Michael Wolff, a Vanity Fair columnist and Newser blogger whose last item about Apple (AAPL) was entitled "Is Steve Jobs Off His Meds?", announced Tuesday that his Newser app has been rejected from the App Store.
In the six-month period ending March 31, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported Sunday sales dropping 6.5 percent and weekday sales 8.7 percent compared with the same six-month period a year ago.
The Huffington Post is up 94 percent in traffic this year and has 13 million monthly unique visitors (Nielsen) and is poised for profitability in 2010, co-founder Arianna Huffington tells the Associated Press.
He then carefully doled out the story on Gizmodo, the gadget blog, until 3.6 million of us, four times the site’s normal traffic, had dropped by to see what all the fuss was about.
now we’re hearing that at least two other companies are in talks or have been in talks recently with the location-based startup as well. And they’re big ones: Facebook and Microsoft.
New York Times Co. reported a first-quarter profit as the company continued to slash costs. The pace of advertising decline also slowed from a year ago, when Times Co. lost $75 million.
Kyle Austin
He currently serves as an Account Supervisor at Racepoint Group, where he has provided communications, marketing and strategic counsel for clients, including: One Laptop per Child, Sony, eHarmony and the Consumer Electronics Association.
He holds a BS from Endicott College in Communications, where he was a four-year letterman and captain of the Men's Soccer team.
Kyle focuses his blogging on the rapid evolution of business, media and marketing in the digital age, while closely examining how businesses are turning into media companies. He has sat down for interviews with numerous thought leaders in the space, including:
- John Markoff of the New York Times
- David Kirkpatrick, author of "The Facebook Effect"
You can follow him on Twitter @kyledaustin.
This stream is a place to share bits of thoughts on media, marketing, sports and business from across the Web. "Every company is a media company." ~ Daniel Scheinman, Cisco
