China's State Media Plan IPOs For Their Online Operations
photo: Robert S. Donovan
Communism and capitalism are now apparently the same thing in Chinese online media. The People’s Daily newspaper, an organ of the country’s… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 11, 2012
@ CES: Dell Sets The Stage For Yet Another Stab At Making A Tablet
Dell is not among the companies announcing a new tablet this week at the CES show in Las Vegas, but it made sure to keep its name in the air… Read more »
The CES Lowdown: 1-11-12
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Here’s a look at what’s been going on at the giant electronics show that is CES: Read more »
RadioPlayer Teams Up With Audioboo To Offer Listen-Again Service
The pan-industry internet radio service RadioPlayer has joined forces with Audioboo to offer an instant listen-again service for its 300-plu… Read more »
@ CES: Intel Gets The Mobile Partners–Motorola and Lenovo–It Badly Needed
photo: Tom Krazit
Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has convinced a couple of big-name consumer electronics companies to jump on board with its mobile strategy. Lenovo and M… Read more »
Ultraviolet Movement Picks Up New Backer: Samsung
Samsung has rolled out a new line of Blu-ray players that support Ultraviolet, thus joining the ranks of entertainment brands that support t… Read more »
Medialets Launches Platform To Match Mobile Advertisers And Publishers
Medialets, which creates rich-media mobile ads for companies including Coca-Cola and Toyota, announced Tuesday a new platform designed to pa… Read more »
Did Google Go Too Far Mixing Social And Search?
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This morning Google (NSDQ: GOOG) unfurled a pretty new search feature that lets users receive personalized results based on their own friend… Read more »
Paul Berry, CTO: I Left HuffPost For The Startup Bug-Or In This Case, Mouse
Today it was revealed that Paul Berry, the longtime-CTO of AOL’s Huffington Post, will be leaving his role at the news site, along with the… Read more »
Ailing Kodak Files Patent Suits Against Apple And HTC
Eastman Kodak announced late Tuesday that it was suing Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and HTC for allegedly infringing four of its imagining patents. Th… Read more »
The Bleeding In The Home Entertainment Business Slowed In 2011
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The home-entertainment business has been pummeled in recent years, with revenues falling for seven years in a row, in one year a full 8 perc… Read more »
Amazon Scoots Past Apple's Rules With HTML5 iPad Kindle Store
Back in July, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and other content providers pulled the purchasing options from their iOS apps, in order to comply with App… Read more »
@ CES: Qualcomm Reminds Intel That It Is A Force In Mobile
Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) didn’t have a lot of news to share during its keynote Tuesday morning at CES 2012, but it did illustrate just how much… Read more »
Comcast Starts Live In-Home Streaming; Requires New 'AnyPlay' Device
photo: Xfinity
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has started in-home streaming but it’s not quite live video Valhalla. Streaming access to the Xfinity TV linear lineup… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 10, 2012
'The Daily': No Longer Just For iPads (But Not For All Androids, Either)
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The Daily is finally available in Android, sort of. The News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) tablet tabloid, which has been iPad only since birth, is not… Read more »
@ CES: Apple Is Scouting The Competition
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) famously avoids the biggest event on the tech industry calendar, and given the traffic on Paradise Road this morning you… Read more »
The Economist Tries A Flipboard-Like Election App All In HTML
The Economist has given HTML web apps another shot in the arm by packaging its U.S. presidential election material in to a new Flipboard-lik… Read more »
Google Shakes Up Search Results With New 'Your World' Feature
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is taking the bold step of changing the way it displays search results as part of an ongoing effort to become more socia… Read more »
Game Group Issues Warning After Poorer Christmas Game Sales
photo: Game Group
The UK’s leading video game retailer again finds itself looking forward to another console upgrade cycle, after Christmas sales came in 12.9… Read more »
Who Says There Are Too Many Android Tablets! Orange/Huawei Add One More
CES, currently in full swing in Las Vegas, promises to bring out another wave of Android tablets, to add to the 40+ that were on the market… Read more »
46 Percent Of Kickstarter Projects Successfully Funded In 2011
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Online crowdfunding platform Kickstarter raised just shy of $100 million in pledges in 2011, and successfully funded nearly 12,000 projects,… Read more »
F-bombs And Bare Bottoms At The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will hear today whether the FCC can punish broadcast networks for airing one-off cuss words and an actress’s derriere. The… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 1-10-12
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» The Raid on AOL: How Vox Pillaged Engadget And Founded An Empire (Business Insider)
» CES: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) M… Read more »
Will Groupon's Deal With Deutsche Telekom Be A Winning Template For Growth?
