@ CTIA: New Evos From Sprint Include 3D Phone, Tablet With A Pen
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With little choice but to press ahead in what promises to be a weird year for the wireless industry, Sprint (NYSE: S) introduced two new Evo… Read more »
@ CTIA: Sparks Fly Over AT&T-T-Mobile Deal As Wireless CEOs Trade Jabs
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Just days after AT&T’s stunning announcement of its intent to purchase T-Mobile, the men who would lead the three remaining dominant U.S. wi… Read more »
AT&T Acquiring T-Mobile For $39 Billion; Let The Scrutiny Begin
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While everyone else was waiting for news that Sprint (NYSE: S) was about to merge with T-Mobile USA, AT&T (NYSE: T) had a different deal in… Read more »
pC2011 Video: Felix Salmon Interviews Nick Denton, Founder, Gawker Media
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Gawker Media Founder Nick Denton captured the essence of his Q&A at our recent paidContent 2011 conference when he facetiously cited a six-y… Read more »
Daily Mobile Lowdown: Amazon App Store; Nokia In U.S.; RIM/Microsoft
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Amazon’s app store pricing unveiled; Nokia (NYSE: NOK) (yes, Nokia) makes a push on dev… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-17-11
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» Viral Videos Catch On That Only Hint at a Sponsor’s Purpose
» Tablets For All! (And Especially Apple)
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pC 2011 Video: Q&A With Greg Clayman, Publisher, ‘The Daily’
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In spite of some glitches that resulted in a lengthier free trial run, Greg Clayman says The Daily still had a successful launch and “hundre… Read more »
The Virtual And Physical Worlds Are No Longer Separate
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If my grandchildren ever ask me where I was when I realised the internet was over – they won’t, of course, because they’ll be too busy pla… Read more »
CNN Live ‘TV Everywhere’, New HD Video Player On The Way
The launches are still months away but CNN Digital has a pair of announcements from SXSW tonight that mark significant advancements for the… Read more »
SCVNGR’s Seth Priebatsch: Facebook’s Days At The Top Are Numbered
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Seth Priebatsch unleashed 180 seconds of organised chaos on SXSW Interactive this weekend. The founder of business location tool SCVNGR want… Read more »
Al Franken Warns Of ‘Outright Disaster’ Over Net Neutrality
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Democratic senator Al Franken has issued a rallying cry to “innovators and entrepreneurs” at SXSW to fight back against Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA… Read more »
pC2011 Video: Q&A With Arianna Huffington and Tim Armstrong
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What do Tim Armstrong and Arianna Huffington have in mind for the newest version of AOL? (NYSE: AOL) At our recent conference paidContent 2… Read more »
After E-Commerce Experiments, Hearst Looks More Seriously At Shopping
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In addition to apps and tablets, Hearst Magazines President David Carey provided some general outlines of the company’s e-commerce strategy… Read more »
@ Media Summit: AOL’s Armstrong: Layoffs Today, Hiring Tomorrow
Update: CEO Tim Armstrong’s full memo to staffers.
AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong took the stage at Bloomberg Media Summit and confirmed… Read more »
Updated: AOL’s Post-HuffPo Layoff Round Begins; 700 Jobs Affected In India
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Last week, AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong told the crowd at paidContent 2011 that layoffs — aka “job changes” — were coming following t… Read more »
Hearst’s Carey: Tablets Will Provide 25 Percent Of Magazines’ Circulation
The notion that the iPad was going to save newspapers and magazines had been diminishing somewhat lately, especially since publishers have t… Read more »
Daily Mobile Lowdown: 7digital PlayBook; Nokia On Symbian; Foursquare; Zite
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Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile. Today, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) preloads 7digital on the PlayBook; Nokia’s still happy with Sym… Read more »
Comments, Video, Push Slate Ad Revs Up 33 Percent In ’10
The Slate Group, The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Co.’s online-only unit house Slate.com, The Root.com, and ForeignPolicy.com, says that comb… Read more »
It’s Official: AOL Now Owns The Huffington Post; Announces New Hires
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong said from the stage at paidContent 2011 that the company was within days of closing its $315 million deal… Read more »
