A top book-industry research association recently found that mysteries are one of the two fastest-growing e-book genres, along with general… Read more »
Amazon.com’s Kindle Sunshine Deals promotion, which deeply discounted 650 e-books in collaboration with their publishers, is only a week old… Read more »
Amid ever-growing speculation and buzz around the WWDC, and the details of what Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will be announcing at its annual develope… Read more »
The troubled games industry will try to shake off its worries over falling sales this week at the American E3 games event, by showing off Ni… Read more »
In order to close the gap between the amount spent by large brand advertisers online and offline, display ad service providers are looking f… Read more »
» Penry Price to Leave Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for Startup Media6Degrees (AdAge)
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Sina (NSDQ: SINA) Weibo, the microblogging service operated by China’s Sina portal company, is planning to launch in English in the U.S. in… Read more »
Three Junes ago, Ross Levinsohn and his investment partner Jon Miller were caught up in the drama of Yahoo as Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) tried t… Read more »
At the recent G8 meeting in Paris, Mark Zuckerberg told French president Nicolas Sarkozy, hosting the event, the internet needs light-touch… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) chairman Eric Schmidt has led an undisclosed amount of funding for rich media ad firm Spongecell. The investment appears… Read more »
Evan Harrison is changing frequencies after a career in music and digital that spans lengthy stays at *Clear Channel* Radio, where he was pr… Read more »
Apple’s signature event of the year kicks off on Monday, when thousands of software developers descend on San Francisco to hear the latest f… Read more »
When used correctly, search engine optimization can get your content ranked higher on search results pages. Used poorly, you might end up ma… Read more »
U.S. government lawyers are taking a close look at who’s interested in buying a giant batch of 6,000 patents related to mobile technology th… Read more »
Like many entertainment companies, Disney (NYSE: DIS) has pretty specific ideas about when and how it wants to release its content, and uses… Read more »
Do you love your independent bookstore so much that you’d order a book online and then drive to the store to pick it up? Hive, a new website… Read more »
Six months of U.S. smartphone market share data neatly underscores why Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) is scrambling to get new products out… Read more »
Two years ago I ranted here about the need for NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Sports to get a grip or lose its grip on Wimbledon after it time shifted st… Read more »
Time (NYSE: TWX) and again, we hear of tensions between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and mobile operators unhappy with how the Cupertino giant, by way… Read more »
Josh Quittner, Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) director of digital editorial development for news, sports, and business, is leaving the print magazine… Read more »
An American commercial patent research company says it plans to seek out “prior art” to invalidate a patent being used by MacroSolve to sue… Read more »
» Now that Groupon has filed for a $750 million IPO, it’s time to guess the next daily deal site to go public. (paidContent)
OK, Groupon now has its exit plan. Who else in the daily-deals world is creating momentum?
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Earlier today, Facebook offered a significant new filing in the Ceglia case. The documents show that Facebook has hired a bevy of experts an… Read more »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is said to have secured the services of the music industry’s “gang of four,” signing the remaining holdout, Universal Mus… Read more »
Andrew Mason has no problems being viewed as a quirky guy. Indeed, he thrives on it, as exhibited by his insistence that his grimacing Illin… Read more »
Paul Ceglia is the guy from upstate New York who, last year, claimed he found an old contract entitling him to half of Facebook. In April, h… Read more »
Following the news last night that it might have a buyer, Borders Group got a little more good news today: It’s been granted 120 more days t… Read more »
Deals startup Groupon is going public. The Chicago-based company, which opted for independence rather than be acquired by Google (NSDQ: GOOG… Read more »
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) has introduced a new feature that will be a boost for aspiring videographers looking for the “perfect clip” for a video… Read more »
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) proved Wednesday that it has learned the lessons of the modern revolution in computing by unveiling Windows 8, a next… Read more »
Three months after she resigned from NPR following a series of controversies, paidContent has confirmed Vivian Schiller is signing on with *… Read more »
Bill Keller, The New York Times executive editor who steered the paper for eight years following the Jayson Blair scandal, a severe recessio… Read more »
Newspaper websites’ revenue doubled for the third consecutive quarter, but it still isn’t enough to offset print losses, which were down alm… Read more »
Photo distribution company Getty Images has finalized its acquisition of stock images service Photolibrary as it seeks to expand its interna… Read more »
Surveying the digital M&A landscape a few months ago, WPP Group talked about “some speculative froth” has developing in markets like Brazil,… Read more »
Is Borders saved? The Gores Group, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm that often invests in distressed companies and has hopes to build… Read more »
» @D9: Glossy, nimble Windows 8 not close to launch (but we have a video for you in the meantime) (paidContent)
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Google’s standoff with China over censorship in search in 2010 was a lowpoint in the search engine’s ambitions to expand to the East, but a… Read more »
FilmOn founder Alki David’s copyright lawsuit against CBS (NYSE: CBS) and CNET may be getting cut down to size-a not-very-big size. The judg… Read more »
