If “Real Journalism” Fails As A Business, Should Government Step In?
The chart to the right, which shows the stock price of the New York Times Company over the last five years, is somewhat representative of the state of print journalism...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/25/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

WSJ.com to Retain Subscription Component
The Wall Street Journal's Web site, WSJ.com, will keep a significant portion of its content behind its paid-subscription wall, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said yesterday.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/25/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

The "Work From Home" Generation
For decades in American households the most dreaded morning sound was that of an alarm clock. Sometime between 6 and 7am a beep or radio music signaled that ...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/25/2008 | eBiz Startup & Management

Battelle Reportedly Turns Down $100 Million Offer For Federated Media
Blog ads are worth big bucks! How big? We may see soon: John Battelle has turned down a $100 million offer for Federated Media, TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld reports.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/25/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

YouTube On the Go
YouTube first dipped its toe in the mobile world in November of 2006 with a deal to deliver some video clips through the VCast service of Verizon Wireless.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Digital Media

Communications Downtime: Another Digg Revolt?
With Twitter down right now, I’m resisting the urge to join the fallback blogosphere backchannel chatroom of FriendFeed and actually get more productive this evening.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Sharks Circle Yahoo!
Yahoo! co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo still don't want to sell the struggling Internet company, but its stock price is so low that the duo may not be able...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Bill Gates Issues Call For Kinder Capitalism
Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates. But today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capitalism.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Music Biz Pushes Piracy Blame To ISPs; Digital Sales Up 40 Percent
We said in December the music industry would this year start to shift blame for piracy on to ISPs. As of today - and buoyed by recent similar French moves...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Digital Media

EBay’s New Leader Moves Swiftly on a Revamping
In an effort to reinvigorate growth, John Donahoe, the new chief executive of Internet giant eBay, said he would shift the company’s emphasis from auctions to fixed priced listing.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | eBay & eCommerce

Rethinking The Local Paper
This is my local newspaper, called The Villager. If you live in Greenwich Village, NYC, you probably read The Villager. But there are several problems with The Villager...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Yahoo in Early Talks Over Possible Music Service
Yahoo Inc., is in early discussions with major record labels over offering unprotected MP3s either for sale or for free as part of an ad-supported service, two record...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Digital Media

Google Health Login Page
Want to get a first live glimpse of Google Health, which Google’s Marissa Mayer announced will be rolled out in early 2008? Point your browser to:
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Digg: New Algorithm Changes
Just wanted to give everyone some insight into some of the changes we’ve been making this week. As we’ve talked about in the past, Digg’s promotional algorithm...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Last.fm Debuts Free Music Service
Social music site Last.fm has launched what it describes as the world's biggest free music service.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/23/2008 | Digital Media