Some people use crowdsourcing to get restaurant tips or ideas for stories. Mary C. Matthews, a longtime editor, producer and videoblogger, uses…
Google’s Josh Cohen: Publishers Still Need Us
Media companies that want to erect paywalls around their online content still need to be visible on search engines. In fact, they have an ev…
Should Page Speed Influence Google PageRank?
Matt Cutts, a software engineer and an eloquent corporate spokesman for Google (s goog), spoke at PubCon earlier this month and later…
Video: U.S. Chief Geek Aneesh Chopra On Broadband, Net Neutrality And Content
The Obama administration execs stopping by the Bloomberg Washington Summit included Aneesh Chopra, the top geek in an administration that p…
ASSIA Raises $10M to Keep DSL on Top
ASSIA, a 6-year-old startup, today raised $10 million in funding, some of which comes from carriers that it hopes will become customers.…
No Video for Twitter and No Twitter for Miley
Couple blips you may have missed if you were offline this weekend: The Telegraph reported Sunday that Twitter would soon support video…
What’s Up, “G”?
Updated: From his ostentatious display of wealth to his appearance on Fox’s “The Secret Millionaire,” one thing is for sure, if you…
How an iPhone App Developer Tweeted His Way to Success
With some 58,000 iPhone applications in the iTunes Store, developers face an uphill battle when it comes to building a user base…
And Now a Service to Roll Your Own iPhone Apps
Sweb Apps publicly launched an eponymous web site today where small- and medium-sized businesses can create their own iPhone applications, providing a…
Walter Cronkite: 1916-2009
Pardon this interruption from our usual topics but we are first and foremost a news organization and we cannot let the passing today of Walt…
Farewell, Sampa
Sampa, a secure, weblog-style site where families can post events, videos, pictures and stories, says it’s shutting down in August because the…
Helen Hunt + Keyboard Cat + Hall & Oates
Just when you think the Keyboard Cat meme is played out — someone goes and adds Helen Hunt crazy on drugs (from…
Silicon Graphics Being Sold To Rackable For Peanuts
Earlier this month, Jim Clark, the 65-year-old maverick entrepreneur well known for starting companies such as Netscape and Healtheon, tied the knot…
GE "Watching" Tesla, Does Not (Yet) Invest
Updated: This weekend CNN published a report from Silicon Alley Insider which says, “It appears as though GE Capital (s GE) has…
VideoJug To Go Without CEO After Cruickshank’s Exit
How-to video site VideoJug will not hire a replacement for outgoing chief exec Nancy Cruickshank, who is leaving to become executive directo…
Vid-Biz: Campbell, YouTube, iTunes
Former Wallstrip-per to Appear in CBS Web Series; Lindsay Campbell to pop up on the new web show Heckle U. (Silicon Alley…
Mochila Secures Third Round Funding; Agrees To Syndicate IDG Tech Content To Newspaper Sites
After a pretty quiet year news-wise, online syndicator Mochila has started ’09 with two relatively big deals: it has secured its third round…
Obama Appoints Copps As Acting FCC Chair
FCC commissioner Michael Copps will keep the chairman’s seat warm while the Obama administration prepares for a transition to a new leader f…
Industry Moves: Former Virgin Media Exec Cormier Steps Into Zeemote CEO Role
Zeemote, the remote controlled mobile gaming joystick maker, has hired former Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) exec Ernie Cormier as its chief exec…
New Media Resolutions #4: Rory Cellan-Jones, Technology Correspondent, BBC News
Over Christmas and New Year, paidContent:UK is asking digital media figures to pledge a resolution for the year ahead and look back at the l…
Magna’s Coen: ’08 Online Ad Spend To Grow Only 8 Percent; Total Ad Revs To Drop 3.2 Percent
Magna Global’s Bob Coen has downgraded his forecast for U.S. online ad spend to 8 percent growth from his earlier call this summer for web a…
EQO May Be Done
The bad news for mobile VoIP startups keeps coming. EQO, which had cut nearly 65 percent of its workforce about two months…
Industry Moves: Sprint Nextel’s CDMA Head Leaves Suddenly
The head of Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel
Cruikshank’s “Fred” Cranks Up Playcounts and Dollar Signs
There were a lot of heavy hitters at our recent NewTeeVee Live conference: The CEO of Netflix, the CEO of Hulu, even…
Do Zero Punctuation Video Game Reviews Influence Video Game Sales?
