Higher education costs have skyrocketed by over 430 percent since the 1980s. Now two startups aim to make college courses more affordable. Coursera offers free online courses from universities like Stanford and Princeton. And a new tool from Akademos helps professors find less expensive — or free — textbooks for their courses. Read more »
After a long search, Next Issue Media, the digital magazine/newspaper JV of Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith (NYSE: MDP), News Corporation (NSD… Read more »
Next Issue Media, the magazine industry JV meant to develop content and formats for the next generation platform devices, is having a lot of… Read more »
Pali Capital’s Rich Greenfield opened the paidContent 2010 conference at the TimesCenter with a note of skepticism about the recent spate of… Read more »
Hulu started the new wave, now Vevo, Next Issue Media, Epix, Canoe and others are following: companies in the same vertical banding together… Read more »
Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith (NYSE: MDP), News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). and Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) are making it formal: the five publishers are eq… Read more »
After weeks of talks and trial balloons, is Time Inc. actually close to signing a deal with other Conde Nast, Hearst and possibly other majo… Read more »
Updated twice below: Everyone wants a Hulu now, nevermind that Hulu’s own long term future isn’t necessarily fully secure. First was Vevo, m… Read more »
According to a staff memo from Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) Chairman and CEO Ann Moore (pictured, right), EVP John Squires has a new summer job: fi… Read more »
The big question following the last few weeks following the enormous swings of the financial markets is this: how bad is it going to be? Mic… Read more »
