9 posts and columns on Daily Mail

Hugh Said, She Said, They Said

I cannot for the life of me think of any conceivable source for the story in the Mail on Sunday except those voice messages on my mobile phone.

— Hugh Grant, testifying against the Mail in the Leveson inquiry into phone hacking

U.K. Tabloid Daily Mail’s U.S. Web Boss Out After Less Than a Year

in Media on August 23, 2011 at 10:34 am PT

MailOnline is the second biggest newspaper Website in the world, and U.S. traffic is booming. But while American ad sales are nascent, Matthew Kearney says he has “completed my task.”
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Will Oracle and Microsoft Bid on Autonomy?

in Enterprise on December 16, 2010 at 7:24 am PT

A sketchily sourced report out of London says that Oracle and Microsoft may be lining up to bid on the British Software firm Autonomy early in 2011. Rumors are always rumors of course, but there’s a good reason to give this one some thought.

When Facebook Bought ConnectU From the Winklevii (Or, Parsing Legal Filings for Fun)

in Social on December 10, 2010 at 8:30 am PT

Earlier this week there was some confusion about outlets reporting that Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss had filed another lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their social networking idea. The brief was actually filed back in June, but it’s still interesting reading.

Newsflash: Steve Jobs Still Not Using Twitter

in Media on June 28, 2010 at 4:35 am PT

Email? Sure. But if you’re reading something from “ceoSteveJobs” on Twitter, be aware that it’s not real. If only someone had told Britain’s Daily Mail.

Oxford Scientist: Facebook Might Ruin Minds

in News on February 25, 2009 at 1:34 pm PT

The perennial debate about whether fun technology is actually terrible for us has gotten a new spin in the U.K. In an interview with the Daily Mail, Oxford University neuroscientist Susan Greenfield warns that repeated exposure to blips of information from fast-paced TV shows, videogames–and now also social-networking sites such as Facebook–might essentially “rewire” the brain.