| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.05.2014 | Former About.com CEO Darline Jean Joins Ad Tech Company PulsePoint | PulsePoint, a startup offering tools for automated ad-buying and selling, announced today that it has hired Darline Jean as its chief operating officer.
Jean spent the past decade at About.com, which she joined as vice president of finance ... |
| 18.04.2014 | About.com CEO Neil Vogel Discusses The Challenges Of Evolving An Established Brand | About.com has never been the coolest website on the internet. With a grayish background and an ugly logo, it was the place you landed when you searched for help with something, but you rarely went there on your own.
This is the product that... |
| 28.02.2014 | The Rise And Future Of The New York Startup Ecosystem | Contributor Contributor
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| 16.07.2013 | About.com Makes Big Leadership Changes As It Zeroes In On Native Advertising And Social | About.com has been around since 1996, but nearly 20 years later the company is undergoing a relatively large shakeup.
Just recently, Neil Vogel took over as Chief Executive Officer to revamp About.com for today’s internet, complete with soc... |
| 08.08.2012 | New York Times pondering sale of About.com for $270M (rumor) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The New York Times is looking to sell lackluster ... |
| 08.08.2012 | New York Times pondering sale of About.com for $270M (rumor) | The New York Times is looking to sell lackluster web property About.com for about $270 million in a move to shore up the media giant, AllThingsD reports.
About.com was purchased by the New York Times for $410 million in 2005. For a few year... |
| 25.04.2011 | Experian Hitwise: Google’s Panda Takes Big Bite Out Of Content Farms | Experian Hitwise reports that downstream traffic to content farms has taken a big hit since Google’s Panda initiative went into effect.
Panda is a change in Google’s algorithm that punishes search rankings for websites that produce low-qual... |
| 08.04.2011 | About.com to expand content offerings | The network of guide sites will also be adding a Spanish-language channel
There are plenty of irritating sites and destinations on the Web that don’t need explaining, but few sites are as irritating as content networks that crank out the ch... |
| 08.04.2011 | About.com About To Expand Premium, Video Content | As Google cracks down on low-quality content in search results, content farm About.com says that it is going to make a significant expansion of its existing premium content. The New York Times Company-owned property plans to grow its family... |
| 08.04.2011 | About.com Announces Expansion Plans | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
About.com is expanding its premium content, launching a Spanish-language channel, and doubling its video content, according to a press release. The site, which is part of the ... |
| 24.12.2010 | Healthcare online advertising increasingly valuable | About.com health survey results
The About.com 2010 Health Study found a significant increase in people using online tools to take charge of their health and better educate themselves about conditions and treatment options. Respondents indic... |
| 04.12.2010 | 7 Free JavaScript E-Books and Tutorials | JavaScript has never been hotter, thanks to projects like Node.js, JQuery and PhoneGap. You can now use JavaScript for scripting in the browser, for creating desktop and mobile applications, and for creating server side web applications. Bu... |
| 17.11.2010 | Top Trends of 2010: Content Farms | The Web has always rewarded quantity more than quality, but over 2010 this truism became even more pronounced with the growth of Content Farms. These are companies which create thousands of pieces of content per day. Much of it is in the fo... |
| 15.09.2010 | "Stealth" Advertising Startup AK Networks Raises $8 Million | We’ve learned that super stealth advertising related startup AK Networks has closed an $8 million round of Series A funding. A SEC Form D filing reveals that the round was co-lead by True Ventures’ Jon Callaghan and DCM’s Dixon Doll and tha... |
| 10.02.2010 | New York Times Sees Rebound In Internet Advertising In Fourth Quarter | The online advertising recession might be over for the New York Times. The company announced fourth quarter earnings this morning. Total revenues for the quarter were down 11.5 percent to $681 million, but Internet revenues (including About... |
| 16.12.2009 | Online Publishing Site HubPages Launches Real-Time Content Feeds | HubPages, a content community based around topics, is adding a new real-time feature this week: feeds. The site lets anyone create “Hubs” around any type of topic, and divided content into forums, questions and answers.
The new feed makes i... |
| 26.08.2009 | Answers.com: 31 Million Copied and Pasted Web Pages Can’t Go Wrong | Earlier this week we looked at the top 50 web properties in the U.S., according to comScore, and analyzed the changes over the past year. The top 5 were almost the same, except for the entrance of Facebook at number 5. What really caught ou... |
| 19.06.2009 | How to save MySpace | Even though they've been clearly headed in the wrong direction
I wouldn’t bet against MySpace. They attract over 70 million people a month (just in the US), and by most accounts are still one of the 10 most popular sites in the world. They ... |
| 27.10.2008 | Reference site Helium raises $17M, lays off 18 | Looks like a fresh infusion of venture capital isn’t always enough to stave off layoffs. Helium, a site where users can write articles sharing advice and debating hot topics, has raised $17 million in a first round of funding, according to ... |
| 07.10.2008 | What is The Future of Human Powered Search? | Mahalo popularized the term “human powered search” when they launched just over a year ago. Many of the pitches we get still use that term as part of their positioning. Many of them are bootstrapped, so the price of entry is clearly low. Bu... |
| 11.03.2008 | Google's Plan To Penalize Advertisers Whose Websites Load Slowly Will Benefit Consumers And Google | News.com points out that Google is planning to measure the time it takes to load the target pages for its ads, and penalize ads that point to slow-loading pages in AdWords auctions. Ads that point to websites that pop right up will be ranke... |
| 24.07.2007 | The Web’s Top Takeover Targets | This past year has been a very eventful one in the M&A arena, with many of web 2.0’s biggest names being snapped up. A few stand-outs include the likes of YouTube, Photobucket, Feedburner, Last.fm, and StumbleUpon.
Yet, there still rema... |
| 01.06.2007 | PIQNIQ.JP | Japan’s family social network
by Danielle Tate-Stratton
For families, moving to Japan can be an overwhelming proposition. A new language, culture, school and medical system, among others, and often, no place to turn for advice and support ... |
| 08.03.2006 | Boxxet: Wants to be the About.com of Web 2.0 | Updated
Boxxet is a new start-up based in Burlingame that lets people create pages for particular topics, such as the SF Giants, that carry relevant news, blogs and photos. It is similar to something called About.com. Think about the name. ... |
| 08.02.2005 | Blogging 1.0 | A couple recent blog posts and my lunch today took me back in time to blogging 1.0, circa 1996/1997.
Jeff Jarvis blogged today that the New York Times Company is the front runner to purchase About.com from Primedia.
And Brad Feld blogged ye... |
| - | Healthcare online advertising increasingly valuable | Earlier this year, About.com conducted a research study on health, revealing that significantly more people find online health advertisements helpful in coping with diseases and learning about the side effects and safety of medication [1]. ... |
