Dow Jones

High Five to AllThingsD.com — Happy Birthday to Us

Kara Swisher in Media on April 26 at 11:39 pm PT

No presents but your presence, dear readers.

News Byte

Former Dow Jones Digital Boss Gordon McLeod Lands at Krux

Peter Kafka in Media on February 28 at 6:15 am PT

Gordon McLeod, the former head of Dow Jones’s digital publications, has a new job at an ad tech start-up. He’s now president at Krux, a two-year-old “data management platform” that helps publishers control “cookie” data that tracks Web surfers’ movements. Last fall, Krux raised $11 million in a round led by Accel and IDG. McLeod left News Corp.’s Dow Jones, where he oversaw business operations for multiple sites, including this one, in 2010.

News Byte

Dow Jones Names Bloomberg’s Lex Fenwick as CEO

John Murrell in Media on February 2 at 11:45 am PT

Lex Fenwick, a 25-year Bloomberg veteran and most recently CEO of Bloomberg Ventures, will become CEO of Dow Jones (owner, among other things, of this site) on Feb. 13, replacing Les Hinton, who left the company in July.

Voices

News Corp. in Talks to Hire Bloomberg Executive

Russell Adams, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on January 28 at 8:00 am PT

News Corp. is in serious talks to hire former Bloomberg LP chief executive Lex Fenwick to be the new chief of Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., according to people familiar with the matter.

News Byte

LinkedIn Nabs Dow Jones Exec in Asia

Kara Swisher in Media on January 16 at 10:24 am PT

LinkedIn has hired Olivier Legrand to run its advertising business in the Asia Pacific region, where the business networking site has more than 20 million members. Legrand has most recently been running digital initiatives in Asia for News Corp.’s Dow Jones, including The Wall Street Journal.

Dow Jones Digital Departure: WSJ.com Head to Atlantic Media for New Project

Kara Swisher in Media on January 6 at 11:12 am PT

Kevin Delaney is headed out to start a secret new online thing for the D.C.-based media company. Shhh!

Viral Video: Rupe Nixes Zynga IPO and Facebook Friending of WSJ.com Host (Awkward!)

Kara Swisher in Media on December 5, 2011 at 12:10 am PT

And do not even bother to ask if News Corp.’s Mr. Murdoch plays FarmVille.

CrunchFund? Unethical Ventures? Pig Pile Partners? No Matter What You Call It, It’s Business as Usual in Silicon Valley.

Kara Swisher in Media on September 2, 2011 at 6:16 am PT

It’s a giant, filthy mud puddle of conflicts of interest in Silicon Valley, but everybody’s in the cesspool, it seems.

Employees Already Crowdsourcing a Myspace History

Kara Swisher in Social on June 29, 2011 at 1:48 pm PT

Apparently, there is no time lag anymore when it comes to telling the stories of epic fail on the Internet. I got an email this afternoon from an anonymous Myspace employee who wrote about an interesting group writing effort on Google Docs called “Real Myspace Stories.”

Exclusive: Myspace Sale Nearing End Today With Low $30M Price and Buyer You Never Heard Of

Kara Swisher in News on June 28, 2011 at 7:42 am PT

Have you ever heard of Specific Media? What about Golden Gate Capital? One of them is likely to be the new owner of Myspace by Thursday, as the deal to sell the distressed social networking icon goes down to the wire for a $20 million to $30 million price and massive layoffs.