@ pC2011 Video: Interview With FT.com MD Rob Grimshaw
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Financial Times online MD Rob Grimshaw, who debated on our paidContent 2011 conference panel in New York on Thursday, caught up with me back… Read more »
@ pC2011: Paywalls And Their Discontents
As the NYTimes.com prepares to launch its metered pay model any day now, the topic of paywalls is something every media organization is expl… Read more »
@ pC2011: Our Full Coverage
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We just wrapped up paidContent 2011, our flagship conference jam-packed with panel sessions and Q&As featuring some of the key names in digi… Read more »
@ pC2011: Rothenberg: Avoiding Targeting Issue Led To Negative Climate
Years of avoiding the ad targeting as a consumer issue by the online marketing industry has led to the current climate of hyperbolic fear an… Read more »
@ pC2011: AOL-HuffPo Merger Will Produce $20M In ‘Synergies’ – And Layoffs
The $315 million AOL/Huffington Post merger could close next week, said CEO Tim Armstrong, seated next to his new partner Arianna Huffington… Read more »
@ pC2011: Clayman Provides A Status Update On ‘The Daily’
Despite Spencer Reiss’ best efforts, The Daily publisher Greg Clayman would not say how many people had downloaded News Corp.’s publication… Read more »
@ pC2011: Don’t Read Too Much Into TBD’s Failure
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The consensus among ‘local’ industry panelists at our paidContent 2011 conference: TBD.com’s recent very high-profile failure is not reflect… Read more »
@ pC2011: Denton: The Internet Is A Mass Medium, Not A Niche One
In a very amiable dialogue about the nature of “internet success,” Gawker founder Nick Denton told Reuters’ finance blogger Felix Salmon tha… Read more »
@ pC2011: Keith Olbermann: I’m Not Crazy For Joining Current Media
So here’s the deal Current TV has for its new chief news officer: Keith Olbermann, who in addition to crafting the behind the scenes content… Read more »
SB Nation Buys Two Sites; Expands College Sports, Global Soccer Coverage
A few months after taking a $10.5 million funding round, sports blog network SB Nation has made two acquisitions that will broaden its cover… Read more »
@ pC2011: The New Digital Storefront – Or New Balkanization?
The unveiling of iPad 2 has publishers both excited and vexed about the possibilities and hurdles involved with creating a “digital storefro… Read more »
@ pC2011: Zalaznick: Don’t Blame Hulu For Lack Of Cable Programming Streams
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The lack of cable programming that’s available for online streaming on Hulu isn’t the video JV’s fault, said Lauren Zalaznick, Chairman, NBC… Read more »
@ pC2011: Publishers Learn To Live With Google’s Black Box
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Online media owners, on a panel at our paidContent 2011 conference, reported differing impacts from Google’s recent algorithm tweak in the n… Read more »
@ pC2011: Media Betting Too Much, Too Soon In Tablets’ First Innings?
Kicking off our paidContent 2011 conference at the Times Center on a beautiful spring morning, Forrester senior analyst Sarah Rotman Epps th… Read more »
Watch The paidContent 2011 Live Stream
After months of planning and some real-time programming, paidContent 2011; The Next Decade in Digital will convene first thing Thursday morn… Read more »
Tomorrow’s paidContent 2011 In NYC: New And Paid Digital Content
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Whatever you call it, many news publishers are now looking for paying digital customers. We’re still waiting for NYTimes.com’s implementatio… Read more »
paidContent 2011, March 3, NYC: Cracking The Area Code: The Local View
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Call it hyperlocal or neighborhood, measure it by area code, zip code or community; local is one of the hottest spaces. Everyone wants a pie… Read more »
paidContent 2011, March 3, NYC: Quality, Quantity & Mass Content
In one of those timing-is-everything twists, we’ll be convening paidContent 2011; The Next Decade in Digital on March 3 at TheTimesCenter in… Read more »
Sir Martin Sorrell: Apple iPad Won’t Save Us
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We didn’t need Sir Martin Sorrell telling us that the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad will not be the savior of the beleaguered publishing industry,… Read more »
HTC Gets Slapped With A ChaCha Trademark Suit Over Its Facebook Phone
Facebook is shaping up to be the disruptive mobile player du jour — and it looks like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) might be taking some steps with i… Read more »
paidContent 2011, March 3, NYC: Ad Targeting Gains Steam, Scrutiny
As ad targeting takes off, ad tech companies are experimenting with new models and Washington is applying much greater scrutiny. At paidCont… Read more »
