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A Few New Reasons to Reunite With Twitter.com

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on December 13, 2011 at 4:36 pm PT

Twitter.com has revamped its site to make it more approachable and easier to use, particularly for tweeting newbies.

Is It a Tutor, a Child Monitor or a Toy? No, It’s a Kibot (AsiaD Demo)

Bo Kim in AsiaD on October 19, 2011 at 11:42 pm PT

In a demo live on the AsiaD stage, Korea Telecom unveiled Kibot — a kid-seeking, language-teaching, monkey-looking robot aimed at young children and the parents who want to keep an eye on them.

A Digital “Magazine” With One Subscriber

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on March 8, 2011 at 9:05 pm PT

A new iPad app called Zite makes the news-gathering process a lot easier. The app crawls over half a million Web domains to find specific reading material that would be of interest to users, according to their social network and online reading behavior.

1000Memories Funded by Greylock, Angels

Liz Gannes in Social on February 16, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

1000Memories, the social media site for friends and family to memorialize loved ones who’ve passed away, is disclosing today it has raised $3 million worth of funding.

Rupert Murdoch Introduces the Daily, His iPad Newspaper

Peter Kafka in Media on February 2, 2011 at 7:40 am PT

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, along with Apple’s Eddy Cue, rented out the Guggenheim Museum to show off their newest creation: A newspaper built for the iPad.

Perfect Market Raises Another $9 Million to Help Papers Sell Old News

Peter Kafka in Media on January 17, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Perfect Market doesn’t promise to save the newspaper business. But the company says it can help papers wring more money out of the stuff they’re already making.

Man Bites Dog! Web Publisher Pays Writers

Peter Kafka in Media on January 16, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Financial chatter site Seeking Alpha, which has relied on free stories from thousands of contributors for the past seven years, shifts strategies.

The New York Times Officially Starts Construction on Its Pay Wall: “Metered Model” Coming 2011

Peter Kafka in Media on January 20, 2010 at 6:39 am PT

After much consideration, the New York Times has finally decided to start charging readers for access to its Web site. But not for a while: The Times says it will introduce a “metered model” for NYT.com in 2011.

AOL Automates Its Story Factory. Does That Kill an Associated Content Deal?

Peter Kafka in Media on November 30, 2009 at 4:45 am PT

AOL is cutting its payroll by one-third. Now comes its plan to make the remaining employees more productive: New technology that assigns and even edits stories automatically. That sounds an awful lot like Associated Content, a start-up that AOL CEO Tim Armstrong invested in–and considered buying–earlier this year.