30 posts and columns on Felix Salmon

Gawker’s Nick Denton Loses a $100 Bet (Video)

in Media on October 13, 2011 at 7:21 am PT

Featuring boozy narration courtesy of Reuters columnist Felix Salmon.
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Exclusive: Skype Employees Were Briefed in Plain English — The Internal Equity Incentive Plan Deck

in News on June 28, 2011 at 1:14 pm PT

What did Skype employees know and when did they know it? A lot, if you’re reading this “Equity Incentive Plan” deck, which clearly outlines what happens to “good leaver” and bad leaver” execs.
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Video: BoomTown Talks AOL-HuffPo as Web's Condé Nast on CNN

in News on February 14, 2011 at 12:15 pm PT

Here is a video of a segment I did on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” yesterday morning–in the wee hours in San Francisco, hence the bags under my eyes–about last week’s $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post by AOL. “Someone has to be the Condé Nast of the Internet,” I noted in answer to a question from host Howard Kurtz, since it has not been that famous magazine company which has become the big publishing dog online.

In Defense of Standards, Ethics, and Honest Financial Reporting at Hewlett-Packard

in News on October 8, 2010 at 4:22 pm PT

Recently, my old company Hewlett-Packard has been in the news–and not in a good way. I’ve been watching the coverage from the sidelines up to this point, but felt increasingly compelled to join the conversation and share my point of view. So here goes.

Time Magazine Walls Off Its Web Site: Will You Pay Up?

in Media on July 7, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Want to read the cover story, or anything else, in this week’s Time magazine? Get out your wallet.

AOL Lands Another Media Refugee: Portfolio.com’s Bercovici to DailyFinance

in Media on May 21, 2009 at 4:20 pm PT

I don’t usually write about writers landing jobs, but I did want to point out that Jeff Bercovici, last seen writing the Mixed Media blog for Portfolio.com, has landed at DailyFinance, a site run by Time Warner’s AOL. Why do I care? Because it’s yet another sign that AOL is continuing to hire experienced writers and reporters to bulk up its sites as other publishers are slimming down or shutting down. And because it’s a nice change of pace from layoff stories.
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Portfolio Lives! Sort Of: Web Site Adopted by Condé Nast’s Corporate Cousin.

in Media on May 20, 2009 at 7:46 am PT

Never say never: Condé Nast, which is closing down its Portfolio business magazine, has decided not to turn off the lights at Portfolio.com. Instead, it is shifting control of the Web site–essentially, the Portfolio.com address and a couple years of archived content–over to American City Business Journals, its corporate cousin in the Advance Publications family.
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