Kayak Will Power Flight Search On Bing
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Microsoft’s Bing is turning to Kayak to power one of the most high-profile features on its site. Under an agreement announced today, Kayak “… Read more »
Threatened Much? News-Subscription Vendor Tries To Stick It To Apple
In the fall-out from Apple’s recent subscription announcement, some vendors already operating in the online billing chain could be threatene… Read more »
Digital Mag Vendor Exact Extends Its Own iPad Subs Option
While Apple’s subscription announcement continues to make waves in publishing, one of the UK’s biggest sellers of tablet magazine editions i… Read more »
Publishers Do Promos, Part 2: Axel Springer Buying German Coupon Site
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On the same day New York Times (NYSE: NYT) announced its daily deals initiative, another publisher is getting in to the same space. Read more »
‘Freemium’ Goes Freer As Rhapsody Tries To Fend Off Peers
What’s the perfect harmony between free and paid in the subscription music world?
For March and April, Rhapsody has upped its usual 14-day… Read more »
UK’s Biggest Regional Paper Flipping The ‘Paid’ Web Switch
The UK’s best-selling regional daily newspaper will start requiring a bundled print-and-web subscription for the majority of its website art… Read more »
Hearst Exec Shuffle: Khemlani Succeeds Kliavkoff; Parrish Joins DailyCandy
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With George Kliavkoff now heading up Hearst bill payment management start-up Manilla, Neeraj Khemlani has been named to succeed him as EVP &… Read more »
Groupon Owns A Third Of European Deals Visits
How does the new wave of daily deals coupons sites stack up in Europe? Read more »
For United Online, Classmates.com Is Now A Memory
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United Online (NSDQ: UNTD) is essentially retiring one of the most omnipresent brands on the internet. As part of a plan announced earlier t… Read more »
Facebook TV Invasion Looms Via ‘American Idol’ Voting
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Television is often included on that list of industries Facebook executives enjoy casually mentioning will have to rebuild themselves around… Read more »
How UK Newspaper Subscriptions Stack Up
Subscriptions have rocketed pay-TV businesses like BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), are kickstarting movie services like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and are set… Read more »
Mobile Payments: Paydiant Gets $7.6 Million; Square Drops Its Fees
It’s still very early days for mobile payments, but with operators, handset makers and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) jumping on the NFC bandwagon, the… Read more »
Germany’s Focus On Google One Pass: ‘It’s Just A Small Test’
The media hubbub around the launch of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google’s respective toll-booths for news last week has yet to die down. But ove… Read more »
BBCWW Seeking An Online Partner For Lonely Planet
BBC Worldwide may now own all 100 percent of Lonely Planet, but the travel guide’s ultimate flight path is not yet necessarily set out. Read more »
comScore: January Browsing Was All About Jobs, Taxes And Travel
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The latest comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) Media Metrix rankings are out and January showed web users thinking about three things in particular: jobs,… Read more »
Alibaba.com’s CEO And COO Resign Over Fraud
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A huge executive shakeup at Yahoo-linked Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.com: CEO David Wei and COO Elvis Lee have both resigned, after the… Read more »
Apple’s And Google’s Subscription Systems: Our Full Coverage
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This week saw a dramatic shift in paid content as Apple rolled out its new subscription policy and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) quickly followed suit… Read more »
The ‘Subscription Economy’ Is Growing, And It’s Bigger Than Just Media
Tien Tzuo is CEO of Zuora, a subscription-billing company based in Silicon Valley. Previously, he was the chief strategy officer and chief m… Read more »
BBCWW To Buy Out Rest Of Lonely Planet
BBC Worldwide is paying A$67.2m (£42.1m) to acquire the 25% of travel guide publisher Lonely Planet that it does not already own. Read more »
Interview: Rdio CEO Says Subs Will Boom (But First, That Apple Problem)
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In the unlimited music subscription race, Drew Larner reckons his pay-for service has a much better shot at surviving than certain other riv… Read more »
Spooked Publishers State Their Demands To Tablet Platforms
