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Google’s Ad Company (Which Isn’t Google) Explains What’s Up With Those Chrome Ads

Peter Kafka in Media on January 3 at 6:11 am PT

No big deal, says Unruly Media CEO Scott Button — we do this stuff all the time.

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Here He Is

Kara Swisher in Media on September 23, 2011 at 5:16 pm PT

We’ll admit, it’s clever, even if he can’t quite let go. Even the chest shot, but only because it says “Unpaid Blogger.” In other words, tech’s bad boy Michael Arrington has a new blogging home on a site called Uncrunched, after leaving AOL and the tech news blog he founded, TechCrunch, amid controversy. His first post is only three words, all in the title: “Here I Am.” Indeed.

Posterous Revamps Around Sharing “Spaces”

Liz Gannes in Social on September 12, 2011 at 9:12 am PT

Posterous today is reshaping its existing blog and group products into a single entity called “Spaces,” which helps users share different content with different people.

Give Me Back My Baby: Michael Arrington Trying to Buy Back TechCrunch From AOL — But Would AOL Sell It?

Kara Swisher in Media on September 6, 2011 at 11:57 am PT

Hoo boy. It gets worse, of course.

Video: Om Talks About $6 Million Giga-Funding

Kara Swisher in Media on May 26, 2011 at 1:14 pm PT

Yesterday, I slogged through the rain to the downtown San Francisco HQ of the GigaOM Network to visit with tech blogging pioneer Om Malik and talk about the latest $6 million in funding for the tech news and analysis site.

Liveblogging Microsoft 3Q Earnings: Office-Tastic and Kinect-Able (But PC-Frown)

Kara Swisher in News on April 28, 2011 at 2:48 pm PT

You’d think there would be a party in Redmond, Wash. today, as software giant Microsoft soundly beat Wall Street expectations in its third-quarter earnings released today. But there are shadows too, as results were dragged down by weaker revenues for its flagship Windows unit. The report comes as Microsoft’s stock continues to lag, declining 14 percent for the year. Buzz kill!

Video: BoomTown Versus Texas Hipsters and Cheddar Cheese Cats at SXSW

Kara Swisher in News on March 14, 2011 at 12:18 pm PT

As it turned out, BoomTown did not succumb to hipster poisoning on my sojourn this past weekend to Austin, Texas and the famous South by Southwest festival. The annual gathering, which has interactive, music and film elements, started last week and is still going strong–fueled, as far as I can tell, by beer, blogging empanadas and excessive start-up hype.

AOL-HuffPo Deal Officially Closes Today–More Big Media Hires Signal New Content Direction Under Arianna

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.

Posterous Goes Bare: Shows Us All Its Stats

Liz Gannes in Social on February 16, 2011 at 11:15 pm PT

The lightweight blogging company Posterous volunteered to open its books recently, coughing up every product stat NetworkEffect asked for during a recent visit.