Cisco Wants To Buy News Corp's TV Software Maker NDS For $5 Billion
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Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) says it wants to buy News Corp.’s TV set-top box software maker NDS Group for $5 billion to improve its own offering and… Read more »
Slovenia's Big Pay 'Wall' Has Made €26,000
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Piano Media, the online news payment system which first launched in Slovakia last year, says it made €26,000 ($33961.2/£21616.4) in its f… Read more »
Man Utd Wants Its Crest Stripped From Google Play
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Manchester United football club is demanding that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) bar all Android apps that contain its logo. Read more »
Music Streams Join Downloads In U.S. Charts, UK Waits
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What is the best way to quantify artists’ popularity, as more music consumption moves from downloads to streams? Read more »
Britannica Ends Printing, Now Will Face Wikipedia On Price, Quality
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At a conference last week, an Encyclopaedia Brittanica executive rose from the floor to challenge keynoter Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia.
“I don… Read more »
Social Media Display Fuelling Ongoing Internet Ad Growth
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The internet will attract 21 percent more ad spend each year on its way to gobbling 22.1 percent of the total market by 2014, according to l… Read more »
How Netflix's Hastings Could Get BSkyB Off An Anti-Trust Charge
The UK inquiry in to whether Sky Movies’ exclusive first-run subscription VOD deals with six major Hollywood major studios is anti-competiti… Read more »
Telegraph Puts Mobile App In Subscription Bundle
The Telegraph and Sky News may each operate subscription iPad outlets – but, with latest revisions to their mobile offerings, the two news p… Read more »
Music's Celestial Jukeboxes Square Off In Germany; Next Stop Asia-Pac
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The new wave of global subscription music services going global has picked Germany, perhaps Europe’s most under-developed digital music mark… Read more »
Yahoo's EMEA Chief Riley Quits Geneva, For Sunnyvale?
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The man helping Yahoo’s new CEO plot the company’s rejuvenation has told his staff he is leaving his role as SVP of the Europe, the Middle E… Read more »
Youku And Tudou Merge To Create Chinese Online Video Powerhouse
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After threatening to sue each other for copyright infringement in December, the largest players in China’s fast-growing online video market… Read more »
Another Atoms-To-Bits Moment: Game Group Retailer On Brink Of Collapse
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Europe’s biggest plastic-box video game retailer Game Group has warned its shares may become worthless, as it struggles to avoid the same fa… Read more »
For Connected TV, The New Last Mile Is Dining Room To Living Room
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Last week, I lambasted Virgin Media for taking two years to launch its iPad TV guide for its TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set-top box.
I have since le… Read more »
Cloud Services Reach High On Europe's Radar To Boost Economy
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She may not be convinced of the name, but “cloud” computing has risen close to top of European Commission vice-president Neelie Kroes’ 2012… Read more »
Germany Wants To Charge Search Engines To Use News Excerpts
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Germany’s government wants search engines and news aggregators to pay news publishers for using pieces of their material. Read more »
Interview: Omnifone CEO Eyes Investments As Music Access Takes Off
Veteran music access vendor Omnifone may not own a stake in Rara, the fledgling Spotify rival it span off last year – but CEO Jeff Hughes te… Read more »
BBC Plans iTunes Competitor With Download Fees For New And Old Shows
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The BBC is developing a radical scheme under which UK viewers would pay to download new and old BBC TV shows from a service it hopes will co… Read more »
Virgin's TiVo Slow-Mo: An iPad App, Two Years Later
Talk about “agile development”! Virgin Media has finally put a September 2012 launch date on the long-promised iPad controller for its TiVo… Read more »
Roku Needs To Raise $50 Million To Go Global
Internet TV box service Roku is prepared to take on a big and high-risk new investment to support its international ambitions. Read more »
Is Facebook Worth $100 Billion? Investors Bullish, Analyst Cautious
