Challenges Ahead Before 2012 Is The Year Of Connected TV
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Is 2012 the year of the Smart TV? Manufacturers would have us believe that. Read more »
Stories for Jan. 12, 2012
The CES Lowdown: 1-12-12
Here’s a look at what’s been going on at the giant electronics show that is CES:
» Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Could Sell 37 Million Windo… Read more »
Scandinavian News Publisher Schibsted Set To Buy Music Streamer Aspiro
photo: Newspapers: Valerie Everett
Scandinavian news publisher Schibsted is set to buy Aspiro, a white label digital music streaming service for 340 million Swedish krona ($49… Read more »
Update 2: Is AllBusiness Going Out Of Business? For Sale?
PaidContent has learned that Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB), the business information company, has put AllBusiness.com, the information and ne… Read more »
After Starting Streaming Race, Starz Now Lags Behind HBO And Showtime
The evolution of premium cable TV beyond the living room took another step this week, with Showtime introducing a streaming app to rival HBO… Read more »
Is It Legal For Google To Shut Competitors Out Of Social Search?
Twitter and some pundits are crying foul over Google’s decision to exclude certain competitors from its new search and social networking hyb… Read more »
@ CES: Unprofitable Motorola Says It Has to Be Different To Make Money
Why do Android phone makers keep pumping out slightly different versions of smartphones with custom user interfaces that frustrate developer… Read more »
@ CES: A Year Later, iPad Competitors Much Quieter
The definitive gadget of CES 2011 was the Android tablet, heralded by more than one company as the answer to the iPad. A train-wreck of a ye… Read more »
What The Burst Of Hollywood A-Listers Will Mean For Online Video
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Tom Hanks. Louis C.K. Lisa Kudrow. Kevin Spacey. David Fincher. Bill Maher. Jennifer Lopez. Judy Greer. Steven Van Zandt. Morgan Spurlock. E… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 11, 2012
Apple Event In New York This Month Will Focus On Education
As expected, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has started to send out invitations to an event in New York, and now we know what it will be about: educatio… Read more »
Research: Small Screens Better For Content; Bigger Screens For Productivity
The tablet market is still in its relative infancy and has been largely dominated up to now — both in sales and basic concept — by the iPa… Read more »
Readability Makes Premium Features Free, Fee Now Just Donation
Readability, a service which lets readers of web page articles focus only on the core text, is upgrading its free tier to match its one-year… Read more »
Study: Search-Ad Clicks On Mobile Devices Are Growing Faster Than On PCs
In the world of search advertising, mobile phones and tablets continue to outpace performance of search ads on PCs, although they still repr… Read more »
Amazon Publishing Taps Famous Librarian To Curate Its New Series
photo: Nancy Pearl
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing is launching a new series, “Book Lust Rediscoveries,” curated by librarian and NPR commentator Nancy Pearl. P… Read more »
Chinese Video Site Youku Makes Movie Deal With Twentieth Century Fox
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Chinese online video giant Youku (NYSE:YOKU) today announced that it has inked a deal with none other than Twentieth Century Fox (NSDQ: NWS)… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 1-11-12
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» Inside the NYT’s hyperlocal efforts (Street Fight)
» BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) axes Al Gore’s Current TV from its pay-TV li… Read more »
Industry Moves: Condé Ups UK Deputy, Microsoft, Boxwood
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Here are some of the latest executive hirings and exits from the world of digital media business… Read more »
TV Check-In Service GetGlue Scores $12M In Funding, 2M Users
The space for social TV services — tweeting with other viewers during live broadcasts, for example — is still a wide-open game, with a num… Read more »
Exclusive: Hearst's Kang Joins Wenner Media As Chief Digital Officer
photo: David Kang
Wenner Media is filling the chief digital officer position that Michael Bloom left in November, after just six months on the job: David Kang… Read more »
China's State Media Plan IPOs For Their Online Operations
photo: Robert S. Donovan
Communism and capitalism are now apparently the same thing in Chinese online media. The People’s Daily newspaper, an organ of the country’s… Read more »
@ CES: Dell Sets The Stage For Yet Another Stab At Making A Tablet
