Back To The Future: YouTube Launches Live Comedy Talk Show
With the comedy genre heating up in the online video world, My Damn Channel is turning to an age-old television format: the live daily comed… Read more »
BuzzFeed Launches Women's Vertical, 'Shift,' And Sports Section
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There’s a new girl in town, joining established women’s blogs Jezebel and The Hairpin: Shift, BuzzFeed’s new women’s vertical, run by New Yo… Read more »
Aereo TV Will Stream For Months As Court Case Simmers
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Aereo, the controversial technology that turns iPhones and iPads into portable TV sets and DVRs, will not disappear anytime soon despite eff… Read more »
Google To Sell E-Books In France
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will reportedly start selling e-books in France. Read more »
Keep Calm, Carry On And Don’t Charge For News, Johnston’s Highfield Says
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Johnston Press CEO Ashley Highfield says the news business shouldn’t panic, as he aims to make a quarter of its revenue from digital, turn i… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 3-21-12
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» Comics are now selling laughs by the download (NYT)
» No joke: YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) gets its first live comedy show… Read more »
BSkyB's Internet TV Service Will Have A New Brand – 'Now TV'
UK pay TV platform leader BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) will take a bold step for its upcoming satellite-less, over-the-internet TV packages by launchin… Read more »
Yahoo Video Chief: How To Get $3 Billion Closer To $50 Billion
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This year is only the beginning. That was the essential message Tuesday from Yahoo’s head of video and original programming, Erin McPherson,… Read more »
Beats Buying Up Music Service MOG
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Beats Electronics, the headset manufacturer founded by rapper Dr. Dre and now majority owned by HTC, has reportedly bought online music serv… Read more »
Market For Legal News Heats Up: LexisNexis Buys Law360
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In a sign that legal news is gaining strategic clout, LexisNexis announced it is buying subscription service Law360 for an undisclosed sum. Read more »
Sorry, Carriers, 9 Out Of 10 Tablets Sold Are WiFi
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Approximately 90 percent of all tablets in the U.S. relied on Wi-Fi over 3G mobile broadband last year, according to industry analyst Chetan… Read more »
Audit Bureau Of Circulations Endorses Meaningful Metrics On Digital Mags
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The Audit Bureau of Circulations is hoping to make its reporting more relevant to an e-reading age with a new set of standards requiring muc… Read more »
The Good And Bad News From The Latest Pay TV Subscriber Figures
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The good news for the traditional subscription TV industry: subscriber counts across the cable/satellite/telco television services industry… Read more »
ZipList’s Everywhere Recipe Box Lures 1 Million Cooks
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When ZipList launched its digital grocery list and recipe clipping service in 2010, it dreamed of becoming the premier destination Website f… Read more »
Social Magazine Apps Grapple With Advertising
Now that Forbes has 460,000 subscribers on Flipboard and 900,000 across properties on Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Currents, the brand is close to ad… Read more »
NYT: We Have 454,000 Digital Subs So Let's Turn Down The Meter
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The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) ends year one of limiting full NYTimes.com access to those who pay with nearly a half-million subscribers… Read more »
Video: The Future Of The Remote Control In The Age Of Internet TV
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Wand, joypad, keyboard, trackpad, voice, mobile, wave, tablet or just plain ‘ol candybar? Which of these is the best way to navigate televis… Read more »
Facebook Broke Antitrust Law By Choking Ads Says Developer
Facebook engaged in an illegal conspiracy to monopolize the market for display ads says the maker of PageRage, a product that lets users per… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 3-20-12
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» With dividend, Tim Cook thinks differently about Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) (GigaOM)
» Top Kindle Fire Activity: Reading E-… Read more »
BBC Overcomes Xbox Hurdles To Launch iPlayer With Kinect Control
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The BBC has overcome Microsoft’s wish for iPlayer to be bundled with its paid Xbox Live Gold subscriptions.
