Tom Loftus, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on December 2, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
YouTube unveiled its largest redesign yet Thursday, bringing user personalization and the video Web site’s growing selection of programming topics, or “channels,” front and center.
Sam Schechner and Matt Jarzemsky, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Media on November 8, 2011 at 10:22 am PT
Dish Network Corp. has approached several media companies about the possibility of licensing their TV channels for use on a new pay-TV service to be delivered over the Internet, rather than over Dish’s satellite system, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Kara Swisher in News on October 20, 2011 at 2:51 am PT
Scott Moore, who runs the U.S. arm of Microsoft’s MSN portal, is leaving the building. Thank you very much.
Kara Swisher in Media on September 7, 2011 at 8:08 am PT
AOL’s media arm, the Huffington Post Media Group, has hired longtime Google techie Tim Dierks to oversee its growing programming engineering team as SVP of engineering.
Kara Swisher in Media on September 6, 2011 at 8:37 am PT
Another ones bites the dust: According to sources close to the situation, longtime Yahoo Front Page chief Liz Lufkin has parted ways with the company.
Kara Swisher in Media on June 10, 2011 at 6:01 am PT
As readers of mine know, I write a semi-ranty post now and again about the lack of women in high-level tech jobs and on the boards of its major companies.
This fall, Glamour magazine and I will be asking about that lack of women. And — fair warning — we have a lot of questions.
News Byte
Voices in News on April 8, 2011 at 10:20 am PT
YouTube’s move into live streaming took a big step forward today with
the initial rollout of YouTube Live, which will integrate the tools for producing and discovering live feeds into the site’s core system for the first time. Google’s video site is also opening its streaming platform to approved YouTube partners and hopes thousands of them will climb aboard. The amount of live programming now warrants
its own viewing guide page.
Jessica E. Vascellaro and Amir Efrati, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 6, 2011 at 1:16 pm PT
Google Inc.’s YouTube video website is working on a major site overhaul to organize its content around “channels” as it positions itself for the rise of Internet-connected televisions that allow people to watch online video in their living rooms, according to people familiar with the matter.
Kara Swisher in News on March 16, 2011 at 3:27 pm PT
Yesterday, BoomTown reported that Mark Walker, the head of the powerful Yahoo News site, was leaving the Internet giant for another company.
That company, sources said, will be Disney, where Walker will be leading a major overhaul of its flagship Disney.com site.
Kara Swisher in News on March 8, 2011 at 2:47 pm PT
Right before the Oscars, BoomTown motored up to Petaluma, Calif., a lovely town in Northern California, to be in studio on Leo Laporte’s “This Week in Tech” online show.
TWiT is just one of the more than two dozen online video shows put out by the energetic Laporte via the TWiT Netcast Network, whose expansion has been heartening to see given the programming–though decidedly geeky–is really top-notch.
