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Apple Ramps Up Holiday iPad Production
Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn is ramping up iPad production capacity to meet demand for the tablet over the holiday season. Taiwanese trade mag Digitimes claims Foxconn has begun using its newest...
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Viral Video: BermanBraun Doesn't Just Make Web Sites ("The Cape" on NBC...
Here is a new teaser trailer for a midseason replacement television show on NBC called “The Cape.” It’s from Hollywood multimedia production company BermanBraun, which is known in tech for the...
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Exclusive: SnagFilms Snags $10 Million in Funding at $50 Million Valuation
SnagFilms, the online video distribution site for professional documentaries, has nabbed $10 million in funding from Comcast’s investment arm and New Enterprise Associates, and will also now be...
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2011 Forecast Calls for 76 Million iPhones With Chance of 32 Million iPads
With the hard launch of the CDMA iPhone at Verizon now just three days away, analysts are tweaking their sales forecasts to reflect its impact. The latest to issue an upward revision: Susquehanna’s...
View ArticleApple's New iPad in Production
Apple Inc. has started production of a new version of its iPad tablet computer, said people familiar with the matter. The new device will be thinner, lighter and will come with a faster processor, more...
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Exclusive: Kno Student Tablet Start-Up in Talks to Sell Off Tablet Part of...
Kno–the much-funded and high-profile Silicon Valley start-up aimed at making tablet computers focused at students–is considering selling off the entire hardware part of the business and is in talks...
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Another Yahoo SVP Departs–This Time, Techie Cheryl Ainoa
Yahoo is losing another longtime senior exec, this time Cheryl Ainoa (pictured here), who has been SVP of the company’s Global Service Engineering unit. Ainoa, who was one of Yahoo’s top women...
View ArticleWind Power Hits a Trough
Gabriel Alonso, who runs one of America’s biggest wind-farm developers, often reminds his employees their goal isn’t to stage a renewable-energy revolution. “This is about making money,” the chief...
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Intel Capital, Condé Nast Owner Invest $30 Million in Kno; Intel to Consult...
According to sources close to the situation, Intel Capital and Advance Publications will lead a $30 million investment round in Kno, the high-profile student tablet start-up. In addition to the...
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Will Yahoo Be In Play Again? Here's a Few Scenarios (That Could Be More Than...
One of the results of Yahoo’s weak earnings report earlier this week has been the renewal of chatter about possible changes in its leadership and even ownership. And continued investor discomfort with...
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Hey Kids, Let's Put on a $4M VC-Funded Show! A Visit to the YouTube Moguls of...
Recently, I went to Venice, Calif., to visit the hipster HQ of Maker Studios, a new-generation production company that has just gotten another $2.5 million in venture funding to help it make videos,...
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Former Myspace Music Head Holt Lands as COO at Maker (Plus Cool Video!)
Courtney Holt, who stepped down as president of Myspace Music early this year, is taking a new job as COO of Maker Studios. Holt has been an adviser to the Venice, Calif., new-generation production...
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Viral Video: More "Hobbit" From the Vlog Files of Peter Jackson
Famed director Peter Jackson, who helmed the “Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy, has promised to continue his production video blog from the movie set of “The Hobbit,” which is filming in New Zealand....
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Peter Chernin on Hollywood, Asia Growth and Not Yahoo: The Full AsiaD...
We are now posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, which took place in Hong Kong in October. We’re following the schedule of the actual event. Up now: Hollywood mogul Peter Chernin....
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Viral Video: Google Street View Address Is Approximately a Hit
Here’s a video I beg you not to miss, if you missed it last week in the holiday swirl. Made by a talented London production company called The Theory, using Google Street View, stop-action photography...
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BermanBraun to Launch Three Non-HuffPost Sites -- Including Weather -- for AOL
In a deal that was struck some time ago and is close to fruition, BermanBraun is prepping three major Web properties for AOL that will focus on pets, men and, interestingly, the weather. After I...
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Viral Video: First Trailer for "The Hobbit" Movie
Since about 2004, the holiday season has been missing a little something. During the prior three years, I had become accustomed to standing in line to see a “Lord of the Rings” movie. But there were...
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What’s Up With Jawbone UP? A Peek Inside the UP Testers Program.
Yesterday, a limited supply of Nike+ FuelBands became available for order again, after quickly selling out when they first launched last month. If the early buzz over a rubberized activity-tracking...
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Exclusive: BermanBraun Buys Most of Shelby Bonnie's Whiskey Media
In a deal that was just signed, longtime Silicon Valley exec Shelby Bonnie has sold his social publishing start-up, Whiskey Media, to Santa Monica-based entertainment and interactive production...
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Yahoo TV and Omg! Head Moves to Young Hollywood
Young Hollywood, the high-profile next-gen digital media start-up, has hired a top Yahoo content exec, Liz Coughlin. The Beverly Hills-based Young Hollywood named Coughlin SVP of business operations,...
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Former MySpace and NFL Digital Exec Jeff Berman Tapped as President of...
Longtime digital exec Jeff Berman is joining Hollywood production company BermanBraun as its first president. Berman — who is no relation to BermanBraun co-founder Gail Berman — comes to the firm from...
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Is It Time for Just-in-Time Data Centers?
The 1970s were a challenging time for automakers, especially in the U.S. The model that had worked so well for decades — building new, bigger models often focusing more on design than function and...
View ArticleApple Ramping Up Gold iPhone 5s Production "Significantly"
Facing what it described as “incredible” demand for its new iPhones — particularly the gold iPhone 5s — Apple is ramping up production of that handset. Sources close to the company tell AllThingsD that...
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AOL Turns Moviefone Over to BermanBraun for Reboot
After buying it in 1999 — at the height of the Web 1.0 bubble — for upwards of $500 million in stock, AOL has pretty much let Moviefone languish ever since. As others — from a myriad of entertainment...
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Yahoo's Mayer Now Chit-Chatting With Ryan Seacrest About Content Ideas
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is tearing her way through the content celebrities, it seems. First, news star Katie Couric. Then, prominent tech reviewer David Pogue. Now, it seems, she has engaged herself...
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