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Specs Age 45 Accomplishments Head writer and executive producer of Futurama, which premieres on Comedy Central on June 20 at 10 p.m.; former writer on The Simpsons Base Los Angeles What’s the first information you consume in the morning? I guess…
The economic recovery seems to have passed magazines by, but there’s one area that’s still growing: the corporate suite. At Condé Nast, Dawn Ostroff just hired three new evps as she…
What, exactly, is YouTube selling? That’s the question on every buyer’s mind in the wake of the company’s “brandcast” presentation in New York a few weeks ago. It wants advertisers to…
Since the iPad launch, countless magazines have released apps for the tablet. But many have largely resembled their print counterparts. Rather than emulating print, Punch Media wanted to create something…
With the presidential elections underway and the Olympics coming up, this is a big year for event-driven journalism—and for social publishing tool Storify. Storify built its name on enabling reporters, bloggers…
Specs Age 50 New gig Chairman and CEO. Old gig President and director, Akamai Technologies You’ve had sort of an interesting couple of years, moving from an agency trading desk, VivaKi, to a tech company, Akamai,…
The challenge: getting kids undergoing cancer treatment—exhausted from chemo and radiation therapy—to keep detailed logs of their pain. The solution: disguising the chore with a crime-fighting iPhone game. Last month, the…
For people that don’t get Tumblr or think it’s just another blogging tool, how do you explain it? It’s an experience for creative people. But it’s less about people themselves.…
Online shopping has become a mainstream activity—fully 70 percent of all Internet users ages 14 and up bought something online last year, according to eMarketer. E-commerce accounted for 6.6 percent…
Jack White and American Express might seem an unlikely pair. But they’ll be sharing the spotlight this month by way of the credit card brand’s Unstaged concert series. The former White…
