On a few occasions recently I’ve noted how Mike Arrington has persistently scooped the financial media on tech deals – most famously, perhaps, in the Google-YouTube deal. And just this morning I noted that Valleywag was now in the game, too. And an interesting game it is for media watchers, with others such as GigaOm […]

It’s perhaps unfortunate for Jason Calacanis that his departure from Time Warner-AOL coincided with his old competitor Nick Denton taking over the reins at Valleywag – one of Denton’s first tasks there was to rub salt in the wound over the departure. The story is that Calacanis left AOL after Miller’s ouster – either as […]

I love Leo Laporte’s closing comment at the end of every TWiT podcast – “another TWiT is in the can” – there’s always a tone of pride in his voice, something I take to be well deserved pride at another step taken in building something remarkable. And that’s kind of how I felt yesterday after […]

The Globe reports on a coming earthquake in telecom regulation: The Harper government will announce Wednesday its intention to rewrite the CRTC’s key ruling on Internet-based telephone services, a highly unusual move that could mark a big step toward a more open and consumer-friendly sector. Industry Minister Maxime Bernier will say in a speech in […]