Marissa Mayer is coming for online video — and the ads that accompany it. Days after announcing its $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging platform Tumblr, Yaho has submitted a bid for Hulu. Now starts the bidding war, all $2 billion of it.
Ubiquitous "nice enough" furniture and lifestyles accessories company Ikea has announced that the next step in its plans for total global domination is no, not a better instructional manual or easier-to-assemble drawers, but rather a chain of budget design hotels.
It's been just more than two weeks since Jonah Lehrer quit his post at The New Yorker after it emerged that he fabricated quotes in his book Imagine, but as Buzzfeed's Ben Smith and Reyhan Harmanci report, he's still got another gig within the Condé Nast publishing empire, at his old publication, Wired.
The Carlyle Group's $3.3 billion purchase of Getty Images came in below the seller's target price, but it still represents the latest in a spending spree for the world's largest asset management firm.
Mark Thompson, the former BBC director general, has been the rumored replacement for ousted New York Times Company CEO Janet Robinson since June, and on Tuesday afternoon it was made official.
Executives at Standard Chartered may "strongly" deny they laundered $250 billion of Iranian government cash since 2001, but it seems they're still willing to cut a check to make the bad headlines go away.
It's okay to mix a little pleasure with business at Bloomberg Businessweek. After The Economist ran a short piece about "The boredom of boozeless business," the magazine was prompted to post a very funny correction about America's hippest weekly business magazine.
Buried in Paul Farhi's "is he wrong?" story about suspended Time columnist and CNN host Fareed Zakaria's failure to attribute quotes in his 2008 book The Post-American World, is the news that Zakaria's column won't be on The Washington Post's pages this month, as well as what appears to be Zakaria's first defense of his work.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been given the most prominent speaking role at the Republican National Convention for anyone not named Ryan or Romney.
Helen Gurley Brown, the former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and the woman most often credited with building it into an international empire, has died, according to the magazine's publisher, Hearst Corporation.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon may have spent months crusading against regulations that would've saved his bank some $6 billion in losses, but he's not going to stop crusading. Why not? Allow Dimon to explain: "It’s a free. Fucking. Country.”
Today The Huffington Post launched its web television operation, HuffPost Live, an online news video hub that asks a lot of the watcher compared to the average TV network.
Drew Magary — Deadspin/Gawker columnist, GQ correspondent, and author of The Postmortal — really needs a smartphone.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
CNN host and Time Magazine columnist Fareed Zakaria's column has been suspended from Time and CNN after the writer was found to have borrowed too heavily from a feature on the NRA by Jill Lepore that ran in The New Yorker in April.
Feminist Ryan Gosling, Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude, by Danielle Henderson, a book that pairs "feminist statements" with photos of Ryan Gosling, is out on Tuesday. What happens when "feminism" goes viral?
Jay Penske, CEO of Hollywood digital publishing company PMC, which owns Deadline.com among others, was arrested early Thursday morning along with his brother Mark after what the police report sketches out as a decidedly unglamorous evening on Nantucket.
The New York Times gets it, ok? It was too hard on LoLo Jones, so you can stop writing to complain now.
The for-profit higher education industry was the target of a bruising report issued last week. The industry responded and challenged several of the report's numbers. Here are all the telling numbers they didn't contest.
It's been five years today since the economy went to crap, the Financial Times reports. While we'd like to say that so much as changed since then, a birthday is a birthday. So break out the cheap champagne (or tears, or something) and mull over these five reasons to have a little bit of hope.
CNN botched an exposé about white power rock bands by including the group Hatebreed (not a white power group) among a list of white supremacist bands. CNN eventually posted a correction but not before its fans made an impassioned defense: Sure this band has hate-filled songs, but not racist, white supremacist hate-filled songs!
News Corporation's less-than-stellar fourth quarter makes clear the company's reason for wanting to split its print and broadcast operations, as its publishing unit hemorrhaged money thanks in part to last year's News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
Campaigns are using more and more sophisticated tactics to target voters. Case in point: One Pandora user got a pop-up asking if she would share her email with the Romney campaign.
AllThingsD's Peter Kafka reports that The New York Times Company is trying to unload the site which totally mucks up your search results About.com to Answers.com. While the purported price may sound like a lot, keep in mind that The Times initially paid $410 million in 2005 for the content farm which is at least a $140 million hit.
America's least favorite mercenary firm got another black eye on Tuesday when it admitted to key facts behind 17 federal criminal charges.
