Today is the first day of spring. Which is weird. Because winter is coming. At least for some big media companies, that is. Here’s my situation: I recently started watching the HBO series “Game of Thrones” (based on the George R.R. Martin “A Song of Ice and Fire” series of novels). It’s fantastic. I’m addicted. My girlfriend and I watched…

Towards the end of last year, I reached out to the guys behind TestFlight to see if they were interested in talking about their funding situation. You can’t blame me. It seems that nearly every popular iPhone app out there uses the platform to distribute test builds of their apps before they’re App Store-ready. But the guys politely let...

A little over four years ago, Eric Eldon sent me an email that changed my life. As an editor at VentureBeat, he was on the hunt for new talent to better compete with the likes of TechCrunch. It’s funny how things work out sometimes. Today, Eldon is taking the reigns of TechCrunch as its new top editor. He will replace…

Back in August of last year, Google was under attack. Some of their main rivals — namely, Apple and Microsoft — had teamed up to secure the Nortel patents, which Google was also vying for in order to protect Android. Google SVP and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond decided to take the fight public. On Google’s main blog, Drummond wrote...

It seemed like this week could finally be the week when Google didn’t make headlines for their decision to inject Google+ results right into Search. That hope lasted until Monday. Now the story is back — with a vengeance. Yes, the particular flare up was aided by a clever bookmarklet developed by Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace employees working “off...

SOPA and PIPA are bad. On this, basically the entire web agrees. But not everyone does. Take The Wall Street Journal, for example. And they look like total jackasses as a result. Luckily for them, it’s impossible to look as bad as the Motion Picture Association of America. I mean, did you read the letter they issued yesterday? In it,...