Kara Swisher in News on April 6, 2011 at 1:28 pm PT
Yesterday, AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to “contribute as part of our non-paid blogger system.”
Today, sources said that exec–Moviefone Editor-in-Chief Patricia Chui–was fired by the company, which is in the midst of drastically rejiggering its stable of writers.
Kara Swisher in News on March 31, 2011 at 1:25 am PT
Microsoft’s legal eagle Brad Smith didn’t even bother to pretend the software giant’s filing of a formal antitrust complaint against Google with the European Commission wasn’t a wee bit ironic.
Wrote Smith in a blog post late last night: “There of course will be some who will point out the irony in today’s filing.”
You think?
John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 29, 2011 at 8:55 am PT
Nokia’s obsession with Apple has officially crossed over into the Ahabian. Aghast at the U.S. International Trade Commission’s ruling on its first complaint against Apple, Nokia has filed a second, accusing Apple of infringing its patents “in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, tablets, and computers.”
John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 20, 2011 at 7:19 am PT
Another blow landed in the Apple-Nokia patent punch-up. Apple on Tuesday sued Nokia in the High Court in London seeking to invalidate one of the patents at issue between the companies. This particular one covers touchscreen scrolling and is one of a number of patents Nokia has accused Apple of infringing.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 10, 2011 at 1:36 pm PT
A cross-licensing agreement brings to an end what could have been an ugly and expensive trial.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 29, 2010 at 12:17 pm PT
Another arrest of an expert consultant in the ever-widening FBI investigation into insider trading of tech companies.
Voices
Melanie Trottman, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 9, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
The National Labor Relations Board is taking a stand on employees’ rights to post negative comments about supervisors on social networking sites, alleging that a company illegally fired a worker for criticizing her boss on Facebook. The agency disclosed the complaint last week against ambulance service American Medical Response of Connecticut Inc.
Kara Swisher in News on October 13, 2010 at 2:37 am PT
With
All Things Digital Global HQ located in the heart of the Castro in San Francisco, BoomTown tries hard not to judge–even that dude who likes to come into the Starbucks naked.
But I made an exception to be a judge for an innovative civic geek contest that New York City is doing for the second year called BigApps 2.0, opening up a whole mess of government information and letting software developers have at it.
And how much do you want to bet there will be a bed-bug app submitted this year?
Peter Kafka in Media on October 6, 2010 at 11:12 am PT
Motorola has filed a patent complaint against Apple that covers…a lot–18 patents that range from MobileMe to the App store to antenna design.
