Peter Kafka in Media on May 18 at 8:12 pm PT
Does Tumblr host a lot of pictures of naked people? Yep. But they’ve got an ad plan that deals with that.
Mike Isaac in Social on May 18 at 12:53 pm PT
The products that could do well for Facebook’s bottom line still have a long way to go. Will Wall Street stay patient?
Eric Johnson in News on May 18 at 12:42 pm PT
The week in
AllThingsD, in one convenient post. You’re welcome!
John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 18 at 10:54 am PT
When is a sale not a sale — at least not the kind of sale most people think about? When the phone guys report their numbers.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 18 at 6:09 am PT
You won’t see many of these people on TV or in movies (yet). But on the world’s biggest video site, they’re giant.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 17 at 3:03 pm PT
Back when he was 21, had 75,000 users and was raising $750,000.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 17 at 2:44 pm PT
NEA’s $29 million stake in Tableau is now worth $955 million and change.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 17 at 1:41 pm PT
Amazon starts ordering its first set of TV series. It says you helped them decide.
News Byte
John Paczkowski in News on May 17 at 1:36 pm PT
April was a cruel month indeed for the videogame industry. Sales of gaming hardware, software and accessories in the U.S. for the month
peaked at $495.2 million, according to sales data from research firm NPD, down 25 percent from the same period in 2012. Retail software sales declined 17 percent year over year to $254.3 million. Hardware sales plummeted 42 percent from the year prior to $109.5 million. The top console for the month? Microsoft’s Xbox 360, though it sold just 130,000 units in April, down 45 percent from a year earlier.
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Joseph B. White, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 17 at 12:55 pm PT
Tesla Motors Inc. just raised about $1 billion in new capital, riding a remarkable burst of investor exuberance. New Tesla shareholders will now get to see just how fast the auto business gobbles up money.
News Byte
Mike Isaac in News on May 17 at 12:17 pm PT
Game giant Electronic Arts announced Friday that Denise F. Warren, head of digital products and services at the New York Times, will join its board of directors. Warren replaces outgoing board member Greg Maffei, who sat as a director for a decade (his departure, according to EA, is due to his commitments with Liberty Media, where he is CEO). Before taking over digital products, Warren was the NYT media group’s general manager and chief advertising officer.
Ina Fried in News on May 17 at 11:50 am PT
Google uses a 42-pound backpack with 15 cameras to capture areas its picture-taking cars can’t go.
