The Internet is in mourning today after the apparent suicide of 26-year-old programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, who among his many contributions to the Web helped to pioneer RSS and…
If we've seen one trend in the past few years across digital media (besides large-scale growth), it's a transparency that is often lacking in the corporate boardroom culture of major…
Remember the long-awaited mobile boom? Well, it’s here, and it’s a headache. It was a banner year for mobile traffic (Google alone drew over 100 million unique visitors last September, per…
Just under a year after announcing its last big funding round, the ever-expanding BuzzFeed said Thursday morning that it has raised a $19.3 million round of Series D financing, led…
Andrew Sullivan and his team are going back to their humble blogging roots and leaving The Newsweek Daily Beast Co. to set up Dish Publishing, an independent company that will publish…
In a news environment where incessant coverage of traumatic events is commonplace, news organizations and individuals across the U.S. and the world took a moment today to pause and reflect…
Last January during the SOPA debates in Washington, many publishers and websites joined forces to black out their Web pages for a cause. Tomorrow, there's a similar plan for a…
Just in time for the holiday gadget rush, the popular social reader Flipboard announced today that it is rolling out its app in the Google Play store for Android tablet…
Digital finanical media company TheStreet—as well as three of its executives—have been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with accounting fraud for filing false financial reports and reporting fraudulent…
SheKnows.com, a women's lifestyle site, has been acquired by Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm specializing in high-growth companies. Formerly under the umbrella of Evolve Media Corp., SheKnows.com was a…
