One More Thing…

Oct 09, 2011 No Comments

We will always wait for the next one more thing! Thank you for everything you created. R.I.P. Steve Jobs… Tweet This Post

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Time Inc. To Launch Tablet Editions for All 21 of Its Magazines

Aug 03, 2011 No Comments

Time Inc. is embracing the tablet category full-on, vowing to bring all 21 of its magazines to not just the iPad, but to “all leading tablet platforms” by the end of 2011. Titles including Time, People and InStyle will join Sports Illustrated on iOS, Android and webOS tablets, as well as Nook Color ereaders and [...]

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Full of hustle, Los Angeles tech takes on Silicon Valley

Jul 27, 2011 No Comments

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 L.A. isn’t just a mecca for film and video game studios. In the past three years, the Los Angeles tech scene has evolved from a small cadre of social media-happy party animals to a legitimate and sustainable tech community to rival Silicon Valley… Tweet This Post

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Time, People Top List of “Digitally Savvy” Magazines

Jul 26, 2011 No Comments

L2, a think tank specializing in luxury brands, released the latest in its series of Digital IQ surveys Tuesday. It highlights which magazines are thriving and which are struggling under the wave of digital technology that has reshaped the magazine environment over the past five years… Tweet This Post

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Twitter hires two new high-level marketing execs

Jul 25, 2011 No Comments

Twitter has added a couple new hires to the flock, one to focus on marketing to consumers and another to work on the company’s partnerships with global advertisers. On both fronts, Twitter is positioning itself as an important front in mainstream digital media, one that’s impossible for large brands to ignore… Tweet This Post

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Omniture cofounder unveils new business intelligence service

Jul 13, 2011 No Comments

Omniture cofounder and former CEO Josh James has unveiled his next act: Domo, a business intelligence dashboard for executives. The company emerged out of James’s frustration with not being able to get real-time business data on the company he was in charge of (Omniture)… Tweet This Post

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Breaking: McAfee chief to depart for security startup Palo Alto Networks

Jun 16, 2011 No Comments

David DeWalt is about to leave his post as president of McAfee to become the CEO of Palo Alto Networks, a late-stage security startup, VentureBeat has learned. According to the source, DeWalt has accepted the top job at PAN… Tweet This Post

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What’s Ev Williams working on that’s “bigger and better” than Twitter?

Mar 29, 2011 No Comments

Ev Williams, the cofounder of microblogging service Twitter, who stepped down as CEO last fall to make way for former COO Dick Costolo, said in a blog post today he is barely engaged in running the company and is focusing on a new, unnamed startup venture… Tweet This Post

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Larry Page already cracking the whip at Google, a week before he takes the reins

Mar 25, 2011 No Comments

Larry Page may not take over the reins as Google’s chief executive until next week, but he’s already begun cracking the whip amongst senior management, including holding daily brainstorm sessions at the search behemoth’s headquarters, The Wall Street Journal reports… Tweet This Post

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Rob Solomon: Too rich for Groupon?

Mar 23, 2011 1 Comment

The No. 2 executive at daily-deals purveyor Groupon, Rob Solomon, has taken advantage of the company’s unlimited-paid-days-off policy — for good. In an email to Groupon staff that was forwarded to VentureBeat, CEO Andrew Mason announced that Solomon (pictured), who joined Groupon just a year ago, is leaving the Chicago-based company to move back to [...]

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Kevin Rose resigns from Digg

Mar 18, 2011 No Comments

Kevin Rose has left Digg, the news aggregation site he founded in 2004, after a few months of uncertainty over his role in the company. Rose has begun working on a separate startup that is already close to completing an initial round of funding, according to TechCrunch… Tweet This Post

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Flickr head of service announces his departure from Yahoo

Mar 15, 2011 No Comments

Flickr’s head of product within Yahoo’s applications division, Matthew Rothenberg is leaving his post and the company, he announced yesterday via his Twitter account. Rothenberg, who was among the first dozen hired at Flickr by original founders Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, led the photo sharing site’s progress over the past five years, which includes [...]

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