Dell is not among the companies announcing a new tablet this week at the CES show in Las Vegas, but it made sure to keep its name in the air… Read more »
The CES Lowdown: 1-11-12
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Here’s a look at what’s been going on at the giant electronics show that is CES: Read more »
RadioPlayer Teams Up With Audioboo To Offer Listen-Again Service
The pan-industry internet radio service RadioPlayer has joined forces with Audioboo to offer an instant listen-again service for its 300-plu… Read more »
@ CES: Intel Gets The Mobile Partners–Motorola and Lenovo–It Badly Needed
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Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has convinced a couple of big-name consumer electronics companies to jump on board with its mobile strategy. Lenovo and M… Read more »
Ultraviolet Movement Picks Up New Backer: Samsung
Samsung has rolled out a new line of Blu-ray players that support Ultraviolet, thus joining the ranks of entertainment brands that support t… Read more »
Medialets Launches Platform To Match Mobile Advertisers And Publishers
Medialets, which creates rich-media mobile ads for companies including Coca-Cola and Toyota, announced Tuesday a new platform designed to pa… Read more »
Did Google Go Too Far Mixing Social And Search?
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This morning Google (NSDQ: GOOG) unfurled a pretty new search feature that lets users receive personalized results based on their own friend… Read more »
Paul Berry, CTO: I Left HuffPost For The Startup Bug-Or In This Case, Mouse
Today it was revealed that Paul Berry, the longtime-CTO of AOL’s Huffington Post, will be leaving his role at the news site, along with the… Read more »
Ailing Kodak Files Patent Suits Against Apple And HTC
Eastman Kodak announced late Tuesday that it was suing Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and HTC for allegedly infringing four of its imagining patents. Th… Read more »
The Bleeding In The Home Entertainment Business Slowed In 2011
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The home-entertainment business has been pummeled in recent years, with revenues falling for seven years in a row, in one year a full 8 perc… Read more »
Amazon Scoots Past Apple's Rules With HTML5 iPad Kindle Store
Back in July, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and other content providers pulled the purchasing options from their iOS apps, in order to comply with App… Read more »
@ CES: Qualcomm Reminds Intel That It Is A Force In Mobile
Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) didn’t have a lot of news to share during its keynote Tuesday morning at CES 2012, but it did illustrate just how much… Read more »
Comcast Starts Live In-Home Streaming; Requires New 'AnyPlay' Device
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Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has started in-home streaming but it’s not quite live video Valhalla. Streaming access to the Xfinity TV linear lineup… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 10, 2012
'The Daily': No Longer Just For iPads (But Not For All Androids, Either)
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The Daily is finally available in Android, sort of. The News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) tablet tabloid, which has been iPad only since birth, is not… Read more »
@ CES: Apple Is Scouting The Competition
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) famously avoids the biggest event on the tech industry calendar, and given the traffic on Paradise Road this morning you… Read more »
The Economist Tries A Flipboard-Like Election App All In HTML
The Economist has given HTML web apps another shot in the arm by packaging its U.S. presidential election material in to a new Flipboard-lik… Read more »
Google Shakes Up Search Results With New 'Your World' Feature
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is taking the bold step of changing the way it displays search results as part of an ongoing effort to become more socia… Read more »
Game Group Issues Warning After Poorer Christmas Game Sales
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The UK’s leading video game retailer again finds itself looking forward to another console upgrade cycle, after Christmas sales came in 12.9… Read more »
Who Says There Are Too Many Android Tablets! Orange/Huawei Add One More
CES, currently in full swing in Las Vegas, promises to bring out another wave of Android tablets, to add to the 40+ that were on the market… Read more »
46 Percent Of Kickstarter Projects Successfully Funded In 2011
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Online crowdfunding platform Kickstarter raised just shy of $100 million in pledges in 2011, and successfully funded nearly 12,000 projects,… Read more »
