Google And Hachette Livre Reach Book Scanning Deal
France’s Hachette Livre will get to decide which French language books Google (NSDQ: GOOG) can digitize and sell, the FT reported. In striki… Read more »
UK Government Thinks ISPs Should Be Free To Abandon Net Neutrality
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Internet service providers such as BT (NYSE: BT) should be allowed to abandon net neutrality and prioritise users’ access to certain content… Read more »
Industry Moves: Shazam, Marie Claire Digital, Living TV
– Shazam: The music ID app is naming JumpTap sales and biz dev SVP Evan Krauss as its ad sales EVP; he was also a six-year Yahoo (NSDQ: YHO… Read more »
WMG Renews Spotify For Europe, Still Talking In U.S.
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If analysts on Warner Music Group’s Q4 earnings call were hoping for news of a Spotify deal, they got exactly what they wanted. Edgar Bronfm… Read more »
Chip Firm Imagination Buying HelloSoft To Bolster Mobile Multimedia
Imagination Technologies, the microchip intellectual property licensing firm of which Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) owns a stake, is buying itself grea… Read more »
Mystery Social Startup Phreadz Loses CEO Domecq, Buys Web Firm
The former CEO of voicemail firm SpinVox has resigned after four months as CEO of a social media startup, which has bought out another web f… Read more »
Layar Raises $14 Million: Augmented Reality, Augmented Again
More fuel getting thrown on the augmented reality flame: mobile augmented reality platform Layar, based in Holland, has raised a Series B ro… Read more »
Our Tweets From 11.16.2010
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‘Harry Potter’ Leak Seems More Like Publicity Than Piracy
photo: Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.)
The first 36 minutes of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I suddenly popped up on Bittorrent sites Tuesday, just a few days before… Read more »
Apple Rivals Will Get Bite At Beatles’ Cherry Next Year
iTunes Store may have an exclusive on The Beatles digital downloads today. But that special treatment will only last “in to 2011″, EMI Music… Read more »
UK Freesheet Metro Launches New App Business
When Richard Titus was the CEO of newspaper publisher DMGT’s digital arm AND, he had big ambitions for apps: his aim was to launch 150 by Ma… Read more »
Apple’s Backward Beatles Deal Strives To Keep Downloads Afloat
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had teased: “Tomorrow is just another day. That you’ll never forget.” Turns out, today’s announcement is somewhat forgett… Read more »
AOL’s European Media Director Downing Has Left
The director of the AOL (NYSE: AOL) Media division in Europe, Julian Downing, has left the company, paidContent:UK has learned and confirmed… Read more »
Springer On A Spree: Publisher’s Growth Strategy Is Digital, Overseas
photo: Axel Springer
The publisher of the west’s highest-selling newspaper is doing digital M&A at a rate of knots lately. Here’s how Germany’s Bild proprietor A… Read more »
Google Ventures Backs Vacation Rentals Site HomeAway
HomeAway, which operates websites listing holiday homes for rent, has confirmed it’s taken investment from Google Ventures. Read more »
Mail Online Nearing iPad Edition, Micropayments
Martin Clarke, the Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) executive who runs Mail Online, revealed today that 10% of the website’s UK traffic is generated b… Read more »
What Tony Did Next: Player X Founder Launches TeePee Games, £500k Seed Fund
When Tony Pearce sold Player X to mobile content developer Zed for some £10 million ($16 million) at the height of a mini-bubble in May 200… Read more »
Our Tweets From 11.15.2010
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Sly Bailey: ‘The Three Ps’ Could Show News Business Out Of The Mire
The CEO of Britain’s biggest newspaper publisher nailed how peers are pondering a post-web future with familiar old business rules. Deliveri… Read more »
EU Committee Slams Google’s Advertising Practices
While some of Google’s online advertising practices are becoming less controversial in the U.S. as they get more entrenched, they’re still r… Read more »
The Long And Winding Road: Beatles Are Finally Coming To iTunes
