The Los Angeles times just posted a piece speculating that more Web start-ups are on the rocks as investors are becoming more cautious. The problem is, it’s very difficult to figure out if a company is having problems raising cash because the economy, or because investors are just not interested in their company. It’s much [...]
Here’s a great summary of why mainstream media is having so many problems, from an article today in the San Francisco Chronicle: Mainstream media as a whole, the report found, isn’t losing its audience. It just doesn’t know how to get its new online customers – or anyone else who is reading what they’re producing [...]
Southern California appears to be the new frontier — or at least the newest center of attention — for high tech and digital media startups. In the last week, there’s been widespread coverage — in both new media and (countless) blog sites, as well as major news outlets like the Wall Street Journal, New York [...]
There’s a fascinating article this morning from the Wall Street Journal, reporting that NBC is shipping its writing work overseas to writers unaffiliated with the Writers Guild of America. It looks like Hollywood is yet another industry (on top of software, radiology, and investment banking) which is looking — in thanks to the WGA strike [...]
For an otherwise, sort half-vacation day that Monday was, nothing topped the strange saga of the case of the cloned press release. Basically, a press release(credited to a new firm “HD AmeriTV”) showed up on one of the marginal “free PR release” services, and was picked up by a bunch of venture capital blogs. However, [...]
The biggest story today in the region is the Writer’s Guild strike, yet the vast majority of technology firms here —even in the Los Angeles area—have very little to do with Hollywood and entertainment. Looking over the companies we cover on a regular basis, I can only find one or two companies (who provide technology [...]
Anyone familiar with Google News is well aware of the duplicate articles — usually pulled from AP, AFP, UPI, and other wire feeds — which show up in their automated news ranking systems. So the announcement Friday that they will carry AP and other wire feeds directly — not through the publications which license AP [...]
The Los Angeles Times just announced a few minutes ago that it has appointed a Vice President of Software Engineering and Architecture — shortly after appointing a CTO from Edmunds.com and Yahoo/Overture. Now, what does this say about the massive changes facing the newspaper publishing industry, when they are laying off journalists and hiring software [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
