NowThis News, the video news app from former HuffPo execs Ken Lerer and Eric Hippeau, just launched on Android.…
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NowThis News, the news video app from HuffPo’s former execs, goes live
Ex-Huffington Post execs Ken Lerer and Eric Hippeau are finally out with their social video news app NowThis News. Will younger users find it more captivating than just flipping channels, or picking off videos from a user's social stream?…
Read MoreIn a SoHo Lab, HuffPo Mafia rekindles the old magic
Former Huffington Post CTO Paul Berry is leading a HuffPo reunion at SoHo Tech Labs, an incubator that draw support from half a dozen former fellow execs. The team is trying to apply the best practices of the Huffington Post to help create successful start-ups.…
Read MoreEx-HuffPo leaders’ stealth video startup Planet Daily raises $5M
The details are still fuzzy on the new stealth video startup Planet Daily Networks, founded by Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer and former CEO Eric Hippeau, but it appears that the company has nabbed $5 million in funding.…
Read MoreHuffPost’s Hippeau: Social Informants Are The New ‘Influencers’
Since last October, the number of comments on Huffington Post stories have more than doubled to 3.5 million, making commenting the "main att……
Read MoreHuffPo’s Hippeau On More Acquisitions: ‘We’ll Be Opportunistic’
The Huffington Post's acquisition of Adaptive Semantics isn't an "open sesame" for a buying spree. "We'll be opportunistic," HuffPo CEO Eric……
Read More@ Media Dealmakers Summit: Arguments Over Pay Walls Are Practical, Not Ideological
Attempting to get some debate going from his panel at the Media Dealmakers Summit, Slate Group Chairman and editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg a……
Read MoreVideo: Web 2.0 Summit: WSJ, Google, NYT, HuffPo Execs Mix It Up
The Robert Thomson quote machine was in full force during the obligatory Web 2.0 Summit look at the future of journalism. Federated Media's……
Read MoreHuffPo CEO Eric Hippeau: ‘We Are Now In The Big Leagues’
The news spread quickly, aided by PR and the characteristic web glee anytime an online property appears to be leaving old media in the dust:……
Read MoreArianna Huffington: ‘Staying Still Doesn
One way to get some almost uninterrupted time with peripatetic Arianna Huffington: talk to her while she's on jury duty, waiting to be picke……
Read MoreUpdated: HuffPo Changes CEOs: Betsy Morgan Being Replaced By SoftBank’s Eric Hippeau
The Huffington Post, which has achieved great popularity but is still looking for the profit to match, is getting its second CEO in as many……
Read More@ OnMedia: VC Investment In Content; Waiting For The Online Seinfeld
After a brief presentation from VC Tim Draper titled "Why I am Bullish on Investing in Media" (the usual reasons: disruption, the end of med……
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