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Why Rhapsody Is (Probably) Bigger Than Spotify — In the U.S.

Peter Kafka in Media on January 12 at 3:00 am PT

Jon Irwin’s music service has been at it for 10 years, and it doesn’t get anything like the attention that the new guys get. But, at the very least, he is holding is own.

NewsCred Raises $4 Million for Its Web-Based Newswire

Peter Kafka in Media on November 30, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Expensive content on the cheap: A start-up that licenses stuff from the likes of Reuters, Bloomberg and Forbes.

Tech Leaders Make Forbes’ Most Powerful People List

Tricia Duryee in Enterprise on November 5, 2011 at 11:21 am PT

Forbes has compiled a list of the 70 most powerful individuals, and along with some of the world’s leading politicians and religious leaders, tech leaders made a strong showing.

Here’s What Steve Forbes Is Telling His Staff About That Brutal Fortune Article

Peter Kafka in Media on July 28, 2011 at 7:53 am PT

“The intention is to harm our business,” the publisher says. That’s probably a stretch. But it is a good read.

As CEO Bartz Fiddles With Turnaround, Yahoo’s Stock Value Burns

Kara Swisher in News on July 21, 2011 at 7:05 am PT

Yahoo — which turned in yet another disappointing quarter on Tuesday, but with all new excuses for the continuing decline in revenue — is now getting toasted by Wall Street. That would be the marshmallow — and not the champagne — kind.

Viral Video: Kashmir Stylings on Facebook Facial Recognition

Kara Swisher in Social on June 15, 2011 at 12:22 am PT

Whatever side of the Facebook facial recognition debate you are on — is it privacy panic or a Big-Brother crisis? — this video by Forbes blogger Kashmir Hill is pretty clever. (Hey, Kashmir: Let me know when the aliens who really created Facebook and Google come for you, after they decide to start harvesting the Earth as planned using their nefarious photo-tagging tools!)

News.me, the iPad News Aggregator Blessed by Big Publishers, Gets Ready to Launch

Peter Kafka in Media on April 19, 2011 at 9:23 pm PT

The 99-cents-a-week service looks like the kind of thing that could drive the New York Times and the Associated Press batty. Instead, they’ve signed on for a piece of the action.

Elevation Makes Another Media Bet, Ups MarketShare Investment

Peter Kafka in Media on April 14, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Elevation Partners, the high profile private equity firm, has made another bet on the media business: It has invested $32 million into Marketshare, an analytics company that helps advertisers figure out the best way to spend their budgets.

Yahoo Bored Meeting? Not This Time!

Kara Swisher in News on April 13, 2011 at 9:35 am PT

Today and tomorrow, Yahoo’s directors are gathering here in Silicon Valley for one of their regular meetings that take place over the course of the year. While board meetings in general are usually pretty dull affairs–and Yahoo’s, in particular, are typically glacial ones–there is a lot on the plates of those with purview over the machinations of the long-struggling Silicon Valley Internet giant.