Peter Kafka

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Google, Facebook Call an Ad Tech Truce: DoubleClick Is Coming to the Facebook Exchange

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 18, 2013 at 12:54 pm PT

YouTube Is Going Mobile First, Too

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 18, 2013 at 3:00 am PT

Comcast and Verizon Decide They Don’t Need to Compete With Apple, Google and Everyone Else, After All

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 17, 2013 at 11:10 am PT

Former Maker Studios CEO Danny Zappin Buys a News Site That Covers Topics Like Danny Zappin

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 17, 2013 at 8:50 am PT

Magnify Finishes Waywire Acquisition

What’s the Point of Spending $400 Million if You Can’t Brag About It?

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 17, 2013 at 5:50 am PT

Facebook Brings Ad Tracking to Your Phone

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 16, 2013 at 12:03 pm PT

Fashion News and Shopping Site Refinery29 Raises $20 Million

A New Terrible YouTube Video You Shouldn’t Watch but Probably Will

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 15, 2013 at 8:44 am PT

Booming Vox Media, the People Behind The Verge and SB Nation, Raises Another Huge Round

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 15, 2013 at 7:16 am PT

Digital-Ad Vet Mike Barrett on Facebook, Ad-Tech IPOs and a Cookie-Free Web (Q&A)

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 14, 2013 at 8:34 am PT

Foursquare Opens Up Its Self-Serve Ad Platform

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 14, 2013 at 6:00 am PT

Waywire, Cory Booker’s Attempt to Build a Web Video Startup, Sells to Magnify

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 13, 2013 at 1:07 pm PT

All the News That Fits in a 15-Second Segment: NowThisNews Tries Instagram, and the Results Are Pretty Interesting

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 11, 2013 at 9:38 am PT

Hulu Gets Its Second New Boss of the Year

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 10, 2013 at 9:30 pm PT

The People Who Bring You “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad” Bet on YouTube Channel About … Dance?

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 10, 2013 at 1:15 pm PT

Here’s What a Twitter News Service Might Look Like

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 10, 2013 at 7:43 am PT

Foursquare Rolls Out New Recommendation Service to Some iPhone Users

Twitter Gets Its Strongest TV Tie-Up So Far, With an Ambitious Comcast Deal

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 9, 2013 at 8:00 am PT

GroupMe Co-Founder Steve Martocci Launches Music Collaboration Startup Splice

The Week Gets Its Third Publisher in Three Years

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 8, 2013 at 1:39 pm PT

No Matter How Hard You Squint At It, the New York Times Can’t Be a TV Company

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 8, 2013 at 11:19 am PT

Facebook Says It’s Pretty Good at TV, Too

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 8, 2013 at 7:37 am PT

Web Video Players Alloy Digital and Break Media Get Bigger by Getting Together

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 8, 2013 at 4:46 am PT

Rainn Wilson Says Amazon’s New Kindle Commercial Looks Too Familiar

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, October 7, 2013 at 2:05 pm PT

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik