The Lesser-Spotted Android Magazine: Future's T3
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Here’s something you don’t see every day… a publisher putting aside grumbles about the platform and actually launching on Android. Read more »
Stories for Jan. 6, 2012
Steve Jobs Doll Legal In Most States, Not Indiana
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Apple’s lawyers have a fearsome reputation for defending the company’s intellectual property. But it sure looks like they’re bluffing in the… Read more »
The New Laws Of TV Upgrading
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I’m fascinated by a recent Ryan Lawler post at GigaOm, which argues that longstanding beliefs about how often people get a new TV have been… Read more »
NYT's New Replica Edition Is Free For Print Subs, But More Pain Than Perk
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The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) increased the price of its weekday print edition by $0.50 this week, and home delivery subscribers will pay a… Read more »
Connected TV: BBC News On Sony, Absolute On Samsung, PlayJam Adds Games
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Content owners are upping their roll-out on to connected TVs, which represent a great new distribution opportunity. Here are some of the lat… Read more »
Apple E-book Conspiracy Case To Turn On 'Most Favored Nation' Clause
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Recent interviews shed light on how the antitrust cases against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and book publishers will unfold. The e-book controversy w… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 1-6-12
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» Warner Brothers Will Make Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Redbox, Blockbuster (NSDQ: DISH) Wait Longer for New Movies (All Things D)
Nokia Buys Norway's Smarterphone To Spruce Up Its Feature Phone OS
Just as Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is gearing up for a splash at CES to kick off the U.S. launch of its new line of Microsoft-powered smartphones, it… Read more »
Samsung/HTC: Two Sides Of An Android Coin. Why's Samsung Winning The Toss?
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Android is trouncing the competition when it comes to platform domination in the smartphone market — over half of all smartphones being use… Read more »
News Corp's Shine Buying Web Video Producer ChannelFlip
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News Corp.’s newly-owned Shine Group is acquiring ChannelFlip, an independent online TV and video producer that has successfully developed b… Read more »
Lovefilm Adding More ITV, BBC Worldwide Archive TV
Amazon’s Lovefilm is extending existing deals with ITV (LSE: ITV) and BBC Worldwide to gain a larger catalogue of their shows for online str… Read more »
All In The Family: AOL, Bonnier's Parenting Group Form Ad, Content Alliance
AOL (NYSE: AOL) may have recently had a high-profile rap on the knuckles from a shareholder not pleased with the company’s direction, but it… Read more »
Mobile Ads Join The IPO Boom As Millennial Looks For Public Investment
Mobile ad company Millennial Media is going to try its hand in the public markets, filing papers Thursday for a $75 million initial public o… Read more »
New Google TV Devices Finally On The Way
The Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV reset that started last fall with software updates for existing Sony (NYSE: SNE) hardware heads into the next pha… Read more »
Netflix Faces Higher Prices For HBO, Agrees To Doubled DVD Delays From WB
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is facing changes to its DVD business with two Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) programmers after months of CEO back-and-forth a… Read more »
Sprint's Galaxy Nexus Makes An Early Debut In Pre-CES Ads
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Sprint’s preparing an ad campaign for its own version of the Galaxy Nexus, which is probably set to launch over the course of the next week… Read more »
Updated: Exclusive: AP Branches Out, Adds Pulse To Its Digital Mix
Over the years, the Associated Press has made a profile for itself by syndicating its news across thousands of newspapers both in the U.S. a… Read more »
When Playing Defense, Apple Willing To Settle Patent Disputes
Apple’s aggressive mobile patent strategy is apparently reserved for its offensive maneuvers. It has agreed to settle a patent lawsuit broug… Read more »
Disney, Comcast And Why TV Everywhere Alone Is Not Enough
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Yesterday’s press release from Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), announcing a comprehensive new ten-year distribution agreement… Read more »
Strictly Dance Costumes Cost Girls £5.95 A Month On Stardoll
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BBC Worldwide is exploiting the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing (Dancing With The Stars) through a premium partnership with Stardoll, the vir… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 5, 2012
