Industry Moves: CNBC; NYT; MSLO; Starz Entertainment; m6d
– CNBC: Kevin Krim is CNBC’s new digital general manager, reporting to Mark Hoffman, president of CNBC (NSDQ: CMCSA). Krim comes from Bloom… Read more »
Lawsuit Says Hacked Address Book Contacts Worth 60 Cents To $3 Each
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It can be hard to put a dollar figure on privacy. Unless, that is, you’re suing Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and app makers like Path for uploading a… Read more »
Should Apple Pay For The Bad Deeds Of Its App Makers?
A sprawling lawsuit filed in Texas this week targets Path, Instagram, Facebook and others for instructing their apps to suck up user address… Read more »
As Amazon and IPG's Fight Continues, One Client's Sales Fall By 40%
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It’s been a few weeks since Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) removed the Kindle versions of 5,000 titles from distributor Independent Publishers Group, b… Read more »
Social TV's Zeebox Aims At U.S. Under Time Warner's Forbes
Second-screen social TV startup Zeebox has poached Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) Media SVP Jason Forbes to head its upcoming competition wit… Read more »
McDonald's Suffers New Hashtag Hiccup On Twitter
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McDonald’s is launching a new social media campaign just two months after its last effort backfired disastrously. Unfortunately, Twitter use… Read more »
More Papers Put Faith In Daily Deals And Tablet Payments As Profit Shrinks
Some low-hanging fruit in newspapers’ shrivelling orchard – Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) says it is investing in a Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) copycat… Read more »
Condé Nast Will Give Advertisers More Metrics On Tablet Editions
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Months after it began testing a program that provided select advertisers with information about the readers of tablet editions, Condé Nast… Read more »
Cisco Wants To Buy News Corp's TV Software Maker NDS For $5 Billion
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Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) says it wants to buy News Corp.’s TV set-top box software maker NDS Group for $5 billion to improve its own offering and… Read more »
Man Utd Wants Its Crest Stripped From Google Play
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Manchester United football club is demanding that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) bar all Android apps that contain its logo. Read more »
Almost All Pay-TV Subscribers Now Have Access To HBO Go
HBO’s luck may have run out Wednesday on its big Dustin Hoffman-led horse-racing drama, but it remains full speed ahead for the pay cable ne… Read more »
What The CW's About-Face On Streaming Says About Piracy, Authentication
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While its relevance in the realm of traditional linear television is more questionable than ever, the CW’s youthful, digitally literate core… Read more »
The Facebook Fight: How Yahoo Could Win, Lose Or Draw
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When Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) filed a patent suit against Facebook this week, it became as popular as Rush Limbaugh at a Planned Parenthood gather… Read more »
How Netflix's Hastings Could Get BSkyB Off An Anti-Trust Charge
The UK inquiry in to whether Sky Movies’ exclusive first-run subscription VOD deals with six major Hollywood major studios is anti-competiti… Read more »
UltraViolet Studios: HBO Blackout Will Lift In Time For Wal-Mart Launch
Don’t worry, we’ll work this out in time for the big dance. That is the essential message from top home entertainment officials who are stil… Read more »
Analysts: Netflix Has Fully Recovered From Its Qwikster Debacle
In 2010, people couldn’t say enough good things about Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) — it was the darling of the digital entertainment world. Then la… Read more »
FTC Subpoenas Apple In Google Antitrust Probe
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The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly asked Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to supply information as part of its investigation into whether Google… Read more »
Wal-Mart Will Start Selling Cloud Storage At 3,500 Stores Next Month
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We told you it was coming — and it did. Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has formally announced its support for Hollywood’s struggling UltraViolet movi… Read more »
E-Reader Shipments Are Declining…Unless They're Increasing
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A look at two new reports about shipments of media tablets and e-readers shows that nobody really has any idea yet whether tablets are canni… Read more »
Telegraph Puts Mobile App In Subscription Bundle
