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Apple iPad News Reader Zite Sold to CNN for Just Over $20 Million

Kara Swisher in Media on August 30, 2011 at 10:06 am PT

Zite, the magazine-style reading app for the Apple iPad, has been sold to news giant CNN for $20 million to $25 million.

The Future of Social Media at AllThingsD

Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg in News on August 15, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

AllThingsD has undergone a few changes to the social media on our site, including adding a social media editor, Drake Martinet.

When Media Giants Attack! Cease-and-Desist Letter to News Reader Zite Claims All Kinds of Copyright Damage

Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:24 pm PT

A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app. The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty, Time, Dow Jones and many other media organizations were part of the copyright violations action, which you can read all about after the jump.

Viral Video: "Page One" at Sundance

Kara Swisher in News on January 20, 2011 at 12:39 am PT

One of the more interesting movies at the 11th Sundance Film Festival, which opens today in Park City, Utah, will be “Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times.” The documentary is by Andrew Rossi, who spent a year following reporters and editors at the newspaper, even as the media landscape shifted dramatically due to the impact of digital technologies.

2010 Was the Year the Internet Got Scary. Get Used to It.

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 30, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

The year just ending started with an attack on Google by China and ended with the WikiLeaks affair. In the meantime, the Stuxnet worm showed the way toward a world where skilled hackers can cause serious real-world damage. Scared yet?

Enter the Chernin? Former News Corp. President and COO in Yahoo What-If Mix

Kara Swisher in News on November 17, 2010 at 1:58 pm PT

Things have certainly quieted down in the swirl of mostly vapor plots about the future of Yahoo, although the pondering, machinating and such on the parts of a variety of players have most certainly continued. And that includes the introduction of a new character into the drama: Former News Corp. President Peter Chernin. Let’s be clear–there are no deals brewing, but there is a lot of interest in involving the well-regarded media exec in the situation.

How Do You Define “Market Share”? Ask Google Dictionary.

Peter Kafka in Media on December 4, 2009 at 6:21 am PT

Just in case you needed one, Google offers yet another reason not to pick up a book: Google Dictionary, which is exactly what it sounds like.

TwitterGate: Out Damned Spot!

Kara Swisher in News on July 16, 2009 at 3:10 am PT

For all the noisy hubbub over should-we-or-shouldn’t-we-publish confidential documents hacked from password-protected accounts of Twitter employees, as well as a Twitter spouse, it is actually pretty simple. Stolen equals stolen. But, because this is a “hot” issue and it concerns an even hotter Web 2.0 company–Holy traffic-gooser, Batman!–the debate will surely go on and on, even as the stolen information inevitably leaks its way out. Still, let’s not pretend what it is and is not.

Deal or No Deal? Oops, No Deal!

Kara Swisher in News on June 25, 2008 at 4:22 am PT

Look, a Yahoo-Microsoft deal could happen anytime. Just not yesterday, as it turns out. It’s easy to be taken in by so-called “sources,” chatting up a new series of talks between Microsoft and Yahoo, either to do a deal to revisit the partial search-outsourcing partnership or to try to one-up that by claiming rather grandly that there is yet another effort to buy the company whole. But with Yahoo’s stock dropping like a knife and hovering near the dangerous $20-a-share mark yesterday, anyone reporting on the situation should have been deeply cautious about floating rumors about renewed deal-making between the star-crossed pair. As it is often said, there’s one born every minute.