Facebook’s rise has come on the back of astonishing international growth — but it needs to keep expanding everywhere, and in every way, to keep up with investors’ expectations. Where can it find the silver bullet? And how will it happen? Read More »
After growth slowed just in time for its IPO, Facebook must look overseas for a jump-start. Here are the only five remaining countries where Zuckerberg is not top dog – and the rivals that stand in his way. Read More »
Nine months after launching its streaming service in Japan, Hulu still won’t offer up any subscription numbers. But the company did confirm on Friday that it has hired a new managing director for the region, former Avex Group executive Buddy Marini. Read More »
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning… Read More »
Two weeks after the digital media giants stormed Madison Avenue with their Newfront blitz, television’s indigenous programmers showed up in Manhattan to defend their turf. For now, their share of ad dollars appears to be safe. Read More »
With the rise of social platforms and emergence of new mobile and connected devices, we have entered the post-search world and companies are finding ways to organize information around “knowledge” and “interests.” Today, Twitter is introducing a way to follow others based on interests. Read More »
Speaking at an investor conference Wednesday, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo said his company’s joint venture with Coinstar’s Redbox will seek to leverage the DVD-rental kiosk operator’s 30 million customers and not so much on Verizon FiOS’ nearly 4.4 million customers. Read More »
Player FM. wants to make it easier to consume podcasts across different devices: The web-based curation and playback platform was launched by former Googler Michael Mahemoff just a few days ago, but Mahemoff is already thinking about bringing new ad formats and micropayments to podcasts. Read More »
- Facebook doesn’t want world domination: it needs it
- Facebook’s foreign foes: five countries to conquer for new growth
- Mystery-shrouded Hulu Japan hires new managing director
- What you need to know about that $15 billion Facebook privacy case
- Facebook gets a reality check on IPO day
- YouTube’s April video usage up 55% over 2011
- A kinder, gentler DRM?
