The Washington Post’s first paywall is more like a delicate fence

The Washington Post at long last decides to charge for its digital content, but only for people who directly consume more than 20 articles a month from the online site.

Shockingly, you can’t just lift photos off Twitter and sell them

Photographer Daniel Morel took riveting photos of the devastation caused by the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. So riveting that the Agence France-Presse took them off Twitter and actually uploaded them to Getty Images.

Digging a grave: 15 Digg engineers join Washington Post’s SocialCode

The Washington Post’s social advertising firm SocialCode has hired 15 engineers from Digg today, confirming rumors last week that the community news site was due for a shakeup.

Digg entered into serious negotiations with the Washington Post about selling the …

Is Digg done? Site in acquisition talks with Washington Post, CNN

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 …

News junkies turning to apps over the web for their daily fixes

UPDATE 3/21/2012: We’ve updated this story with the correct name of Localytics.

As our culture shifts from a desktop-based paradigm to a mobile one, news junkies are leading the trend with their consumption habits.

New data from app analytics firm …

Washington Post begins publishing VentureBeat articles

VentureBeat is proud to announce a new content sharing partnership with the Washington Post.

Starting today, VentureBeat stories will start appearing on the Washington Post’s technology page. Stories will be selected by the Post’s editorial staff from among the many …

The Guardian’s Facebook news app to reach 1M installs this weekend

According to Facebook, European publication The Guardian expects to have one million installs of its Facebook application by this weekend.

Facebook announced the news applications feature at its developer conference f8 in September. The point of news apps is to …

Facebook wants you to influence the news your friends read

Facebook is focusing on integrating news discovery based on your friends’ activity in the news feed, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today at f8, the company’s annual developers conference.

Zuckerberg’s keynote presentation focused on the influence you have over your friends, …

Hackers steal info from 1.3 million Washington Post accounts

An unknown group of hackers targeted the Washington Post’s jobs section last week and made off with 1.3 million user e-mail addresses. An FAQ released by the Post on Thursday addresses what happened and how users will likely be affected.…