It’s been over a year since Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw was plucked from YouTube obscurity to host Escapist Magazine’s Zero Punctuation video series,…
Mogreet Raises $5 Million To Fund Domestic And International Expansion
Mogreet’s CEO James Citron is trying his best to coin a new term. Yesterday, on a phone call, he enthusiastically opened the conversation by…
Chopra’s Daughter, Ex Yahoo Exec Launch Lifestyle Site
To the already lengthy list of health, wellness and green-lifestyle sites and social nets, you can now add another: Intent.com. Co-founded b…
Q&A: MRC’s Dan Goodman on Cavalcade, Congdon and ‘Conomy
Some of the most ambitious online video projects these days are coming out of a shop called Media Rights Capital, a film,…
News International’s Solution to Readership Downturn? Invest In Print
Don’t believe the hype: printed newspapers aren’t doomed, you just need to spend more money on them. That seemed to be the analysis of Domin…
Interview: Albert Cheng, EVP-Digital Media, Disney-ABC TV: Getting Paid Over Getting Syndicated
While ABC has gotten props for being ahead of the curve for creating an online branded environment around its TV programming, it also takes…
Fred Goes Hollywood with Sponsorship Deal
YouTube sensation “Fred” (a.k.a. Lucas Cruikshank) is movin’ on up when it comes to web sponsorships. The high-pitched hyper-active character has a…
Industry Moves: Vodafone Appoints New Chief For Europe; Splits Emerging Markets Unit Into Two
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) CEO Vittorio Colao has made his first new changes to the global network operator since the July departure of Arun Sarin…
More Management Changes At Motorola; Unveils Two Of The 50 Phones Launching This Year
When Motorola (NYSE: MOT) appointed Sanjay Jha as CEO Of Its Handset Unit and co-CEO Of Motorola, you knew more heads were going to roll as…
Yahoo Confirms Appointment Of Biondi And Chapple To Board
As expected, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is filling its final two board seats with Frank J. Biondi and John H. Chapple. The appointments were part of…
Yahoo To Name Two New Board Members; One May Come From Mobile
*Yahoo* is expected to name its two new board members by the end of the week. What’s interesting is that one may come from the wireless indu…
Yahoo Expected To Name Two Board Members By Friday: Biondi And… Who?
*Yahoo* is expected to name its two new board members by the end of the week, but there are conflicting reports on who they will name. Recal…
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Sam’s Club Selling Solar Panels: Nine Sam’s Club (owned by Wal-Mart) stores in southern California will be promoting rooftop solar installations in…
Weekend Vid Picks: DIY James Bond Themes
Despite a pretty ridiculous title, anticipation for Quantum of Solace, the next Bond film, remains pretty high, especially after the release of…
Chris Crocker To Leave YouTube Alone
They grow up so fast. Eleven months after racking up more than 20 million views with his heartfelt defense of Britney Spears,…
Cuil Finally Gets Going
These days, anyone starting a search-related effort almost certainly has to deal with the G-Factor. Are they trying to take on Google?…
Interview: Bill Carr, EVP of Digital, Amazon: On Amazon’s New VOD Service
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched its Amazon VOD streaming service in limited beta earlier today, and we wrote about some of the details last nig…
Industry Moves: John Menzies Hires Digital Director From Zinio
High street newsagent John Menzies is taking Sarah Clegg, commercial director of digital magazine distributor Zinio, to be the new MD of its…
HP Launches Efficient Mobile Data Centers
The idea of putting a data center in a shipping container and deploying it to various locales on an emergency or as-needed…
Google's Developer Videos: From AJAX to OpenSocial
Over the past several days, Google has been busy posting many videos shot at its recent Google I/O and Developer Day events.…
Interview: Sega Mobile VP Chaplin:
The gaming industry came out early and strongly in favor of the new features the iPhone brought to the scene just over a year ago. Developer…
Magna’s Coen Revises Online Ad Spend Forecast Downward; Sees 12 Percent Gain In ’08
Magna’s Bob Coen has revised his forecast for online ad spending downward — he now sees 12 percent growth for online advertising this year,…
Industry Moves: Trader Media Picks Collins To Head New Media
Trader Media Group, the AutoTrader publisher of which Guardian Media Group sold a 49 percent stake last year, has appointed former Sky onlin…
5 Questions for Altairnano's New CEO Terry Copeland
We spoke with Altairnano’s former CEO Alan Gotcher back in January when the Reno, Nev.-based battery maker had just inked a $2.5…
Life Explained on Videojug
Yesterday I learned a brand new trick to teach my iPod that I’ll get to in a moment; what I found interesting…
Advertising Network AdChina Raises $10 Million First Round
Shanghai-based ad net AdChina has secured a $10 million first round funding led by Mayfield China. The year-old company also has received un…
Karina’s Capsule: Common/People
Yeah, alright…that William Shatner “Common/People” Star Trek mashup spoof thing has a few things in it to make it worth recommending. It…
S4C Leads £9.5 Million Investment In IPTV Player Inuk
Welsh-language broadcaster S4C (hardly rolling in it, thanks to digital TV launches and falling audiences in the multichannel era) has teame…
Solar Startup Xtreme Energetics Licenses HP's Tech
Solar startup Xtreme Energetics of Livermore, Calif., today said it signed a deal to license the technology behind making clear transistors from…
Industry Moves: Yahoo Media Vet Chaffin Leaves For Auditude
Brooke Chaffin was supposed to carry on with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Media biz dev following Ira Kurgan’s return to Fox. Turns out Chaffin, too,…
Mission Why Bother: Tom Cruise Promises To Blog — Or Will The Site Just Self-Destruct?
