BuzzFeed has closed a new financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz that values the company at close to a billion dollars. But can founder Jonah Peretti make BuzzFeed a globe-spanning media… Read more »
Making fun of Silicon Valley and some of the silly startup ideas that get funded has become a popular sport, but as Y Combinator’s Sam Altman points out, great things often… Read more »
ReservationHop is just the latest startup idea to trigger a firestorm of criticism from those who see its service as unethical. Just because a financial opportunity might exist in a particular… Read more »
Quibb, a startup that offers an exclusive content-sharing network for professional users, is experimenting with crowdfunding via an Alphaworks widget that allows users to join in a VC round directly from… Read more »
The backlash to the acquisition of Oculus VR by Facebook — from backers who had helped finance the startup on Kickstarter — says a lot about the personal and emotional connection… Read more »
Many companies have tried to come up with a single service that allows teams to work effectively without email, but former Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield believes he has done it with… Read more »
Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is reportedly working on a secretive startup called The Fremont Project that wants to build a Hulu-style model for magazines and other content — but the… Read more »
During a Twitter discussion about the recent court decision striking down net neutrality, entrepreneur-turned-VC Marc Andreessen talked about the need for massive investment in new network technologies and how to balance… Read more »
It’s easy to get demoralized by all of the upheaval and chaos in the media sphere, but there are plenty of reasons for optimism about both media in general and journalism,… Read more »
After a year as a new-media startup. Matter says it has learned a number of lessons about online journalism — including the fact that paywalls make it hard to attract new… Read more »