Five Mobile Trends I’ll Be Watching
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It’s been three years since I started working at mocoNews. In that time — I turned my living room into an office, which I sentimentally cal… Read more »
Video Ad Net Smartclip Fancies A Slice Of Social Media, Gaming
Smartclip, the German pan-European video advertising network, currently places ads against “premium” publishers’ videos. Next year, however,… Read more »
Mail.ru Jumps On IPO, Raising A RuNet Warchest
Europe has a new biggest internet company.
Russia’s Mail.ru Group had priced its London IPO, in which it was floating 32.93 million shares… Read more »
Is 20p Too Much For ‘i’? Free Test For Paper, Paid App Coming
At just £0.20, the new Independent off-shoot “i” is certainly one of the cheapest (and freshest papers out there – clearly a cut above the… Read more »
Our Tweets From 11.04.2010
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UK Gov. Wants To Join Silicon Roundabout, Olympic Park For Tech
David Cameron today set out a vision of London’s East End becoming a hi-tech rival to Silicon Valley on the US west coast, disclosing Google… Read more »
First Spoils From The North-East’s iPad Fund
Back in January, we reported on how, 24 hours after Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) announced the iPad’s existence, UK regional development fund Northern… Read more »
Times’ Digital Director Sandhu Is Leaving News Corp.
Times Newspapers’ digital director is leaving the company, after having relaunched the News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) titles as paid digital products… Read more »
UK Gov. Taps Galaxy Tab With Pre-Olympics Widget
Samsung and VisitBritain expect 2012 Olympics tourists will be walking around London toting Galaxy Tabs.
They have partnered to ship a Visi… Read more »
Guardian Flips iPhone App To Subscription Model, Except In U.S.
We had expected The Guardian to move its popular iPhone app, which has a one-off £2.39 ($3.99) download price, to a recurring payment.
Now… Read more »
Trinity Mirror Digital Revamp: Kelly Stays, Black Out
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is topping off its ongoing digital exec overhaul with a revamp to its top-tier line-up it says is designed to “acc… Read more »
Our Tweets From 11.03.2010
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News Corp. Measuring MySpace By Quarters But Digital Publishing Has Longer Leash
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Chase Carey used the same language to set two very different timescales for some of his key businesses during News Corp.’s Wednesday analyst… Read more »
Times’ Web Sales Are Tiny; Maybe News Corp Should Sell The Whole Thing
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When it comes to paywalls around news websites, I sometimes wonder if we are becoming an international fraternity of cargo cultists.
The vo… Read more »
Times Tests iPad Disaggregation With One-Off Eureka Edition
The Times and Sunday Times had always intended to launch more niche pay-for digital products than just their eponymous websites and iPad app… Read more »
Wired’s UK iPad Edition Debuts, Priced Between Print Copy And Print Sub
Wired magazine’s UK version has unveiled its debut iPad edition alongside its December print edition today.
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UK Rules Google Street View Breached Data Privacy Law
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) committed a “significant breach” of the UK’s Data Protection Act when its Street View cars collected personal data inclu… Read more »
News Corp’s Paywall Is About News Corp, Not The Times
Round about the same time as it makes a bid to acquire the whole of BskyB, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) has also erected a paywall around the Times… Read more »
Our Tweets From 11.02.2010
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Updated: Struggling Symbian Gets A €22 Million Injection From Europe
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Handset makers other than Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be deserting Symbian and Nokia’s recently-renewed commitment to the mobile OS may turn out t… Read more »
UBM Buying Subscription Property Lead-Gen Biz LIR
PRNewswire operator United Business Media (LSE: UBM) (UBM) is making its umpteenth acquisition of the year – a subscription business leads s… Read more »
0.5 Percent Of Times Online Readers Have Converted To Paid
Many observers cite five percent as an industry benchmark for proportion of paying customers against free users in a freemium service enviro… Read more »
Times’ Audience Numbers Struggle, Subscriptions Offer Hope
Since News International relaunched The Times websites in June with a new paid model, I have refrained from much of the second-guessing and… Read more »
UK Times’ Paywall Numbers: 105,000 Sales Since Summer, 50k Subs
After months of onlookers’ speculation and second-guessing using third-party traffic metrics, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) has finally released the… Read more »
Our Tweets From 11.01.2010
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Channel 4 Launches Film4oD Movie VOD With FilmFlex
Channel 4 has teamed up with FilmFlex to launch a video-on-demand digital film rental service for Film4 with more than 500 titles available… Read more »
Rubicon Project Completes Acquisition Of FAN, Raises $18 Million
Ad optimizer The Rubicon Project has announced its acquisition of the Fox Audience Network from News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), along with an $18 mi… Read more »
Taking Lovefilm’s Pulse: Company Snapshot As DVDs Become Downloads
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With M&A murmurs still bubbling and the great IPTV opportunity beckoning, DVD and online movie service Lovefilm is one of the more interesti… Read more »
Babelgum Founder Installs Former PR As New CEO
Web video service Babelgum has appointed its third chief executive. Chief marketing officer Stefania Valenti is replacing Valerio Zingarelli… Read more »
Dutch News Publisher Telegraaf Buying Social Network Hyves
Telegraaf Media Group, which publishes De Telegraaf newspaper and Telegraaf.nl in the Netherlands, is buying Hyves, a social network with ov… Read more »
Video: Founders Buoy Ireland’s Tech Entrepreneurs
A new industry conflab for tech execs was inaugurated at the Dublin Web Summit on Saturday. The Founders gathering assembled startup co-founders including Skype’s Niklas Zennstrom, YouTube’s Chad Hurley, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Bebo’s Michael Birch. Judging from coverage, there’s a new optimism that Ireland, which […] Read more »
Paid-For Content Requires A Focused Approach From Newspapers
Conventional wisdom has it that the internet is killing newspapers. Paid-for circulations are relentlessly down across most of the market wh… Read more »
WPP Digital Invests $5 Million In Facebook Marketer Buddy Media
Buddy Media, which scored a $23 million funding round earlier this month, has raised an additional $5 million from WPP Digital. The investme… Read more »
Get Ready For The Legal Skirmishes Over LimeWire Damages
Now that a U.S. court injunction has shut down the LimeWire file-sharing service, the only thing left for LimeWire lawyers to do is argue fo… Read more »
Industry Moves: Adfonic; Taptu
– Adfonic: The mobile ad marketer made one U.S.-based and two UK-based appointments: Jim McNamara has signed on as head of new business dev… Read more »
We’re Giving Away A Gift Certificate
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Universal Music Promotes Rob Wells To Head Global Digital Business
With digital becoming a bigger part of Universal Music Group’s revenues in all parts of the world, the company is promoting Rob Wells to pre… Read more »
ABCes: Independent.co.uk Scores Biggest Monthly Rise
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Independent.co.uk enjoyed the biggest month-on-month rise in average daily browsers among national newspaper websites in September, while gu… Read more »
BlackBerry Fund Consolidates; Plans Silicon Valley Office And New Fund
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The BlackBerry Partners Fund today is restructuring the way it operates in order to focus exclusively on mobile investments. In addition, it… Read more »
Hey, Spotify Sceptics – International Is Hard To Do
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Naysayers continue expressing suspicion Spotify will launch in the U.S.. But Spotify’s not alone in discovering the challenge of an overseas… Read more »
