Technology executive Peter Thiel told the Milken Institute Global Conference that Twitter likely will outlive The New York Times. His theory is based on the wide use of Twitter and the fact that New…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockAs of last September, the daily newspaper with the highest average circulation was The Wall Street Journal, with a combined print and digital circulation of 2.29 million. USA Today claimed 1.71 million…
thinkstockAmidst the talk of the restructuring of old line media like the Financial Times and Time Inc., and the Jeff Bezos investment in upstart Business Insider, the model of the Drudge Report,…
ThinkstockThe conventional wisdom is that old media online content gets trumped every time by new media properties, at least when it comes to ad revenue. This does not have to be the…
ThinkstockThe number of big city dailies on the market for sale is about to rise sharply. These papers are viewed by many analysts as dinosaurs, and ones that will never make money.…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockThe Secret to Happiness Money does buy happiness. Perhaps the relief from anxiety about emergency funds or retirement money is part of it. Or the very rich believe that they can pay…
ThinkstockOne more major city daily has gone on the market, as publishers across the nation try to salvage the prospects of the biggest newspapers. The Boston Globe will be dumped by The…
Douglas A. McIntyre courtesy of YouTubeSome Fed governors favor a slowing of bond buying to block possible inflation. (Reuters) Several pieces of data show housing activity has slowed. (Reuters) A study conducted by the Chesapeake…
ThinkstockPlayStation 4 Launch Is the release of the Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 4 (PS4) enough to turnaround the aging consumer electronics firm? No. The console is the first major overhaul in…
ThinkstockPrint journalism had a bad few days. The Reader’s Digest filed for Chapter 11 for the second time in three years, with $1.1 billion in assets and $1.2 billion in liabilities. The…
ThinkstockReader’s Digest Bankruptcy Print journalism had a bad few days. The Reader’s Digest filed for Chapter 11 for the second time in three years, with $1.1 billion in assets and $1.2 billion…
courtesy of Time WarnerIf most of Time Inc., the world’s largest and most famous magazine publisher, may be sold, then so can any other pillar of old media. Rumors are that relatively…
U.S. equity markets opened flat this morning, largely due to a slew of data from Europe that essentially cancelled any good news with an equal dollop of bad. U.S. unemployment data came…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning before bouncing into positive territory briefly and then turning south again. As happened yesterday, the focus was on Europe, where Italy’s oldest bank was expected…
ThinkstockHackers have scored another victory in a series that has extended from Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) China site, to the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) site, to The Wall Street Journal…
