Our 2021 Predictions Turned Out… Sorta…
November 29, 2021
7:17 am
One year ago we fielded eight predictions for 2021. How did we do? Not great, honestly. Let’s look at each.
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‘Extra Crunch’ is Now TechCrunch+
September 27, 2021
7:41 pm
TechCrunch this week retired its Extra Crunch brand, ending what proved to be an interesting 31-month experiment. TC’s paid edit product is now called TechCrunch+, only slightly different in composition from its predecessor.
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Coming Soon: Charisma as a Service (CaaS)
March 28, 2023
Don’t know what to say on a job interview, or a date? In a recent hackathon, Stanford researchers used AR glasses, voice recognition and ChatGPT to create a system that shows you what to say. Voila! “Charisma-as-a-Service.” Meteor broke this story.
Publishers are Losing Visibility in Google Search Results
March 23, 2023
The publications in question are UK-based. Still, the author’s observations about Google bode ill for US publishers as well.
Biz Carson to Bloomberg
March 14, 2023
Biz now covers “the intersection of money and Silicon Valley” for the Bloomberg Wealth section (not Brad Stone‘s team).
Behind the WSJ’s Attack on ‘Woke’ SVB
March 14, 2023
Twitter blew up yesterday about the WSJ’s suggestion that SVB’s problems may have stemmed from “diversity demands.” Absolutely no one should be surprised by this claim. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch recently installed Emma Tucker as EIC, a Murdoch loyalist brought in to lead WSJ’s coverage of the 2024 elections. Says The Guardian: “Tucker will find herself having to work out how to cover a third presidential run by Donald Trump. Murdoch has… cooled on the former president and is warming to Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida who is expected to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination.”
So prepare for an onslaught of woke this and woke that from the WSJ, a publication that isn’t what it used to be, no matter how much we wish it otherwise.
ICYMI: SMK at SdXCentral
March 13, 2023
Sean Michael Kerner now writes for SdXCentral… watch for his copy soon.
Morning Brew Lays Off Another 40
March 10, 2023
Owner Axel Springer must be nervous. Not a good signal from one the world’s most successful publishers. We’ll do the best we can to audit who left. Axios’s Sara Fischer broke the story.