There Goes the Neighboorhood …
On the great list of words no tech executive ever wants to hear, “Google has entered your market” ranks right up there with “Microsoft’s made a hostile bid for the company” and “Hello, I’m Chris Hansen...
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New GM for IAC's Secret Tina Brown Project
OK, not that secret a project. BoomTown has known about it forever and Radar Online gave the lowdown about the creation of the hip-sounding news aggregator Web site–headed by high-profile editor Tina...
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Is The New York Times Selling About.com? No.
The New York Times (NYT) is in lousy shape, so it needs to sell off About.com, the kind-of-portal, kind-of-blog-aggregator it bought from Primedia in 2005. So says Jason Calacanis, whose Mahalo.com is...
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Huffington Post Nabs $25 Million in Funding–Here's a BoomTown Interview With...
The Huffington Post will announce this morning that it has raised $25 million, in a single investment from Oak Investment Partners. The large round by Oak, which was led by Palo Alto, Calif.-based...
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Another Critic Tries Stomping on the Long Tail
Wired Editor’s Chris Anderson’s “Long Tail” theory–in a nutshell, that the Internet would allow a huge market of niche products to survive and thrive–is one of the more influential memes of the past...
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AP Shakes Fist at Google, Tells Internet to Get Off Its Damn Lawn
The Associated Press is fed up with…the Internet, apparently. And it’s going to do…something about it. At the news-gathering co-op’s annual meeting today, AP chairman Dean Singleton let rip a sort of...
View ArticleControversial Web 'Framing' Makes a Comeback
When Digg introduced a new toolbar in early April that added a thin strip – known as a ‘frame’ – to the top of pages submitted to Digg, a publisher outcry forced the social media aggregator to back...
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Portfolio Lives! Sort Of: Web Site Adopted by Condé Nast's Corporate Cousin.
Never say never: Condé Nast, which is closing down its Portfolio business magazine, has decided not to turn off the lights at Portfolio.com. Instead, it is shifting control of the Web site–essentially,...
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An Indie Label Sounds Off: Why We Don't Love Grooveshark
When a big music label sues a scrappy Web music start-up, most people tend to sympathize reflexively with the little guy. But not everyone. My story about EMI’s lawsuit against Web music start-up...
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Google Buzz Isn't Exactly Humming Along
These days, it’s near impossible to use a computer without running into a social network. Web sites encourage people to “tweet” links to their articles via Twitter; photo-sharing sites nudge users to...
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What Do Rush and NPR Have in Common? Internet Talk Radio Hub Stitcher Nabs $6...
Online talk radio aggregator Stitcher nabbed $6 million from Benchmark Capital and will use the money to give radio blabbermouth Rush Limbaugh, as well as the endlessly talking heads of National...
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Back to the Future: True/Slant CEO Lewis DVorkin Moonlighting as Redesign...
A weird move that also makes sense: Troubled Forbes Media has brought in Lewis DVorkin, a former editor at the business publisher, as a consultant for a redesign of the Forbes Web site “and other...
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Ford Launches Voice Control of Apps in Car: No More Phone-Fiddling While...
Ford, which has been trying to fast-forward its automobiles in the digital space, announced today that its 2011 Fiesta model will be the first vehicle in which smartphone apps can be voice-controlled...
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Appolicious Signs Partnership to Integrate With Yahoo
Although serial entrepreneur Al Warms sold his start-up to Yahoo and ultimately left the Internet giant to launch a new one, he is coming back a bit via an interesting partnership. Warms’s Appolicious...
View ArticleInside Ford's App-Happy Fiesta–But No Manilow (and BoomTown is a Fanilow)!
Last week, outside the Facebook f8 developers conference, BoomTown checked out the new 2011 Fiesta model, which will be the first vehicle in which smartphone apps can be voice-controlled via its in-car...
View ArticleVideo: BoomTown Meets Five Non-SV Techie Dudes in 10 Minutes in Boston
BoomTown made a trip recently to Boston, where Walt Mossberg and I talked in front of hundreds of East Coast entrepreneurs and investors at an event put on by General Catalyst Partners. The appeal for...
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Pulse iPad App Gets Steve Jobs's Praise in Morning…Then Booted From App Store...
Yesterday morning, the pair of Stanford University graduate students who made the hot news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, were ecstatic to be mentioned first–for being among the most promising...
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Meet the Two Grad Students Who Freaked Out the NYT–The Pulse iPad App...
The first thing to strike you about the pair of Stanford University graduate students (pictured here) who made the banned and then unbanned news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, is how they look...
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Exclusive: Digg Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer Departs for Start-Up
Chas Edwards (pictured here), the publisher and chief revenue officer for Digg, the social news discovery service, is leaving the San Francisco company, according to sources. The exec, who came to...
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Digg Lays Off More Than One-Third of Staff as It Seeks to Cut Costs
Digg has announced it is laying off 25 of its 67 staffers today, part of an attempt by the San Francisco social news discovery site to rationalize its costs. In an interview with BoomTown this...
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