Stories for Jan. 19, 2003

Music Exec: ISPs Must Pay Up for Music-Swapping: Hillary Rosen, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, now wants telecom comp… Read more »

Stories for Jan. 18, 2003

ConsumerReview Bought Out by E-centives: ConsumerReview.com, one of the last surviving independent consumer reviews sites online, has been b… Read more »

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Baseball Prospectus To Relaunch and Go Premium: Baseball Prospectus, a scouting guide (as a yearly book) and a website providing analysis of… Read more »

AOL Wins Online Music Innovation Award: Finally some good news for America Online. AOL Music’s First Listen program–which presents new sing… Read more »

Canada Blocks Free Net TV: Canadian regulators have ruled that it is illegal to put broadcast TV signals onto the Internet without permissio… Read more »

Stories for Jan. 17, 2003

Publicis Unit Verbe Buys Ubiqus Content: French communications company Publicis Groupe SA unit Verbe Friday said it has purchased online con… Read more »

NewsNow Revamps Site: NewsNow, the online news monitoring service, has today launched the latest version of its website to include additiona… Read more »

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Divine Flips Off Northern Light’s Light: OK, that’s just an insider joke…Divine, which bought out Northern Light last year, is closing NL’… Read more »

Advice From A Lowly Journalist: “People don’t pay for news anymore. So I would use the e-mail [newsletter] version as a marketing tool to se… Read more »

This Is Your Deep Link on P2P: People in the online media industry are very familiar with Newsbooster, the Danish company embroiled in the d… Read more »

Hoover’s Board: D&B Offer In Shareholders’ ‘Best Interests’: Hoover’s has said its board believes that the merger consideration for its pend… Read more »

How to Make Money on Chilean Internet: This for the content providers: “El Mostrador, an Internet-only news website with paid access (US$5/… Read more »

Stories for Jan. 16, 2003

CNET to Close Terrestrial Radio Station; To Be Available Only Online: CNET Networks is ending–effective Jan. 31–its traditional “on-air” C… Read more »

How SmartBrief Launched a Profitable Email Newsletter Business: Another stellar case-study by ContentBiz, this time on SmartBrief. Read more »

Yahoo’s Plans for Europe: Yahoo plans to start an ISP-access service in Europe. “In the U.S., Yahoo has been converting its millions of visi… Read more »

Will You Ever Pay For Music Again?: A poll on /. Take it with a pich of salt, ’cause the community is know for excesses…and I mean this i… Read more »

Interactive Data to Acquire S&P ComStock: U.S-based financial data and analytics company Interactive Data Corp has agreed to pay $115 millio… Read more »

So What Would You Pay For? Readers Offer Their Site Lists: Following last week’s column by WSJ writers Tim Hanrahan and Jason Fry on which s… Read more »

Yahoo tops Q4 rev and EPS expectations; Fees and Listings Revenues Increase 120 Percent: Yahoo reported a quarterly profit versus a year-ear… Read more »

Stories for Jan. 15, 2003

Australian Online Media Companies Fail to Produce Black Ink: A long and fascinating story on Australian online media market: players such as… Read more »

Classmates Online Appoints New CEO: Classmates Online, an online
community, has appointed Michael Smith as president and CEO. Smith has
serv… Read more »

Make or Break Year for Canadian Music Subscription Services: “Almost four years after the invention of Napster, the major Canadian labels ar… Read more »

Listen.com Reaches for Home Market: In a sign that fledgling Internet music services are expanding beyond the PC, subscription service Liste… Read more »

Internet Firms Seen Posting Solid 4Q Growth: Internet firms such as Yahoo, DoubleClick and others are “expected to post solid growth in prof… Read more »

Gates: News on Every Wrist: Staci Kramer’s take on Bill Gates’ plans for a new era in which we rely less on the computer — and more on mobi… Read more »

Yahoo Enjoys a Rebound That Rivals Haven’t Seen: WSJ does an analysis story on Yahoo, ahead of its Q4 earnings later today. “[Y]ahoo needs t… Read more »

Hoover’s Investor Hires Adviser to Look At Deal Options:This fight is being played out in the public: Marathon Partners, a 9 percent Hoover’… Read more »

Bandai Announces Launch of i-mode Content Service in Germany: Japanese company Bandai has launched “Charappa,” a content service for the Eur… Read more »

Hoover’s and D&B: Perfect Together?: An analysis report by the Perkins Group: looks at the price offered by D&B for Hoover’s and concludes t… Read more »

Yahoo Goes Broad, While Google Sticks to Roots: A good analysis by Jimmy Gutterman, on the differences between the two companies’ strategies… Read more »

Started as a Gimmick, Ring-Tone Sales Near $1 Billion: I will forever be amazed at the market for ring-tones…I can bet there are at least… Read more »

MusicNet Licenses Fantasy Jazz Label: Online music service MusicNet has reached a licensing deal with Fantasy, an independent jazz label and… Read more »

Anticipating Yahoo’s Q4 results: Yahoo is expected to post earnings of about $36.4 million, or 6 cents a share–analysts have been anticipat… Read more »

Stories for Jan. 14, 2003

Content Is Crap: A provocative column by Arnold Kling on why info-mediaries still matter, written in light of the much-hyped launch of Creat… Read more »

Why Music Stays Free?: Vin Crosbie’s analysis of why the music market is essentially malfunctioning due to bad pricing decisions by music co… Read more »

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