Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 3, 2012 at 1:29 pm PT
Leap Commerce is attempting to build a question-and-answer service, similar to Quora, but for shopping.
Lauren Goode in Social on January 25, 2012 at 12:59 pm PT
Who needs another dating Web site that pairs people up? Instead, use this app to tell them what you think after things have gone sour.
Kara Swisher in Media on August 30, 2011 at 10:06 am PT
Zite, the magazine-style reading app for the Apple iPad, has been sold to news giant CNN for $20 million to $25 million.
Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 2:13 pm PT
Today, after Demand Media beat Wall Street expectations, its cheerful execs got on the horn with investors to explain how it plans to beat the Panda.
That would be the beastly name for Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm, in order to rid search results of poor quality content.
BoomTown liveblogged the event, of course.
Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT
Demand Media handily beat Wall Street expectations in its first quarter results today, released after the market closed.
The company reported revenue of $79.5 million and six cents a share in adjusted net income.
Investors were expecting the company to report about $69.6 million in revenue for the three months, with four cents a share in profits.
On a GAAP basis, net loss per share was 13 cents compared to 94 cents a year ago.
Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:24 pm PT
A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app.
The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty, Time, Dow Jones and many other media organizations were part of the copyright violations action, which you can read all about after the jump.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 16, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
Google Docs tries to wrangle one of the great annoyances of office life — collaborating on documents — into a Twitter-like discussion.