Waterstones — the leading UK bookseller that was recently bought by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut — is taking a tip from its U.S. co… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Intel is remaining committed to the MeeGo wireless OS, despite reports that… Read more »
Borders was e-reading company Kobo’s first — and, so far, only — U.S. bookstore partner. And when it became clear in recent months that Bo… Read more »
What does content mean for online retailers, and how can publishers successfully work commerce into their websites? Those were the questions… Read more »
As the number of check-in services proliferate, GetGlue is trying to solidify relationships with networks as it tries to prove the value of… Read more »
Following its launch of the .xxx domain name this week, the Internet naming authority known as ICANN is preparing to uncork thousands more n… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) meets with Samsung in court in Japan and requests an injunction on Sm… Read more »
– Starz Digital Media: Mara Winokur is now SVP of digital media, business development and strategy at Starz Media — a position that makes… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching Amazon.es in Spain on September 15, according to Spanish newspapers El Pais and El Mundo, with a Kindle sto… Read more »
Just over a month after Devin Wenig was ousted as CEO of Reuters’ beleaguered Markets division, eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has brought him as preside… Read more »
As more newspapers roll out paywalls, they are looking for new types of content and services to entice readers, and are also turning to new… Read more »
The Chinese online payments provider in which Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) holds an indirect interest is buying itself a greater slice of that growing… Read more »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has made the second move in a long-awaited succession plan following the decision of Chairman Steve Jobs to resign as CEO… Read more »
Two months after the deadline for compliance hit, it’s now clear The Financial Times and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) can’t come to a compromise over… Read more »
Herald & Times, run by Gannett’s Newsquest, will begin requiring metered payments for its HeraldScotland.com news site by year’s end. Read more »
Here’s a significant bit of news that advances mobile operators’ master plan to become central players not just in provisioning data network… Read more »
Over the past year, Ziff Davis has transformed itself from being a digital-only tech publisher primarily known for running PCMag.com to a br… Read more »
BBC Worldwide is make episodes of Top Gear available to Facebook users at a cost of 93p.
The BBC’s commercial arm has developed a video-on-… Read more »
Subscription sites for physical goods are proliferating: Birchbox, which sends monthly boxes of beauty samples to subscribers, just closed… Read more »
Time Out, the listings and guidebook publisher, is upping its digital and social game: it has bought the UK-based semantic analysis company… Read more »
Zulily, the private sale site for moms, kids and babies co-founded by two former Blue Nile execs, has received $43 million in funding, bring… Read more »
The Chinese ecommerce site of whose owner Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) owns 40 percent is growing fast. Alibaba Group’s Alibaba.com Q2 profit beat ana… Read more »
Gilt Groupe is moving beyond sample sales and daily deals with Park & Bond, an online men’s clothing store with a hefty dose of editorial co… Read more »
Some readers’ eyes may now start to water when they cut a few layers in to The Onion’s website.
“America’s finest news source” has begun re… Read more »
Apple’s deadline for app owners to run content subscriptions through iTunes or not at all may have passed on June 30, but compliance is emer… Read more »
German news publisher Axel Springer, whose own paid consumer content initiative launched before News Corp.’s, has reported what it says are… Read more »
The announcement is accompanied by a picture of publisher Dennis Francis wearing a Hawaiian shirt, but the news is all business: Honolulu S… Read more »
The big news among mobile developers during the second quarter was the Web; or rather, how new Web services from mobile titans Apple (NSDQ:… Read more »
The Android Market is something that’s mostly tolerated, as opposed to celebrated, but one group of developers who ventured outside of Googl… Read more »
With at least 25 Pottermore beta accounts now for sale on eBay (NSDQ: EBAY), the site has posted a notice: Cut it out! Read more »
For about the cost of “a trip to Starbucks,” six Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) newspapers in Montana and Wyoming are adopting a metered pay mo… Read more »
Mobile companies and payment processors continue to think about ways to merge their products as smartphones become more widely used, but the… Read more »
The battle over what to do with Alipay among the three interests involved — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and… Read more »
*Google* Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will testify before lawmakers probing the company’s market power on Sept. 21, the search giant conf… Read more »
By now, investors ought to be used to The McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company’s consistent drift of revenue and net income declines since it retur… Read more »
Mike Steib, who as Google’s director for emerging platforms helped create Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV Ads, is leaving the company to become CEO o… Read more »
Women’s magazines have long recommended specific beauty products, and online-only publications like Lonny include buy links for featured pro… Read more »
Pixazza is losing its unwieldy name as the company looks to evolve from being a photo ad network that specialized in tagging jpegs and gifs… Read more »
With the average online shopper now checking 10.7 different sources before making a purchase–even if it’s something small, like mascara or… Read more »
Chinese internet search giant Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) reported a 95 percent increase in net income on Monday, beating Wall Street expectations an… Read more »
