The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreMy two-month contract gig at paidContent turned into eight years of covering the economics of digital media while we were living it. But after thousands of posts, many paidContent events, one funding round, and two sales, it’s time for me to pursue new challenges.…
Read MoreMedia head Ross Levinsohn is leaving Yahoo after being passed over for CEO in favor of Marissa Mayer. The Google vet's hiring despite Levinsohn's solid performance as interim CEO signaled a choice of tech over media. Where will he go and who stays from his team?…
Read MoreThe New York Times Co. used to rely on About/com for good news; now overhauling the info site is dragging down earnings. Meanwhile, reliance on digital revenue is increasing even as the company works to stem declines in digital advertising revenues.…
Read MoreThe 2012 Summer Games are the start of a new era for NBC Universal -- an Olympics streamed in real time for fans who don't want to wait for the packaged prime-time experience. For Mark Lazarus, it's a grand experiment in a $1 billion laboratory.…
Read MoreTim Armstrong continues to believe local news network Patch is not only viable, it is vital to Aol's future. He promises a new data-driven product in development now will wow Patch watchers and users in the fall.…
Read MoreAol has been in turnaround mode for years -- this time, it looks like the turns are in the right direction. Advertising up, revenue decline almost flat, subscription churn lowest in a decade, latest re-org underway.…
Read MorePeople led the way for Time Inc. with full-access authentication for digital subscriptions. Now it's the first to launch a mobile site with responsive design, a new ad format and the same content as People.com.…
Read MoreAfter more than a week of public squabbling and dark channels, DirecTV and Viacom have a new licensing deal that restores all 26 of the channels -- and leaves open the possibility that premium channel Epix will show up on the satellite operator.…
Read MoreMarissa Mayer's base pay as Yahoo CEO is $1 million a year. But that’s just a small part of a package potentially worth more than $60 million in cash, restricted stock units and stock options if she outlasts her predecessors.…
Read MoreYahoo(s yhoo) took a hit on layoff costs in the second quarter but still showed a small profit, eking out tiny single-digit…
Read MoreShock. Awe. Wow. Huh? All valid reactions to the last-minute plot twist in Yahoo's search for its third CEO in the past 10 months: the hiring of Google star Marissa Mayer as president and CEO.…
Read MoreSixteen years after an unlikely duo launched news joint venture MSNBC on cable and online, Microsoft and NBC News are taking charge of their own digital news destinies. The rebranded NBCNews.com debuted Sunday night while MSN plans its own news unit.…
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