Rich Jaroslovsky Enlarge image Rich Jaroslovsky Rich Jaroslovsky, technology columnist with Bloomberg News. Rich Jaroslovsky, technology columnist with Bloomberg News. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg May 24 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Rich Jaroslovsky reviews Microsoft Corp.'s revamped Bing Internet search engine. The new site makes results more social by listing related functions and content from a user's friends without encroaching on regular query results. (Rich Jaroslovsky is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. Source: Bloomberg) Maybe I just need better friends, but I can’t shake the feeling that “social search” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. For the uninitiated, that’s the trend among search engines toward including results from Facebook contacts, Twitter followees and other digital buddies among the traditional blue links. Given ... Continue reading →

About Margaret Carlson Margaret Carlson is a Bloomberg View columnist appearing on Wednesdays. A former White House correspondent for TIME, she was also TIME's first woman columnist. She appeared on CNN's "Capital Gang" for 15 years. More about Margaret Carlson Newark Mayor Cory Booker took a giant step toward the presidency on Sunday. On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Booker called President Barack Obama’s advertisement criticizing Mitt Romney’s tenure at the private-equity firm Bain Capital LLC “nauseating.” His comment has been portrayed as a disagreement with the president over Obama’s ad strategy. What Booker was actually doing, however, was shoring up his base: Bain Capital and all those similarly situated firms that have supported him in the past and will, presumably, do so in the future ... Continue reading →

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May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Rich Jaroslovsky talks about flawed products seeking a second chance after the companies addressed the problems, including the Dropcam Wi-Fi video-monitoring camera and Research In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. (Source: Bloomberg) Continue reading →

Three Flawed Gadgets Seek Second Shot: Rich Jaroslovsky By Rich Jaroslovsky - Wed May 16 20:00:00 GMT 2012 Bloomberg Opinion Rich Jaroslovsky Enlarge image Flawed Gizmos Try Again With Skeptical Users David Paul Morris/Bloomberg The Dropcam HD, a $149 Wi-Fi home video-monitoring camera. The Dropcam HD, a $149 Wi-Fi home video-monitoring camera. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Enlarge image Flawed Gizmos Try Again With Skeptical Users David Paul Morris/Bloomberg The Research In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook, a seven-inch tablet that starts at $199. The Research In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook, a seven-inch tablet that starts at $199. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Enlarge image Rich Jaroslovsky Rich Jaroslovsky, technology columnist with Bloomberg News. Rich Jaroslovsky, technology columnist with Bloomberg News. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg It’s every tech company’s nightmare: Amid ... Continue reading →

Letter: Independent college newspapers have been hit hard Letter to Romenesko From DAN REIMOLD: As someone who lives, breathes, teaches, advises, and blogs about college media, here is my answer to your question at the end of [this post about The Daily Texan's losses]: The Daily Texan is not alone in its financial free-fall. A growing number of student papers are struggling with their bottom lines. USA Today recently called it a “financial pinch.” I think it’s more like a hard slap or a second-degree burn. For years, student newspapers have been immune from the financial downturn plaguing the professional press, thanks to their lack of overhead, the support of their schools, advertisers’ love of the student market, and their need to only break even. ... Continue reading →

G. Paul Burnett/The New York TimesPaul Steiger, in 2007, when he left The Wall Street Journal to run ProPublica.Paul E. Steiger, the formlongtime managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, will step down at the end of the year as the editor in chief and chief executive of ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative news organization that he started nearly five years ago.Effective Jan. 1, 2013, the project’s managing editor, Stephen Engelberg, will replace Mr. Steiger as editor in chief and Richard Tofel, ProPublica’s general manager, will step in as president. They will share the position of chief executive, Mr. Steiger, 69, told his staff on Monday.Mr. Steiger will transition to a role as executive chairman, a position that will allow him to spend about 60 percent ... Continue reading →