Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, now has 27 percent of the search engine market and is quickly gaining on Google, according to Hitwise. Bing’s share rose by 6 percent in the month of January alone.
The bigger news, and perhaps the …
The scene: a conference room at Groupon HQ, last Thursday.
Marketing Guy One: “Hmm. Kenneth Cole tweeted something jokey today about Egyptians going crazy for his spring collection and he’s being pummeled mercilessly online for being “extraordinarily tin-eared” — whatever …
When I saw the headline last night that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report had returned to Hulu, the timing couldn’t have been more perfect. I was trying to watch The Daily Show at Comedy Central’s site and had …
Sources who have seen News Corp.’s iPad newspaper, The Daily, tell All Things Digital’s Peter Kafka that the app is “both old fashioned and cutting edge.” In that way, it sounds a lot like Rupert Murdoch, a man with newspaper …
Mark Cuban last year took part in a “small round” of financing for Revision3, the Web video studio. The round is only now being disclosed, though amounts were not given.
AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka characterized Cuban’s participation as hypocritical, given Cuban’s …
Here’s a shock: the three main corporate owners of Hulu are at odds with each other and with Hulu management over the online TV service’s basic strategy. Who could have guessed?
The Wall Street Journal reports that News Corp. (owner …
As of this writing, online publisher Demand Media is worth more on the stock market than is The New York Times Company. Of course, this says more about the enthusiasm of IPO investors than it does about the relative merits …
Barnes and Noble will discontinue the Nook 3G, according to “hard evidence from within B&N” collected by Engadget. Stores have been told to refrain from filling bulk orders, the site reports.
Cnet’s David Carnoy is skeptical of the story, labeling …
Update: Playboy is actually releasing an iPad-friendly version of it website. The Playboy app in the App Store will be censored, according to a Playboy spokesperson. Original story below.
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Despite Apple’s history of putting Church Lady restrictions on app …
Is it possible that a deal between an obscure cable channel and a slightly less obscure provider of streaming video could mark the beginning of the end of cable TV’s business model?
In a deal that marks a major departure …
The launch of The Daily, News Corp.’s iPad-only newspaper, has been delayed. The Daily was set to be unveiled in San Francisco next Wednesday. The delay will last “weeks, not months,” a source told All Things Digital.
The postponement …
Formspring, the online question/answer service, has raised $11.5 million in Series A financing, bringing its total to $14 million. Now all the company has to do is figure out how to make money.
“$14 million is a ton of money, …
We know one thing about the new executive editor of AOL.com: he’s not afraid to prevaricate, or at least to parrot his bosses.
Stephen Bromberg, formerly the editor of Foxnews.com, told Mediabistro.com soon after he took that job in 2004 …
Streaming TV shows online — whether via network websites or services like Hulu and Netflix — represents a major threat to networks that depend on reruns, says Phil Kent, CEO of Turner Broadcasting, which owns networks like TBS and TNT …
More than a fifth of all television sets sold in 2010 were smart TVs, according to the research firm DisplaySearch, which says the numbers signal that “a quiet revolution in TV viewing” is gaining a foothold.
How “quiet” the revolution …
Content farm Demand Media has delayed its IPO because of questions about its accounting practices, according to All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher.
Demand amortizes the cost of its cheap, substandard content over five years, meaning that only a fifth of …
Sony has launched a new streaming-music service in the U.K. and Ireland, showing that the company is forging ahead with a plan to create a media ecosystem around its products akin to Apple’s, despite a long history of failed efforts …
The New York Post is reporting the unsurprising news that Google is getting over its unrequited love for Groupon by trying to buy a smaller online-coupon business like LivingSocial or BuyWithMe, the No. 2 and 3 companies int he busienss…
Is Google getting too big?
Yes, argues Steven Pearlstein, a Washington Post business columnist — so big, he says, that the government should start reviewing every one of the company’s acquisitions on antitrust grounds.
But big doesn’t necessarily mean anticompetitive. …
Former broadcast-TV titan Fred Silverman is launching some kind of live-video, social-media thing called Blip City, PaidContent reports.
“This site will rock the entertainment world in the areas of mobile, online, TV and celebrity,” according to a job ad quoted …
