If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Amidst extreme turmoil in both the advertising business and its readership, The New York Times managed to eek out a profit. The company reported a net income of $39.1 million, up $18 million year over year. While the news is huge Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Microsoft announced that Windows 7 will be released on October 22. The company is currently sending the new operating system to PC manufacturers eager to replace the failed Vista OS. Windows 7 will reportedly boot up to 40% faster than Vista. Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Conde Nast is restructuring its web presence by giving its top tier publications their own sites. While magazines like GQ and Vogue have had online properties, both were part of Style.com. While Conde will rebrand the digital world of GQ and Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Yahoo unveiled a redesigned homepage today. The new dashboard centric Yahoo.com combines Yahoo content with third party sites and applications to give users a more engaging experience. Yahoo’s goal is to integrate the most popular web-based sites and services up into Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Today marks the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, America’s first manned mission to land on the moon. So many technological innovations came from the Apollo program: from cordless power tools to digital mammography. The list is huge. If you want to Continue Reading →
“Hacker Croll,” an eponymously named hacker, was able to get access to some very sensitive business documents from Twitter’s Google Apps account this week. It was a very high profile hack, and quite embarrassing for Twitter. People familiar with the incident say that the hacker was able to easily figure out the security question to Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Twitter hack leaked over 300 confidential business documents and photos to TechCrunch. Amongst the documents found were product pitches, company goals, and notes from talks with Microsoft and Google. While none of the information released to the public was especially Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter users have experienced hacks in their account that have been penetrated through Google Apps. Google’s Gmail, Docs & Spreadsheets, Calendar are accessible through Twitter, however, for the third time this year, a hacker has received access to a Twitter account Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. What do you do if you’re in a bank when it’s being robed? Tweet about it, of course. And that’s just what Annemarie Dooling did yesterday in NY. “My bank was just held up – with me in it. HSBC 34 Continue Reading →
Netflix Stock Jumps Amidst Rumors of Amazon Acquisition: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer July 14, 2009
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Netflix stock enjoyed a bump yesterday as rumors flew that Amazon may acquire the company. Sources say purchasing Netflix could increase Amazon’s digital subscription business. Shares of both companies were up approximately 5% on the news. Not one to be out Continue Reading →