Tag: News

British Library Makes 300 Years of Newspapers Searchable Online
The British Library and BrightSolid Online Publishing have teamed up to digitize up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library’s collection over the next 10 years. Ther...
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Phony Craigslist Ads Lead To Murder Plot
Online classified site Craigslist, like most of the internet, has to ability to be a force for good in the world. Say you need a new dresser for your bedroom and there's someone i...
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Digg Traffic Not As Bad As You May Have Thought
Digg used to be one of the most talked about sites on the web, at least in tech, web news, and social media circles. Over the last couple of years, however, Digg appears to have lo...
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Legendary ’60 Minutes’ commentator Andy Rooney Dies, Twitter Reacts
Today we learned of the loss of a beloved newsman, Andy Rooney. Rooney was probably best known for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney", a part of the CBS News...
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Twitter Tests New Search Features
Some users are seeing something new when they search for a person or topic within Twitter - highlighted search results appearing at the top. These new results, "Top News" and "T...
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Yahoo and ABC News Team Up On News Content and Advertising
Yahoo announced this morning that it has entered a strategic alliance with ABC News to combine Yahoo's massive reach, content breadth and technology with ABC's brands, anchors and...
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Will Uncrunched Become the New TechCrunch?
A couple weeks ago, it became official that TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is no longer a part of AOL...
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News Comes to Life through Next Media Animations
Most people are visual consumers, meaning that anytime a picture, graphic, or video is included into a text document, they are more likely to be engaged. For instance, whenever we...
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Yahoo Livestand to Launch This Fall
Last week, one of the hot topics was that Google is working on a Flipboard competitor, which is repor...
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Google Said to Be Working on Flipboard Competitor Propeller
Google is reportedly working on a Flipboard competitor. Robert Scoble, the guy that knows just about everybody in the tech industry,...
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Reddit Becomes Independent of Condé Nast
Condé Nast has spun out Reddit as an independent company, though its parent company still owns it all. On the Reddit blog, Erik Martin...
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CNN Acquires iPad News Reader App Zite
CNN announced that it has acquired tech company Zite, which makes a news app of the same name for the iPad. CNN says it has already added Zite to...
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Dutch Tourist Guus Van Hove, Director of 013, Dead at Joshua Tree National Park
It appears that the bodies of two people found dead in the California desert belong to Dutch music promoter Guus Van Hove and his girlfriend Helena Nuellet. Van Hove, 44, is bes...
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Anderson Cooper Thinks The Gerard Depardieu Peeing Incident Is Really Funny
Gerard Depardieu is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actor known for his work in Cyrano de Bergerac, Green Card and The Man in the Iron Ma...
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Editors’ Picks Feature Lets Publishers Promote Certain Stories in Google News
Over a year ago, a Google News experiment was revealed in which G...
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