The Telegraph and Sky News may each operate subscription iPad outlets – but, with latest revisions to their mobile offerings, the two news p… Read more »
National Journal Brings In Conde Nast, DJ Vet Jessica Perry To Head Digital
Atlantic Media continues its push to remake its properties with a digital-first business model with the hiring of Jessica Perry as Digital V… Read more »
Music's Celestial Jukeboxes Square Off In Germany; Next Stop Asia-Pac
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The new wave of global subscription music services going global has picked Germany, perhaps Europe’s most under-developed digital music mark… Read more »
Cratering Search & Display Sectors Drove U.S. Ad Market Into Decline in Q4
Driven down by big fourth-quarter declines in digital advertising, the total U.S. ad market grew only 0.8 percent for all of 2011, a report… Read more »
Meet The 10 Patents Yahoo Is Using To Sue Facebook
Yes, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) went there today — claiming in a lawsuit that it, not Facebook, is the real king of social networks. The company po… Read more »
Yahoo Signs Series Develpment Deal With Michael Eisner's Vuguru
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Continuing its aggressive expansion into video content as it restructures its operations, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has signed a development deal w… Read more »
It's On: Yahoo Sues Facebook Over Patents
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has made good on its threat of last month and filed a patent infringement suit against Facebook. The lawsuit adds to the… Read more »
More States Offer Perks To Attract Video Game Makers
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When former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling moved his video game company 38 Studios to Rhode Island in 2010, the decision was not just a snub… Read more »
World's Richest Man Launches Online Video Network … With Larry King!
Backed by the resources of the world’s wealthiest individual, Carlos Slim Helu, and guided by former News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) digital journali… Read more »
Yahoo's EMEA Chief Riley Quits Geneva, For Sunnyvale?
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The man helping Yahoo’s new CEO plot the company’s rejuvenation has told his staff he is leaving his role as SVP of the Europe, the Middle E… Read more »
Lawsuits Mushroom Over Google Browser Tracking
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The legal fallout continues over Google’s decision to circumvent privacy settings on the iPhone. Court records show that there are now at le… Read more »
European Union, U.S. Coordinate On E-Book Pricing Cases
As regulators on both sides of the Atlantic investigate publishers and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for allegedly colluding to fix the price of e-book… Read more »
Exclusive: How Much Do Kindle Singles Authors Make?
The top-ten list of bestselling Kindle Singles includes a number of big-name writers. But how is the format working for writers who don’t ha… Read more »
Exclusive: Amazon Has Sold Over Two Million Kindle Singles
When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the Kindle Singles program a little over a year ago, nobody knew whether there was a market for e-books th… Read more »
How Hulu Is Becoming A Testbed For New TV Shows
Shows produced by Hulu will soon find their way onto traditional TV networks in the U.K. and elsewhere, thanks to a distribution deal betwee… Read more »
For Connected TV, The New Last Mile Is Dining Room To Living Room
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Last week, I lambasted Virgin Media for taking two years to launch its iPad TV guide for its TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set-top box.
I have since le… Read more »
CNN Mashing Up With Mashable? Not So Fast
CNN might yet end up as the owner of Mashable but it’s not imminent despite a single-source report from Felix Salmon at *Reuters*. Read more »
Diller To Networks: Get Radio Shack To Pay Retrans & Aereo Will Too
Barry Diller’s latest investment in media disruption hasn’t even launched yet and it’s already in court. That’s part of the appeal of Aereo… Read more »
E-Book Smackdown: Who Should Control Pricing — Publishers Or Amazon?
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A couple of years ago, with Amazon steadily pushing down the prices of e-books, the fortunes of the big book publishers were sinking fast. T… Read more »
Rentrak Edges Further Onto Nielsen's TV Turf
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After enjoying a ratings monopoly during television’s first six decades, Nielsen increasingly finds itself challenged by upstart competitors… Read more »
Ron Paul Fails Again To Identify YouTube, Twitter Impostors
A judge has once again rebuffed Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul’s efforts to unmask the people who used his name to launch racist… Read more »
