What do flower stores and pet shops have to do with mob-style gambling operations? Quite a bit, according to a new class action suit against… Read more »
The Australian, which is owned by News Limited and is part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), is adding a paywall to its website, m… Read more »
The Economist will next week revoke premium digital subscriptions from some users after realising it had been accidentally servicing them fo… Read more »
This summer, Politico signed a deal with Random House to publish four instant e-books about the 2012 presidential campaign. Now Politico has… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) expanded its Google Wallet push Monday, adding new coupon and loyalty card services to its mobile payments product as we… Read more »
News International has finally decided against introducing usage fees for The Sun’s website and is performing a restructure to place more em… Read more »
Fearing that Kindle Fire users who buy an e-book version of 1984 may not realize that they, too, are being watched, congressman Edward J. Ma… Read more »
In a weird way, the lack of enthusiasm around this week’s CTIA Enterprise and Applications show demonstrates just how consumer-driven the mo… Read more »
If it seems like the mobile world has been talking nonstop about the potential for mobile payments all year, it’s because we have been. Ther… Read more »
Four days after Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the French Kindle and accompanying Kindle store, rival e-book company Kobo announced that it’s… Read more »
Students work for their college newspapers for all sorts of reasons–and while college papers are sheltered from the harsh realities facing… Read more »
Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is now turning its IPX mobile payment system to facilitate in-app payments for some mobile app types.
That could mean… Read more »
Hearst hopes that its snack-size Good Housekeeping “mini cookbooks,” which it is selling for $0.99 on Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Nook, will enti… Read more »
We haven’t heard much lately about the Lodsys case against Apple, Android and RIM developers around the world, who have received letters and… Read more »
J. Sainsbury’s is spending £1 ($1.56) million to buy Global Media Vault, a white-label digital entertainment distribution vendor, to power… Read more »
As companies like Square and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) pitch themselves as the future of payment processing, they’ll need to remove as many obstac… Read more »
The Baltimore Sun is the latest newspaper to add a metered paywall, for both print and non-print subscribers. A digital subscription will co… Read more »
The Independent, which celebrated its 25th birthday on Friday, is to launch a paywall for non-UK readers, a top-priced iPad application and… Read more »
Not a new development, but further confirmation that there may be one on the horizon. China’s Alibaba, Russian investor Digital Sky Technolo… Read more »
The shared paid content platform now underpinning many Slovakian online publishers could roll out elsewhere in Europe after its operator got… Read more »
The Kindle Fire was the star of today’s Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) show but don’t ignore the retooled Kindle e-reader lineup. CEO Jeff Bezos knows… Read more »
Major names in the mobile industry continue to line up behind mobile-payments strategies, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may be perturbed to see a… Read more »
Location, location, location: it’s the time-honored mantra of real-estate agents and retailers, but could just as well be applied to Google… Read more »
Are mobile payments the new speech recognition technologies? One of the bigger stories in mobile this year has been the growing investment a… Read more »
Twitter’s decision to open an office in Dublin has prompted an Irish government agency to crow about “Ireland’s dynamic digital media cluste… Read more »
Tech and science publisher TechMediaNetwork has raised $33 million in a second round as it looks to add its content roster with a series of… Read more »
In the wake of Facebook’s F8 mega-event, with its parade of product, feature and platform announcements, I’m struck by the recent major infl… Read more »
The European Commission has opened an anti-trust inquiry in to whether a group of banks has conspired to prevent new online payment facilita… Read more »
Once again, Groupon is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Margo Georgiadis, hired as COO only five months ago, is going back to Google (… Read more »
Google Wallet officially launched this week with payment partners Citi and MasterCard on board and three other credit card networks (Visa, D… Read more »
It’s not all about online content distribution, you know?
Play.com, the UK site that sells games, movies, music and more on ye olde plastic… Read more »
A year after AOL (NYSE: AOL) first began promoting its “premium” Project Devil ads to much hype and fanfare, the company has succeeded in si… Read more »
Facebook’s global revenues will hit $4.27 billion in 2011, up from $2 billion in 2010, according to the latest eMarketer estimates. Most of… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) at the moment gets the vast majority of its revenues from its huge advertising business, but today we saw two examples o… Read more »
New device opportunities should allow Hearst to drive its digital revenue model away from advertising reliance, and toward 50/50 equivalence… Read more »
WalMart may be better known for its great savings for shoppers, but it’s also becoming known for its acquisitions of online advertising comp… Read more »
Hola, Amazon: The company is officially launching in Spain today, as reported last week. Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Google agreed to pay 33 percent more — $3 billion — than it originally off… Read more »
What do you get when you cross Groupon with a porn site? FriendFinder Networks is about to find out.
The Penthouse publisher and adult soci… Read more »
Brief news on several acquisitions from companies looking to expand in payment provision, Lat America, gaming and the daily deals space… Read more »
