David Kaplan
Apr 5, 2010 2:36 PM
Talking Points Memo has hired former Condé Nast digital M&A exec Kourosh Karimkhany as COO at a time when TPM appears to be demonstrating continued traffic growth. The company’s internal traffic for March shows a 79 percent spike over the same month last year, which TPM attributed to a major…
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Tameka Kee
Oct 22, 2009 8:00 PM
Left-leaning political blog Talking Points Memo (TPM) is losing its deputy publisher, Andrew Golis. Golis is headed over to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), where he’ll head up the company’s news and blog aggregation efforts as editor of a soon-to-launch political blog. To be clear, a Yahoo rep said the company wasn’t…
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Rafat Ali
Jul 6, 2009 2:55 PM
Left-of-center political news blog TalkingPointsMemo has received its first outside money, from Marc Andreessen and other angel investors, according to TC. The amount is small, and pegged between $500K to $1 million. The investment from Andreessen, his second in a blog network (the first being Business Insider), is a personal…
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David Kaplan
Sep 19, 2008 7:22 PM
Left-leaning political news blog Talking Points Memo and NextNew Networks are severing their ties, a rep for the online video aggregator confirmed. TPM has decided to go it alone when it comes to handling its online video distribution. And NextNew is concentrating more on other verticals besides politics, such as…
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