Media

A very high-profile hire for fashion site Polyvore. The startup, which lets users mix and match products from any online store and then share their creations with others, has added Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, who formerly led Google’s operations in Asia-Pacific and Latin America, as CEO. Singh Cassidy had left Google...

Highlights from our Staci Kramer’s conversation with Steven Brill of Journalism Online, Jeff Price of The Sporting News and David Hyman of MOG:

—Sporting News: A new convert to the paid content model. Price, who just joined Sporting News as publisher this week, says that the Sporting News will charge $2.99 for a...

EveryScape, which provides “eye-level” images of major towns and cities around the world, has raised $6 million in a third round of funding. The company charges local businesses in order to build 3D, photo-realistic panoramas of their physical locations which are then featured on EveryScape.com and can also be embedded on the businesses’...

In a move that could signal that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) plans to double down on its Google Checkout online payments system, the company has hired long-time eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) executive Stephanie Tilenius as its first VP of commerce, we have confirmed. Tilenius had spent nine years at eBay, most...

It only looks like MediaNews is following the New York Times decision to go metered next year. But the planning has been in the works for a while and, in comparison to the NYT’s plans, MediaNews is moving a lot faster, Bloomberg reports. The pay system will launch on...

MediaNews looks like it’s jumping on the online metered pay model just after the NYT made news it will introduce such a system next year. In comparison to the NYT’s plans, MediaNews is moving a lot faster than the NYT, Bloomberg reports. The pay system will launch on just two...

The combination of HotJobs’ network of more than 600 daily and weekly newspapers with Monster’s local news alliances should produce benefits for members of the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium, the company says. The $225 million merger, assuming it passes regulatory muster, will give Monster...

Giggle, a store for new parents, is making a content play with the purchase of pregnancy site The Cradle. Giggle—which offers a selection of pre-screened baby items online and also at 10 bricks and mortar locations—says it will now be able to offer “more pregnancy resources and social community” since...

With the dust settled on Getty Images’ $96 million acquisition of Jupitermedia’s online images business over a year ago, Getty is introducing a new subscription model aimed at user-gen and professional photographers. All subscriptions will go through ThinkStock, which was part of Jupiter Images. It will be combined...

There must be a big sale on social shopping sites these days… ThisNext has acquired fellow social shopper StyleHive for an undisclosed amount. To house both properties, Santa Monica, CA-based ThisNext is forming a new parent company called Curatemedia. In conjunction with the acquisition and the new holding company, ThisNext...

At Condé Nast’s annual publishers’ meeting in Miami this week, executives will outline the company’s plans to roll out a digital tablet format across all 18 titles this year, as well as expanded e-commerce and licensing. Apart from the tech elements, the company will map out what is expected of editors and publishers. It will...