8 posts and columns on Ryan Tate

As Amazon Cuts Off WikiLeaks, Sen. Joe Lieberman Claims a Pointless Victory

in Enterprise on December 2, 2010 at 5:20 am PT

WikiLeaks, the site infamous for exposing America’s diplomatic dirty laundry, has confirmed via its Twitter feed that it is no longer hosting its files on Amazon’s servers. The move comes as Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut–who was a onetime vice-presidential nominee and who is also chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee–had called for Amazon to cut its ties to Wikileaks.

Don’t Kid Yourself, Mobile Ad Companies: Apple Really Does Want to Lock Up the App Market

in Media on May 17, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Maybe Apple wants to protect users’ privacy. Maybe it has other motives. Whatever the reason, it looks like the company really does want to make it hard for outsiders to sell ads on Apple’s apps.

AOL: Small Layoff Today, a Voluntary Buyout and, Then…the Big One

in News on November 10, 2009 at 12:00 am PT

Essentially–although AOL is located in New York and not California–it’s going to be like tremors before the Big One at the online company today as about 100 employees are set to be laid off by management. It is part of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s “Project Everest”–the code name for cost-cutting across the company. After this small cut, there could be a call for voluntary departures, followed by a much more drastic layoff. The action comes in the same timeframe as the online site’s spinoff from Time Warner.
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Weekend Update 5.03.09–Special Musical Chairs Edition

in News on May 2, 2009 at 12:00 am PT

If there was an over-arching theme for this last week on All Things D, it would have to be musical chairs. Brand new MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta started things off Monday with his first day on the job. He was joined by new COO and former AOL exec Mike Jones and new chief product officer and former Sling Media exec Jason Hirschhorn.
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Who Shot Valleywag? Gossip Bloggers Thomas (Outgoing) and Tate (Incoming) Speak!

in News on May 1, 2009 at 9:20 pm PT

Was it Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in Fraiche Yogurt with a Macbook Air? Or Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the streets of San Francisco with a Model S? Or, most likely of all, Marissa Mayer of Google in the penthouse with a Manolo Blahnik spiked heel? For all the invective this trio has taken from him, all would certainly be prime suspects if some nefarious fate befell Valleywag’s always controversial gossip blogger, Owen Thomas. Actually, the truth is a little more mundane: The self-described “scourge of [Silicon] Valley” is moving onto another digital job as head of NBC Universal’s new Bay Area Web site, whose motto is “Locals Only.” Deceptively fresh-faced Ryan Tate is his replacement. Here are Thomas’s last words on the controversial gossip site.
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