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...
View ArticleDigg'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...
View ArticleWavii 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleOut-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...
View ArticleCirca'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...
View ArticleThe 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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