Video @ paidContent 2010: How To Make Money From Digital News
The Financial Times has a sizeable and nicely growing subscription business– so why mess with micropayments? FT.com Managing Director Rob G… Read more »
@pc2010: Forrester’s McQuivey: The Truth About What We’re Paying For Content
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People love to debate the merits of free vs. paid content. But overlooked in all this is the cost of access to that content — that’s where… Read more »
Penske’s Mail.com Launching India Portal With Zee, on India.com
Mail.com Media Corp, the owner of Nikki Finke’s Deadline.com and other portals, has finally closed and announced its JV deal in India, after… Read more »
Video @ paidContent 2010: New York Times Execs On Metered News And More
For nearly 40 minutes, top executives from The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) took questions from interviewer Staci D. Kramer, co-editor and… Read more »
@pc2010: Our Full Coverage
This past Friday we had our first paidContent 2010 conference at NYC’s TheTimesCenter . During the jam-packed day we had a special lunchtime… Read more »
@pc2010: NYT Metered Model Is Designed To Preserve Reach And Grow Ad Revs
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The big story the past few months on the subject of paid content is the NYTCo’s announcement that it would pursue a metered model for its we… Read more »
SinglePoint Expands Into India With Purchase Of M2Junction
SinglePoint is acquiring India-based M2Junction, which has developed a text-messaging mobile advertising platform. The purchase comes just a… Read more »
Following Rivals, Gmail Will Add Status Updates
Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which shook up the e-mail industry when it integrated chat with e-mail, is now trying to catch up to its rivals by lett… Read more »
Live Streaming Service Ustream Gets $20 Million; Option To Get $55 Million More
Ustream, the popular online live broadcasting service, just announced it has raised $75 million in a second round of funding led by Softbank… Read more »
In Amazon vs. Macmillan, Amazon Is The Winner
It was a surprising weekend for those of us who had naively imagined that after crossing the River iPad, we might actually get some Elysian… Read more »
Building A Social Network In A Facebook And Twitter World
Geoff Cook is the CEO of myYearbook, a social network built around meeting new people. He also founded EssayEdge and ResumeEdge and sold the… Read more »
India’s Texting Community Provider SMS GupShup Raises $12 Million
SMS GupShup has raised $12 million to help build out its texting-based mobile-phone communities in India. The company, which has operations… Read more »
YouTube Confirms Live Cricket Deal; Not In U.S.; Big Ad Push
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Google has confirmed yesterday’s reports – YouTube has inked rights from the big-money Indian Premier League’s (IPL) licensing partner Globa… Read more »
YouTube To Show Live Indian Premier League Cricket?
Is the super-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket competition about to go global in a deal with YouTube? Several reports from Indian med… Read more »
Why Yahoo Should Buy WPP
Alok Kejriwal is CEO and co-founder of the online gaming company games2win.com. He blogs at rodinhood.com.
In October of last year alone, Y… Read more »
Welcome To Our New Video Section
As you may have noticed recently on our pages, we’ve launched a new video section, with help from Vodpod. The section pulls together interes… Read more »
The Latest ‘State Of Digital Media’ Report Shines Spotlight On Social Media
If 2009 in the digital-media world needed a title, you could argue it would likely be something to the effect of: “Social media goes mainstr… Read more »
Kindle DX Goes Global, But Still Not Truly Local
photo: Amazon
Better late than never? Amazon today has started to sell the Kindle DX, the larger of its e-readers, outside the U.S. The launch comes three… Read more »
Vint Cerf: ‘The Internet Is Christmas All The Time’
We wish the father of the internet had said that!
