Jon Miller

Chief Digital Officer
News Corp.

In his new job, he is charged with driving the media giant's overall digital strategy with other operational heads at the company, while also directly overseeing the stand-alone digital businesses, including MySpace, IGN Entertainment, Photobucket, Jamba and the Hulu joint venture with NBC Universal and Disney. Before that, he was a founding partner at Velocity Interactive Group, an investment firm focusing on digital media and the consumer Internet space. And before that he was Chairman and CEO of online giant AOL. He's also worked at InterActive Corp., Viacom and NBA Entertainment. In other words, Miller has had a lot of Internet jobs.

Posts With Jon Miller

Meet the Man I Call “The Hair”: The Video Stylings of Yahoo’s Newest CEO Ross Levinsohn

Kara Swisher in Media on May 13 at 12:03 pm PT

Here he is in living color!

A Start-Up Factory Media Guys Like: K2 Raises $7.5 Million

Peter Kafka in Mobile on March 15 at 7:21 am PT

Daniel Klaus and Kevin Wendle want to make a handful of bets a year on media/mobile start-ups. They’ve convinced a high-profile group of investors to back them.

Netflix Content Boss Says Price Hike Isn’t a Price Hike, But Is a “Radical Change”

Peter Kafka in Media on September 15, 2011 at 12:08 pm PT

Bad day for Netflix shares. Good day to have Ted Sarandos on stage fielding questions at an industry event.

All for One! Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft Band Together for Ad Plan.

Peter Kafka in News on September 14, 2011 at 5:44 am PT

Tim Armstrong, Ross Levinsohn and Microsoft’s ad boss link up to take on Google and the ad networks.

My Picks for Yahoo’s Next CEO — Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?

Kara Swisher in Media on September 7, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

While the Yahoo board has yet to begin a search, I have already been hard at work on selecting the next CEO.

Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Via a Cool IPO: The Delicious Irony of Myspace, Zynga and Owen Van Natta

Kara Swisher in News on July 3, 2011 at 9:00 am PT

How’s this for irony: It was less than a year and a half ago that Owen Van Natta was ousted from his job as CEO of Myspace. But last week — just as the failed social networking site sold for a paltry $35 million — Van Natta could have bought it himself for a fraction of his stake in Zynga, the social gaming phenom that just filed for its IPO and where he’s a top exec and shareholder.

Will Yahoo Be In Play Again? Here's a Few Scenarios (That Could Be More Than Just Scenarios)

Kara Swisher in News on April 22, 2011 at 10:58 am PT

One of the results of Yahoo’s weak earnings report earlier this week has been the renewal of chatter about possible changes in its leadership and even ownership. And continued investor discomfort with its troubled stock price and the level of renewed grumbling by major institutional shareholders is causing some key players to go back to their PowerPoints to reevaluate various options.

Exclusive: Wal-Mart Paid $300 Million-Plus for Kosmix

Kara Swisher in News on April 18, 2011 at 5:46 pm PT

According to sources close to the situation, retail giant Wal-mart paid just over $300 million in cash for Kosmix, an acquisition announced earlier today. That’s a big price for the six-year-old Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which has built a social media platform that organizes content by topic and had raised $55 million from a large group of Silicon Valley venture firms.

Wal-Mart Acquires Kosmix to Move Into Social and Mobile

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 18, 2011 at 10:18 am PT

Wal-Mart is buying Kosmix, a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that has built a social media platform that organizes content by topic.

Rupert Murdoch Introduces the Daily, His iPad Newspaper

Peter Kafka in Media on February 2, 2011 at 7:40 am PT

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, along with Apple’s Eddy Cue, rented out the Guggenheim Museum to show off their newest creation: A newspaper built for the iPad.