The Morning Lowdown 09-26-11
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» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks (NYT)
» Mediabank Merges With Donovan; Combined Company… Read more »
How The Social Web Has Rewired The Digital World From The Ground Up
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 »
$10 Settlement Offers: The Entertainment Industry’s New Copyright Tactic
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Judges this year have shot down two unorthodox tactics used by the entertainment industry to collect money from file-sharers. But that hasn’… Read more »
Dazed and Confused? Welcome to the Club
In the past two weeks…
Facebook has revamped its layout and then announced a “timeline” where your living history will be displayed.… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-23-11
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» @ F8: Facebook Unveils New Class Of Social Apps And Redesigned ‘Timeline’ (paidContent)
» @ F8: Zuckerberg Wants Us… Read more »
Lonely Planet Launching Mobile Travel Startup ‘Wenzani’, Seeking Partners
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Lonely Planet has created a separate technology startup in San Francisco to develop next-generation social mobile travel guides together wit… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-21-11
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» NYT Paywall: 12 Percent Of Subs Are International; IHT Paywall Coming (paidContent)
» Documentary Streamer Snagfilm… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-21-11
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» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Signs Expanded Two-Year Streaming Deal With Discovery (paidContent)
» Andreessen’s Ning Finds… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-20-11
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» What Does AOL’s Life After Access Look Like? (paidContent)
» Update: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Buys Groupon Clone And Lau… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-19-11
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» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) DVD-Streaming Split Extends To Brand: Meet ‘Qwikster’ (paidContent)
» Netflix CEO Reed Hasting… Read more »
AOL’s Levick Is Spotify’s New Chief Advertising Officer
A couple of months after being jettisoned in an executive restructure, former AOL (NYSE: AOL) global advertising president Jeff Levick has s… Read more »
SeeSaw Crunch Time: Execs Leave Amid Restructure As Channel 5 Disappears
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Now is kill-or-cure time for troubled UK TV-VOD service SeeSaw, which has not received promised investment.
Platform controller John Keelin… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 9-13-11
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» New details on Philly papers’ bold tablet plan (Adweek)
» Groupon makes foray into e-commerce, taking on Amazon (NS… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-12-11
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» BostonGlobe.Com Launches Today; Shifts To Paying Subscribers Only Oct. 1 (paidContent)
» Righthaven: We Might Have… Read more »
More Bad News For Groupon: Sales Team Files Class-Action Suit
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Earlier this week came reports that the daily-deals site, suddenly unpopular with both users and investors, is considering shelving its long… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 9-9-2011
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» Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Music beta now on iOS through the magic of the mobile web (paidContent)
» Scripps launches live… Read more »
Twitter Reaches New Milestone: 100 Million Users (More Than Half On Mobile)
Twitter has not been very forthcoming on user numbers, but today it gave a shower of stats and data to mark a milestone in its growth: 100 m… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 9-8-2011
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» Arrington out at AOL (NYSE: AOL) (for real this time) (Fortune) There’s no comment or post yet from TechCrunch.
» F… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 9-7-2011
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» Carol Bartz out at Yahoo; (NSDQ: YHOO) Tim Morse is interim CEO. Plus, our Yahoo timeline (paidContent). Here’s the new Yahoo l… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 9-6-2011
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» Now on iTunes, for free: A show you can’t watch on Fox (NSDQ: NWS) for a couple of weeks (Peter Kafka / All Things Digital)
&#… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-02-11
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» As Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Price Change Kicks In, Starz Says It Won’t Renew Deal (paidContent)
» Techcrunch’s Arringto… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-01-11
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» Hulu Japan Launches WIth Movies, TV From CBS (NYSE: CBS), Sony (NYSE: SNE), Fox (NSDQ: NWS) & More But No Ads (paidContent)
&#… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 8-31-11
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» Financial Times finally pulled from iOS (paidContent)
» The Internet’s $10 million mix tapes (WSJ)
» Ga… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-30-11
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» Sale Ending Soon? Yelp Rethinks Its Daily Deals Service (paidContent)
» Steve Jobs’ Greatest Legacy: Persuading The… Read more »
Twitter Ramps Up Its DC Presence, Hires New Public Policy Head
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A sign of Twitter’s growing power, and increasing need to interface with government to get its message across: the company has hired a new h… Read more »
Morning Lowdown 8-29-11
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» A hurricane of hype? (Some commenters disagree.) (Howard Kurtz/The Daily Beast). / Public service or weather porn, how much cov… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-26-11
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» Slate Lays Off Staff. Does Its Model Still Make Sense? (Forbes Mixed Media)
» AOL (NYSE: AOL) Huddles With Top M&A… Read more »
Infographic: Apple Tops Android In China’s Mobile Ad Boom
A new infographic from Guohe Ad, a mobile ad mediation specialist in China, tries to shed a little light on to how well two popular mobile p… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 8-25-11
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» Lowdown-in-a-lowdown: Steve Jobs edition here.
» Our Steve Jobs coverage: Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO, Cook tak… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-24-11
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» Brightcove has filed a $50 million IPO (SEC)
» Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to Subsidize Subscribers’ TV Device (NYT)
&… Read more »
Infographic: Men Are From Android, Women Are From RIM
Not sure whether you should draw too many serious conclusions from the following bit of research, but it does reveal some significant divide… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 8-23-11
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» The NYT’s new education site with WNYC will be collaborative, experimental…and meter-free (Nieman Journalism Lab)
»&nbs… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-22-11
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» Newspapers Edit Down Outlooks (WSJ)
» Murdoch told me to have someone followed: Buttrose (ABC News)
» T… Read more »
Miramax Launching Multi-Title Facebook Movie App In U.S., UK & Turkey
Watching movies on Facebook isn’t new — Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), Paramount and Universal each are trying variations on the theme. But toda… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 8-19-11
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» WebOS enters third act of its fight for mobile relevance–what’s to come? (paidContent) Plus, here’s our history of WebOS.
Updated: Barnes & Noble Gets $204 Million Investment From Liberty Media
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It is not the outright buy that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) was hoping for, but *Liberty Media* is making a strategic investment of $204 mill… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 8-18-11
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» Music publishers settle with YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), as other defendants fight on (paidContent)
» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 8-17-11
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» Here comes Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing, with first author…and a (polite) war cry (paidContent)
» R.R. Donnelle… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 8-16-11
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» Is Google (NSDQ: GOOG) turning into a mobile phone company? No, it says (DealBook/NYT)
» Google-Motorola: Our cover… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 8-15-11
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» Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to acquire Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility for $12.5 billion (paidContent)
» MediaNews Group adds… Read more »
