Kara Swisher in Media on December 14, 2011 at 6:20 am PT
The South Korean consumer electronics giant is upping its media game against more aggressive rivals like Google, Apple and Amazon.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 30, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
You want to rent, but Hollywood wants you to buy. And a Sony experiment sounds promising for the studios.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 12, 2011 at 5:35 am PT
Another Hollywod “window” experiment.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 11, 2011 at 3:30 am PT
Will the ability to download “Horrible Bosses” onto your iPad make you more likely to buy “Horrible Bosses” on Blu-ray?
Kara Swisher in Media on September 7, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
While the Yahoo board has yet to begin a search, I have already been hard at work on selecting the next CEO.
Walt Mossberg in Mossblog on August 24, 2011 at 6:18 pm PT
Why the day Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple isn’t like the day a typical CEO resigns.
Kara Swisher in Media on June 20, 2011 at 12:02 pm PT
Maker Studios, a new-generation production company, has just gotten another $2.5 million in venture funding to help it make videos, mostly for YouTube.
That brings total funding from Greycroft Partners and GRP Partners to $4 million for a studio created to bring more professional original content to the Internet.
Kara Swisher in News on April 6, 2011 at 1:28 pm PT
Yesterday, AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to “contribute as part of our non-paid blogger system.”
Today, sources said that exec–Moviefone Editor-in-Chief Patricia Chui–was fired by the company, which is in the midst of drastically rejiggering its stable of writers.
Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:43 am PT
In an interview BoomTown did yesterday with Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving–the video of which will be posted later today–at the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s HQ in Sunnyvale, he managed to actually give me some news to report: the hire of crackerjack user experience designer Tim Parsey as SVP of User Experience Design.