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Facebook’s value has risen to $100 billion since its IPO announcement, based on private trades of its stock. But could Mark Zuckerberg justi… Read more »
Second Screen Must Find Its Own Voice To Redefine TV
For all the talk about TV’s “second screen” device experiences, so far they are mostly being used for social interaction around shows. But s… Read more »
Yahoo's Next Strategy: There's Gold In That There E-Commerce
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New Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Scott Thompson’s upcoming turnaround may centre on mining Yahoo’s green plains for different prospects, including… Read more »
Updated: BBC Worldwide Re-Jigs Digital Leadership After Jones Joined Sky
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BBC Worldwide is aiming to more closely unify its various web brands, after BBC.com’s managing director Luke Bradley-Jones left in January. Read more »
Sky's Internet TV Service Could Offer Pay-As-You-Go Shows
BSkyB’s upcoming over-the-top internet TV service could create a new post-subscription ecosystem for pay-per-view and pay-as-you-go TV shows… Read more »
Revenge Of The Replicas – 70 UK Papers Hit iOS In One Go
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Historically slow to innovate their products and their editorial for the digital age, a trio of UK regional news publishers is this week tak… Read more »
Staggered Sponsored Tweet Campaigns Ruled OK
A controversial Twitter marketing campaign that used celebrities, not Promoted Tweets, to advertise chocolate did not cross a line, the UK’s… Read more »
Axel Springer Fears Public Media Apps Will Blunt Digital Tipping Point
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Online advertising and new content fees have helped Europe’s largest news publisher become the latest to reach a print-to-digital tipping po… Read more »
UK ISPs Must Write Letters To Pirates, Other Measures Some Way Off
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UK ISPs will have to write warning letters to illegal downloaders identified by rightsholders, after the ongoing protests of two of the larg… Read more »
Google Aims To Convince Mobile Game Makers On In-App Payments
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will this week try to convince mobile game developers to adopt its improved in-app payments features, as it vies with Ap… Read more »
Facebook TV Vote Slip-Up Earns Warning For Channel 5
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The UK’s media regulator will consider the reliability of social networks as premium-rate TV interaction mechanisms, after Britain’s first e… Read more »
The Economist Hands All Digital Strategy To Its Tablet Chief
The Economist is handing control of its website to its tablet magazines controller, in a bid to unite the previously competitive units. Read more »
Pearson Cooks Up More Content Giveaways Through API Payments
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Pearson (NYSE: PSO) plans to let developers re-use more of its varied content, after its latest effort repackaged 2,500 recipes from its coo… Read more »
Industry Moves: A&N Mobile, Future TechRadar, Johnston Press, Accel
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business… Read more »
Mail.ru Yanks Domestic Ads From ICQ
Mail.ru’s DST may have spent $187.5 million taking ICQ off AOL’s hands, but it’s in no rush to make a direct return on the veteran IM servic… Read more »
Flipboard Goes French And More Magazine-Like
Having already launched a Chinese-language app recently, iPad social magazine app Flipboard has used its latest upgrade to support the Frenc… Read more »
Call Of Duty Subscriptions Helped Fuel Vivendi
Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) Blizzard says it will launch further direct consumer premium digital channels after the success of its Call Of Duty… Read more »
What Happens Next If Spotify Goes Public?
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Record labels’ equity in Spotify has allowed the music subscription service to start and to flourish. But, if the company decides to file fo… Read more »
The Future For News International After James Murdoch
Does James Murdoch’s UK exit bode ill or well for News Corp.’s UK newspapers? That’s the question many are asking. Read more »
James Murdoch Steps Down At News International
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James Murdoch has been removed as executive chairman of News Corp.’s UK newspaper wing News International, as the phone hacking and media et… Read more »
When Will Music’s Celestial Jukebox Go Mainstream?
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Music’s new wave of unlimited-access services is now supported by most labels, who dearly hope that new subscription payments will make up f… Read more »