But there’s no Santa Claus behind that white beard – his proclamation comes courtesy of… Read more »
Nikhil Deogun To Become Managing Editor At CNBC
Doon School alumnus Nikhil Deogun will start the new year as the managing editor for business day programming at CNBC (NYSE: GE), Media Deco… Read more »
Sidharth Bhatia Steps Down As Edit Pages Editor At DNA
Sidharth Bhatia, who has helmed the editorial pages of DNA since the daily’s launch in 2005, has stepped down. He confirmed the development.… Read more »
Rediff Relaunches Blog Platform; Now Supports Nine Indian Languages
Rediff.com (NSDQ: REDF) has done away with its ‘iLand’ branded blogging platform and has launched an improved service that it simply calls R… Read more »
Tempered Response To DB Corp IPO; Subscribed 0.62 Times On Day One
DB Corp., publisher of Dainik Bhaskar and Divya Bhaskar, and joint venture partner in DNA, opened its initial public issue of shares and was… Read more »
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Welcome To The New AOL
Last night, Tim Armstrong and team celebrated independence from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with P.… Read more »
Friendster Sold, Finally, To Malaysia’s MOL Global
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The long and colorful saga of an independent Friendster is over, for now. As expected, it has been acquired, by the Malaysian company MOL Gl… Read more »
@ UBS Media Week: Scripps Networks To Spend $100 Million On Global Expansion
Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) CEO Ken Lowe is betting heavily on international growth over the next year. In a presentation at th… Read more »
Announcing Our New Conference: paidContent 2010, On Feb. 19 In New York City
We have been teasing you about it for a while, and now a formal announcement: For almost eight years, we’ve provided you with news and insig… Read more »
News Roundup: Peter Bhatia Named Editor At The Oregonian; Terror Threat To Tech Firms; HCL-News Corp
Peter Bhatia, executive editor at The Oregonian, will succeed Sandra Mims Rowe as editor at the 159-year old publication. Rowe announced yes… Read more »
Former Bloomberg UTV CEO Arun Anant Sets Up Consulting Firm
Arun Anant, former CEO at Bloomberg UTV (then UTVi), has set up management consulting firm Inc Value together with five partners. “We will b… Read more »
NDTV Networks: Our Coverage In Links
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Here is a compilation of links that comprised our coverage of the restructuring of NDTV Networks that played out over several months. The ca… Read more »
Corrected: Time Warner Unit Will Acquire 92% Stake In NDTV Imagine
Turner Asia, a unit of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), today said it has agreed in principle to acquire a 92% stake in general entertainment channe… Read more »
Reliance Mediaworks Partners With In-Three For 3D Conversion Facility
Reliance Mediaworks (formerly Adlabs) today said it has partnered with Los Angeles-based In-Three Inc. to set up the world’s largest 2D to 3… Read more »
Rediff Loses Director Who Was Executing Its Minimalist Shift; Salil Chandrashekar Resigns
The latest in a series of high-level exits from Nasdaq-listed Rediff.com (NSDQ: REDF) is Salil Chandrashekar, director for product developme… Read more »
Comcast-NBCU: Our Coverage In Links
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Now that the deal is done for Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) to acquire 51 percent of NBC Universaal from GE, pending regulatory approval, here’s a l… Read more »
Sunil Lulla Named CEO & MD At Times Global Broadcasting; Chintamani Rao Is Vice Chairman
Sunil Lulla, who stepped down as group CEO at Alva Brothers Entertainment, will join Times Global Broadcasting Co. Pvt. Ltd as CEO and MD. T… Read more »
Why Mint Founding Editor Raju Narisetti Left India Earlier Than Planned
The answer (from this NYT story): due to a “troubling nexus” of business, politics and publishing that proved to be “draining on body and so… Read more »
Real CEO Sunil Lulla Steps Down
Veteran media executive Sunil Lulla, group CEO at Alva Brothers Entertainment, has stepped down. He confirmed the development.
Lulla joine… Read more »
World Editors Forum: Mirror’s Kelly: We Must Put Search Engines In Their Place
The Mirror’s associate editor urged the news business to rely less on search engines and more on its journalism, in a World Newspaper Congre… Read more »
@ World Newspaper Congress: Dow Jones CEO: Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts
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At the World Newspaper Congress here in Hyderabad this afternoon, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) CEO Les Hinton came out swinging against the world i… Read more »