Can Investors Still Win Big On China's Google Or Facebook? Probably Not
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Investors who missed out on the biggest gains from U.S. innovations – internet search engines, online job listings and cell phone populari… Read more »
BBC World Service To Run Ads On Some Websites And Radio Stations
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The BBC Trust has approved plans to run advertising on a number of BBC World Service websites as well as in radio broadcasts for the first t… Read more »
Deloitte Buys In To Mobile Apps, Pays $40-50M For Apple's Friend Ubermind
Management consultancy Deloitte today became the latest company to buy into the app marketplace with the news that it has bought the Seattle… Read more »
Future Launching TechRadar State-Side To Turn U.S. Fortunes
Amongst the first moves in UK magazine publisher Future’s new effort to turn around its U.S. business, the company is launching its TechRada… Read more »
Real Name Checks On Weibo Won't Come Cheap For Sina, Tencent
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With it now certain that China’s popular Weibo (microblogging) services – prime among them being Sina’s (NASDAQ:SINA) and Tencent’s (HKG:0… Read more »
Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Michelle Nicolosi Launches E-Book Publisher
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Three years after she oversaw the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s transition to an online-only newspaper, Michelle Nicolosi is leaving the Hear… Read more »
NewsRight Launches With 29 Publishers; 'Not A Litigation Shop'
Three years after the Associated Press started the News Registry to help publishers track their content online — and make money from reuse… Read more »
Amazon Ends Lawsuit Over Kindle Fire
In a surprise development, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has quietly resolved a lawsuit that alleges its Kindle Fire violates four patents related to… Read more »
Barnes & Noble May Spin Off Its Nook Business
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Buried in the middle of a holiday sales report, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced that it will “pursue strategic exploratory work to sepa… Read more »
Jumptap: Apple Has Highest Click-Through Rates Among Mobile Ad Platforms
The latest monthly figures from independent mobile ad network Jumptap reveal that Android has continued to solidify its lead as the most dom… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 1-5-12
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» Are Newspapers Finally Figuring Out How To Reward Their Best Customers? (paidContent)
» Kodak Teeters On The Brink… Read more »
Kobo Book Buyers Up 10x At Christmas On New E-Reader Gifts
E-reader maker Kobo says it got a 10x uplift in new global e-book customers this holiday period, compared with earlier in the year, as new o… Read more »
FT Buys Its Web App Maker; CEO Ridding's Memo
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The Financial Times has acquired London-based web and application developer Assanka, which made the web app on which the publisher has based… Read more »
Is A Finnish IT Security Entrepreneur In Line To Be Nokia's Next Chairman?
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have looked westwards for its latest CEO — the Canadian, ex-Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executive Stephen Elop — but, in… Read more »
Sky Sports News Relaunches iPad App, With Fee For Non-Pay TV Subs
When the News Corporation-controlled UK satellite broadcaster Sky launched a free iPad app for its Sky Sports News channel in September 2010… Read more »
What The Analysts Asked Yahoo Today, And How The New CEO Responded
The markets didn’t punish Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) today when it announced it would appoint a payments technology specialist, Scott Thompson, as i… Read more »
The Latest Complaint About Google Plus: It's 'Breaking Search'
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is a great search company. They defined how we enter the great brickyard of knowledge for most of this decade because th… Read more »
Report: Apple Snags Adobe, Yahoo Vet Teresi To Lead iAd Group
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has reportedly hired a new leader for its iAd effort, in hopes of getting its home-grown solution for in-app advertising… Read more »
Report: Barnes & Noble Selling Off Sterling Publishing
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Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is selling Sterling Publishing, the nonfiction book publisher it acquired in 2003, according to the Wall Street J… Read more »
Are Newspapers Finally Figuring Out How To Reward Their Best Customers?
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This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers.
One early sig… Read more »
