Forum
Beth Callaghan in Forum on April 27 at 1:49 pm PT
Pundits and others are using the
B word — bubble — more than ever. Is it time to stop, or will this gain even more traction in 2012?
While it’s tempting to see the Huffington Post’s Pulitzer as a “big win for new media,” or something like that, the real story is that these organizations — the Huffington Post, the New York Times, the Washington Post — are becoming more like each other. Old media and new media are increasingly antiquated terms.
– Journalism professor Jay Rosen to HuffPo media writer Michael Calderone (via GigaOM)
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Mobile on March 4 at 3:26 pm PT
Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai is leaving the company, three years after launching the check-in service. Sevaldurai says he’s “not sure about my exact next steps” but will remain on the company’s board. Foursquare investor Spark Capital is
reportedly buying employee stock, and Selvadurai and co-founder Dennis Crowley have previously sold shares in an
earlier funding round.
Gigaom’s Om Malik reported Selvadurai’s departure earlier.
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.
