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Peter Kafka in Media on September 21, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
Stitcher, which helps mobile-phone users stream talk shows, news updates and podcasts to their iPhones, BlackBerrys, etc., has raised a $10 million C round led by New Enterprise Associates. Earlier investors Benchmark Capital, New Atlantic Ventures, and Ron Conway re-upped as well. Stitcher promises users it can help them get their content more quickly than downloading via intermediaries like iTunes; it tells advertisers it can aggregate large groups of listeners. It has raised $20 million to date.
Kara Swisher in News on September 9, 2011 at 10:49 am PT
Do I have something to say about the clown circuses going on at both Yahoo and AOL this week? You
bet I do.
Kara Swisher in News on April 3, 2011 at 7:34 pm PT
Jim Bankoff, the fomer AOL exec responsible for buying Engadget for the Internet portal, has grabbed eight staffers who had recently left the huge tech site amid tensions, in order to start a new gadget property for his SB Nation sports and news platform.
The site–which is still unnamed and will be run by outgoing Engadget Editor-in-Chief Josh Topolsky–will debut sometime in the fall.
Meanwhile, AOL has zeroed in on a new leader to replace Topolsky.
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Peter Kafka in Media on January 20, 2011 at 10:35 am PT
Lots of people listen to
Adam Carolla for free over the Internet. And in a couple weeks, they can start paying to see him: The podcasting star will start selling access to a live video stream of his show via
Ustream. He’ll charge $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year. Carolla, who used to make a lot of money as a TV and radio personality, is
still trying to figure out how to turn Internet popularity into real dollars; this revenue stream will complement ones he’s got coming in from podcast sponsorships, live shows and a best-selling book.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 11, 2010 at 12:19 pm PT
Here’s a variation on the “old media star bails for new media outlet” story–a new media star staying put at the place that made him famous.
John Paczkowski in D8 on June 17, 2010 at 8:09 am PT
Since the close of the eighth
D: All Things Digital conference, we’ve been inundated with requests for a downloadable version of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s opening night session with co-hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Given their number, we’ve decided to oblige. The full Jobs session is now available on iTunes as both a video and audio podcast.
Kara Swisher in News on March 26, 2010 at 1:52 am PT
This video on Kelvington’s Parody Channel on YouTube just cracks me up.
The video maker notes that Molly Wood of CNET’s “Buzz Out Loud” podcast “issued a challenge today to make an Apple vs. Predator video.”
Mission accomplished, but with litigation to come apparently.
Kara Swisher in News on February 24, 2010 at 3:00 am PT
Here’s a podcast I did last Friday on a very good show, “The A-List with Jennifer Lindsay,” on Blog Talk Radio.
I like podcasts a lot. In this one, Lindsay interviews me about covering the early Internet, including my years on the chain gang covering AOL, as well as my long and checkered career.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 14, 2010 at 3:30 am PT
Has the New York Times finally started charging people to read its news online? Not yet. But people who aren’t the New York Times are using the paper’s name and charging iPhone users to read the paper’s stuff–with Apple’s blessing. What gives?
John Paczkowski in News on October 29, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT
It has been about two years since Apple last released a major firmware update for its Apple TV platform, so the release of Apple TV 3.0 today will come as welcome news to those who own the device. 3.0 is largely as rumored: Adding support for both iTunes LP and iTunes Extras.
