It’s hard to believe that a new-ish, niche-y social network could succeed in a Facebook world. But Polyvore, a website where users make digital collages of clothing and accessories, has amassed…
Hard on the heels of streaming music service Spotify, which only recently arrived stateside, competitors MOG and Rdio announced free versions of their products last week. This kind of competition…
There was a moment after New York’s 2009 Fall Fashion Week when fashion bloggers had officially, as the press likes to call it, “arrived.” They had blogged their way to…
What do you buy the sophisticated urban child who has everything? How about Baby Boot Camp classes? Manicures? Mandarin lessons? Responding to an apparent gap in the market for exclusive, custom-tailored…
No publication has a better story about back-end chaos than BusinessWeek. Before it was acquired by Bloomberg LP, the publication sank a shocking $20 million into the back-end development of Business…
In 1989, print magazines were a safe—even smart—investment. That’s when buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. formed Primedia, positioning it as a roll-up of cash-flow-spitting media assets that could…
No celebrity is safe from an unexpected nosedive in brand equity. And when a celebrity’s stock falls, so does the brands he or she endorses. Demand Media is surely monitoring the…
Vice Media, peddler of provocative magazines, books and video, took a significant outside investment Tuesday from a close-knit, if not incestuous, set of deep pockets. Advertising and media conglomerate WPP,…