Okay, stop jumping up and down on the couch. This is important: actor Tom Cruise is celebrating 25 years since his first starring movie role…
One More Sign Chip Startups Are Screwed
IBM has taken the storied Cell processor and amped up both the processing capacity and production. IBM says it will produce the…
@ PPA: London Olympics’ Coe Prioritises Online Media
The London Olympics is prioritising the web in its media strategy for the 2012 Games, the event’s chairman Sebastian Coe told the Periodical…
Clock Ticking On Pageflakes?
Updated, Monday, 7.30 PST: Personalized web page startup Pageflakes has run into trouble and is desperately seeking a buyer, according to our…
OpenX Picks Ex-Yahoo Cadogan For CEO, Moving To LA
Bye-bye, OpenX. The open-source ad server platform, which rebranded from OpenAds in February, is moving HQ from London to Los Angeles. In th…
MVNO Death Star: Affinity-Based MVNO Service Sonopia To Close Down
Sonopia, an affinity-based MVNO service founded by Juha Christensen and launched just a year ago, is closing down, reports Tapio Anttila on…
Industry Moves: IDG-Bob Carrigan; Atari CEO; Bravo Promotes; Univision Online & DivX Exits
— IDG: IDG has promoted U.S. CEO Bob Carrigan to CEO of IDG Communications Worldwide, a newly-created position…he will now oversee IDG
Saban Capital Forms Separate Digital Media Investment Group; Craig Cooper Heading It
Saban Capital Group, the Los Angeles-based private investment firm which till now has been investing in bigger PE-type traditional media dea…
Cheap Voice is Still the Killer App
A new report from ABI Research hits the rather obvious note that customers are loyal to good service, not a particular carrier.…
@ GDC: How Mobile Game Developers Avoid The Carrier’s Deck In Japan
David Collier, who runs a mobile content provider in Tokyo called Pikkle, told developers today at GDC Mobile how Japanese game developers a…
@ Sports Marketing 2.0: For Brands, Targeting Matters — But Size Still Matters More
Many conferences with “2.0” in the title invariably feature marketers venting their frustrations about their desire to target online communi…
@ MWC: Operators Unite To Block Mobile Web Child Porn
GSM Association Rob Conway opened the Mobile World Congress proper in Barcelona this morning by putting the frights up internet users. The i…
Independent Comedy Network Gets Funding; Launches Five Original Scripted Series
Another day, another online comedy brand: The Independent Comedy Network (ICN), a new online comedy brand, has announced its official schedu…
@ OnMedia: Branding And Social Networks: Marketers Lack Understanding Of Social Media Branding
Seems like marketers are still behind the curve in understanding online video and social networks. In the middle of a panel discussion at th…
Triggit Makes Grabbing Internet Content Even Easier
Triggit, a new toolbar application which launches today, is a nifty feature trying to make it as business. Triggit the company, which…
CES Innovations award
HP 2710p!
