How Accenture Used A Mobile App To Get On The BBC
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When the consulting firm’s logo appeared routinely in Six Nations rugby broadcast graphics this weekend, James Cridland was amongst the view… Read more »
Oh Baby, Lovefilm’s CEO is Bouncing To Mothercare
After building up Lovefilm and selling it to Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), CEO Simon Calver is leaving for an unusual new challenge in retail, as CEO… Read more »
Never Mind The Numbers: Mail Online And New York Times Are Chalk And Cheese
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Mail Online may have overtaken The New York Times’ website for global audience, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) – but, in reality, the tw… Read more »
Virgin Media Profits As On-Demand Viewing Grows
UK pay-TV and broadband telco Virgin Media clocked its first annual profit in 2011, as its TV set top boxes continued to be an engine of vid… Read more »
Mail Online Income Quickening After U.S. Expansion
Mail Online’s annual revenue growth rate has accelerated to a high of 70 percent following its big push in to the U.S., its publisher DMGT r… Read more »
Milestone: Digital Gains Offset Magazines’ Decline At Future
Magazine and web publisher Future has hit a key milestone in the media industry’s great transition – UK digital revenues made up for print r… Read more »
Exclusive Video: Mirror.co.uk Relaunches Amid Group Cuts
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As it lays off another 75 staff and faces questions over CEO Sly Bailey’s salary, Trinity Mirror’s Mirror Group Newspapers is relaunching it… Read more »
Industry Moves: Telegraph, We R Interactive, Briefing Media, Turner
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business… Read more »
Uneven E-book Growth Sees Lagardere Book Sales Slim
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Global holiday-quarter books revenue dipped by 3.8 percent at Hachette operator Lagardere Publishing despite booming western e-book sales, t… Read more »
Populis Blog Network Buying In To Latin America
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) rival Populis is continuing to build up its non-English blog network and publishing business through acquisition, t… Read more »
Chinese Ad Money Moving Quickly From Print To Web
Marketers in China are fast moving advertising spend from offline to internet, one of the country’s largest online operators, Sohu (NSDQ: SO… Read more »
Slovakia’s News Pay Wall Gets A Little Higher
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The content payment system which signed up many of Slovakia’s leading publishers in 2011 is now adding two more. Read more »
Academics Revolt Against Elsevier’s Journal Pricing
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Academics are staging a mini-revolt against science and medical journal publisher Elsevier’s terms, and analysts fear the movement could hit… Read more »
Briefing Media Takes Farmers And Doctors Off UBM’s Hands
B2B publisher UBM is off-loading its UK magazines for farmers and doctors, as it looks to further exit the direct content publishing busines… Read more »
Google Fined In France For Offering Free Maps
The French are kicking Google (NSDQ: GOOG) again. This time, in a strange ruling, Paris’ commercial court has found the company is anti-comp… Read more »
Europe Wants Google To Freeze Its New Privacy Policy
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An influential European privacy body has urged Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to “pause” its new privacy policy due to be implemented in March. The Art… Read more »
BT Overhauling Vision As It Maintains Summer YouView Launch Forecast
BT (NYSE: BT) signed up 39,000 customers to its Vision hybrid Freeview/IPTV service between September and December, taking it to 679,000.
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A Second News International Paper Faces Questions In Hacking Investigation
The hacking investigation that led to the shutdown of News of the World has spread to another News International newspaper, The Times, poli… Read more »
Axel Springer Takes A Slice Of Airbnb In Exposure Deal
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Apartment-letting site Airbnb will get investment, endorsement and distribution from the publisher of Europe’s most-read newspaper. Read more »
Sony’s New CEO Sets ‘Clear Path’, And Unveils Big Losses
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Sony’s new president and CEO has quite a task on his hands. A day after Kazuo Hirai was appointed to replace Howard Stringer, who remains as… Read more »
Now Facebook Must Prove To Wall Street Its Ads Really Work
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Facebook has made a $3.1 billion business from a social advertising sector many, even it, concede is experimental and unproven. Now it must… Read more »
Flaregames And Tusjuegos Take Funds To Build And Sell Games
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Two European companies are this week taking venture capital in the games space… Read more »
First Look: BBC Sport Site’s Long-Overdue Reboot Ahead Of Olympics
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The BBC will on Wednesday morning refresh its BBC Sport site for the first time significantly since 2004, with a greater emphasis on live da… Read more »
Bebo Owner: ‘It’s Definitely Not Going Out Of Business’
A major outage in service at Bebo apparently does not mean the social network has bitten the dust indefinitely, despite what its co-founder… Read more »
Google Set To Relaunch OnePass, Halting French Papers’ Kiosk
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paidContent understands Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is set to make some big first-anniversary upgrades to its OnePass paid content system in the nex… Read more »
As Sky Growth Slows, Can Internet Defend It From Downturn And New Rivals?
BSkyB’s financials are still improving, but the company is now flaunting a range of new internet upgrades to try containing subscriber growt… Read more »
Sky Will De-Couple Pay-TV Content From Satellite For IPTV Era
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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is acting to head off rising City concerns about the threat from over-the-top connected TV services, by announcing it will… Read more »
Google, Facebook, Twitter Execs Grilled By UK MPs On Privacy
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives got a rough ride from a House Of Commons committee on Monday, when they declined to systemically filter law-b… Read more »
ITV Picks Its ‘Oyster Card’ For Online Programme Payments
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Telegraph.co.uk reports the UK’s main commercial free-to-air TV broadcaster has delayed a programme under which it wants to charge online vi… Read more »
Sky Adding Broadcaster-Branded VOD Services From BBC And ITV
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The UK’s leading pay-TV provider BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is taking a significant step to improve its PVR box’s new IP on-demand TV service by addi… Read more »
French News Revolution: La Tribune Sold, Ends Daily Print Run
France’s national La Tribune newspaper said Monday’s edition was its last daily print copy, as its owner’s sale to a regional publisher and… Read more »
The Times And Spotify: Why Pay When Everything’s Free?
I’ll bet The Times sub-editors raised some eyebrows when their business writer Emily Ford filed her piece, Why I’m not paying any more, for… Read more »
Netflix Sees Overseas Losses Doubling To $118 Million This Quarter
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) expects overseas losses to double in just three months, as it spends more and more on vital local video content and mar… Read more »
Administrators Seeking Buyers For IP Vision
The owner of UK internet TV service FetchTV, IP Vision, has gone in to administration after encountering financial difficulties. Read more »
British Film Institute Adds A New Digital Head
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Former Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI), Tiscali and Manchester City digital executive Richard Ayers has taken up a new role heading digital busine… Read more »
Spotify Not Throttling Americans, Subs Hit Three Million
Early last week, a six-month promotion period, during which U.S. users were exempted from Spotify’s five-plays-per-song, 10-hours-per-month… Read more »
Industry Moves: Financial Times, Future, O2, Emap, Moo
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business… Read more »
Rhapsody Goes To Europe As New Music Services Compete, News Corp’s Fails
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Chasing the post-download digital music opportunity, veteran services are seeking scale to fight dominant newcomers, whilst strangers from o… Read more »
Euromoney Subscriptions Growing Through Euro Economy Turmoil
Euro money (the currency) may be going through a rough patch, but Euromoney (the publisher) is in rude health. Read more »
iBooks 2 Is ‘A Huge Missed Opportunity’, Publisher’s Developer Says
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Apple’s new big play for the education textbook market is a big letdown, according to a developer for one of the leading interactive kids’ e… Read more »
