Staci D. Kramer
Feb 14, 2011 1:04 AM
Last month at DLD in Munich, in front of top execs from investor Burda, Jason Calacanis offered a fairly staid explanation for the decision to “pivot” Mahalo from “human-powered” search/content factory to an education-centric enterprise. At Signal LA, not so staid. Calacanis came out swinging against low-quality mass content, invoking…
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David Kaplan
Nov 15, 2010 4:24 PM
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has completed the integration of freelance aggregator Associated Content and is rebranding it the Yahoo Contributor Network. The move follows Yahoo’s acquisition of the company last May, as well as it’s local content partnership that was signed between the two a year ago. As Associated Content co-founder…
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Staci D. Kramer
May 18, 2010 9:00 PM
For months, most of the attention on Yahoo’s content has been about the company’s efforts to expand its coverage and enhance its quality. Now the company is in the spotlight for acquiring Associated Content, which, depending on your point of view, is either a content farm or a producer of…
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Joseph Tartakoff
May 18, 2010 4:03 PM
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is buying Associated Content for a price we’re hearing is between $90 million and $100 million reported $100 million-plus in an effort to boost the amount of content it has across its sites. Associated Content pays contributors who produce photos, text or videos on any subject and…
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Tameka Kee
Mar 30, 2009 2:52 PM
Former *CBS* Interactive and *Google* exec Patrick Keane will head up online publishing service Associated Content. Luke Beatty, Associated Content’s founder and president, had been at the helm since CEO Geoff Reiss left for Newsweek last year. Keane brings the three-year-old startup two things it needs to help court larger…
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