Today we know a bit more about how Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) plans to extend its business opportunities in the years ahead: mobile services will… Read more »
Piracy Much Higher Than Freeloaders Confess To, Ofcom Told
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Illegal downloading of copyrighted content is up to twice as prevalent as perpetrators admit, according to research that will inform how Ofc… Read more »
China Round-Up: E-book Wars, Digital Music Opportunity And Games Go Large
photo: Robert S. Donovan
It is a busy week for digital media news in the Far East, ahead of the Chinese New Year on January 23. Notably, more new e-book services are… Read more »
Coldplay Will Warm To Streaming After Unit Sales Ebb
In October, Coldplay withheld its new album from streaming services like Spotify, Rdio , We7 and Mog.
But that absence is not indefinite. Read more »
The CES Lowdown: 1-10-12
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A look at what’s been going on at the giant electronics show that is CES
» Panasonic flirts with irrelevance with MySpace TV par… Read more »
YouView Spent Almost £20m In Nine Months
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The much-delayed video-on-demand service YouView spent almost £20 ($30.89)m in its first nine months of operation and paid more than £1 ($… Read more »
Guardian Starts Charging 280,000 iPad Readers From Friday; How Will It Go?
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Starting Friday, The Guardian, a stalwart of free content, will find out just how many people will pay to read its news on tablets. Read more »
@ CES: Microsoft Mails In Last Keynote Appearance, Wasting Everyone's Time
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) used its hallmark spot on the CES 2012 schedule to prove just how pointless it is to put on a million-dollar keynote… Read more »
@ CES: The Smartphones, They Are Everywhere!
The first day of CES 2012 was a mobile one: dozens of new smartphones and tablets were announced as traditional PC companies and rising smar… Read more »
Dish Super-Sizes The DVR As Part Of Turnaround Effort
photo: Corbis / Simon Marcus
Struggling satellite TV carrier Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) christened what it called a company “relaunch” with a new digital video recorder t… Read more »
@ CES: Nokia Determined To Battle In America With Lumia 900
photo: Tom Krazit
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop was long on the military metaphors during his company’s press conference at CES 2012, speaking of the nee… Read more »
Industry Moves: Discovery; Amazon; Turner Broadcasting; MediaBrix
– Discovery Communications: Andrew Warren, former Liz Claiborne CFO and GE/NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Universal executive, joins as senior executive… Read more »
SEC Watch: Apple's CEO Cook Got $378M In 2011 As He Took On Jobs' Reins
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The late Steve Jobs famously drew a $1 salary when he was CEO of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), with other compensation coming in the form of millions… Read more »
T-Mobile Parent Deutsche Telekom Inks Multiscreen Deal With MobiTV
MobiTV, one of the more established mobile TV companies in the market today with deals in place with several major U.S. mobile operators, to… Read more »
@CES: Samsung Hat-Tips Kinect On Smart TV Gesture Controls, Content Bonanza
photo: Microsoft Xbox Kinect
Samsung, on a high after releasing some strong mobile numbers last week, today became the latest consumer electronics brand to hang its name… Read more »
Can Tom Hanks Really Deliver The 'Comic-Con Crowd' For Yahoo?
photo: Getty Images / Kevork Djansezian
Looking to ramp up star power for a push into original video content, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) formally announced Monday that it’s teaming with ac… Read more »
New Patent Suits Target Starbucks, Expedia Mobile Payments
In a possible sign of trouble for the booming mobile payment industry, a semiconductor firm filed patent lawsuits against Starbucks (NSDQ: S… Read more »
