Where The Daily Deal Business Is Headed
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How many Keratin wraps, photography workshops and Hookah tokes does one person really need? After Groupon and LivingSocial, there are anothe… Read more »
The New Catalog? Online Shopping On Tablets Growing
As more and more tablets find their way into the hands of consumers, the payoff from tablet-oriented shopping experiences could become very… Read more »
JWT Acquires ‘Shopping Engagement’ Agency Lunchbox
With publishers looking to e-commerce to supplement a shrinking share of ad dollars, it’s natural the advertising agencies expand their mark… Read more »
Harry Potter Helps Fandango Grow Mobile Ticket Sales
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Online movie ticketer Fandango says that 20 percent of its virtual box office this summer was generated by its iPhone, iPad and Android apps… Read more »
Four Major Credit Card Companies Joining Isis Mobile Payments Group
The mobile payments scene got a little more complicated Tuesday, as the big traditional credit card companies joined the Isis mobile payment… Read more »
PayPal Demos Android-Based NFC Mobile Payment System
There aren’t a lot of phones on the market which can serve as digital currency, but PayPal demonstrated Wednesday how its users will be able… Read more »
Google Revamps Android Market, Adds Books And Movies
One of the more maligned aspects of the Android experience–the Android Market–is getting a fresh look and a few interesting features demon… Read more »
Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital Sells Yahoo Stake After Alipay Debacle
Greenlight Capital chief David Einhorn, who made his reputation short-selling Lehman Bros. before its collapse, raised eyebrows earlier this… Read more »
Hackers Snatch WaPo Jobs’ Site Usernames, E-Mails
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The Washington Post’s jobs’ site was hacked last week, the company told users in an e-mail note sent last night (via Romenesko). While the p… Read more »
Bookseller And Publisher Associations Oppose Amazon/Book Depository Merger
As the Office of Fair Trade prepares to investigate Amazon’s acquisition of UK-based online bookseller The Book Depository, the UK Bookselle… Read more »
eBay Antes Up In Mobile Payments Game, Buys Zong For $240 Million
A big move in mobile payments today: eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has announced that it is buying the mobile payments company Zong for $240 million in… Read more »
European Commission Proposes A Crackdown On Roaming Rates
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Just as the warm weather and vacation season begin to kick off in Europe, the European Commission has beamed a light on one of the most expe… Read more »
Facebook Credits Will Fuel TV Reality Show Votes
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Imagine a future in which Facebook, because it’s amassed a massive network of people engaging with entertainment brands, becomes the payment… Read more »
Amazon’s Retargeting Expansion Could Make It A Bigger Display Ad Player
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Amazon’s deal with demand-side platform Triggit will allow Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) to expand its existing retargeting efforts and despite the nu… Read more »
World Of Warcraft Flips Freemium Tactic To Seek More Subscribers
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A few weeks after Twitter’s co-founder suggested services flip from time-based free trials to use-based ones, one of the world’s most succes… Read more »
In Latest AOL Shakeup, Brod To Focus On Patch With Mapquest Thrown In; Memo
A few months after being named COO of the Huffington Post Media Group (NYSE: AOL), Jon Brod’s responsibilities are being narrowed to focus o… Read more »
PayPal Hits 100 Million Users As Mobile-Payments War Heats up
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PayPal, the online payments pioneer, now has 100 million active users, according to TechCrunch — and it may need every one of them to face… Read more »
Daily Deals Globalization Race, As LivingSocial Buys In To More Countries
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Going up against Groupon’s own plan to buy itself international scale, LivingSocial just acquired its way in to three more regions. Read more »
In The Money: Google’s NFC Partner ViVOtech Raises $24 Million
We’ve yet to see mass-market adoption of NFC-based mobile payment services — or, indeed, of any point-of-sale mobile payment systems — but… Read more »
La Tribune Starts Charging For More Online Content
French daily business paper La Tribune will start charging for more of its website, in a strategy to edge consumers toward a full-fledged su… Read more »
Foursquare Unlocks The ‘You’ve Got New Funding!’ Badge With $50 Million
Forget the check-in, and show me the check: Foursquare has received new funding of $50 million which reportedly values the company at an eye… Read more »
Foursquare And AmEx Expand Mobile Payments Partnership
Now there are two things American Express hopes you don’t leave home without: your card and your smartphone. The company has finalized a dea… Read more »
Online Now Commands Largest Share Of Auto Dealers’ Ad Dollars
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In the automotive space, the responsibility for advertising is shifting from car makers to car dealers, and that means significant boost for… Read more »
Three Ways Pottermore.com Could Change Book Publishing
After a suspenseful buildup, J. K. Rowling has announced that Pottermore.com will be an e-bookstore, exclusively selling Harry Potter e-book… Read more »
The Times Will Allow PayPal Payment
PayPal has felt need to press-release the fact that News International’s The Times and Sunday Times websites will allow users to pay for acc… Read more »
Why Apple’s Subscription Terms Are A Lose-Lose-Lose
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Apple’s recent tweak to its its in-app subscriptions policy was not a big “back-track”, a “reversal”, nor a “climbdown”.
