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News Corp.'s Daily iPad Newspaper Launching "In the Next Few Weeks"

Peter Kafka in Media on January 25, 2011 at 7:18 am PT

Which is basically what we heard last week. Still, it’s the first public quasi-launch date we’ve heard from a News Corp. official. Inside: A sneak peek at something the Daily won’t feature at launch, but will eventually.

As Traffic Booms, Is HuffPo Ready to Make Some Real Dough?

Kara Swisher in News on October 20, 2009 at 9:21 am PT

For the past few months, the Huffington Post has been on a bit of a tear–both in terms of traffic gains and in its hiring of some big talent for key positions. Now, those execs are focusing on using that consumer momentum to achieve what has eluded the Huffington Post thus far: Making some serious bank from the privately held news and media site. Here’s a chat I had with new President and Chief Revenue Officer Greg Coleman about how he is aiming to do just that.

A Techtastically Busy Week: A Grab Bag of Digital Stuff to Consider

Kara Swisher in News on May 11, 2009 at 6:31 am PT

It’s another packed week for tech, especially in Silicon Valley, where the kibitzing never ends and the econalypse is almost completely ignored. As if you did not have enough to do, what with all that pointless tweeting, here are some choices for those who want a little analog action, including watching me annoy Facebook’s chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly, who is also trying to become California’s next Attorney General.

It's Actually About Figuring Out How to Sell the Sizzle and Not the Steak, Dean

Kara Swisher in News on April 7, 2009 at 12:01 am PT

BoomTown read a ton of the various columns reacting to the Associated Press’s announcement of a new initiative to–as near as I can tell–stop the Internet from being the Internet. I tease, as it is a lot more complicated than that. But AP board Chairman and MediaNews group CEO Dean Singleton seemed very exercised about his mission to “protect news content from misappropriation.” It’s going to surely be an interesting debate, kicked off by a very curious quote Singleton gave to paidContent.org: “Print is still the meat. Online’s the salt and pepper.” A tasty debate!

Slingbox, Sling.com Team Leaving Echostar

Peter Kafka in Media on January 12, 2009 at 1:03 pm PT

The top executives at Sling Media, the people who brought you the Slingbox “place-shifting” TV gadget and Hulu competitor Sling.com, are leaving Echostar, more than a year after they sold their start-up to the satellite TV company for $380 million cash. Brothers Blake and Jason Krikorian, CEO and SVP-business development, are out, effective immediately. Jason Hirschhorn, who runs the company’s Sling Media Entertainment unit, plans on staying through the end of February; Ben White, chief creative officer at the entertainment group, will stay on through Feb. 1.