Old Media Buys New

CBS Buys Gossip Blog For $10m
CBS has bought the celebrity gossip blog Dotspotter for $10 million. The site is just 10 months old. The site ranks as 334 on the Technorati blog chart. Commenting, Rafat Ali s...

Macy To Install 300 iPod Vending Machines
Maybe it's because no one knows how to find and employ those nice young men who work the Apple store, that makes other retailers turn to vending machines to sell their tech kit. ...

Tata Buys Jaguar and Land Rover For $2 Billion
The BBC reports that Tata, India's biggest vehicle maker, will pay about $2bn to Ford to buy their Jaguar and Land Rover marks. BBC NEWS | Business | Tata to announce Jaguar pur...

Pushing Drugs On A Coffee Cup
Adam Rant drops us an email about a drug sampling scheme found on the side of a coffee cup: I nip downstairs to get a cup of cheap coffee from the deli below the office on Canal...

The End Of Shopping
An article in last weekend’s New York Times magazine bemoans the possible death of shopping – or shopping around for a deal. Soon, the author, Walter Kim, predicts, we will a...

Social Media: Breaking The Chain
PSFK got this message from someone who's decided it's best for her productivity to leave the social network Linked In. She says: It has been nice, but I am unlinking. All I ...