Daniel Lyons, the former Forbes magazine journalist and writer of the blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, made his final blog entry on Wednesday. Lyons stated that he had grown tired of his fictional creation, but more importantly did not want to be making fun of a real person whose health is in jeopardy. [...]
Dan Lyons, the veteran Forbes tech editor who blogs under the pseudonym “Fake Steve Jobs” has been lured away and hired by Newsweek. Lyons is the first significant hire since the massive layoffs by Newsweek and will take over as the tech editor. Lyons will officially join Newsweek on Aug. 1 and his alter ego, [...]
New Ziff Davis Enterprise ceo Steve Weitzner wrote Folio: in an email that “…the changes [ZDE is] making will be less extreme than some recent layoffs in the media industry.” Folio: also reports on several executive appointments at the publisher. Folio: (Apr. 10, 2008)
When YouTube was purchased by Google in 2006 for more than $1 billion and was broadcasting more than 100 million video clips a day, it did it all with 60 people on the payroll. A TV network like CBS employs some 23,000. Craigslist, the online classified ad site winning market share from local newspapers, employed fewer [...]