Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer is taking the stage at Microsoft’s analyst day to talk about the company’s consumer businesses, saying that “a lot of the issues we see in our consumer businesses are very much on the minds of the shareholders.”
That’s an understatement, considering that the lackluster state of Microsoft’s...
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Twitter’s latest move to keep users engaged on its site: a new tool that suggests other members users might want to follow “based on several factors, including people you follow and the people they follow.” The launch comes as Twitter has taken other steps to make itself more accessible and interesting...
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Washington Post-owned Slate Group is closing down The Big Money, the business commentary spinoff it launched two years ago, saying the site wasn’t profitable. The belief when The Big Money launched in 2008 was that the financial crisis augered well for a business media site with Slate‘s...
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Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:
» The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) is desperate to unload Newsweek magazineR...
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Scribner and Simon & Schuster Digital began selling an “enhanced e-book” of Rick Perlstein’s best-selling doorstop, Nixonland, in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iBookstore and on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) on Thursday. The title, which was already available in an Amazon Kindle version, represents the first test of whether Apple can challenge...
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The first half of the year for Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) saw ad dollars stabilize, though executives expressed a greater degree of caution regarding th...
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Apple’s Steve Jobs somewhat famously said in April that people aren’t searching on their phone, but instead, are using apps. He reasoned, apps ...
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In its attempts to find a buyer for Newsweek, The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) has been said to have hardly given a thought to bids from entities considered too conservative or too tawdry, but it looks like an offer to buy the magazine from an audio equipment impresario appears to be...
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That Facebook IPO may be even further off than previously thought ... A report by Bloomberg cites insiders who say that the company may wait until 2012 for an IPO. The previous expected date was 2011, because two top investors had said in January that the IPO wouldn’t...
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It looks like News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). accelerating its plans for how best to make use of its last month’s acquisition of the Skiff e-reading platform and the stake it took in the Steve Brill/Gordon Crovitz paid content start-up Journalism Online. The company is considering whether to create a dedicated...
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