Posts with tag: CNET
CBSi / CNET cuts CTO, SVP, and more than a dozen other jobs
Looks like CNET / CBSi is making some more cutbacks after all; granted, with an acquisition as large as theirs ($1.2b, hundreds of employees), there were bound to be some redundancies, despite the company’s claims there would be “very few.” After CNET laid off 120+ employees earlier this year in preparation for its eventual sale [...]
Selling News.com to bloggers? No, thanks.
James Nicholson over at Seeking Alpha thinks CNET should sell off its tech news division, News.com, to some other network of “top-tier tech blogs” (Engadget, Tech Crunch, etc. are named), and keep the best writers of the defunct brand to build a better blog network at CNET. Um, yeah, no thanks. That plan makes no [...]
Giant Bomb goes off this summer
Glad to see Gerstmann and some of his fellow Game Spotters got together to start up a new game property, called Giant Bomb. Not that there is any shortage of amazing sites in the space or anything, but it’s pretty clearly the statement of independence disenfranchised Game Spot readers have been looking for in the [...]
Schmidt stonewalls reporter that flew cross-country for interview
It’s not too often I directly relate to CNET reporters (they’re often doing different things in different ways than us), but I totally feel for Elinor Mills — the way Eric Schmidt treated her as a member of the press is pretty weak. But worse, I’d say, is that his PR / handlers didn’t make [...]
Hard times for internet biggies
Man, it’s been a rough couple of weeks for Gawker, CNET, Facebook, etc. Editors disgruntled, editors leaving, editors being wrongfully and egregiously fired, readers / users up in arms at these and other offenses and disappointments (as they should be!).
Let me tell you, there’s an unbelievable amount of pressure in the internet big leagues. But [...]
CNET CEO Neil Ashe writes off Engadget
Check out this quote from a paidContent interview with CNET CEO Neil Ashe: “While others in the blogging community have anointed themselves as CNET competitors, the reality is that CNET is 20 to 50 times the size of any of those. CNET added more users in a month than the audience Engadget and Gizmodo combined [...]
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