Guardian Media Group

Is GigaOM Buying paidContent?

Peter Kafka in Media on February 6 at 3:39 am PT

Om Malik won’t say. But we should find out soon.

Three Years Later, the Guardian Wants a Buyer for PaidContent

Peter Kafka in Media on November 21, 2011 at 12:30 pm PT

The British newspaper publisher says the pioneering Web site is “is a high-quality asset but our focus in the US is on building the Guardian.”

For Sale: Inside.com, Barely Used

Peter Kafka in Media on November 4, 2010 at 11:52 am PT

Psst. Wanna buy a cool Web address? Guardian Media has one for sale. The British publisher is peddling the “Inside.com” domain name, people familiar with the company tell me. Asking price, I’m told, is something north of $100,000.

The Guardian's Changing Media Summit in London: No Answers There Either!

Kara Swisher in News on March 26, 2009 at 2:33 pm PT

On BoomTown’s recent grand tour of Europe, I paid a visit a week ago to London to moderate some sessions at Media Guardian’s Changing Media Summit 2009. As in the U.S., a lot of the same questions were asked there about when and how the new media business would cross the Rubicon to transform into a strongly profitable and sustainable business. And the answer to that query was just as hard to find as here.

How Much Is Your Favorite Blog Worth? Less Than It Was a Year Ago (Maybe).

Peter Kafka in Media on February 23, 2009 at 5:45 am PT

What happens to the value of blogs when advertising craters and big media companies go into a tailspin? Take a guess. But a new list comparing top blog operations isn’t all bad news.

Kara Visits London (to See the Queen Again)

Kara Swisher in News on September 22, 2008 at 12:42 am PT

Actually, although BoomTown is staying right around the corner from Buckingham Palace in Mayfair, I am in London on my way to the PICNIC conference in Amsterdam later this week, where I will be interviewing some digital leaders onstage. We’re still working on rolling out a version of our D: All Things Digital conference in Europe next fall, so it’s important to get a sense of what is going on here in the digital sector and, of course, what is not.

AlleyCorp's Kevin Ryan Speaks!

Kara Swisher in News on July 16, 2008 at 2:11 pm PT

With the sale of paidContent to the Guardian Media Group and the talks TechCrunch has been in with AOL, there certainly is a lot of hubbub around tech blogging sites of late. One of the more interesting sites that has gone up over the last year has been Silicon Alley Insider, which is headlined by former Internet analyst Henry Blodget (yes, that Henry Blodget). But perhaps most compelling is that the site is backed by Web 1.0 entrepreneur Kevin Ryan, former CEO of DoubleClick, who has nested SAI inside a networks of new Web efforts at AlleyCorp.

PaidContent's Rafat Ali Speaks! So, Here's Who's Next…

Kara Swisher in News on July 11, 2008 at 7:41 pm PT

Earlier today, BoomTown broke the stunning-for-blogs news that ContentNext, owner of the popular online digital media news site paidContent, was being bought by the Guardian Media Group for about $30 million in an earn-out acquisition. But the deal–which comes after the mid-May sale of Ars Technica to Condé Nast for a reported $25 million–begs the question of which tech blog might be next to be acquired. And, after much noisy poking around today, BoomTown is giving the nod to one of the sector’s larger and splashier sites: TechCrunch.

Guardian Media Group Buys paidContent for $30 Million

Kara Swisher in News on July 11, 2008 at 1:14 am PT

In what will be yet another new media coup, sources tell BoomTown that Britain’s Guardian Media Group will announce this morning that it will buy the digital media news site paidContent for a price “north of $30 million.”