3 posts and columns on Matthew Karnitschnig

Google Woos Publishers With Payment Service

in News on February 16, 2011 at 9:10 am PT

Google Inc. announced a new payment system for online paid content that will give newspaper and magazine publishers a significantly larger share of revenues than a rival service offered by Apple Inc. Under the new service, called Google One Pass, Google will keep 10 percent of revenues, compared to the 30 percent cut demanded by Apple for subscriptions sold through its online store.

From the Department of Correcting "Crazy Google/Yahoo Rumors"

in News on February 28, 2008 at 12:42 am PT

To: Rumormongers From: BoomTown Re: Wacky–even by Google standards–stock market schemes Google (GOOG) –let me get this straight–is apparently considering buying just under 20% of Yahoo (YHOO) shares at some elevated price, according to a post on TechCrunch yesterday, “although the goal isn’t so much to close the deal, which would almost certainly be opposed [...]

This Just In: Reports of Yahoo's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated (Today)

in News on February 8, 2008 at 6:00 pm PT

The Yahoo board meeting, via phone, went off today without a resolution, as BoomTown surmised in an earlier post today. See this report on the telephonic meeting from our excellent reporting colleagues at The Wall Street Journal, Kevin Delaney and Matthew Karnitschnig. As you can see, the breathless reporting that Yahoo’s fate was to be [...]