U.S. publishers Gannett Company Inc., The New York Times Co. and The Washington Post Co. have invested US$12 million in a start-up company called Ongo, which is developing a news aggregation website…
The Upshot - Calling all political junkies! Now you can get your daily dose of political news and analysis in 60 seconds. The Washington Post and Yahoo! News have joined forces to launch a daily…
Something a lot of tech startups can learn from is TC’s easy to read, short yet descriptive boiler plate, and no use of the word leading!
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Now you know EXACTLY who they are and what they do. Well because of this and today’s news they were just purchased by AOL.
The rumors have proven true: AOL is snapping up Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch family of sites. The site will share a stable with AOL’s other major tech property, Engadget, along with TUAW,…
In the last few decades, the journalism industry has been rocked by an explosion of technology that has changed how news is gathered, reported, distributed, and shared. The following are the key…
With alarming regularity, most recently yesterday, I get inquiries from companies who want me to create a blog for them - usually for the CEO. And nine out of ten times, I…
Reuters introduced Monday a new policy for reader comments to its stories where readers can earn points for previously approved comments and have some comments automatically post without prior…
That’s the dilemma that Forbes blogger Lisa Arthur tackled today in her marketing column, proposing that consumers want more interaction rather than less and they want it on the way they like…
The Wrap
Those who follow Apple rumors know that buzz has been picking up lately about Apple opening an iBooks-like distribution medium for the iPad, but for magazine and newspaper subscriptions….
Macworld.com - Flipboard, the “personal social magazine†for reading Twitter and Facebook on an iPad, has been updated to answer a number of user requests and complaints from its initial launch.
New York Post
Few weeks ago, the details of a hostage situation at the Discovery Building were first revealed on Twitter, leading to discussions on the platform’s evolution into a news source, and debates on…
The internet has both facilitated and complicated connectivity. Newspapers have a greater access to their readers, yet the industry it still mastering the technique of how to attract online viewers….
Yahoo Mail will get a “Minty” new design in the fall, Wi-Fi iPads to go on sale in China this week, and Google will begin testing YouTube live streaming with four partner sites on Monday and Tuesday.
Although Lady Gaga is the most-followed person on Twitter, she is not considered the “most influential” member of the Twitterati.
Research conducted in 2009 by Daniel Romero and his team at…
New York Times | The Next Web
The social news service will initially debut as an iPad application, reports Jenna Wortham. Times Co. R&D veep Michael Zimbalist declines to describe the application,…
French site Mac4Ever briefly reports [Google translation] that iLife ‘11 may finally be nearing a launch and that Apple’s FaceTime video calling feature currently available on the iPhone 4 and…
You’ve heard about Patch, but what about Datasphere, the company that’s launched more hyperlocal news sites in more communities than AOL? Today it announced it landed another $10 million in funding…
This morning, the new iPod touch I ordered last week arrived at my home office. Although the device isn’t quite an iPhone 4 without the voice contract — no GPS, a low-res still camera…
Are you starting a social media company? Stop! Don’t build a new social
network, please. Just use Facebook. Yes, it sucks, but Facebook won. Or
as a friend of mine starting a company recently told…
Wordyard.com | Nieman Journalism Lab
Newsonomics
The key to the next generation of TV is likely to be search, and the biggest drag on search is going to be text entry. If Google TV is really going to be the ‘one screen to rule them all,’ it has to…
Poynter’s Al Tompkins has been holding focus groups with local TV news viewers for a decade. “There is a blowback building out there,” he writes after his latest focus group. “The public seems…
