A day after the SOPA protest on the web, the hacker group Anonymous has taken the blackout theme to a whole new level: in retaliation for th… Read more »
The legislative battle over SOPA highlights the cultural rift between Hollywood and Silicon Valley but one place where the two tribes seem t… Read more »
The FBI today unsealed an indictment that charges file-sharing site Megaupload and its executives with a list of criminal charges, including… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) missed analyst expectations for earnings per share during the fourth quarter, sending its stock plunging in after-hours… Read more »
After suing media site TechCrunch in 2008 over a controversial GPS patent, Chicago-based Earthcomber is at it again. This time it’s accusing… Read more »
News Corp could be laden with a multi-million pound UK compensation bill after agreeing to settle claims on the basis its executives tried t… Read more »
At Apple’s event today in New York, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) unveiled iBooks2, a new version of its iBooks software that is tailored to interactiv… Read more »
According to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), education in the U.S. is plagued both by major institutional problems — low high-school graduation rates,… Read more »
More woe for beleagured mobile services company Motricity: the company today announced that it is restructuring operations, pulling back fro… Read more »
Not great results out today from handset maker *Sony* *Ericsson*, but also no surprise if you’ve been following the troubled fortunes of the… Read more »
Publishers are pulling e-books and digital audiobooks from libraries, but the demand for those materials is increasing exponentially: New st… Read more »
» Huffington Post partners with L’Espresso for “L’Huffington Post Italy” (paidContent)
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Nearly two years after Atlantic Media Company suspended plans for a business site, the company is back at it with nothing less that what Jus… Read more »
In a climate where economic forecasts continue to remain cloudy, ad spend in the UK went up marginally in Q4 2011, with increased spend on i… Read more »
UK TV video news producer ITN is unifying its online ad sales platform as it expands into a burgeoning number of online destinations. Read more »
Pearson (NYSE: PSO) says it is putting cash made from selling its older businesses toward buying new ones in digital and emerging markets. Read more »
The Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) has expanded its international digital presence with the introduction of Daily Mail online India. Read more »
News Of The World’s closure deprived News International of data on which it could have based a decision to introduce digital fees at the UK’… Read more »
The Huffington Post Media Group (NYSE: AOL) is partnering with Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso for the launch this year of an Italian edition,… Read more »
Struggling for leverage with cable distributors as the operator of an independent network, Mark Cuban may have found a way forward for one o… Read more »
ComScore (NSDQ: SCOR) has released its first ad-verification tool since acquiring Seattle’s AdXpose for $22 million in mostly stock last Aug… Read more »
Want the short course on why SOPA is getting such blowback? Clay Shirky breaks it down in this 13-minute talk at the TED offices, explaining… Read more »
The price of a monthly wireless data is going up at AT&T (NYSE: T), but the company is also throwing its customers a bone by increasing the… Read more »
Social games like FarmVille and Bejeweled seem ubiquitous, as requests for new farming equipment flood across friends’ Facebook pages and sm… Read more »
Now that it’s a public company, Zynga can start throwing more cash around. The online gaming company has recently acquired four small mobile… Read more »
The furor over controversial anti-piracy legislation reached a climax on Wednesday as Republican lawmakers began disavowing the Stop Online… Read more »
Hoping to skirt Penguin’s library e-book restrictions by checking out a hot new title as a digital audiobook instead? Sorry, that strategy w… Read more »
Android tablet makers have been coy about their plans for Android 4.0, the first version of the software to unify the smartphone and tablet… Read more »
The UK’s largest regional newspaper title, the Wolverhampton-based Express & Star, is ending the premium online payment tier it introduced i… Read more »
Here are some of the latest executive-level hirings and departures from the world of digital media business… Read more »
Book publishers don’t often share much information about their digital revenues, but Naperville, Ill.-based independent publisher Sourcebook… Read more »
– HookLogic: Jeff Griffin joins in the new position of president of retail. Most recently, he co-founded Interpublic Group’s Shopper Scienc… Read more »
Jesta Digital, the mobile content business formerly known as Fox (NSDQ: NWS) Mobile Group and owner of the Bitbop mobile video service and J… Read more »
In a setback for educators and orchestras, the Supreme Court this morning ruled that Congress can place works under copyright that were once… Read more »
In an unusual move, the campaign team for Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul has filed a trademark and defamation lawsuit against fo… Read more »
Dorling Kindersley, the division of Penguin that publishes children, travel and reference titles, made a strong case for how it is moving to… Read more »
Plagiarized editions for sale in Amazon’s Kindle store show how the company is still adapting to the world of original content creation. At… Read more »
News International’s The Times may shed its social media invisibility cloak by letting subscribers gift paywalled articles to friends. Read more »
» Apple’s Textbook Push Spotlights Executive (Wall Street Journal)
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One more analyst house has released some numbers that underscore just how strong an impact Apple’s iPhone 4S launch had on smartphone sales… Read more »