It was an adjustme… Read more »
Slovak Publishers Have Made €40k From New Paid Content System
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Slovakian publishers’ new joint paid content initiative has made €40,000 in its debut month.
On May 2, nine major news and magazine publi… Read more »
Armstrong: ‘Certain’ Patch Outlets Will Be Profitable By End Of This Year
During a Q&A break from the presentations at AOL’s Analyst Day, CEO Tim Armstrong and several other executives took a range of questions abo… Read more »
Tapad Raises $1.8 Million, Launches Retargeting Services
Mobile real-time bidding platform Tapad has raised $1.8 million as the company looks to carve a niche for itself in the retargeting space. I… Read more »
PwC: For Media Companies, Digital Is Now The Central Driver
While print and broadcasting have recovered after the deep recession that ended (at least officially) in 2010, PwC’s Global entertainment an… Read more »
Apple Lets Subscription Providers Hike iOS Prices To Absorb Its 30 Percent
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has made a subtle change to iOS app terms that grants proprietors two inducements to offer subscription content. Read more »
Australian Publishers Will Keep Most Web News Free
Australia’s main newspaper publishers, News Ltd and Fairfax Media, will begin charging for some of their web content later this year, but ar… Read more »
The FT Is Sticking It To Apple With A New Web-Based iPad App
With a few weeks to go before Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) starts taking a 30 percent cut of in-app tablet subscription transactions, The Financial Ti… Read more »
Clouds Gather Over iCloud In Germany: Apple Faces Antitrust Complaint
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Amid ever-growing speculation and buzz around the WWDC, and the details of what Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will be announcing at its annual develope… Read more »
New E-Commerce Site Hive Strikes Unusual Partnership With Indie Bookstores
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Do you love your independent bookstore so much that you’d order a book online and then drive to the store to pick it up? Hive, a new website… Read more »
Beyond Groupon: Other Players In The Daily Deals Space To Watch
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OK, Groupon now has its exit plan. Who else in the daily-deals world is creating momentum?
It’s increasingly big business — daily-deal si… Read more »
As MSLO Ponders Company Sale, Digital Strategy Is Becoming More Central
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In the middle of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s announcement that it is exploring a possible sale of the company, it released its latest… Read more »
How Mobile Can Bridge The Digital And Physical Worlds In New Ways
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Given Google’s core search business and ad-based revenue model, why is the company making the major investment that is the recently-announce… Read more »
Hearst Completes Deal For Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.
Hearst Corp. is nearing completion of its $921 million (€640 million) acquisition of French media conglomerate Lagardère SCA. It’s finali… Read more »
Haymarket Will Charge For Its Marketing Industry News Sites
Haymarket says it will implement a “metered” charging model for its MediaWeek, Marketing, Campaign, PRWeek and Brand Republic websites from… Read more »
