Netflix and Amazon.com are going old-school in their attempts to gain viewers for their Web TV series, with both companies taking out full page ads in The New York Times… Read More
Finding the perfect animated response is about to get a lot easier. That’s because YouTube is quietly testing a new tool that lets users turn snippets of YouTube videos into six-second… Read More
Not every newspaper can lean on one of the world’s top tech executives as a beta tester and adviser when developing a new app, but then again, not every paper is owned by Amazon… Read More
Mark Firmani served as Terry Drayton’s trusted public relations counsel, helping the Seattle entrepreneur and former HomeGrocer.com CEO navigate some rocky times during the bankruptcy of Bellevue-based Count Me In. That… Read More
Should the FBI be permitted to impersonate the news media in order to nab criminals? That’s the question being raised today after an analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union… Read More
Longtime Seattle-based journalist Glenn Fleishman is pulling the plug on The Magazine, a bi-weekly independent digital tech publication originally started by Instapaper creator Marco Arment. Fleishman, who took ownership of the… Read More
Kara Swisher is one of the most trusted and feared technology journalists on the planet, with a massive social following and a growing audience at her newly-launched tech news site… Read More
The New York Times ran a fantastic story last week about the struggles companies face in a digital world. Its own. Someone from the world’s most powerful news organization leaked… Read More
So far, so good for Microsoft’s foray into pop-culture predictions. By crunching data from social networks and the company’s Bing search engine, Microsoft was able to correctly predict the two contestants eliminated from “The Voice”… Read More
Last week I did something I rarely do. I posted an angry tweet: “Everyone,” huh? Again, TV people, would it be so bad to put just one serious woman in… Read More
Apple TV. Roku. Google Chromecast. Amazon Fire TV. There are no shortage of ways to watch video programming these days on your TV, but get ready for yet another. WebTuner,… Read More
Nick Denton is a controversial new media titan, uncovering the gossip that no one else in the news business will touch. The 47-year-old Gawker Media founder — whose online properties… Read More
Wetpaint, an 8-year-old Seattle startup led by entrepreneur Ben Elowitz, has been sold to New York-based Viggle for a purchase price of $30 million. Founded initially as a provider and… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos dropped something of a bombshell in an interview with Charlie Rose that was posted on the 60 Minutes’ Web site last night: Buying the Washington Post wasn’t… Read More
It’s a bad time to be a print publisher in America. That’s the clear takeaway from a new chart published by Statista, which shows that the amount of money advertisers… Read More
Seattle Internet executive Cliff Sharples is currently on an around-the-world adventure with his wife and five kids — writing about the adventures they experience as they bump between places like… Read More
The story of Hark — a Seattle startup that was attempting to build the YouTube of audio clips and once claimed more than 45 million unique visitors — is a… Read More
Sean Muller didn’t have to raise cash for his fast-growing Seattle area startup iSpot.tv. After all, the 15-person company — which measures thousands of TV commercials and provides competitive intelligence… Read More
William Randolph Hearst. Joseph Pulitzer. John S. Knight. Katharine Graham. And now … Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has emerged as the latest newspaper publisher with a $250 million… Read More
Twitter enabled any person to reach anyone in the world directly with 140 characters of text. And, of course, you know it’s now being used as a news source for… Read More
Jeff Bezos set off quite a bit of handwringing and soul-searching when he purchased The Washington Post earlier this month for $250 million, from the digital disruption and destruction of the media… Read More
Online news site Patch is pulling up roots in Washington state as part of a larger shakeup at the AOL-owned community news operation. Staffers at Washington Patch were notified Friday… Read More
The economics of delivering a local newspaper to your doorstep just don’t make sense anymore. The reasons? Declining subscriber counts and increased competition from free content online. However, as expensive… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ purchase of The Washington Post was the big news of the week, making great fodder for late-night comedians. We had some fun catching up with the goofiness from… Read More
Jeff Bezos is buying the Washington Post newspaper for $250 million in his individual capacity, separate from his role at Amazon.com, but some of the themes in his introductory letter… Read More
In a surprise move, Jeff Bezos has reached a deal to acquire the Washington Post Co.’s newspaper publishing business for $250 million, promising to give the Amazon founder ownership of… Read More
Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood is undergoing a radical transformation, driven largely by the arrival of technology companies such as Amazon.com. But now one of Seattle’s oldest businesses is cashing… Read More
NBCNews.com confirmed today that it is moving its operations from Microsoft’s Redmond campus to Seattle’s tallest skyscraper, Columbia Center. It plans to take over floor 26 in the building later… Read More
The print magazine business is in a bit of disarray, with titles pulling the plug nearly every month. But magazine publisher Meredith is not tossing in the towel on print,… Read More
Another daily newspaper is going digital and slowing the presses, as The Oregonian announced Thursday that it will be cutting down home delivery to four days per week. The company, which… Read More