Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer is taking the stage at Microsoft’s analyst day to talk about the company’s consumer businesses, saying that “a lot of the issues we see in our consumer businesses are very much on the minds of the shareholders.” That’s an understatement, considering that the lackluster…

The big idea behind just about every website redesign these days generally revolves around “less is more” minimalism. But it looks like MSNBC.com’s redo actually means it: the new site, which just went fully live, promises to do an end with clicking on stories and on ads. By introducing a…

Production firm BermanBraun is looking at teaming up with MSNBC.com on a new content site that intends to serve as the intersection for celebrity and politics news, Mediaweek reports, citing unidentified sources. The project is related to BermanBraun’s work with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) portal MSN’s entertainment channel Wonderwall. The site…

EveryBlock—the MSNBC Interactive-owned hyperlocal aggregator—is bulking up its site with data from SeeClickFix, a startup that lets anybody report an issue in need of government action in their community. The two companies—which are both considered to be among the top innovators in the local space online—will announce their partnership later…

MSNBC is continuing to try make better use of social media as a distribution tool with a small effort that ties its @BreakingNews Twitter account to a dedicated Facebook page. It’s not clear how much Facebook fans want real-time news mixed with their friends’ status updates—as opposed to following @BreakingNews…

Hyperlocal news aggregator EveryBlock is making its first big move since being purchased by MSNBC.com over the summer: Visitors to the site will now be able to write up announcements of their own, which will show up along with EveryBlock’s existing automated blurbs which are pulled from local municipal sources…

MSNBC.com is really getting serious about this whole breaking news thing: First it took over management of the @BreakingNews twitter feed from the company BNO News late last year, and now, it is buying the BreakingNews.com domain name from its current owner, to build its real time news delivery service.…

Well, it isn’t exactly the acquisition I was hoping for, but close, and probably for the better: BNO News, of the popular @BreakingNews Twitter feed and the BNO iPhone app, is launching its business syndication venture, called BNO News Wire, and MSNBC.com has signed on as the first client. Along…

Like it or not, hyperlocal is one of the buzzphrases in online news these days, and the site of the moment is EveryBlock.com. Founded two years ago, it was sold last week to MSNBC Interactive. Unlike other sites that provide their own local news, EveryBlock, which operates in 15 U.S.…

When the MSNBC acquisition of EveryBlock popped Monday, just about everyone—paidContent included—quickly added “hyperlocal” as the key description. But it’s a term founder and new MSNBC employee Adrian Holovaty has actively disavowed in the past—and one the MSNBC announcement avoided, opting instead for “innovative local site” that “goes to the…

One question in the wake of MSNBC Interactive’s purchase of EveryBlock is how MSNBC.com will integrate EveryBlock’s hyperlocal news feeds. In an interview, MSNBC.com president Charles Tillinghast tells us that EveryBlock feeds will be added to the local news section of MSNBC.com “probably in the next few months.” (That should…

MSNBC Interactive is making a hyperlocal push, with the purchase of EveryBlock, which offers updates culled from public records—like 911 dispatches—and news sources in 15 cities. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but likely in the low single digit millions. Until last month the startup—run by Washingtonpost.com veteran…

Newsweek.com and MSNBC.com will continue to throw traffic to each other for another two years, in a deal that execs tell paidContent includes expanded editorial collaboration but no money—yet. It’s the latest evolution of a partnership that stretches back to the launch of Newsweek.MSNBC.com in 2000 and a major deal…

With online video attracting more viewers and advertisers, many sites are moving away from offering sponsors a flat-fee and toward a pricing model tied to how many eyeballs the content receives, Mediaweek reports. Next month, as it relaunches its online media player, MSNBC.com will make the switch to impressions-based pricing…