Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 6 at 12:06 pm PT
Microsoft has inked a new partnership with 8coupons to replace The Dealmap, which had been providing local offers to Bing Deals for about nine months.
Kara Swisher in Media on August 30, 2011 at 10:06 am PT
Zite, the magazine-style reading app for the Apple iPad, has been sold to news giant CNN for $20 million to $25 million.
Peter Kafka in Media on August 4, 2011 at 7:13 am PT
Like everyone else on the Web, the brainy site will feature video clips it finds elsewhere. Unlike many others, it will ask for permission to use them.
Kara Swisher in Media on June 15, 2011 at 11:35 am PT
A documentary about the New York Times and its fight to survive the onslaught of the Internet called “Page One: Inside the New York Times” opens Friday.
So, it seemed like a good idea to talk to the film’s star, media columnist David Carr, to find out what he thinks will happen to the Gray Lady in the multi-colored digital future.
Kara Swisher in Media on June 15, 2011 at 6:04 am PT
Talking to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong earlier this week about its investors day tomorrow, he used the word “execution” a lot.
No, not the kind evoking a firing squad if he did not succeed at turning around the New York-based Internet giant soon as he has long promised.
He means the good kind.
Kara Swisher in News on April 14, 2011 at 1:23 pm PT
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard.
Today, its co-founder and CEO Mike McCue confirmed a $50 million round at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, in a wide-ranging interview at the start-up’s Palo Alto, Calif., HQ.
Kara Swisher in News on March 16, 2011 at 3:27 pm PT
Yesterday, BoomTown reported that Mark Walker, the head of the powerful Yahoo News site, was leaving the Internet giant for another company.
That company, sources said, will be Disney, where Walker will be leading a major overhaul of its flagship Disney.com site.
Kara Swisher in News on March 7, 2011 at 4:01 am PT
AOL will officially close its $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post today, sources said, only one month after it was struck.
To celebrate, the now-official content head Arianna Huffington will be poaching another clutch of big journalists to add to AOL’s new Huffington Post Media Group unit.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 15, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
SearchReviews is launching an application today that provides customer reviews on the go, by aggregating more than 36 million customer reviews from more than 1,000 sites around the Web.
