News Byte
Kara Swisher in Media on April 24 at 5:07 pm PT
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said in a blog post that the Silicon Valley Internet giant had reached an agreement with Broadway Video to “feature Saturday Night Live content exclusively on Yahoo! The partnership gives Yahoo! users exclusive access to the entire 38-year archive of SNL content as well as clips from the current season.” While a lot of the content has already been widely available across the Web (on Hulu and NBC.com, for example) for years — thus, kind of stretching the idea of “exclusive” a bit — having it all in another place online, as the Church Lady says: “Isn’t that special?”
Kara Swisher in News on January 25 at 3:15 pm PT
It’s complicated.
Very complicated.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 2, 2012 at 10:00 am PT
After finding out yesterday that games contribute a staggering amount to Facebook’s top line, we now know exactly how important the category is to the success of Google’s social plans.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 9, 2011 at 3:32 pm PT
You’d have to be a Blue Meanie not to enjoy this.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 7, 2011 at 7:38 am PT
Is Facebook losing some of its game? Kabam has chosen to exclusively launch its new big social title on Google instead of Facebook.
Kara Swisher in Media on August 31, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
Vanity Fair magazine put out its high-profile “New Establishment” list of the top 50 people — and guess who made the cut from tech?
Kara Swisher in News on August 31, 2011 at 10:58 am PT
MailChimp, the Atlanta-based email marketing service, has bought TinyLetter, which is well-known entrepreneur Phil Kaplan’s most recent start-up.
Kara Swisher in News on August 17, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
Andy Miller, the high-profile VP of mobile advertising at Apple, is planning on leaving the company, according to sources close to the situation.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 5, 2011 at 12:05 pm PT
Here’s a handy helper for those following the fate of the Hulu premium online video service, whose noisy efforts to sell itself have gotten a lot of attention of late:
“In preliminary talks” = “hawking itself to one of a half dozen big moneybag tech companies who will visit with Hulu’s bankers and management to see its presentation at Morgan Stanley’s office in Century City in Los Angeles.”