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Former CEO Thompson Might Be Gone, but Internal Investigation Into ResuMess Still a Hot Potato at Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News May 22, 2012 at 9:03 am PT

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Facebook’s “Social Readers” Still Fading

Peter Kafka in Social May 22, 2012 at 7:00 am PT

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GM Doesn’t Like Old Media, Either

in Media on May 18 at 12:41 pm PT

Earlier this week, the car maker said it was bailing out of Facebook. Today, it’s the Super Bowl.
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Harvey Geller, Universal Music Group’s Top Lawyer, Is Out

in Media on May 16 at 11:17 am PT

Harvey Geller, Universal Music Group’s longtime lawyer, left the company earlier this week. A person familiar with Universal said Geller was now headed for another job but didn’t have other details. His name will be familiar to many digital-media companies, since he often led fierce and sustained battles against them on behalf of the world’s biggest music label.

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Content Is No Longer King

in Voices on May 7 at 2:14 pm PT

“Content is king” has been a long-lived mantra of media. And in the 1990s and early 2000s, it was true.

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Get Yer Subscription Xbox for $99 (And $15 a Month)

in News on May 7 at 11:03 am PT

Microsoft will sell the Xbox 360 game and media console, with the Kinect sensor, for $99 as part of a two-year, $15 per month “Gold” contract. The news was first reported last week by The Verge. Interested takers, however, will have to live near one of the 21 Microsoft stores across the U.S. to opt in to the deal.

There’s No Tomorrow

The reason for the change is that articles are no longer written only for the newspaper. Breaking news is posted immediately on the Globe’s websites; stories are then fleshed out, posted again, then put into the process for the next day’s paper and the next day’s web entries. With all that traffic, a reliance on “yesterday,” “today,” and “tomorrow” is an invitation for error.

– Charles Mansbach, Page 1 editor of the Boston Globe, on why the paper will no longer use the words in stories

What Kind of Digital Consumer Are You?

in Media on April 16 at 11:55 am PT

Most people now consider themselves “digital device adopters.” But what’s your digital personality? IBM’s latest study aims to find the answer.
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Social Media Memory App Timehop Adds “Pinterest for Your Past”

in Social on April 2 at 3:14 pm PT

Timehop, which sends daily reminders of where you checked in and what you tweeted a year ago, will now allow you to pin your favorite past posts to its site. Surprise! It looks a lot like Pinterest.
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Lying Apple Gadfly Mike Daisey Still Doesn’t Get It

in News on March 19 at 4:18 pm PT

Mike Daisey — the lying, Apple-attacking monologuist — is still trying to seize the moral high ground on the matter of Apple, Foxconn and workers’ rights in China.
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The Failures and Fallacies of Mike Daisey’s Apple Attack and the Media

in Media on March 18 at 6:06 am PT

Now we have to start the conversation about Apple and Foxconn and workers’ rights all over again, this time with real, verifiable facts at our command. Is that so much to ask?
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Telling iPad Stories

It’s funny that people think iPad stories generate ad revenue for media companies. That’s not how it works.

– The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal, via Twitter

As Privacy Concerns Grow, More Social Media Users Are “Unfriending”

in Social, February 24, 2012 at 7:00 am PT

More Media on Social Media: Slew of New Apps Hit Facebook’s Timeline

My So-Called Social Super Bowl

in Social, February 6, 2012 at 4:19 pm PT

Wither the Giants? The Arrogance of Aging Incumbents.

in Voices, January 25, 2012 at 10:40 am PT

Samsung Smart TVs Get Sweeter With SugarSync

in Commerce, January 20, 2012 at 7:05 am PT

Mark and Don: More Than Just Facebook Friends

in Voices, January 5, 2012 at 5:30 am PT

Americans Played Anything but Social Games During the Holidays

in Commerce, January 3, 2012 at 7:30 am PT

The End Is Here Before the Beginning for Beyond Oblivion

2012: Siri Is a Stunner, Amazon Is Amazin’ and Security Gets Spendy

in News, December 8, 2011 at 8:59 pm PT

Poynting Down the Road

Here’s How Microsoft Is Adding Voice Control and Gestures to the Xbox (Video)

in Commerce, December 4, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Videogame Consoles Still Selling Like Hotcakes, But How Much Life Is Left in the Aging Hardware?

in Commerce, December 1, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Roadshow: CEO Pincus Not Selling Shares in Upcoming Zynga IPO

in News, November 29, 2011 at 10:01 pm PT

Canada’s Rogers Plays Catch-Up to Groupon by Partnering With Group Commerce

Murdochs Are Re-Elected Amid Protest

in News, October 22, 2011 at 8:56 am PT