David Payne, former chief of CNN.com, has been working his start-up called ShortTail Media, which aims to help publishers increase revenue by integrating television advertising the online experience.
In beta since this summer, the company is funded by powerhouse Boston venture fund General Catalyst Partners.
Payne says that traditional display [...]
CNN has decided to go local. The news channel will invest in hyperlocal news aggregator Outside.in as part of the site's $7million series B funding round. CNN will begin displaying feeds from Outside.in on its newly revamped site early next year. I’m delighted to see CNN investing in Outside.in – and in local and in the notion of distributed, scalable networks of content. AOL, Yahoo, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, and other big guys are investing in local. But local doesn’t need big guys to succeed and Outside.in is the proof: it [...]
Outside.in, the blogger and hyperlocal news site aggregator, has scored $7 million in a new round of financing that includes CNN – a relationship that will include a content tie and that echoes MSNBC.com’s outright acquisition last summer of Everyblock. The company [...]
CNN.com’s Political Ticker reports that the #1 write-in candidate in last month’s New York City mayoral election was none other than Charles Montgomery Burns, the fictional, 81-year-old (or 100 or 104) vindictive, ambitious, cruel billionaire owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in that anchor of late-20th century American [...]
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Two entrepreneurs in the Washington area in September launched Thankfulfor.com, an online gratitude journal that’s shared through social networks so people can feed off one another’s thanks. The site also offers gratitude [...]
CNN 11/25 : Web site posts what it says are half million text messages from 9/11
Newly released text messages reportedly from the morning of September 11, 2001, show panicked family members trying to contact loved ones and officials frantically trying to grasp what was happening.
More than half [...]
Taboola is not a Middle Eastern grain dish, but an Israeli start-up that provides a solution to surface recommended videos for visitors to CNN.com, HowCast, 5min, Demand Media, the NBA, and now on The New York.
The company has placed cookies on some 50 million unique users and has built [...]
