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David Carey Says Hearst Is No Time Inc.
Time Warner is so down on the magazine business that it is going to dump/spin off Time Inc., the world’s biggest magazine publisher. But other magazine publishers insist things are fine. Or if not...
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With New Social App Swoon, People Discovery Is a Thumb-Flick Away
And like that, it’s as easy as a flick of the thumb to decide on turning a virtual relationship into a face-to-face meeting. I’m talking about Swoon, a new, real-world, Android-based discovery app,...
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HP's Future, ESPN's March Madness and Jerry Yang Strikes Back: The AllThingsD...
Aspen Photo / Shutterstock.comAnother week is over, but AllThingsD doesn’t stop. Here’s a sampling of our top stories from the week of March 18: 1.) ESPN’s Cunning Plan to Stream March Madness: Head to...
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Actually, Amazon Paid About $150 Million for Goodreads
According to sources, Amazon paid about $150 million for Goodreads, the popular books recommendation service. But that number could close in on $200 million, if certain performance metrics are met....
View ArticleTwitter Beefs Up Cards Technology to Attract Mobile Developers
As we reported it would last week, Twitter on Tuesday evening announced an expansion to its Cards technology program, aiming to encourage more mobile developers to create customized, multimedia-based...
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Confirmed: Apple Kicks AppGratis Out of the Store for Being Too Pushy
Apple has ousted a popular app-discovery application from its iTunes App Store, claiming the app circumvented App Store rules preventing applications promoting other apps and direct marketing. On...
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Foursquare's iOS Update Brings Search to the Forefront
Continuing its push into the location discovery and recommendation space, Foursquare will update its iOS mobile app on Wednesday morning, moving the service’s search capabilities to the front and...
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Shark Week Plus Web Video Plus Comedy = YouTube's New Ad Pitch
YouTube wants to be more like TV – at least when it comes to attracting TV ad dollars. So here’s its latest strategy: Copy TV’s programming stunts. Specifically, copy Discovery’s “Shark Week” — the...
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Twitter, Discovery and the Problem of Simplicity
Here’s a wonderful tale of tech irony: Twitter’s greatest strength — its simplicity — is at the same time its greatest weakness. Imagine being Michael Sippey, Twitter’s VP of product, who spoke at our...
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WhatsApp, Snapchat and the Real "Second Screen" — 10 Things You Missed at Day...
Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com And that’s a wrap! After Monday’s half-day kickoff to D: Dive Into Mobile — Global Edition, Tuesday saw a full day of great speakers on topics ranging from messaging to...
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Twitter Testing New Local Discovery Features -- And It's About Time
Twitter may be the best way to figure out what’s happening around the world right now. But it sure ain’t great at telling me what’s going on in my world — that is, what’s happening down the block from...
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LivingSocial, Netflix and the Galaxy S 4 Reviewed -- 10 Things You Need to...
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick weekend roundup of the news that powered AllThingsD.com this week: Daily-deals site LivingSocial was hacked, compromising the names, emails, birthdates and...
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Content Gains Allow Demand Media to Beat Wall Street Expectations on Q1...
Demand Media, the online content company, said it had earned nine cents on an adjusted basis in the first quarter, on revenues of $100.6 million, topping Wall Street estimates of eight cents on $99.6...
View ArticleTwitter Adds More Video Advertisers
Twitter is stepping up its video ads plans by adding a new list of advertisers to a program it has been tinkering with for the past few months, and giving the product a name: Twitter Amplify. New...
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Bahat to Head $75 Million Bloomberg Beta Tech Fund
Bloomberg is launching Bloomberg Beta, a new $75 million venture capital tech fund that will be headed by former IGN head Roy Bahat. The newly minted VC is charged with investing in and also creating...
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Time Warner Cable Says It's Blocking Some Programmers from the Web -- But...
jnumber9 / Shutterstock.com Is Time Warner Cable blocking some TV programmers from selling their stuff to online video outlets? Yes we are, says Time Warner Cable. Here’s the company’s response to a...
View ArticleOutbrain Exec Guttman Hired to Oversee SoftBank's $51 Million NY-Focused...
Josh Guttman, who has most recently been an exec at content discovery platform Outbrain, has become a partner at Softbank Capital to manage its New York-focused startup fund. Guttman, who is an active...
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Facebook-Owned Parse to Host First Developer Conference
Parse, the mobile back-end-as-a-service startup owned by Facebook, plans to host its first-ever developer conference in San Francisco this fall. The startup, which Facebook bought in April, is widely...
View ArticlePlayPhone Partners With Sprint for Preloaded Social Games Store
PlayPhone has partnered with Sprint to preload its social games store on some of the U.S. carrier’s new devices. Sprint is the fourth such carrier to partner with PlayPhone, after Verizon, AT&T and...
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Foursquare Says It's Ready to Impress You Now
Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com Earlier this year, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley raised $41 million, and promised to use that money “to do the things we want to do.” Today, he’s giving people a glimpse of...
View ArticleStumbleUpon Acquires Video Discovery Startup 5by
StumbleUpon, the website discovery startup that has been around for more than a decade, announced on Tuesday it has acquired 5by, a Montreal-based video discovery startup. The six-person 5by team will...
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PlayPhone Adds SingTel to Its Roster, Betting on "Not Yet Mature" Emerging...
Game discovery and billing platform PlayPhone has signed another big carrier to its growing list of partnerships: SingTel, the Singaporean telecom that claims 477 million subscribers across Asia,...
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Betaworks Hires Former HuffPost Publisher Balis as CRO
Betaworks has hired former Huffington Post Media Group publisher Janet Balis as its chief revenue officer. The New York technology studio — which owns and develops varied media-focused companies, such...
View ArticleYahoo Loses New Top Data Scientist to eBay
Tim Converse, one of Yahoo’s higher-ranking data scientists, who arrived at the company early this year via an acquisition, has been hired away by eBay. He will lead its search-science engineering...
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The Longish Goodbye: Highlights From AllThingsD Staffers Johnson, Del Rey and...
Here’s the third installment of posts that the staff has highlighted, as All Things Digital gets ready to close down as the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31. To be clear, the archives of what we have...
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