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Exclusive: Yahoo Nabs Microsoft Exec Brett Wayn to Help Local Efforts

in News on April 4, 2011 at 12:26 am PT

After it struck its online advertising and search partnership with Yahoo, Microsoft tapped longtime Internet exec Brett Wayn to work with Greg Nelson durung the integration. Well, Wayn must have liked what he saw at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, since he is bouncing there from his job at the Redmond, Wash. software giant to run local efforts at Yahoo.

Sports Illustrated Lets Its iPad App Stand Up Again

in Media on November 18, 2010 at 1:06 pm PT

Earlier this fall the Time Inc. magazine tried making a point to Apple by making its iPad app harder to use. That’s over–but Time Warner is still making noises about its eagerness to work with other tablet makers.

New Nook Brings a Little Color to E-Reading

in The Digital Solution on November 16, 2010 at 2:44 pm PT

If you love reading and want smart ways to share your books with friends or reading updates with social networks, the Nook Color has you covered.

Hearst Makes Its iPad Debut With Esquire: Full Price, No Subscriptions

in Media on October 8, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

If you’re the kind of person who refuses to pay paper-and-ink prices for digital goods, then this one isn’t for you. But none of the iPad magazines are. Meantime, this one’s pretty slick.

Will BermanBraun and Hachette Give MSN a New "Glo" With Launch of a Dramatically Different Women's Site?

in News on April 6, 2010 at 12:50 am PT

It’s more than a little ironic that the new “Glo” Web site–a highly stylized women’s lifestyle destination MSN debuted just after midnight today in partnership with Hollywood’s BermanBraun and Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.–will likely be one of the media sites that shine best on the new Apple iPad, though it was conceived before the iPad was even announced. Actually, Glo is more aimed at upending the notion of what makes a good women-focused Web site.

Microsoft and Verizon: Pretty in Pink

in News on March 4, 2010 at 12:02 pm PT

Looks like Microsoft’s long-rumored “Pink” phone project is about to make the jump from speculation to reality. Gizmodo’s managed to get its hands on some marketing materials that appear to confirm Pink’s existence and finger Verizon as a launch partner.
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The Entire D6 Demo of evri

in News on September 10, 2008 at 11:16 am PT

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know). But–as many readers have requested–they will all be available in their entirety in this column. In the less contentious spirit of DEMOfall and TechCrunch50, two demo conferences taking place simultaneously this week, we’re happy to bring you all the demos we had onstage at the D6 conference. Next up is evri, the semantic Web guide start-up, which is backed by billionaire techie Paul Allen and founded by former Amazon exec Neil Roseman.