The Big Money

James Ledbetter, the founding editor of the recently-shuttered business news website The Big Money, has landed a new gig. Ledbetter is headed to Thomson Reuters, where he'll editor in charge of Reuters.com.

Of three Slate spinoff sites launched in the beginning of 2008, two have already folded. Will The Root, a site targeting African-American audiences, succeed where its siblings failed? There's some reason to think it might.

In yet another blow to financial media, Slate Group announced that it is shuttering online business magazine The Big Money.

Analysts and media companies are making bold predictions about how tablets will revolutionize the market. Yet, even as the iPad gets the spotlight, it seems like the projections may fall flat.

A month ago, Atlantic Media announced it had hired Slate founder and all-purpose pundit Michael Kinsley to launch a "new digital media property," but it didn't say just what sort of property it would be. Turns out, it's the same sort as the one you're reading -- i.e. a business-news website....

Is it important to you to know what news articles your friends and acquaintances are looking at -- important enough that you're willing to have them know what articles you've been looking at? The Huffington Post thinks it is. This week, it unveiled a new application, HuffPost Social News, that uses...