The Morning Lowdown 3-14-12
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» After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses (NYT Media Decoder) Britannica Ends Printing, Now Will Face Wikiped… Read more »
Britannica Ends Printing, Now Will Face Wikipedia On Price, Quality
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At a conference last week, an Encyclopaedia Brittanica executive rose from the floor to challenge keynoter Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia.
“I don… Read more »
Social Media Display Fuelling Ongoing Internet Ad Growth
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The internet will attract 21 percent more ad spend each year on its way to gobbling 22.1 percent of the total market by 2014, according to l… Read more »
How Netflix's Hastings Could Get BSkyB Off An Anti-Trust Charge
The UK inquiry in to whether Sky Movies’ exclusive first-run subscription VOD deals with six major Hollywood major studios is anti-competiti… Read more »
UltraViolet Studios: HBO Blackout Will Lift In Time For Wal-Mart Launch
Don’t worry, we’ll work this out in time for the big dance. That is the essential message from top home entertainment officials who are stil… Read more »
Attribution, Context And Herding Cats
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As editor of a site that was curating before curation was cool, I’ve helped set policy for attribution — link and credit unto others as you… Read more »
Analysts: Netflix Has Fully Recovered From Its Qwikster Debacle
In 2010, people couldn’t say enough good things about Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) — it was the darling of the digital entertainment world. Then la… Read more »
FTC Subpoenas Apple In Google Antitrust Probe
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The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly asked Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to supply information as part of its investigation into whether Google… Read more »
Wal-Mart Will Start Selling Cloud Storage At 3,500 Stores Next Month
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We told you it was coming — and it did. Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has formally announced its support for Hollywood’s struggling UltraViolet movi… Read more »
Tape.tv, A Pandora For Video, Targets British Launch
With news of its long-delayed German launch, it’s worth remembering that Spotify isn’t just a music player these days – it’s a platform. And… Read more »
E-Reader Shipments Are Declining…Unless They're Increasing
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A look at two new reports about shipments of media tablets and e-readers shows that nobody really has any idea yet whether tablets are canni… Read more »
Telegraph Puts Mobile App In Subscription Bundle
The Telegraph and Sky News may each operate subscription iPad outlets – but, with latest revisions to their mobile offerings, the two news p… Read more »
Here Comes A Hot New Chip For Internet Of Things
ARM, the semiconductor company whose chip technology powers most modern smartphones, has come up with a chip for the Internet of things. Cor… Read more »
How The Media Can Use Pinterest To Drive Traffic And Revenue
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Media owners may be spooked by Pinterest’s controversial re-use of copyrighted content – but they could have plenty to gain from embracing,… Read more »
InsideHook Targets Successful Dude Demographic
There are guide sites aplenty for college guys or for men in their 20′s. But what happens when one-time keg guzzlers and adrenaline junkies… Read more »
Erotic Novel '50 Shades Of Grey,' Fan Fiction And Copyright
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Fifty Shades of Grey, the erotic novel that started out as Twilight fan fiction and that will now be re-published by Random House’s Vintage,… Read more »
National Journal Brings In Conde Nast, DJ Vet Jessica Perry To Head Digital
Atlantic Media continues its push to remake its properties with a digital-first business model with the hiring of Jessica Perry as Digital V… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 3-13-12
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» Is Intel (NSDQ: INTC) working on a major TV initiative? (GigaOM)
» Everyone’s a curator, everyone’s a content creat… Read more »
Music's Celestial Jukeboxes Square Off In Germany; Next Stop Asia-Pac
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The new wave of global subscription music services going global has picked Germany, perhaps Europe’s most under-developed digital music mark… Read more »
Cratering Search & Display Sectors Drove U.S. Ad Market Into Decline in Q4
Driven down by big fourth-quarter declines in digital advertising, the total U.S. ad market grew only 0.8 percent for all of 2011, a report… Read more »
Everyone's A Curator, Everyone's A Content Creator
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It used to be that we were all just consumers — or most of us were, anyway. We’d watch TV or read a book or listen to the music on the radi… Read more »
Meet The 10 Patents Yahoo Is Using To Sue Facebook
Yes, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) went there today — claiming in a lawsuit that it, not Facebook, is the real king of social networks. The company po… Read more »
Yahoo Signs Series Develpment Deal With Michael Eisner's Vuguru
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Continuing its aggressive expansion into video content as it restructures its operations, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has signed a development deal w… Read more »
It's On: Yahoo Sues Facebook Over Patents
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has made good on its threat of last month and filed a patent infringement suit against Facebook. The lawsuit adds to the… Read more »
More States Offer Perks To Attract Video Game Makers
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When former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling moved his video game company 38 Studios to Rhode Island in 2010, the decision was not just a snub… Read more »
Kony2012: New Media Success Story Or Cautionary Tale?
If it isn’t the most viral social-media effort in recent memory, the Kony2012 campaign – launched last week by Invisible Children to spotlig… Read more »
10 Ways Big Data Changes Everything
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A yottabyte isn’t what happens when the Jedi master starts gnawing on your leg. It’s the information equivalent of one quadrillion gigabytes… Read more »
World's Richest Man Launches Online Video Network … With Larry King!
Backed by the resources of the world’s wealthiest individual, Carlos Slim Helu, and guided by former News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) digital journali… Read more »
Yahoo's EMEA Chief Riley Quits Geneva, For Sunnyvale?
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The man helping Yahoo’s new CEO plot the company’s rejuvenation has told his staff he is leaving his role as SVP of the Europe, the Middle E… Read more »
Lawsuits Mushroom Over Google Browser Tracking
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The legal fallout continues over Google’s decision to circumvent privacy settings on the iPhone. Court records show that there are now at le… Read more »
European Union, U.S. Coordinate On E-Book Pricing Cases
As regulators on both sides of the Atlantic investigate publishers and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for allegedly colluding to fix the price of e-book… Read more »
Exclusive: How Much Do Kindle Singles Authors Make?
The top-ten list of bestselling Kindle Singles includes a number of big-name writers. But how is the format working for writers who don’t ha… Read more »
Exclusive: Amazon Has Sold Over Two Million Kindle Singles
When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the Kindle Singles program a little over a year ago, nobody knew whether there was a market for e-books th… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 3-12-12
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» CNN in Talks to Acquire Mashable, Sources Say (NYT Media Decoder) CNN Mashing Up With Mashable? Not So Fast (paidContent)
Youku And Tudou Merge To Create Chinese Online Video Powerhouse
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After threatening to sue each other for copyright infringement in December, the largest players in China’s fast-growing online video market… Read more »
Another Atoms-To-Bits Moment: Game Group Retailer On Brink Of Collapse
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Europe’s biggest plastic-box video game retailer Game Group has warned its shares may become worthless, as it struggles to avoid the same fa… Read more »
How Hulu Is Becoming A Testbed For New TV Shows
Shows produced by Hulu will soon find their way onto traditional TV networks in the U.K. and elsewhere, thanks to a distribution deal betwee… Read more »
For Connected TV, The New Last Mile Is Dining Room To Living Room
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Last week, I lambasted Virgin Media for taking two years to launch its iPad TV guide for its TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set-top box.
I have since le… Read more »
CNN Mashing Up With Mashable? Not So Fast
CNN might yet end up as the owner of Mashable but it’s not imminent despite a single-source report from Felix Salmon at *Reuters*. Read more »
Diller To Networks: Get Radio Shack To Pay Retrans & Aereo Will Too
Barry Diller’s latest investment in media disruption hasn’t even launched yet and it’s already in court. That’s part of the appeal of Aereo… Read more »
