The influence of the blogosphere and online sites in politics, which was writ large in the last presidential election, will come as no surprise in the upcoming one.
Today, The Wall Street Journal’s Amy Schatz looks at the impact of bloggers for a site called Blue Hampshire.
The influential site in the New Hampshire primary only [...]
Don’t miss this most excellent article by Jessica E. Vascellaro in The Wall Street Journal this past weekend about the mogul-tussle–an Olympic sport!–between IAC/InterActiveCorp.’s Barry Diller and John Malone of Liberty Media (both pictured here).
It’s called: “Can This Marriage Be Saved?” And what are they fighting over? Control, of course, and big piles of money [...]
Did I wangle a seat right next to soon-to-be Dow Jones owner Rupert Murdoch last night at the Web 2.0 Summit dinner?
Of course I did, continuing in the shameless BoomTown tradition of trying to get gratis meals with moguls (like our ongoing efforts to raise money for DonorsChoose.org and get a free lunch with Yahoo [...]
Put your feet up and watch some dandy videos from WSJ Online and MarketWatch, our very nice relatives at Dow Jones (AllThingsD is the crazy cousin of this family and Rupe is our new parental unit).
First, Microsoft unveils newest Zune Media players, in attractive guano-green, as the clever Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski notes in [...]
I got a lot of reaction from my piece earlier this week poking holes in the recent round of funding that hotsy-totsy social-networking site Facebook was looking for.
Two weeks ago, I broke the news that the start-up was looking to raise more investment dollars at an insanely high valuation from patsies–oops, I mean investors–like Microsoft, [...]
As we have predicted (and advocated) many times in BoomTown, including in this post titled “Free to Be, Rupe and We,” News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch indicated yesterday that he is strongly considering taking down the paid wall at The Wall Street Journal’s online site.
Murdoch, the new owner of Dow Jones (and, by extension, [...]
The Wall Street Journal’s Kevin Delaney had a nice round-up story yesterday about the slowness of Yahoo CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang’s 100-day Vision Quest to turn around the company, a story we have covered obsessively in this blog.
The summary: Not much change coming for the company, which Yang promised to clean up, noting there [...]
Have we learned nothing from the sham that is LonelyGirl15 on MySpace?
If not, don’t miss this story in The Wall Street Journal today about a 24-year-old guitar-strumming singer named Marié Digby, whose fans on YouTube thought her an authentic, bubble-up amateur.
Uh-oh, she has turned out to be more of a creation of a Hollywood recording [...]
Are we masochistic to love the Google move to allow subjects in articles to comment right next to the news stories?
As anyone who knows newspaper folks knows, we have been dragged kicking and screaming into the highly interactive social-media space. No matter what they say, in the past at least, few journalists welcomed the [...]
Should The Wall Street Journal’s paid site, WSJ.com, become free now that media mogul Rupert Murdoch has bought Dow Jones?
That debate has been all over the Web since News Corp. won its battle to buy Dow Jones (owner of this site) last week, including posts by Jeff Jarvis and Fred Wilson in favor of the [...]
Of course they’re doing a phone.
So let’s just all agree to suspend the will-they-or-won’t-they speculation over the much rumored GPhone from Google.
The Wall Street Journal’s Kevin Delaney and Amol Sharma wrote a nice wrap-up yesterday of the plans by the search giant to create a mobile handset.
And why not, especially since a lot of [...]
Of course, chatter on the News Corp. takeover of Dow Jones was all over the Web today.
And it had that predictable pattern–either a lot of agonized agony about the end of journalism as we know it or an untoward celebration about what a crafty deal-maker News Corp. kahuna Rupert Murdoch is.
We’ll see about all [...]
It’s was too hard to resist slapping up a mutated version of that most classic of tabloid headlines (however senseless) from the New York Post, which is now apparently a sister publication of AllThingsD.com, as the endless quest of media mogul Rupert Murdoch finally ends in his victory.
News Corp. acquired Dow Jones (owner of this site, as well as the flagship Wall Street Journal) for $5 billion and some change after the public hand-wringing of the conflicted Bancroft family finally gave way to financial reality late yesterday.
While the hunt has been a fascinating business story (as well as a family saga of the most classic variety), I am mostly interested to see what the deal will mean to the digital side of Dow Jones and the impact it will feel from what most consider to be one of the most digitally fast forward of traditional media companies.
Given all the management upheaval at Yahoo, it is nice that The Wall Street Journal’s Kevin Delaney focused his attention on what might someday come for the current leader, Google, which gets to be the can-do-no-wrong company of the moment, a status Yahoo used to own.
Two years ago at the D5 conference in an interview onstage, I asked Steve Jobs when Apple was going to release a mobile device.
Jobs demurred, as you can see here in a snippet of this longish video of highlights below from the first four D events.
He then famously noted that he was not too [...]
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