Marc, the Man Who Cried More Open Social
In a declaration marked by his characteristic passive-aggressiveness, Marc Canter is predicting big changes for social networking in 2008. Canter’s swaggering aside,…
Apple Rumor Site Think Secret Shutting Down On Settlement
Think Secret, a popular source of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) gossip and news, will be shutting down, per a settlement of a trade secrets lawsuit bro…
Marc Orchant funeral information
It just gets harder and harder. We have the information to share about the memorial service for Marc Orchant. It will be…
@ UBS Media Week: Online Ad Growth Continues Through 2010; Video, Mobile Skyrocket
ZenithOptimedia and Universal McCann presented buoyant internet ad outlooks for the next four years to kick off the UBS Global Media & Telec…
@ UBS Media Week: Newspapers: Yahoo Consortium ‘Working’; Google Print Seems To Be, As Well
With few exceptions, it’s been an ugly year for the newspaper industry, as digital growth hasn’t offset weakness in the core print business.…
NTV Live Video Recap: Steve Chen, YouTube
At NewTeeVee Live, Om and I had an on-stage chat with YouTube co-founder and CTO Steve Chen, who is way more open,…
Stealthy Red Lasso Raises $6.5 Million for Online Video
Red Lasso, a stealth-mode startup offering broadcasters a platform for online video distribution, has raised $6.5 million from Anthem Capita…
Mio.TV raises $2.5 Million for Latino Entertainment Portal; Launch Imminent
Mio.TV, a NY-based Latino entertainment portal, has raised $2.5 million from a group of five investors, including Talbert Navia, a partner a…
Yahoo Could Close Poorly-Performing European Properties; Third Party Search Partnerships Coming?
We mentioned some part of this before, where Yahoo was considering strategic options for Kelkoo, the European comparison shopping site it ow…
Yahoo Could Close Poorly-Performing European Properties; Third Party Search Partnerships Coming?
We mentioned some part of this before, where Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) was considering strategic options for Kelkoo, the European comparison shoppi…
Agendus Standard for Windows Mobile free today from Handango
Got a Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone or Windows Mobile 6 Standard Edition device? If so and you always wanted Agendus Smartphone Standard…
Industry Moves: Salil Mehta Will Follow Campbell At NBCU … Eventually
Salil Mehta is filling the post of top business development exec for NBCU, vacant since Bruce Campbell left last March to join Discovery; he…
Google Search for iPhone
One annoyance I have with my iPhone is the Google Search feature. I think the Google search results are by far the…
@ Media & Money: Keynote: Michael Eisner: Strike is 'Insanity,' No Profit Online — Yet
“Insanity.” That’s how former Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Michael Eisner described the writers’ strike during an interview with Neil Cavuto at th…
@ FOBM: Detail On Industry Standard's Return Confirmed; Blog/Community Coming December
The Industry Standard will be resurrected as a blog-cum-community site in December, IDG president Bob Carrigan revealed at our Future Of Bus…
Akamai’s New HD Strategy: Show, Don’t Tell
Better video quality sounds great and all, but it’s not clear there’s demand for high-definition content online yet. Akamai (AKAM), in an…
Interview: Henry Copeland, CEO, Founder of BlogAds: To Make Money At Blogging, Rein In Comments
BlogAds’ CEO and founder Henry Copeland stirred up the audience at Wednesday’s Networked Journalism Summit with two points about blogs and a…
Google Banning Anti-MoveOn.org Ads?
FOX News says: Google, the Silicon Valley giant which has made (Al) Gore a multi, multi-millionaire, has denied Sen. Susan Collins the…
@ Networked J-Summit: As The Blogosphere Proliferates, And Inventory Grows, Expect CPMs To Drop
The ability of citizen journalism projects to attract self-sustaining ad revenue is still an open question. A morning panel at the Networked…
Yahoo Ramping Up International With New Appointments; CSO Coppel Moving To Head Europe
Yahoo, (NSDQ: YHOO) which announced its Q1 earnings earlier today, is making some major international appointments. We have learned that Yah…
Industry Moves: Coppel Promoted To Yahoo CSO
Toby Coppel has been promoted to Chief Strategy Officer for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) from SVP-corporate development. The unpublicized promotion (h…
Some Blog Ad Networks Head Into Maturing Phase
A look from ClickZ at the maturing of some of the most publicized blog ad networks.
— Federated Media Publishing: Founded by John Battelle,…
News Corp To Mobile: You Need Us
CTIA, Los Angeles: News Corp’s COO Peter Chernin is certainly getting a lot of attention this week after emphasizing MySpace’s weight in…
Update on the JK XV6700 upgrade
It has been a few days now that I’ve had to play, I mean work with the XV6700 and felt it worth…
Like Fox, Comcast forms an Internet Group
Very quietly, Cisco announced that nation’s largest Comcast will be using its CRS-1 routers for its national broadband backbone. CRS-1 will the…
Falling over the (Reef)Edge
WiFi LAN business continues to go through a shakeout. It is particularly brutal in the wireless switch business where too many players…
What’s a PDA and What’s a Cell Phone
Victor Blake in comments has the line of the day: What?Äôs the difference between a cell phone that is a PDA and…
MMC Albums, Two Expensive?
The Carphone Warehouse has teamed up with EMI Music to offer the first Multimedia Memory Cards (MMC) for mobile phones featuring the…
