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(Ladylike) Fun and Games: BoomTown Visits Sugar HQ for an Update!

in News on September 21, 2010 at 11:42 am PT

It’s been a dog’s age since BoomTown revisited Sugar Inc., the scrappy women-focused content start-up run by Brian and Lisa Sugar. I first paid a visit to the San Francisco headquarters of Sugar three years ago to check out the flagship PopSugar (celebs), GeekSugar (tech), CasaSugar (home) and YumSugar (food) sites. Since then, it has moved into a range of other arenas that could be changing what it means to be a content company online.

Citi Says Amazon Sold 500,000 Kindles Last Year; $1.2 Billion Business Next Year

in Media on February 3, 2009 at 8:45 am PT

Amazon is set to unveil Kindle 2.0 next Monday at a New York press event. But how many of the original e-book readers has it sold already? Don’t ask Jeff Bezos and company. But Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney figures Amazon sold 500,000 devices last year and that the Kindle will be a billion-dollar business by next year.