If a puzzling political story shows up on the Drudge Report, you might be inclined to believe that Matt Drudge is looking to help Mitt Romney. But for conservatives pondering his report of David Petraeus being on the V.P. shortlist, this was some chicanery that goes all the way back to Obama.
The idea that you can visit a doctor and become worse, seems like an outcome belonging to medieval times, but an investigation in The New York Times shows how profit incentives can drive hospitals to recommend more excessive procedures for patients even if the procedures are unnecessary and risky.
Facebook could find better growth for its slow-going Facebook Payments revenue line, after it debuts paid gambling games on its platform from Tuesday.
It may not seem like it now, but the dealings of HCA Healthcare, the largest U.S. hospital operator, could be one of the biggest political stories of August.
The state of New York is accusing U.K.-based Standard Chartered Bank of secretly doing business with Iran, fraudulently racking up hundreds of millions of dollars in fees, all the while dismissing an executive's pleas to straighten out with a dismissal of "you f---ing Americans."
GOP-donation machine Sheldon Adelson's casino company is being investigated over its role in two high-profile money laundering cases, according to the Wall Street Journal.
All the success of the Silicon Valley start-up scene hasn't done much for the rest of the area's economy, which has a higher than unemployment rate than the national average.
Reuters became involved in the Syrian conflict in a way it didn't intend to on Friday, when someone hacked into its blogging site and published a fake post purporting to quote a Syrian rebel leader saying his forces were withdrawing from Aleppo.
With an enormous website full of free content every day, it seems that asking readers to pay 99 cents per issue for a tablet magazine from Huffington Post always did seem like an incongruity, which is why AOL is offering the publication for free.
Elizabeth Spiers, the founding editor of Gawker hired to give The New York Observer and its website a kick in the pants in 2011, is out as editor-in-chief, the weekly newspaper announced Thursday.
In a negotiation gone sour between Facebook and developer Dalton Caldwell, the tensions between the socia media giant's business and technological sides played out, and this time Mark Zuckerberg's "hacker way" lost.
Did you catch the scary swings in the market yesterday? Turns out they were caused by a computer glitch that ended up costing a single trading firm $440 million.
Federal Reserve monetary policy decisions are BORING, but less so when compared to watershed cultural moments like Bob Dylan going electric.
The weekly report of how many people are filing for unemployment benefits has been something of a seesaw all month, and the day before the national unemployment rate comes out they're up by 8,000 to 365,000, which still beat economists' expectations.
The former secretary of State shares her scorn for anecdotal ledes and talk radio
Time Warner will never offer HBO Go as a standalone streaming service because it's not what the people want, says CEO Jeff Bewkes, asking us to look at the data, which he claims proves there aren't that many cord-cutters.
NBC's ratings for the 2012 Olympics have been great, in spite of the complaints about its delayed coverage, and on Wednesday the network announced perhaps its biggest triumph yet: It's going to break even broadcasting it.
It's tempting to be optimistic about Wednesday's report by the payroll firm ADP, that showed the private sector added 163,000 jobs in July and beat analysts' expectations of 120,000, but that report has been pretty far from the official figures of late.
Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and author most recently of As Texas Goes... buys three newspapers every morning and hopes Jon Stewart won't scoop her at night.
In the harshest referendum yet about the success of News Corporation's tablet newspaper The Daily, the publication, which launched in 2011, is laying off 50 of its 170 employees, All Things Digital's Peter Kafka reports.
If you look at the amount of time between iPhone releases in the past, you get an average of 298 days, according to numbers complied by MacRumors. Well, we hit that landmark. It has now been 301 days since the release of the iPhone 4S. It is now okay to whine.
The saga of Guy Adams, the Independent journalist suspended from Twitter after a series of tweets critical of NBC, took an insidious turn on Tuesday as NBC claimed it filed its complaint about Adams at Twitter's behest.
Master plagiarist Jayson Blair has something to say about self-plagiarist and quote fabricator Jonah Lehrer: He probably wouldn't be in this mess if it wasn't for the Internet.
Fantasizing about how Apple could spend its $117 billion cash mound leads to one astounding conclusion: The company has more money than it could ever spend—even if it went on an extravagant tech company shopping spree.
As expected, Yahoo acting CEO Ross Levinsohn has left the company after the former Googler Marissa Mayer took the job he was supposed to inherit, reports AllThingsD's Kara Swisher.
Twitter suspended the account of a journalist who was one of the loudest voices criticizing NBC's Olympics coverage, after NBC complained he'd inappropriately shared the personal information of one of its executives.
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