Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) — Newsweek/Daily Beast Co., the news company owned by Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp, is cutting editorial jobs today as it turns Newsweek from a print magazine into an online-only publication. Tina Brown, editor-in-chief and founder of the company, announced plans in October to cease publication of Newsweek by Dec. 31 and pare...
Newsweek is cutting a chunk of its editorial staff. We still don’t know exactly how many in the Newsweek/Daily Beast newsroom will be losing their jobs, but an anonymous source tells The New York Observer that it’s a “bloodbath” that could annihilate half the jobs in editorial. The Observer acquired the somber memo editor-in-chief Tina...
Google We search on stock tickers a lot. So we couldn’t help but notice when Google changed how it serves up search results about stock quotes. It’s cleaner and simpler, mimicking the look of Google+ and other refreshed Google services. A Google blog post Wednesday announced a redesign of several search features, though it...
On Thursday, Foursquare announced an update aimed at businesses: the ability to add events to their listings. The company is touting it as a new way for businesses to leverage the location-based social network over at business.foursquare.com. While there are already movie, concert, and sporting events in the Foursquare app, which anyone can see...
Brazil’s e-commerce sector has registered a 368% increase in online spending on Black Friday, comScore reports. Its comparison is based on an average pre-holiday November day for a selection of seven leading online retailers operating in the country. According to the research firm, this is a considerably higher jump than the 63% increase observed...
Amazon has announced it is porting two accessibility features, “Voice Guide” and “Explore by Touch,” from the Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ to its standard Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD 7″ devices. The features, which help vision-impaired users navigate the Kindle menus and content, will be arriving “early next year” – Amazon did not give...
Lars Ulrich wants you know that he’s cool with Sean Parker. To show it, the Metallica drummer and anti-filesharing crusader didn’t just share a stage with the Napster cofounder this morning – he hugged him. The occasion? Metallica’s catalog is newly available on Spotify, the music service in which Parker is now an investor....
McAfee arrested. Trial to last 30 days? Have you seen this joke? Of course you have. In the month since police began looking for McAfee in relation to the murder of Gregory Viant Faull, variations of this joke have been popped up literally everywhere, especially on Twitter. I’ve seen it so much, I am...
According to dual reports from BusinessInsider and AllThingsD, Facebook is in talks to buy Atlas Solutions, Microsoft’s ad platform. Atlas, part of Microsoft’s $6.2 billion acquisition of aQuantive back in 2007, could position Facebook to grow its business and compete with Google’s vast targeted ad network, AdSense. Picking up a Web-wide ad platform would...
YouTube rolled out another site redesign Thursday afternoon, giving itself a lighter and cleaner look and introducing a persistent channel guide on many of its pages. Logged-in users will now see the channels they’ve subscribed to on any watch page, much like they’ve been available on the home page ever since YouTube underwent a...