Virgin Media Profits As On-Demand Viewing Grows
UK pay-TV and broadband telco Virgin Media clocked its first annual profit in 2011, as its TV set top boxes continued to be an engine of vid… Read more »
Nokia’s Mexico, Hungary, Finland Phone Assembly Goes To Asia; 4,000 Jobs Go
Today brings news of yet another round of capital-intensive cost-cutting for the challenged mobile phone maker Nokia: the company today anno… Read more »
Mail Online Income Quickening After U.S. Expansion
Mail Online’s annual revenue growth rate has accelerated to a high of 70 percent following its big push in to the U.S., its publisher DMGT r… Read more »
Milestone: Digital Gains Offset Magazines’ Decline At Future
Magazine and web publisher Future has hit a key milestone in the media industry’s great transition – UK digital revenues made up for print r… Read more »
McClatchy Beats Earnings Forecasts, Touts Digital Investments
photo: Sac Chef, Brian Bentzen
McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company’s fourth quarter operating earnings beat analysts’ predictions, while the newspaper chain also reported an ove… Read more »
Uneven E-book Growth Sees Lagardere Book Sales Slim
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Global holiday-quarter books revenue dipped by 3.8 percent at Hachette operator Lagardere Publishing despite booming western e-book sales, t… Read more »
Populis Blog Network Buying In To Latin America
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) rival Populis is continuing to build up its non-English blog network and publishing business through acquisition, t… Read more »
Chinese Ad Money Moving Quickly From Print To Web
Marketers in China are fast moving advertising spend from offline to internet, one of the country’s largest online operators, Sohu (NSDQ: SO… Read more »
Facebook Mobile Ads Developing: Sponsored Stories Coming ‘Within Weeks’
It’s not digital advertising in the sense of display ads and search results, but it looks like we are getting a bit more color on what it is… Read more »
Briefing Media Takes Farmers And Doctors Off UBM’s Hands
B2B publisher UBM is off-loading its UK magazines for farmers and doctors, as it looks to further exit the direct content publishing busines… Read more »
Update: Facebook Has A Mobile Card Up Its Sleeve In Addition To Advertising
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Much has been made of the mobile risks that Facebook laid out in its S-1 IPO filing earlier this week. Essentially, it’s seeing/pushing mass… Read more »
BT Overhauling Vision As It Maintains Summer YouView Launch Forecast
BT (NYSE: BT) signed up 39,000 customers to its Vision hybrid Freeview/IPTV service between September and December, taking it to 679,000.
N… Read more »
New York Times Co To Expand Health Coverage Online
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Late last year, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) relaunched its tech blog to add more reporters and more video — in hopes of pulling in more… Read more »
Viacom’s Dauman: Nickelodeon Isn’t Losing Viewers To Netflix
Nickelodeon, usually a ratings star, has been on a slide recently, and several analysts this week put the blame on Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX). On… Read more »
Axel Springer Takes A Slice Of Airbnb In Exposure Deal
photo: Axel Springer
Apartment-letting site Airbnb will get investment, endorsement and distribution from the publisher of Europe’s most-read newspaper. Read more »
NYT Co Sees Drop In Earnings But 20% Rise In Digital Subs
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Higher online circulation was a small bright spot in an otherwise gloomy earnings report for the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), which i… Read more »
Sony’s New CEO Sets ‘Clear Path’, And Unveils Big Losses
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Sony’s new president and CEO has quite a task on his hands. A day after Kazuo Hirai was appointed to replace Howard Stringer, who remains as… Read more »
Now Facebook Must Prove To Wall Street Its Ads Really Work
photo: Madison Ave: Life In LDN/Flickr & Wall Street: ToonariPost/Flickr & Zuckerberg: Jason McELweenie/Flickr
Facebook has made a $3.1 billion business from a social advertising sector many, even it, concede is experimental and unproven. Now it must… Read more »
Flaregames And Tusjuegos Take Funds To Build And Sell Games
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Two European companies are this week taking venture capital in the games space… Read more »
The Facebook IPO Lowdown 2-1-12
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» Facebook’s biggest risks explained (ReadWriteWeb)
» Is Facebook’s IPO the start of something, or the end? (GigaOm)… Read more »