Some publishers, associations and academics who met Thursday to discuss new subscription plans from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOO… Read more »
Apple Subs: Publishers Seek Clarity, FT Concerned, Some Sign Up
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The response from many publishers to Apple’s subscription announcement has been a shellshocked “errrr…” – many are confused exactly how th… Read more »
‘Apple Just F****d Over Online Music Subs’
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Apple’s new subscription rules could seriously hurt the nascent wave of unlimited-music subscription services just as they promise to return… Read more »
Dueling Paywalls: Brill & Crovitz’s Journalism Online vs. Google’s One Pass
One company set to face new competition now that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is rolling out its paid content system is Journalism Online, which to d… Read more »
Congress Wants To Shut Down ‘Rogue’ Websites, But Verizon Wants Limits
Just about every member of the the Senate Judiciary Committee seems amped up to pass some version of a controversial anti-piracy bill, the C… Read more »
With Google’s One Pass, Two More Newspaper Chains Join The Paywall Brigade
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Included in the announcement of Google’s long-expected One Pass paid content system for publishers is news that two more U.S. newspaper cha… Read more »
Apple Will Motor By Taking A Cut Of Renewals
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Apple’s new rules don’t just apply to new content subscriptions but to all subscription-related transactions thereafter as well. That could… Read more »
Google Pitches A ‘Flexible’ Paid Content System, ‘One Pass’
Anything Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) can do, can Google (NSDQ: GOOG) do better? Twenty-four hours after the former announced its subscription plans,… Read more »
Groupon’s Worldwide Odyssey Takes It To Russia Via Social Network
Groupon, which is in the middle of an internationalisation phase, is going in to Russia in partnership with one of its main social networks. Read more »
Apple Subs: Some Publishers Relieved They Dodged A Bullet
Despite concern, many publishers are actually “relieved” – they feared Apple’s new subscription rules would be a lot more damaging. Read more »
MWC Wire: Huawei; Skyhook; eBay; Adknowledge; Myriad; KT
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» Huawei announced some devices today, including the Ideos X3 smartphone and Ideos S7 Slim tablet. The new touchscreen smartphone… Read more »
Apple’s Landgrab Could Chill Or Cheer Content Subs
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Subscription digital content is one of the most promising opportunities for moving troubled media forward. Still wedded to its traditional s… Read more »
Apple Wants Its Share Of Content Subscriptions
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Confirming many recent reports, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) finally announced it wants to take a 30 percent cut of in-app content subscriptions. It b… Read more »
Speed-Reading The New Mary Meeker Deck About Mobile
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If you were concerned that joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers would sap uber-analyst Mary Meeker of her ability to generate wonk-tasti… Read more »
AP To Test Mobile Version Of Newspaper Ad Inserts
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The Associated Press has come up with a way of recreating the bulky Sunday paper, with all those advertising inserts, for the mobile age. Th… Read more »
TripAdvisor Buys Travel Guide Site EveryTrail
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Travel review site TripAdvisor has bought EveryTrail as it continues its mobile push. EveryTrail lets users publish online guides featuring… Read more »
LibreDigital Raises $4 Million More
LibreDigital, which helps publishers deliver their content to e-readers and to digital bookstores, has raised an additional $4 million. The… Read more »
Amazon Stock Drops On Missed Estimates, High Expenses
There’s a good reason Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) released its Q4 earnings results after market closed: investors were surprised by the how the comb… Read more »
NileGuide Buys Travel Site 10Best
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NileGuide is buying larger travel recommendation site 10Best, as it continues to build its reach. 10Best features original articles and revi… Read more »
Updated: @ DLD: Groupon CEO: No Decision Yet On IPO — ‘Honest Truth’
When will Groupon file for an IPO? CEO Andrew Mason says they haven’t decided to even go for one yet. Pressed by Kara Swisher in front of an… Read more »
