Updated: Yahoo Highlights Immersive Ads In HTML5 With Livestand Launch
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) launched its long-awaited Livestand news-reader app Tuesday during an event at company headquarters, promising that the e… Read more »
Report: Yahoo, Google Set To Muscle Into Crowded Tablet News Reader Space
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How do you know when a phenomenon like tablet news-reader applications has staying power? When the big guys jump in; and according to a repo… Read more »
Hyperlocal Businesses Try New Revenue Models
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Hyperlocal startups in a crowded marketplace are testing new ways to stand out, and they discussed their strategies at the Street Fight Summ… Read more »
Minneapolis Star Tribune Adding Metered Paywall For Site And Apps
Minnesota’s largest newspaper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, is launching a metered paywall on November 1. Starting that day, non-print subs… Read more »
Survey: U.S. Tablet News Junkies Prefer Web To Apps, Few Have Paid
Tablet owners read a lot of news, in part because the early-adopter crowd that has embraced tablets are the type of people who like to be in… Read more »
NYT Says Huffington Post’s Parentlode Is A Load Of…Well, You Know
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This month, Lisa Belkin announced that she was leaving her popular parenting blog at the New York Times, Motherlode, to launch a parenting b… Read more »
Metro Hails Newsstand For Strong Downloads, High Engagement
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UK free commuter newspaper Metro’s new iPad Newsstand edition has proved almost as popular within two weeks of launch as its predecessor had… Read more »
Why Rupert Murdoch Should Announce A New Direction For News Corp
Shareholders of News Corporation who are tempted to attend the company’s annual meeting later this week in Los Angeles might well be asking… Read more »
Book Site For Twentysomethings Aims To Fill A Gap
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The 18- to 34-year-old demographic, long sought by advertisers and TV shows, is now in the sights of a new website, Book Riot, which aims to… Read more »
Instapaper 4.0 Adds Wikipedia, Tablet-Friendly Design To News Reader App
Marco Arment, the developer behind Instapaper and mobile tech blogger, has released an updated mobile version of his content-discovery and a… Read more »
Baltimore Sun Adds Metered Paywall
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The Baltimore Sun is the latest newspaper to add a metered paywall, for both print and non-print subscribers. A digital subscription will co… Read more »
Independent.co.uk To Introduce Metered Charges For Non-UK Readers
The Independent, which celebrated its 25th birthday on Friday, is to launch a paywall for non-UK readers, a top-priced iPad application and… Read more »
YouTube Politics: Useful Voter Resource Or Campaign Video Dumping Ground?
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) is launching a new politics site today that it hopes will offer a “holistic” view of the candidates on the campaign tri… Read more »
‘Be Your Own Boss’: Northcliffe Turns LocalPeople Sites In To ‘Franchises’
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UK regional newspaper publisher Northcliffe Media was only paying its LocalPeople community publishers £4,800. ($7418.03) Now it wants thos… Read more »
The Latest From TechCrunch (You Cannot Make This Stuff Up)
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Well, you could if you’re the Daily Mail but barring that, who would make up a post about a tech writer who leaves to become general partner… Read more »
We Need A Social News Reader That Highlights Opposing Views
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I have tried out quite a few social news readers, and they all suffer from pretty much the same flaw: they give me more of the same. I will… Read more »
Five Stages Of Grief: A Cautionary But Hopeful Tale For Online Communities
The emerging local news ecosystem looks as chaotic as ever. But a few patterns are emerging in the way online community news startups develo… Read more »
Murdoch’s ‘Daily’ Has 120,000 Weekly Uniques; Nearly Two-Thirds Paid
The folks at News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) have been cagey about nearly every number to do with The Daily from the beginning — except for the amou… Read more »
paidContent Advertising Video: Flipboard’s McCue Wants To Paginate The Web
One of iPad’s flagship apps wants to help publishers sell ads by flipping back to familiar old print rules. “One of the big problems with th… Read more »
TechMediaNetwork Raises $33 Million For Acquisitions
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Tech and science publisher TechMediaNetwork has raised $33 million in a second round as it looks to add its content roster with a series of… Read more »
Vacancies Open Up For The Lead Roles At Bloomberg.com And Time.com
Big changes atop digital at two major news sites today: Kevin Krim, the head of Bloomberg.com, is leaving the company, while Jim Frederick,… Read more »
@ F8: Facebook Unveils New Class Of Social Apps And Redesigned ‘Timeline’
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Facebook unveiled a new version of its social-media platform Thursday designed to help media companies and social-application developers enc… Read more »
Love It Or Hate It, Business Insider Raises $7 Million Round
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Financial and media news online site network Business Insider has raised $7 million for what founder and editor Henry Blodget says will be a… Read more »
Comparing The New Aggregators: Flipboard, Pulse, Zite, Float And More
From Flipboard and Aol Editions, to Ongo and News.me, the rise of tablets and apps is changing how we gather and consume content. A couple… Read more »
Look Out, Flipboard And Zite: Google Said To Be Working On News Reader App
Demand for slick news aggregation services on mobile devices has not escaped Google’s attention. According to reports, the company is planni… Read more »
@ pcAds: Hearst Wants Tablet Magazines To Adopt Movie, TV Pricing
New device opportunities should allow Hearst to drive its digital revenue model away from advertising reliance, and toward 50/50 equivalence… Read more »
The Daily Launches On UK App Store To Mixed Response
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News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) has quietly launched its iPad newspaper The Daily in the UK, seven months after the app made its debut in the U… Read more »
Guardian Launches New U.S. Homepage
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Guardian News & Media has launched its new homepage, guardiannews.com, from its digital operation in New York. Read more »
Newspapers Are Messing Up Their Mobile Strategies, Researchers Say
Regional newspaper publishers are blithely shovelling their expensive content to mobile channels with no hint of a business model, according… Read more »
Subscribe To Philly Newspaper Apps, Get A Tablet
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Starting today, the Philadelphia Media Network–which owns The Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com–is offering a discounted tablet to the f… Read more »
Is Vanishing Profit Good For Online Media?
When is red ink ever good ink? When you’re trying to succeed online, perhaps.
At Cardiff University’s Future Of Journalism conference, Colu… Read more »
Taptu Working With Publishers On Content Discovery With New Funding
Taptu is building a version of its tablet newsreader product that third-party publishers can use to promote their own content, and has locke… Read more »
Tablets Have Displaced Mobile And Web As Paid Content’s Great Hope
What’s the number-one priority for UK publishers in the next 12 months? Tablets, according to their Association of Online Publishers’ (AOP)… Read more »
Guardian Tries Two App Strategies: Android Free, iPhone Paid
The Guardian finally introduced on Wednesday an edition for the most used mobile platform, in an indication publishers may finally be catchi… Read more »
Three More Papers Put Up Paywalls, With Some New Twists
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As more newspapers roll out paywalls, they are looking for new types of content and services to entice readers, and are also turning to new… Read more »
Google Kills Its Fast Flip News Reading Experiment
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To news executives who argue it is destructive, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has tended to highlight five things to the contrary – (1) its First Clic… Read more »
Report: Amazon Kindle Tablet Is The Real Deal, And It Looks Like A PlayBook
The Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) tablet that has been the subject of so much speculation has just taken one leap closer to reality: a report just out… Read more »
TechCrunch’s Arrington Steps Down To Start CrunchFund
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TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington may be raising a $20 million venture capital fund focused on early-stage technology companies, reported, citi… Read more »
Scripps’ Texas Times Record News Adds Metered Paywall
When Hurricane Irene hit the East Coast last week, several newspapers took down their paywalls for all weather-related coverage. But when do… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-01-11
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