Days into Olympics coverage, NBC continues to wrestle with unexpected competition. The network paid $894 million for exclusive rights to broadcast what is becoming the first Summer Games of the broadband era. Viewership is off the charts, nearly a 40 percent share. Traffic to NBCOlympics.com has already surpassed the 229 million pageviews from the entire […]

Amid whispers that it will close or merge its stealth Washington operation, The Examiner chain of free-distribution newspapers (DC, Baltimore and San Francisco) is reaching out to the real people for content. Here’s the deal, a pitch for locals (not bloggers, mind you) to become “examiners“: “If you can write three concise, timely and relevant […]

Who can forget the front page of the New York Post about this time four years ago? You remember, the screaming headline that proclaimed Dick Gephardt as John Kerry’s choice for vice president. Turns out it that Kerry had actually picked John Edwards, the former presidential candidate who has been back in the news lately. […]

In what could lead to an online privacy Bill of Rights, several Internet and broadband companies have acknowledged using targeted-advertising technology without explicitly informing customers. The revelations came in response to a bipartisan inquiry by the House Energy and Commerce committee of how more than 30 net companies have gathered data to target customers through […]

Four days after Andrew’s post about Launchbox Digital’s efforts to seed promising start-ups in the Washington area, The Washington Post followed with its own story. Reporter Jordan Weissman brought dimension, detail and personality about an event that attracted investors and entrepreneurs throughout the East Coast. The Post is a Launch Box sponsor. But does anyone […]