online media
By Dawn Kawamoto, The Motley Fool
| 4:20PM 1/04/2012
On Wednesday, Yahoo named Scott Thompson as CEO. He's a former PayPal president and veteran technologist -- and that's the trouble: Yahoo is following the same strategy that led it to hire Carol Bartz, who was ousted for failing to turn the company around.
| 1:45PM 5/09/2010
The iPad user experience, a weird mix between reading a magazine and watching TV, may be boosting media consumption, according to provocative early findings by Yahoo. IPad users tend to be rich white guys who spend a lot more time consuming media than do other Yahoo users.
| 10:00AM 1/30/2010
Taken as a whole, 2009 was a great year for Twitter. The social media site neared 58 million registered users, each revealing life details in 140 characters or less. But the big gains came in the year's first half, leading some to begin to wonder whether Twitter has reached its peak.
| 3:30PM 3/16/2009
With so many people freeloading their news online (ahem!), of course it had to happen in Seattle, a hive of American computing. On Tuesday, the final issue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will be published, and the paper will go web-only. It's the city's oldest newspaper, having started in the...