Analysts: Nokia Shipped Around 1.3 Million Lumias In Two Months
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have shipped more than 1 million of its Lumia Windows Phone devices in the two months since they went on sale in Europ… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 24, 2012
McDonald’s Social Media Director Explains Twitter Fiasco
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This morning I spoke with McDonald’s social media director, Rick Wion, about how the company’s own Twitter ad became a viral delight for pot… Read more »
Sesame Street’s Digital Transition: Apps For The Juicebox Set
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While most children, like their parents, still encounter Sesame Street primarily on their TV, the 43-year-old nonprofit brand now attracts 1… Read more »
Pew Internet: U.S. Tablet, E-Reader Ownership Doubled Over Holiday Season
‘Twas the season for tablets and e-readers, according to a new survey released Monday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The num… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 23, 2012
Denial Is Not A Turnaround Strategy: Why RIM’s New CEO Needs To Get Real
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If you took the statements of new Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) CEO Thorsten Heins this morning at face value, you might walk away thinkin… Read more »
The Digital Piracy Problem Is Riddled With Hypocrisy
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In the summer of 2009, I found myself invited to a small party in an old bourgeois apartment with breathtaking views of the Champ-de-Mars an… Read more »
Barnes & Noble: We Want A Nook For Every Member Of The Family
Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) hopes to get a Nook device in the hands of every person in your family, except maybe your baby. Babies, it turns… Read more »
New Stats: Kids Find E-Books ‘Fun And Cool,’ But Teens Are Still Reluctant
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The children’s and young adult e-book market faces special challenges not shared by the adult market, new research shows. And teens are slow… Read more »
Updated: Rutberg: Mobile Accounted For Over 40% Of All Tech VC In 2011
Some revealing numbers out from the analysts at Rutberg & Co. that point to how big mobile is in terms of tech investments today, and how co… Read more »
Megaupload Case Grows Bigger, Stranger
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A New Zealand court today delayed its decision over whether to grant bail to the founder of Megaupload after prosecutors argued that Kim Dot… Read more »
Digital Opportunity And Creativity In China’s Year Of The Dragon
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Monday marks China’s new year. The dragon, whose year it is this year, is the only mythical creature in the calendar but, as Europe’s digita… Read more »
Associated Press CEO Tom Curley Stepping Down
The AP announced this morning that chief executive Tom Curley will depart later this year and that its Board of Directors has formed a searc… Read more »
Digital Music Growth Re-Accelerated In 2011 Thanks To New Services
The six-year slowdown in digital music’s commercial growth rate ended in 2011, when digital trade revenue grew eight percent to $5.2 billion… Read more »
RIM’s New CEO Thorsten Heins On Past Mistakes, Sell-Offs And Marketing
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RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) today held its first official call in the wake of the news last night that it had decided to appoint a new CEO, Thorsten He… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 1-23-12
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» Endgame: RIM’s Balsillie, Lazaridis to step down from CEO roles (paidContent)
» 350,000 textbooks downloaded from A… Read more »
Tablets Are Prime-Time Media Devices
Tablet web use spikes after work and before sleep, another piece of research shows… Read more »
Polar Mobile Raises $6 Million For Magazine Apps, Cross-Platform Services
Polar Mobile — the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustr… Read more »
Nokia Lumia’s TV Deal Broke UK Advertising Rules
photo: Tom Krazit
One of the biggest components in Nokia’s expensive campaign for its latest flagship handset broke UK media rules by mixing its sponsorships… Read more »
Updated: Bonjour! AOL Takes French Le Huffington Post Live
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Huffington Post today took one more step in its ongoing march for a wider international reach: it has now officially opened Le Huffington Po… Read more »
Endgame: RIM’s Balsillie, Lazaridis To Step Down From CEO Roles
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Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) has finally decided to get serious about its predicament: co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are stepp… Read more »
How The Magazine Industry Can Save Itself (Hint: Not iPad Apps)
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The top priority for most magazine executives today seems to be building iPad apps. Yet the user experience of a print magazine is unmatchab… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 22, 2012
New Video, Cinedigm Form Digital Film Distribution Alliance
The struggling independent film sector believes it has stumbled onto an effective release strategy, combining various forms of online and ca… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 21, 2012
Updated: Can HuffPo Pull Off A Double Whammy With A New Video News Service?