That big mysterious announcement Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has coming tomorrow? It’s that The Beatles’ catalog will finally be sold on iTunes, repo… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Palm’s Pre2 In Europe; Orbitz App; Android and NFC
– Pre2: Palm’s latest device running WebOS has debuted in Germany and the U.K. In both cases the device is being sold SIM-free and independ… Read more »
Facebook’s Zuckerberg: ‘E-Mail is Too Slow’ — New iPhone App Launching
Facebook has just wrapped up the press conference announcing its new e-mail product — billed as a “Gmail killer.” Mark Zuckerberg hit the s… Read more »
Updated: Apple’s Mysterious News: Beatles Deal Done
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Another day, and another oblique hint of something new from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). Today, the homepages of the company’s website and iTunes sto… Read more »
Times, Three Strike Deal For Free Access Via Mobile Broadband
When News International gave us the low-down on how many people had subscribed to the Times and Sunday Times after their paywall went up, th… Read more »
Confirmed: 4iP Head Loosemore Leaving Channel 4
photo: James Cridland
It may have been inevitable, with Channel 4 having chosen to pull its 4iP digital investment activities more closely in to its new online st… Read more »
Spotify By The Numbers: High Royalty Outgoings, U.S. By Christmas?
photo: Spotify
Yes, Spotify is sticking to a target of launching Stateside by Christmas. In the meantime, our original curiosity about the freemium music s… Read more »
Reg Wall Builds A Platform For Born-Again Glasgow Newspaper
In transitioning to online, The Eastwood Mercury has the luxury of being unencumbered by print legacy – the Glasgow paper went out of busine… Read more »
C4 Could Struggle To Profit From Paid PC Movies
Earlier this month, Channel 4 debuted Film4oD, a movie-centric extension of its 4oD TV catch-up brand.
The model – 48-hour rentals from 50p… Read more »
Analyst: Real-World Implications Of News Corp Sky Takeover Will Be Minimal
While many observers get their knickers in a twist about the business and cultural impact of News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) buying the 61 percent of… Read more »
MailOnline: What Is The Secret Of Its Success?
He probably doesn’t worry about falling house prices or the evils of multiculturalism, but does North Korea’s “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il sati… Read more »
Updated: Apple’s iAd in Europe Starts December With Unilever, InBev
Six months after launch, some more international expansion for Apple’s iAd advertising platform. This week, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is reportedly… Read more »
Updated: Apple’s iAd in Europe Starts December With Unilever, InBev
Six months after launch, some more international expansion for Apple’s iAd advertising platform. This week, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is reportedly… Read more »
Europe Is Holding Off On Net Neturality (For Now)
The new Republican leaders in congress have shown little appetite for passing a new law that would force internet service providers to adopt… Read more »
Guardian Changes: McAlister To Head Digital, Folwell Will Lead New Ventures
New Guardian Media Group CEO Andrew Miller is making several changes he says will simplify GMG’s structure, bolster its exec team and focus… Read more »
Updated: Another Russian IPO? Social Net Badoo Rumoured For Float
The partial floatation of part of Mail.ru Group in London this month appears to have warmed up the market for Russian digital IPOs.
Badoo,… Read more »
After The Warnings, Ministry Of Sound Tries Monetising Its Video
After this month having to abort sending warnings to 25,000 BT (NYSE: BT) broadband customers it suspected of illegally downloading its musi… Read more »
@ Monaco Media Forum: James Murdoch’s First Rule (With Video)
The Monaco Media Forum isn’t exactly Fight Club but James Murdoch, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) CEO for Europe and Asia, has a first rule: “First r… Read more »
LiveJournal Owner Plans New Media Launches In Growing Russian Ad Market
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The owner of LiveJournal says it is planning to double its roster of three content sites, in what it says is a fast-growing Russian web mark… Read more »
Our Tweets From 11.11.2010
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