Update: Wikipedia Is Dark, But Mobile Site/Apps Stay Bright In SOPA Protest
A small loophole for Wikipedia’s SOPA and PIPA protest, in which the English-language version of the site has gone dark for 24 hours: the mo… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 18, 2012
WPP: Another Move Into Asia Pac, Buys A Stake In Australia's DTDigital
photo: DTDigital
Another day, and another big digital investment from the world’s largest advertising firm. WPP subsidiary Ogilvy has taken a 33.3 percent st… Read more »
Google Finds Way To Get On SOPA Soap Box Without Going Dark
Instead of blacking out for the Jan. 18 SOPA protest, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) instead is using its power — and its most iconic communications t… Read more »
YouTube Fails To Convince Ad Regulator The Web Safeguards Kids Like TV Does
photo: Getty Images / Brian Kersey
Two contrary advertising watchdog rulings against the same movie company highlight how video advertising to children is handled differently… Read more »
Can Facebook Revive Taylor Lautner Dud 'Abduction'?
The Taylor Lautner action thriller Abduction was something of a bust at the box office in September, grossing just $28.1 million at the U.S.… Read more »
Amazon Hit With Class Action Over Zappos Data Breach
Shoe retailer Zappos is facing a national class action suit one day after it warned customers that its servers had been hacked. Read more »
Jerry Yang Has Left the Building; Resigns From Yahoo, Alibaba Boards
photo: Getty Images/ Alex Wong
Investors won’t have Jerry Yang to blame anymore. In a stunning move announced after the markets closed, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) co-founder r… Read more »
ComScore Video Rankings: YouTube Usage Spiked 72 Percent Over 2010
photo: Corbis / Blend Images / LWA / Dann Tardif
As it seeks to launch nearly 100 new channels featuring professionally produced video, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) has a key advantage over origina… Read more »
SOPA Rep Blasts Wikipedia Blackout, Says Law To Go Forward In Feb.
photo: Shutterstock / Konstantin Yolshin
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tx), who is leading a push to pass a controversial anti-piracy bill, issued a statement today scolding Wikipedia over it… Read more »
Did Self-Publishing Hype Hit Its Peak In 2011?
The average price of a self-published Kindle top-100 bestseller continues to drop, but a new look at these titles’ performance in 2011 sugge… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 17, 2012
Updated: RIM Said To Court Samsung's Bid After Pushing Others Away
It’s hard to see Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) making it through 2012 without some sort of massive change, but could that really involve a… Read more »
Online Advertising Is Most-Pitched Media Product, But How Best To Sell It?
photo: Shutterstock / Cienpies Design
Many local media companies now rely on a single sales force to sell both traditional and print advertising–but that might be a shortsighted… Read more »
Sprint, HTC Hatch Plan To Remove Carrier IQ Software From Handsets
Sprint (NYSE: S) will no longer require the companies who make phones for its network to install Carrier IQ’s software, which prompted an up… Read more »
Updated: In-App Purchases To Overtake Sales From Paid Apps By 2013
photo: Google Android
The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money fr… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 1-17-12
photo: Corbis / Patricia Curi
» YouTube’s lineup gets a boost from two new entertainment channels (paidContent)
» Media News CEO John Paton is out… Read more »
Kindle Startup Focuses On Interactive Fiction For Adults
photo: Coliloquy
Coliloquy, a Palo Alto-based publisher focusing on interactive fiction for adults, launches its first four serial titles today on Kindle. Th… Read more »
Report: Apple's Education News Could Be A Textbook Example Of Its Growth
As Thursday approaches, more details (or rumors) are leaking out about what Apple’s education announcement will entail: opinion appears to b… Read more »
Microsoft SkyDrive 'Confuses Naked With Nude', Art Account Frozen
photo: Michael Ohajuru
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has an image police – but an arrest they have made may be mistaken. A blogger using its SkyDrive cloud storage servic… Read more »
YouTube's Lineup Gets A Boost From Two New Entertainment Channels
YouTube’s ambitious — and expensive — original programming push got a little more steam this week with the Monday launch of new Hollywood-… Read more »
WPP's Kantar Buying China's CIC For Social Media Market Research
photo: Yodel Anecdotal
The world’s biggest advertising firm is making yet another acquisition at the intersection of its two targeted growth areas – digital and em… Read more »
