Bill Gates-owned Corbis buys LA product placement firm Product placements are everywhere, from movies to TV to city buses. Now, Corbis — the Seattle-based digital image company backed… Read More
Amazon’s LoveFilm inks deals with BBC and ITV as battle with Netflix intensifies in Europe Amazon.com is expanding its attack on Netflix in Europe, announcing today that it has landed deals to stream programs such… Read More
Seattlepi.com chief Michelle Nicolosi resigns to launch new electronic book publishing firm Michelle Nicolosi, who led the charge for the SeattlePI.com after Hearst Corp. shut down the physical newspaper operations in March… Read More
Ben Huh is keeping mum on Circa, his latest effort to reinvent journalism Cheezburger Network founder Ben Huh has built an online comedy empire around silly photos of cats and people engaged in… Read More
Kindle Fire Newsstand to feature GQ, Wired and dozens of other magazine titles Amazon.com continues to build buzz for next Monday’s launch of the Kindle Fire, its first touchscreen tablet computer. And today… Read More
Does Steve Jobs deserve to be Time’s Person of the Year? NBC Nightly News TV anchor Brian Williams thinks Apple co-founder Steve Jobs should be Time’s Person of the Year, noting… Read More
Rob Glaser returns to his roots, joins $24 million round for video delivery startup Qwilt Rob Glaser helped pioneer the online video, founding RealNetworks in 1995 a mere 10 years before YouTube came into existence.… Read More
Why KING TV is hosting a hackathon, with a $10k prize Seattle’s KING-5 is doing something unusual later this month, or at least something unusual for a regional television station. It’s… Read More
How Amazon’s new tablet signals the start of next generation Guest Analysis: With the announcement of the Kindle Fire, Amazon has now made the long term tablet business an interesting… Read More
Madrona, Amazon and others pump $10 million into online ad analyzer Yieldex Madrona Venture Group and Amazon.com are among the backers in a $10 million round for Yieldex, a New York-based company… Read More
Evri’s new iPad app looks to reinvent the news experience Applications like Flipboard and Pulse look to transform the way people consume news and information on the iPad. Now, Seattle… Read More
Zillow delivers real estate search listings to Curbed Zillow has built one of the most popular online real estate sites, attracting some 25 million unique visitors per month.… Read More
Does Facebook’s new ‘subscribe’ button go too far? Here’s a surprise. Facebook is copying Twitter. Again. But this time, they might be going too far — for their… Read More
PlayLater’s DVR for online video allows users to watch TV shows and movies on the go MediaMall Technologies today launched a new service called PlayLater, which allows users to record online video from sites such as… Read More
Introducing TrayVu: This airline tray doubles as an inflight entertainment system Back in 2003, I wrote a story about an Alaska Airlines baggage handler-turned-entrepreneur by the name of Bill Boyer who… Read More
“Unpaid Blogger” Michael Arrington departs TechCrunch A near two week saga at TechCrunch has come to a close. Kind of. Founder Michael Arrington has officially stepped down… Read More
Google’s bigger game: The subplot behind the Motorola acquisition “Having at least one area where we can do integrated hardware and software and learn from that probably produces better… Read More
Chart: How TV viewing habits are changing The erosion of the traditional broadcast TV business has been well documented. But it is not deteriorating as fast as… Read More
Should startup scribe Michael Arrington invest in startups? Michael Arrington, the flame-throwing founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, is starting his own venture capital fund. The $20 million CrunchFund… Read More
Ex-Jobster staffers bake new startup: MyFaveRecipes.com We must really like to eat in Seattle. Over the years, I’ve chronicled a number of online recipe and food… Read More
How The New York Times is reinventing your morning read with Microsoft Surface I’d love to get this in my kitchen nook. Megan Garber of the Nieman Journalism Lab gets an inside look… Read More
Sorry, Facebook and Twitter: Content sites remain the absolute king of referrals A new report out today indicates that links from online content sources — including news aggregators like Huffington Post and… Read More
Ex P-I journalists to shutter online news site Seattle PostGlobe The Seattle PostGlobe — an online news site started two years ago by reporters who lost their jobs at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer… Read More
BuddyTV looks to make the remote control smarter, unveils new iOS app There’s certainly plenty of choices these days when it comes to cable or satellite TV programming. But finding the programs… Read More
Comcast inks deal with NW companies to stream video to the iPad and iPhone With Hulu reportedly for sale and Netflix taking heat over its price hike, Comcast is making a bigger push to… Read More
Corbis Images buys celebrity photo service Splash News Corbis Images is bolstering its portfolio of photography of Angelina Jolie, Leanardo DiCaprio and other celebs. The Seattle company, owned… Read More
Amazon strikes deal with CBS to stream Star Trek, Cheers and other TV shows Yesterday, we noted that Amazon.com could be a potential bidder for Hulu given the company’s growing interest in the content… Read More
Add comments to the margins of Web pages or directly in the editorial flow with Highlighter For the most part, readers of this online news site and most others are forced to leave their comments at… Read More
Introducing Smile Tagging: A new social media ‘brand experiment’ from Kraft and Cheezburger Sharing on Facebook and Twitter was so two months ago. Now, get ready for “smile tagging” — courtesy of Kraft Macaroni… Read More
Practical Nerd: When content is KING-FM Is there a place for an old linear medium in a bright shiny digital media world? That is the question… Read More
