Walter who? We no longer block out an hour to watch the evening news. NowThis News takes a different approach to news consumption that caters to the YouTube-loving crowd.
Last April Fools' Day, publishers from Time Inc. to the Washington Post Company sent fast-growing startup Zite an aggressive cease-and-desist letter. The publishers weren't joking, accusing Zite's app, a personalized news reader for the iPad and iPhone, of copyright infringement and calling it "plainly unlawful."
CNN paid $20 million for personalized iPad magazine Zite this week. But if you use it, odds are you won't get CNN's original news. So what's CNN getting for its money?
The new-media baroness took a public tongue lashing from TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who called MapQuest "a huge piece of crap" and dared her to say she had ever actually used the service, which is owned by Huffington Post parent company AOL. Here's how the train wreck went down.
Why do people treat NYTimes.com like Amazon.com? Why do women love AOL News? And what's ESPN.com's secret? A new report analyzes online news consumption data.