Aug 4 2010

Google to Buy Levchin’s Slide

6:57 p.m. | Updated Bits’s Claire Cain Miller has more on Google’s acquisition of Slide, though she reports the purchase price is $228 million. Google is said to have agreed to buy Slide.com, a maker of widgets for social networking sites like Facebook, for about $182 million, TechCrunch reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources. The purchase [...]


Jul 19 2010

Internet Only One Factor in Journalism’s Slide Into the Superficial

Five Politics Daily staffers — Carl Cannon, Melinda Henneberger, Walter Shapiro, David Wood and James Grady — are joining in an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg about politics and the press as seen through the prism of his new book, “Beyond The Killing Fields.” In today’s essay, Schanberg [...]