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Update: HuffingtonPost today (January 23) confirmed details of the story below, as it began to send out official invites to the February 2 l… Read more »
What Apple Is Wading Into: A Snapshot Of The K-12 Textbook Business
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The battle for the college digital textbook market — including startups like Inkling and Kno — gets a fair amount of attention. But the K-… Read more »
How A Stolen Wallet Made Me A Mobile-Payments Enthusiast
Losing your phone is never fun. But losing your wallet is much worse, and that’s one argument where those trying to roll the mobile-payments… Read more »
#McFail: McDonald’s Loses Control Of Hashtag
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Marketers keep telling brand owners to use social media to engage their customers. But there are times companies must wish they had just bou… Read more »
Longtime Netflix Marketing Chief Leslie Kilgore Bumped To The Board
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In a move that seems designed to shore up confidence in its communications skills following the Qwikster and price-hike debacle, longtime Ne… Read more »
Facebook And Timelines.com Propose 2013 Trial, Hint At Settlement
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Facebook remains locked in a legal dispute with a Chicago website over who owns the word “timeline,” the name used by the social network to… Read more »
What A Facebook Deal With Vevo Could Unleash
Facebook is lagging in the video-streaming race, with YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) an… Read more »
Publisher Says No Duty To Reveal Grooveshark Source, Law Unclear
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Can a music site sue to find out which of its employees used a blog post to accuse the company of piracy? The blog’s publisher says the anon… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 20, 2012
Yahoo: The Rise And Fall Of An Internet Pioneer
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When Jerry Yang’s family moved from Taipei to San José, the billionaire Yahoo founder was just 10 years old. Fatherless by the time he was… Read more »
WSJ Poaches Narisetti From Washington Post
The reverb from Kevin Delaney’s departure from the Wall Street Journal for Atlantic Media Group just hit DC: WSJ alum Raju Narisetti is head… Read more »
Leaders In House And Senate Postpone Anti-Piracy Efforts
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The push for controversial legislation known as SOPA and PIPA appears to have unraveled completely after leaders in both the House and Senat… Read more »
Is This The Year Ad Spending Online Tops Print?
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Internet advertising in the U.S. will once again post 20 percent-plus yearly growth this year, and, for the first time, surpass print ad spe… Read more »
Europe Says It Won’t Adopt ‘Bad’ Digital Policy Like SOPA
photo: Flickr / World Economic Forum
Don’t expect the European Commission to introduce its own version of America’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Read more »
iBooks Author Rules: Audacious, No Big Deal Or Sign Of Wars To Come?
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) didn’t mention this at the Guggenheim yesterday, but post-event the complaints are spreading across the Internet: Accordi… Read more »
Social Media Gets Stickier: Twitter/Summify; Facebook/Apps, Video Too?
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This week saw a number of developments at Twitter and Facebook, two of the world’s biggest social networking sites, that are signs of them l… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 1-20-12
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» SOPA Blackout, Anonymous-Style: FBI, DOJ Sites Downed In Megaupload Protest (paidContent) Day After Piracy Bill Collapses, Feds… Read more »
Music And Movie Studios Take A Slice Of HMV To Save Disc Sales
Struggling UK entertainment retailer HMV (LSE: HMV) is giving equity worth 2.5 percent to its key suppliers – music and movie studios – to a… Read more »
Research: Professionals With iPads Are Deserting Printed Media
photo: Boston Globe
Stark new research statistics suggest digital replacement of analogue content is now very high amongst tablet owners. Read more »
