Yet Another Media Aggregation Site? Yup. And You'll Read It: Techmeme Unveils...
Does the Web need yet another outlet dedicated to media coverage? Nope. How about another aggregation site? Plenty of those to go around too. So what if you combined the two? Exactly. But here’s a...
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Yahoo Snags Citizen Sports
BoomTown was right: Yahoo is indeed buying online sports site Citizen Sports, a developer of sports-related apps and games for Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone and for social networking sites like Facebook....
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Waxman to Wolff: Unhand My Content!
More shots fired in the great Web aggregation war. Or at least in the war between Sharon Waxman and Michael Wolff. The Wrap, the Hollywood news site Waxman runs, has demanded that Newser, the...
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Meet Flipboard: Mike McCue Talks About Stealth "Social Magazine" Start-Up...
Today, BoomTown gassed up the MINI and headed down to see one of the more innovative new start-ups I have encountered of late. That would be a new social magazine concept called Flipboard, which is...
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Will Facebook Debut a Foursquare-Lite Location Feature or a Real...
Later today, as BoomTown previously reported, Facebook is likely to show off what it has been working on for a while now in the geo-location arena. We’ll see whassup at 4:30 pm PT, when Facebook will...
View ArticleNew York Times Backs News-Aggregation Software Company
The New York Times Co. (NYT) is joining a group of news organizations in backing the maker of software that helps publishers aggregate news, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company,...
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Yahoo Announces a Bunch of Stuff It Already Announced (Except Local Deals,...
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco, Yahoo announced a bunch of new features, most of which the Silicon Valley Internet giant had already unveiled. (Yes, this is the riveting life...
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Exclusive: TMS Acquires Online Video Guide CastTV
Online video search start-up CastTV has been acquired by Tribune Media Services, the widely used entertainment guide metadata provider. CastTV was founded in 2006 by a husband and wife team, and had...
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New App Helps You Decide Whether to Buy or Walk Out Empty-Handed
Say goodbye to impulse buys. Smartphone applications are quickly becoming an easy way to judge a product on the spot, and figure out when to walk away if it’s not exactly what you are looking for....
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AOL-HuffPo Deal Officially Closes Today–More Big Media Hires Signal New...
AOL will officially close its $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post today, according to several sources close to the situation. The culmination of the deal–which has already been approved by...
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Exclusive: Yahoo News Head Moves to Disney.com, Which Will Get Big Redo
Yesterday, BoomTown reported that Mark Walker, the head of the powerful Yahoo News site, was leaving the Internet giant for another company. That company, sources said, will be Disney, where Walker...
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Exclusive: Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard. Today, its co-founder and...
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At Tomorrow's AOL Investor Day, Will "Execution" Focus Mean Cylinders Firing...
Talking to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong earlier this week about its investors day tomorrow, he used the word “execution” a lot. No, not the kind evoking a firing squad if he did not succeed at turning around...
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Ready for His Digital Close-Up: The NYT's Media Dude, David Carr, Talks About...
While I was in Los Angeles recently, I was invited to a private screening of a documentary about the New York Times called “Page One: Inside the New York Times.” The film, which debuted at the most...
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The Atlantic Launches a Video Aggregator With a Twist
The Atlantic, which added a photo section to its brainy Web site earlier this year, has taken the next logical step: A digital nook dedicated to moving pictures. The site’s new section joins many other...
View ArticleApple iPad News Reader Zite Sold to CNN for Just Over $20 Million
Zite, the magazine-style reading app for the Apple iPad, has been sold to news giant CNN for $20 million to $25 million. The arena for news readers on tablets and smartphones is competitive, with...
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Viral Video: Liz Gannes May (or May Not) See Hubski Now!
At AllThingsD, we love Liz Gannes too, but not quite as endearing-creepily as Steve Clausnitzer of Hubski, a “thoughtful” social aggregation site, does. Like a lot of start-ups, he wants our fantastic...
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Microsoft Finally Dumps Deal Provider Now Owned by Google
Microsoft has inked a new partnership with 8coupons to replace The Dealmap, which had been providing local offers to Bing Deals for about nine months. The partnership understandably ended once...
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A Sports Aggregator Finds a Home: Gannett Buys Quickish
The folks at Gannett, the newspaper publisher best known as the people who bring you USA Today, also want to be known for online sports. Here’s another move in that direction: The company’s USA Today...
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Digg's "Blank Slate" Approach Could Hinder Its Journey Back to Relevance
Once the darling of Web 2.0 enthusiasts the world around, social news aggregation site Digg fell from grace over the past three years. The final death rattle of the Digg we once knew sounded last...
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Wavii Gives a Fresh Look at the Political Landscape
Since its debut in April, Wavii’s big-data approach to news curation has been focused on the visual. Crawl the Web for news based on your selected interests, and Wavii presents an attractive...
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New Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro Hints at the Future of the Web Portal (Pro...
Hubert Burda Media/DLD Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro, right, in conversation at the DLD Munich conference Yahoo’s problem: It’s a king of the portal age of the Web, in a time where we’re shifting away...
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Out-Trending the Trendmakers: NewsWhip Says It Defeats Twitter and Facebook's...
Yes, it’s possible to stay on top of the news entirely from within Twitter and Facebook … but it takes work. Following the right number of people (so as not to get overwhelmed) posting about a broad...
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Circa's Matt Galligan on Building a Different Kind of News Reader (Video)
Earlier this week, I went for a visit to the San Francisco HQ of Circa, the startup that always seems to get lumped into the mobile news reader aggregation category with others such as Pulse, Zite and...
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The Race to Own Data Addressability Is Its Own "Game of Thrones"
Over the next three to five years, you can expect to see an already dynamic industry become more dramatic as many companies vie to be crowned “king” in the digital world of consumer addressability....
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