The catch-up TV service on Tues… Read more »
Devs Flirting With — Not Dating — HTML5 And Windows Phone
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Mobile software developers are interested in the new kids on the mobile block — HTML5 and Windows Phone — but very few are actually turnin… Read more »
Apple: 3 Million iPads Sold This Weekend
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After Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook hinted Monday morning about a “record weekend” for sales of the new iPad, Apple this afternoon is conf… Read more »
Top Kindle Fire Activity: Reading E-Books, Says Citi
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Analysts don’t know how many Kindle Fires have been sold any more than you do. Sometimes, though, they do cool stuff like an analysis (PDF)… Read more »
Why The Wall Street Journal Isn't Adding Digital To Its Sunday Edition
Common wisdom says there’s no future in print newspapers and that the rest of the country is fed up with Wall Street. But both propositions… Read more »
Nielsen, GroupM To Develop New Ratings Tool
As more people watch TV content on something other than TV, ad firms and their clients are eager for a tool that lets them analyze the succe… Read more »
Rick Santorum Opposes Birth Control, 'New Yorker' Rejections
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Rick Santorum does not like New York City, but you know what really gets him mad? When someone submits an article to the New Yorker and does… Read more »
If You Have News, It Will Be Aggregated And/Or Curated
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The Pew Research Center has come out with a massive new report on the state of media as part of its Project for Excellence in Journalism, an… Read more »
Nook May Be Expanding Internationally, But Barnes & Noble Stores Aren't
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At a Nook Developers Workshop in London today, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) said it won’t be opening stores outside the U.S., but did not offe… Read more »
With Dividend, Tim Cook Thinks Differently About Apple
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While playing the “Steve would never do that” game is seldom a great idea – it’s akin to calling yourself a fortune teller or a mind reader… Read more »
All3Media Bypassing Broadcasters, Aggregators On Connected TV Screens
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The connected TV revolution promises new distribution opportunities to content owners.
One, super-indie TV producer All3Media, is taking th… Read more »
Photographers Drag Amazon Into Pinterest Copyfight
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) will accept responsibility for copyright complaints related to popular image-sharing site Pinterest, a photographers’ lo… Read more »
Hearst Continues Push Into E-Singles With 'Seventeen' And Sex
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As more publishers experiment with e-singles, Hearst is unique in articulating a specific business strategy for the format: E-singles are “a… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 3-19-12
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» Pew: Twitter, Facebook aren’t moving as much news as you think (paidContent)
» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and the Daisey af… Read more »
Chinese Writers' Apple Book Piracy Claims Grow Louder
Twenty-two Chinese authors now plan to sue Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for 50 million yuan ($7.9 million), claiming 95 of their books were published… Read more »
Fandango To Become Online Ticket Seller For Yahoo Movies
Fandango will be an online and mobile movie-ticket seller for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Movies, according to a new partnership between the two comp… Read more »
PeerIndex Taking On $3 Million To Quantify Influence, Glocer Among Backers
PeerIndex, a service started by a former Reuters (NYSE: TRI) and Economist journalist to measure Twitter users’ influence in topics, is taki… Read more »
Microstock's Fotolia Acquires Wilogo Designer' Site
Microstock photo repository Fotolia is expanding within its crowdsourced-creativity segment by acquiring Wilogo, a site through which startu… Read more »
Pew: Twitter, Facebook Aren't Moving As Much News As You Think
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We’ve heard that social media is a great source of traffic for news outlets so often that it’s close to textbook. Yes, Facebook, Twitter an… Read more »
FAA Reconsiders Takeoff, Landing Policy On E-Readers, Other Devices
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Welcome news from Nick Bilton: the FAA finally is revisiting the policy that keeps Kindles, iPads and the like turned off during takeoffs an… Read more »
First Look: New iPad's A Pair Of Stylish Glasses You May Not Need
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The new iPad isn’t exactly like Oakland and Gertrude Stein – there’s a there, there — but it won’t be obvious to most people. Read more »
