Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 2, 2010 at 5:20 am PT
WikiLeaks, the site infamous for exposing America’s diplomatic dirty laundry, has confirmed via its
Twitter feed that it is no longer hosting its files on Amazon’s servers.
The move comes as Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut–who was a onetime vice-presidential nominee and who is also chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee–had called for Amazon to cut its ties to Wikileaks.
Spencer E. Ante and Ben Worthen, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 11, 2010 at 8:59 am PT
Gawker Media said Friday on its Valleywag blog that it has been contacted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was told to hold on to relevant documents related to a possible security breach of AT&T Inc.’s website that exposed the email addresses of some owners of Apple Inc. iPad devices.
John Paczkowski in News on June 9, 2010 at 3:05 pm PT
Well, this doesn’t bode well for Apple-AT&T relations. A security breach at AT&T has exposed the email addresses of more than 100,000 iPad owners–among them a who’s-who of the media and political elite.
Kara Swisher in News on November 10, 2009 at 12:00 am PT
Essentially–although AOL is located in New York and not California–it’s going to be like tremors before the Big One at the online company today as about 100 employees are set to be laid off by management.
It is part of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s “Project Everest”–the code name for cost-cutting across the company. After this small cut, there could be a call for voluntary departures, followed by a much more drastic layoff.
The action comes in the same timeframe as the online site’s spinoff from Time Warner.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 10, 2009 at 3:35 pm PT
Is Time Inc. building a Kindle Killer? Nope.
A report suggests that Time Inc. wants to get into the hardware business and produce its own e-reader.
That’s something other publishers, like Hearst and News Corp., are actually doing or have at least mulled. But multiple sources familiar with the Time Warner unit’s thinking say that’s not the case here.
Beth Callaghan in News on May 2, 2009 at 12:00 am PT
If there was an over-arching theme for this last week on All Things D, it would have to be musical chairs.
Brand new MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta started things off Monday with his first day on the job. He was joined by new COO and former AOL exec Mike Jones and new chief product officer and former Sling Media exec Jason Hirschhorn.
Kara Swisher in News on May 1, 2009 at 9:20 pm PT
Was it Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in Fraiche Yogurt with a Macbook Air? Or Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the streets of San Francisco with a Model S? Or, most likely of all, Marissa Mayer of Google in the penthouse with a Manolo Blahnik spiked heel?
For all the invective this trio has taken from him, all would certainly be prime suspects if some nefarious fate befell Valleywag’s always controversial gossip blogger, Owen Thomas.
Actually, the truth is a little more mundane: The self-described “scourge of [Silicon] Valley” is moving onto another digital job as head of NBC Universal’s new Bay Area Web site, whose motto is “Locals Only.” Deceptively fresh-faced Ryan Tate is his replacement.
Here are Thomas’s last words on the controversial gossip site.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 26, 2009 at 12:52 pm PT
Google is laying off 200 people from its sales and marketing group, the company announced today in a blog posting. Google has some 20,000 employees, so the scale of the sackings isn’t earth-shaking news. But the fact that they come from the group that Tim Armstrong ran until he decamped for AOL is interesting.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 14, 2009 at 7:37 pm PT
The tech news aggregator used to rely solely on algorithm to divine what was important on the Web. Now it’s added a human, who happens to be a lot of fun to chat with.
Kara Swisher in News on January 18, 2009 at 1:07 am PT
It wasn’t just Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer meeting in New York last week.
According to several sources close to the situation, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes rounded out the trio of chit-chatting execs, presumably gathered to discuss possible partnerships and other deals between and amongst the companies whose digital assets are among the largest on the Web.
Although the possibilities are numerous, exactly what Bostock, Ballmer and Bewkes–let’s call them the Busy B’s from here on out–were cooking up is unclear.