2.7 Billion Daily Likes And Other Key Numbers From Facebook’s S-1
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Facebook’s nearly 200-page S-1 filing appears to have crippled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar website with the mass of peopl… Read more »
Facebook’s Status Update: $5 Billion IPO Filed
photo: Background: Shutterstock/Longquattro & Zuckerberg: Jason McELweenie/Flickr
It took the whole day, but Facebook finally — as many expected — filed its S-1 with the Securities Exchange Commission for its long-awaite… Read more »
AOL Q4: Ads Up By 10%; Beats Street Estimates But Still Slumping
AOL (NYSE: AOL) today reported that its strategy to turn around its advertising business is definitely paying off, with sale up by 10 percen… Read more »
Myriad Eyes Synchronica, Says Messaging Company Can’t Pay Its Nokia Debt
Some fallout from the various asset offloads we have seen from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the last year: Synchronica, which bought Nokia’s messagi… Read more »
Amazon: Print Book Unit Sales Up; More Content For Prime
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) says unit sales of print books grew by “double digits” in Q4 compared to last year. That “is impressive given the shift… Read more »
Report: Facebook’s IPO To Start At $5 Billion, And It’s Coming Wednesday AM
Facebook’s much-anticipated IPO looks to be coming ever-closer, with a new report out with further details of what we will see come Wednesda… Read more »
Amazon Misses Estimates: Q4 Earnings Down 58 Percent
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) disappointed investors by reporting Q4 2011 revenues of $17.4 billion this afternoon, up 35 percent from a year ago but… Read more »
Facebook’s Birth Certificate
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Facebook is widely expected to go public in the very near future with a valuation north of $75 billion. It’s a moment that tech watchers hav… Read more »
As Sky Growth Slows, Can Internet Defend It From Downturn And New Rivals?
BSkyB’s financials are still improving, but the company is now flaunting a range of new internet upgrades to try containing subscriber growt… Read more »
Gannett Misses Earnings Targets On Special Charges, Digital Revenue Up
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Co. posted lower than expected earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 after incurring special charges related to workfo… Read more »
French News Revolution: La Tribune Sold, Ends Daily Print Run
France’s national La Tribune newspaper said Monday’s edition was its last daily print copy, as its owner’s sale to a regional publisher and… Read more »
Report: Facebook IPO Could Arrive Next Week With Hopes Of $10 Billion
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The long-awaited Facebook IPO might arrive as soon as next week, according to a new report. When the company does get around to filing the p… Read more »
Nokia Tottering At The Top Of Mobile Rankings; Apple Leading Smartphones
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With most of the major handset makers having reported earnings for the quarter that ended in December, analyst houses are laying out their r… Read more »
Samsung: Smartphones Up 30 Percent But You Have To Guess How Many We Sold
Samsung may be king of the Android smartphone world, but it’s playing hard to get. The company declined to release smartphone sales figures… Read more »
Q4 2011 Earnings Snapshot
Motorola Lost $285 Million In 2011 Selling Phones
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Having already warned investors that its fourth quarter was going to be rough, Motorola (NYSE: MMI) didn’t disappoint when the actual number… Read more »
Netflix Stock Jumps More Than 20%, Equity Analysts ‘Bullish’ Again
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) stock jumped over 20 percent, with a number of equity analysts bumping up the movie rental company’s price target follo… Read more »
AT&T: The iPhone Was Good, But Not Good Enough To Hold Off A Q4 Loss
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A set of quarterly results today from AT&T (NYSE: T) that underscored some of the aftershocks the carrier is feeling in the wake of its fail… Read more »
Nokia Q4: Scrambling For A Grip, But Still Falling; 1M+ Lumia Phones Sold
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Nokia’s Q4 earnings, released on Thursday, make for some challenging reading for even the most hopeful of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) watchers. The ha… Read more »
Euromoney Subscriptions Growing Through Euro Economy Turmoil
Euro money (the currency) may be going through a rough patch, but Euromoney (the publisher) is in rude health. Read more »
