GigaomIt’s Facebook Vs. Twitter In the Race to Make the News Social
Facebook CTO Bret Taylor said in a recent interview that he sees the news business as the next industry that the social network can help to disrupt — but that goal… Read more »
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Facebook CTO Bret Taylor said in a recent interview that he sees the news business as the next industry that the social network can help to disrupt — but that goal… Read more »
One of the more high-profile experiments in hyper-local news, a Washington, D.C.-based startup with the unlikely name TBD, has had a somewhat troubled history — losing its general manager just months… Read more »
In less than six years, Arianna Huffington and her team built a media operation second only to the New York Times in terms of traffic, and almost as valuable, while traditional… Read more »
Although it is far from a guaranteed win, AOL’s purchase of the Huffington Post makes a lot of sense for both sides. The latter gets the scale it couldn’t afford to… Read more »
When WikiLeaks first appeared on the scene, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller made it clear that he did not consider leader Julian Assange a journalist, or WikiLeaks a journalistic… Read more »
Demand Media, which went public recently at a market value of $1.5 billion, has been under fire for the quality of the content that comes from its eHow division. Josh Hannah,… Read more »
Author Malcolm Gladwell, who wrote a critical piece in the New Yorker about the role of social media in activism, has weighed in with his thoughts on the current situation in… Read more »
Storify, a San Francisco-based startup that launched a social-media aggregation service for journalists last fall, has closed a $2-million Series A round of funding from Khosla Ventures. Founder and former Associated… Read more »
The lessons of how to adapt to the web and take advantage of it are not complicated, if media outlets are willing to listen. If you are engaged in a business… Read more »