Netflix Hit With Class Action Suit By Angry Investors
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has been hit with a class-action suit by a group of disgruntled investors who claim the online movie-rental chain withh… Read more »
Wikipedia Homepage Confirms Site Will Go Black For 24 Hours
Wikipedia formally announced Monday night that the site will “go dark” this week to protest proposed anti-piracy legislation. The online enc… Read more »
Why UltraViolet Produced More Questions Than Answers At CES
The UltraViolet initiative left the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week with an important new retail channel in Amazon (NSDQ: A… Read more »
The Year Of The Dumb And Dumber, Sub-$100 Smartphone – 500 Million Of Them
We’ve heard about how the boom in smartphone popularity, the dropping cost of components and the rapid rise of Android, a “free” smartphone… Read more »
Sweet Success For Cut The Rope: An Interview With ZeptoLab's CEO
Games rank as the most popular form of mobile content today — 68 percent of tablet and smartphone app users who downloaded an app in the pa… Read more »
Former CBSi Head Neil Ashe Lands At Walmart; Will Head E-Commerce
Neil Ashe said he wanted a break when he left CBS (NYSE: CBS) last year and he got one. Roughly a year after leaving as the president of CBS… Read more »
paidContent Book Review: How To Fix Copyright
Copyright law can be a dry and wonky subject. Yet it often triggers the raw emotions that come with a debate over immigration policy or Tim… Read more »
Wikipedia Shutting Down For 24 Hours To Protest SOPA Piracy Bill
Capping a flurry of recent developments in the fuss over the Stop Online Piracy Act, Wikipedia’s founder said the site will go dark for 24 h… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 16, 2012
X Factor Maker FremantleMedia Has Beefed Up UK Digital Operations
TV producer FremantleMedia UK has created a new digital division out of the existing operations of two of its constituent production compani… Read more »
Manchester City Has Got A New Head Of Digital
TV and online exec Russell Stopford is the new head of digital for one of the world’s richest soccer clubs, Manchester City. Read more »
Interactive TV Advertising: Not Huge Now, Will This Be The Year It Grows?
photo: Falling Pixel
Last week’s CES event brought a clutch of announcements around interactive TV services — specifically around more content getting pushed to… Read more »
Silicon Valley Taunts NYC Over Tech Aspirations
photo: Victoria Peckham
It looks like Silicon Alley has a way to go before it’s taken seriously by its west coast counterpart. This weekend, the San Jose Mercury Ne… Read more »
Lovefilm Adding ABC TV Show Archive In UK Netflix Fight
In its war with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Amazon’s Lovefilm has licensed U.S. TV shows from ABC (NYSE: DIS) Studios through Disney UK under the… Read more »
Samsung Is Doing Well; Now Raising $1B, Looking To Tizen To Do Better?
Samsung is reportedly getting ready to issue some $1 billion in bonds to expand production facilities. Meanwhile, it is starting to get a bi… Read more »
Russia's Mail.ru Launches Its Own Twitter After China's Microblog Explosion
photo: Red Square: yeowatzup (Flickr)
Russia’s big Mail.ru portal is trying to ape Chinese companies’ microblog boom by launching its own Twitter clone. Futubra launched in beta… Read more »
Illegal Books Available For Free On Google's Android Market
photo: Marloes (Flickr)
Dozens of commercial book collections, including the entire Harry Potter series, have been downloaded for free from Google’s official Androi… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 15, 2012
CES: Our Coverage In Pictures
photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
This past week we’ve been covering the Consumer Electronics Show, reporting on everything from Apple’s quiet tablet competitors to the unpro… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 14, 2012
Time Inc. Skips The CES Bins, Sort Of; Offers Free Downloads Of All Titles
photo: Time Inc.
Not too long ago, grazing the magazine bins was a perk of going to a trade show. But consolidation and closures mean fewer publications — a… Read more »
@ CES: No Signature Magic This Year But The Winds Are A-Changing
photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
Four days spent in Vegas five years after the introduction of the iPhone gives me the sense that the tech industry is at a weird crossroads,… Read more »
Can Facebook Control 5 Percent Of Online Advertising By End Of 2012?
While many of the top Internet companies faced a volatile ad market in the fourth quarter of last year, Facebook saw its share of the overal… Read more »
