Huffington Post’s new CEO says ads growing at 100% per year
Eric Hippeau was the CEO of Ziff-Davis for seven years, from 1993 until 2000 when the company was sold. Now, Hippeau — a managing partner at venture powerhouse Softbank Capital — has moved from an advisory role to CEO of the Huffington Post, one of the most critically successful blog publications to date. Can he make it pay off financially?
Hippeau’s interview with PaidContent is standard CEO talk: We could make the company profitable tomorrow, etc…. Continue Reading
Roundup: Apple Tablet coming? Facebook book definitely is, and more
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Apple Tablet looking even more real — More here and here.
Tokyo park keeps teen vandals out using high-pitched noisemaker — Wow. And is this a civil rights issue?
“The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal” — The title says it all. Facebook’s early days were mild compared to, say, the average fraternity — c’mon it was mostly dudes working on computers. But facts can’t stop a sensational story,… Continue Reading
Huffington Post’s Lerer teaches journalism students to think like VCs
[Editor's note: As newspapers watch their business models crumble, journalism schools are moving fast to restructure their curricula to emphasize technology and new media. Below, Columbia journalism graduate student Chikodi Chima reviews a new seminar with an entrepreneurial bent.]
Cub reporter Kenneth Lerer was sure his days as a journalist were numbered when then-Saturday Night Live star Chevy Chase stopped him in the middle of an interview to ask why he wasn’t taking any notes. Few… Continue Reading
Huffington Post, in need of laughs, buys comedy site 236.com
23/6, a political comedy site that boasts “the sluttiest news team on the internet,” will soon have a new home — it’s just been bought by progressive news site Huffington Post, which took $25 million in funding last month. The standalone site launched in November 2007 as a joint venture between HuffPo, as it is commonly called, and Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp. Now 23/6, acquired as a “vertical” site, is going to be blended into HuffPo… Continue Reading
Roundup: AP inserts foot in mouth, Tesla looks for another $100M, Zawodny lands at Craigslist and more
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The AP tries to set a new standard, doesn’t follow it — The Associated Press wants bloggers to pay it for quoting excerpts of its stories, and is threatening to sue if they don’t. Of course, that position is kind of hard to take when you yourself don’t abide by such standards, as the AP didn’t when it lifted a quote from TechCrunch on the matter for one of its stories. Arrington rightly… Continue Reading