Top HeadlinesYahoo's board has agreed to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr, according to reports. Read More »Recent events, tragic and triumphant, emphasize the social web's role as a central source for disseminating breaking news. But getting the facts right continues to be a challenge, and a solution requires cooperation and technical innovation. Read More »Gawker has just taken checkbook journalism to a whole new level -- asking the public to help buy a video tape that is likely to bring down the mayor of a major city. Read More »When soap operas "One Life to Live" and "All My Children" moved online, it wasn't clear how fans would watch them. It turns out that most viewers are binge-watching -- so the soaps' production company is cutting back on the number of new episodes each week. Read More »Looking for a book suggestion? Culling information from your Twitter feed and turning that into accurate recommendations is harder than it looks, but Parakweet is looking to use natural language procesing to do just that. Read More »Book publishers discussed digital-first and digital-only initiatives at the Making Information Pay conference this week. Read More »Google launched its own music subscription service Wednesday. Currently, it's not very different from all the other services out there. So how does it want to compete? Read More » |