BizJournals Portfolio
Home >   Business Views, Opinions and Blogs >   Business Blogs >   Mixed Media >  

Idle Chatter Wal Mart Tries Selling Ads

Mixed Media

by Mark Stein
Main
Photo Chief MaryAnne Golon Runs Out of Time   Media Etiquette for Those Who Should Know Better

Recent Blog Posts

Links

Jun 03 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Wal-Mart Tries Selling Ads

Wal-Mart has launched free online classifieds to compete with newspapers and Craigslist. The pilot test included 30 million items. [WSJ]

Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz says his former colleague John Solomon "has brought a sense of political balance" to his new home: the candidly conservative Washington Times. [WP]

Jack Shafer at Slate.com on the Vanity Fair-Clinton flap: "It's true that the Purdum's story is tawdry, but can any profile of the man whose name will forever be linked to Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Juanita Broaddrick, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Sally Perdue, Dolly Kyle Browning, and Kathleen Wiley could be anything but tawdry?" [Slate]

Yahoo brass tried to arrange for all of its 14,000 employees to resign if Microsoft had bought the company, court records show. Yahoo also didn't tell employees about Microsoft's offer of $1.5 billion in retention bonuses. [Portfolio.com]

by George Quraishi

(Jeff Bercovici is on vacaton.)

Comments

If you are commenting using a Facebook account, your profile information may be displayed with your comment depending on your privacy settings. By leaving the 'Post to Facebook' box selected, your comment will be published to your Facebook profile in addition to the space below.


Connect With Portfolio.com
Like Portfolio on Facebook

Come on, like us—you know you want to.

Follow Portfolio on Twitter

Follow us and if you're an innovative entrepreneur, we'll return the favor.

The Mix

Today's top stories, conversation starters, and the back nine business bites.

spotlight on

Slideshows

500 Startups Hits New York

Dave McClure's brainchild makes its way to New York and introduces East Coast money folks to some intriguing new companies. View Slideshow