68 posts and columns on The Verge
Vox Media Spends Some of Its Giant Funding Round on Lockhart Steele’s Curbed Network
A blogging pioneer sells his company to a blogging powerhouse.Booming Vox Media, the People Behind The Verge and SB Nation, Raises Another Huge Round
Investors aren’t supposed to go near content. But Jim Bankoff has now raised nearly $75 million for digital publishing.Plainfield WI Charming 1BR House! Location!! $85 per Night.
There is definitely an intriguing connection between the decline of serial killers and the rise of this sharing culture. These startups reflect how much our anxieties have eased.
— Harold Schecter, Queens College professor and true-crime writer, on what he believes is the correlation between the rise of the sharing economy and the decline of the serial killer
Just How Bad Are Ouya’s Paid Conversion Numbers?
Maybe not as bad as the headline writers seem to think.Microsoft’s Anti-Google Campaign Gets a Boost, From Google
Google tells Microsoft to turn off a home-grown YouTube app. Microsoft couldn’t be happier.Back Online
So much ink has been spilled deriding the false concept of a “Facebook friend,” but I can tell you that a “Facebook friend” is better than nothing.
— Paul Miller, writing for The Verge, after being offline for a year
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Microsoft Will Unveil New Xbox May 21
Microsoft will show off its next-generation Xbox videogame console at its Redmond, Wash., campus on May 21, according to invitations sent to reporters today. The Verge previously reported that the new Xbox, code-named Durango, will interact with owners’ cable boxes. Microsoft’s Nancy Tellem and Yusuf Mehdi shared numbers about its current living room fixture, the seven-year-old Xbox 360, at D: Dive Into Media in February.Valve Pledges to Enter Videogame Console Wars With “Steam Box”
Valve’s co-founder Gabe Newell tells The Verge in an interview that the box will run Linux and be able to connect to eight TVs and eight controllers.Let the Games Begin: Vox Media Launches a New Site Covering Videogames
Meet Polygon, the newest member of the Vox Media family, which until today consisted of The Verge and SB Nation.News Byte