It’s easy to become caught up in tweets or Facebook posts alleging a story is true when there is very little to back it up. Recent events like the Boston Marathon bombing and fertilizer plant explosion in Texas incite a …
Automattic, the company behind 63 million Wordpress blogs, and Janrain announced a partnership this morning that will bring social login, profile storage, and user analytics to its premium blogging clients.
CNN has come up with several goofy ways of displaying information about the presidential elections, but none that are as gimmicky and dumb as its latest stunt.
Michael Brutsch, the recently outed Reddit moderator known online as ViolentAcrez, attempted to explain his heinous behavior on the community-powered link sharing site in an interview on CNN's Anderson Copper 360 tonight.
CNN's $20 million acquisition of Zite bore its first fruit today with the launch of new news curation feature CNN Trends.
"Election Insights," as the destination site is called, visualizes the volume of Facebook activity involving Democratic candidates President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his veep choice, Paul Ryan.
Zite is boosting the number of publishing partner sections available in its digital magazine mobile app after doubling the number of content impressions since first launching the program, the company told VentureBeat.
For those not familiar with it, Zite lets …
Iconic prime-time news show host Larry King is launching a new program for the streaming media generation on Hulu, the company announced today on its blog.
King is, of course, best known for his CNN show, Larry King Live, …
Your Facebook newfeed is about to get a whole lot more political.
This fall, Facebook will team up with CNN to bring Facebook users closer to the election action with a trio of new initiatives.
One of the new plans …
We’re hearing rumors this morning that broadcast media company CNN is finalizing a deal to purchase online news network Mashable, but the sale price might not be as high as previously speculated.
Rumors of CNN buying Mashable first surfaced in …
Community news sharing site Digg is rumored to be in acquisition talks with the Washington Post and possibly others, sources familiar with the matter told VentureBeat.
Serious negotiations with the Washington Post have been going on almost a month, but …
Mobile news aggregator Zite is giving popular web publishers their own sections within its digital magazine apps, the company announced today.
Zite, which was was acquired in August 2011 by CNN for over $20 million, lets you build a custom …
CNN will reportedly buy social media blog Mashable for more than $200 million, according to Reuters blogger Felix Salmon.
Salmon said that a source told him that CNN will announce the deal on Tuesday. We are checking with Mashable for …
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Editor’s note: CNN’s upcoming documentary, Black in America 4, has sparked a heated discussion about race in the tech industry. VentureBeat has asked several black entrepreneurs to contribute their opinions prior to the airing of the show on Sunday November …
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Almost no one has seen episode 4 of CNN’s documentary series “Black in America,” about race in the technology world, but a lot of folks are already jumping in on the race controversy the show’s promo has kickstarted.
A lot …
The U.S. tech industry has a race problem.
Anyone who’s worked in Silicon Valley for any length of time will have noticed the alarmingly large number of white guys occupying positions of power. There are good-sized groups of Asian entrepreneurs …
CNN on Tuesday announced that it has purchased Zite, a personalized magazine app for the iPad, for a reported $20 to $25 million. This confirms last week’s rumors that a deal between CNN and Zite was in the works.
News …
As you’ve probably heard, Hurricane Irene is set to hit much of the East Coast of the United States starting today and continuing throughout the weekend. National and local authorities are taking the threat seriously and evacuations are happening from …
Zite, a personalized magazine app for the iPad, is said to be talking to CNN about an acquisition. According to at least one report, the news network is offering between $20 million ad $25 million for the tablet app startup.…
CNN on Monday announced it has upgraded its mobile iOS apps and website to support 24/7 live streaming video from its CNN and HLN networks.
The catch? Viewers only get access to live streams if they already pay for CNN …
