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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 3, 2011 at 4:30 am PT
The group-buying space has rapidly expanded from offering general items such as spa treatments and restaurant discounts to items aimed at more refined niches, like families and travel. There’s even the Chosen Deals for Jewish singles on JDate. Another emerging category is now targeting small-to-medium-size businesses.
Kara Swisher in News on April 28, 2011 at 10:19 am PT
Would it surprise you to know that BoomTown doesn’t really care anymore if TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington sidelines as a blogger while he makes investments in tech companies his tech news site covers? Especially after reading his post yesterday that made a good argument about who he is and, frankly, who he has always been.
But that does not mean his boss, AOL content head Arianna Huffington, doesn’t have some
‘splainin’ to do.
