Peter Kafka in Media on February 6 at 3:39 am PT
Om Malik won’t say. But we should find out soon.
News Byte
Liz Gannes in Social on November 28, 2011 at 4:41 pm PT
The Washington Post said today that its social news app — which in my opinion gets
far too much play at top of my Facebook newsfeed! — has 3.5 million users. That number is
in line with public stats, but the paper also disclosed that it’s reaching a new audience through Facebook: 83 percent of the app users are under 35 years old and 20 percent are based in India. The app will now syndicate stories from the Hindustan Times, GigaOM and ProPublica.
Peter Kafka in News on October 31, 2011 at 12:57 pm PT
Billions! On iCloud, maybe. Or solar farms. Or much less sexy but important things. Like, you know, factories and stuff.
Kara Swisher in Media on August 16, 2011 at 12:15 am PT
Here’s This Week in Tech, or TWiT, in which tattoos, cupcakes and — oh, yeah — tech was discussed.
Kara Swisher in News on May 9, 2011 at 8:14 pm PT
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier tonight that Microsoft–in what would be its most aggressive acquisition in the digital space–was zeroing in on buying Skype for $8.5 billion all in.
Sources told BoomTown tonight that the deal for the online telephony and video communications giant is actually done and will be announced early tomorrow morning.
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.
Kara Swisher in News on March 29, 2011 at 8:35 am PT
Yes, it is perverse, but I really want to come in dead last in Time magazine’s “140 Best Twitter Feeds.”
Why? Well, there’s no way I am getting near the top with the likes of Sarah Palin and Lady Gaga in the same list, so I felt the 140th–
get it?–slot on a Twitter poll is the next best thing to aim for.
News Byte
Liz Gannes in Social on February 14, 2011 at 9:57 am PT
RIM has
bought the contact management start-up
Gist in a deal that was
first reported by GigaOM late last year. The Seattle-based company raised
approximately $11 million from investors including Foundry Group and Vulcan Capital. Through various Web plug-ins and mobile apps, Gist helps users generate a united living contact list from email, social networks and mobile phones. It’s one of those things that’s hard to describe but much loved by avid users.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 3, 2011 at 10:30 pm PT
A new start-up called Singly is building an open-source service called the Locker Project to help users archive and leverage their own data.
