Radio On Digital Economy Bill, Twitter’s Promoted Tweets
I chatted with BBC Radio 5live and American Public Media’s Future Tense show this week about Twitter’s new ad model and the Digital Economy… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Best Buy, MySpace/PRS, Election, BBC Emmy, MSN/Paramount
– MySpace/PRS: The royalty collector is aiming to drive up its membership by reaching out to the social net’s musician members, offering ma… Read more »
Sky Strikes Another IPTV Deal – Canvas Box Maker Humax
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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has won carriage for its Sky Player on yet another hybrid TV box, as the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) begins investigating… Read more »
Paperboy Mobile App Bridges Print-Online Newspaper Gap
For those of you who, when reading ye olde printed newspaper, have felt the urge to click an in-page link or email an article to a friend -… Read more »
German Tablet WePad On Unlikely Road To iPad Challenge
If you thought “iPad” was a silly name, wait ’til you hear about “WePad”…
We’ve refrained from covering the mooted new entrant to the nas… Read more »
Gordon Brown Doubts Readers Will Pay For ‘Basic News’
By Mark Sweney: Gordon Brown has come out against plans to erect paywalls, arguing that internet users will not abide being told to pay for… Read more »
Alcatel-Lucent Joining Mobile Ad Rush As Permission Marketing Middleman
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Alcatel-Lucent is trying to carve itself a place in the fast-growing mobile advertising space, launching a service with which agencies can b… Read more »
Digital Economy Act: Ofcom Gives Four Months For P2P Consultation
Parliament may have put the Digital Economy Bill to bed as it entered election mode, but now the media regulator is left to implement its P2… Read more »
Print Can Still Do Innovative Ads, Especially For Paper
Now here’s an ad format the web will never replicate.
IPC Media is giving Kleenex a pop-up box of tissues inside May issues of Marie Claire… Read more »
Vodafone Will Bear Microsoft’s Kin In UK, Italy, Germany, Spain
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The response to Microsoft’s social-centric phone new Kin phone line-up may have been broadly underwhelming, but Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) says it… Read more »
Twitter Finally Unveils Its Ad Model
After months and months and months of speculation, Twitter is finally unveiling its long-awaited business model. Starting tomorrow, the comp… Read more »
Surprise, Surprise: Apple Approves Opera Mini Browser for iPhone
What has the spring brought with it? A more open Apple? (NSDQ: AAPL) Yeah, sure, keep dreaming. But, at least one long awaited wish is comin… Read more »
App Round-Up: Sky News, Deutsche Telekom, Irish Times, Picasso
– Sky News: An example of rewriting for seasonality – the news channel has updated its free iPhone app with an Election section, including… Read more »
Targeted Advertising: WSJ Courting FT Readers For iPad Switch
Now this is what I call targeted advertising. The Wall Street Journal is so keen on its new iPad app, it’s advertising it to online readers… Read more »
Last.fm Silences On-Demand Music, Depends On Third Parties
Last.fm is retiring a feature whereby users could play any full song they like, and is instead outsourcing the feature to a range of third-p… Read more »
Tencent Invests $300 Million In Facebook And Zynga Backer Digital Sky Technologies
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Digital Sky Technologies, which has been busily investing hundreds of millions in American social media firms in recent months, now has a ne… Read more »
European Telcos Want Search Engines To Pay For Net Use
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When O2 parent Telefonica’s CEO suggested, during a Bilbao press conference back in February, that maybe search engines should pay him for u… Read more »
Google Buying Visual Art Seacher Plink; Its First UK Acquisition
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Google’s mobile picture-based search service Google Goggles is about to get more cultured. Google’s buying Oxford, England-based Plink, an A… Read more »
Newspapers Grumble About State-Backed Online News In Ireland, Too
Commercial news publishers’ chagrin at publicly-funded news websites is not limited to the BBC. In Ireland, the top 18 newspapers are due to… Read more »
The Digital Planets Will Align for News Business
Let’s pause and look at trends that have emerged over the last few years: How will they affect the digital newsmedia industry? First,… Read more »
FT Deal With Foursquare Lets Users ‘Unlock’ Paywall
The Financial Times’ metered online paywall system is considered one of the more successful models, but a new partnership with location-base… Read more »
Nokia’s Location Spree Continues: Buying MetaCarta
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Nokia’s geolocation buying spree goes on. This time, it’s buying Cambridge, Mass.-based MetaCarta, whose technology interrogates documents f… Read more »
Reader’s Digest UK ‘Sold To Jon Moulton’
By Mark Sweney: Reader’s Digest UK has been bought by Better Capital, the private equity company backed by Jon Moulton, the Financial Times… Read more »
Digital Economy Bill: TalkTalk Will Ignore Orders
The bill may have received Royal Assent, but the most vocal ISP opponent of its piracy measures says it’s not a done deal just yet…
“Talk… Read more »
iAd Solves Some Problems With Mobile Ads — But Not The Most Important Ones
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The iPhone has already been credited with helping to lift the mobile ad space out of obscurity, and Apple’s new ad platform will further cap… Read more »
Steve Jobs: Here’s How Apple Will Beat Google At Mobile Advertising
photo: Tricia Duryee
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), still riding high from a successful iPad launch, added another feather in to its cap today. By far the biggest consumer-… Read more »
The Highlights Of iPhone OS 4.0: Multi-tasking, A New Mobile Ad Network, More
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is announcing today the latest version of the iPhone operating system, which will come with at least 100 new features, li… Read more »
The Latest iPad And iPhone Stats
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We are all here in Cupertino today to hear about the next stage of the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone, but Steve Jobs treated us with a few stati… Read more »
Ex Yahoo Exec Coppel Joins Virgin’s Cleantech Investment Arm
Toby Coppel, who left as Yahoo’s Europe and Canada MD in November 2008, is joining Richard Branson-backed private equity eco firm Virgin Gre… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Vodafone Apps, Nokia Music, African Investment
– Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) 360 apps: The carrier says developers can now publish apps to its Vodafone 360 Shop shop through the JIL.org develop… Read more »
Pearson Hopes Silicon Roundabout’s TechHub Will Rub Off On It
photo: Tom T
Some folk used to say the great thing about Europe’s digital startup scene was, unlike Silicon Valley, it’s distributed. So the growing conc… Read more »
UK Govt. Gives Part Of £200 Million To DFJ Esprit For Tech Investment
The UK Future Technologies Fund – a venture “fund of funds” financed equally by the UK government and the European Investment Fund – says it… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Doctor Who Games, EastEnders E20, FanDuel In Philly
– Doctor Who games: The BBC commissioned Sumo Digital to make four free downloadable games to accompany Doctor Who as “interactive episodes… Read more »
Sofia’s Diary Maker Campbell Ryan Takes Investment
Multiplatform TV producer Campbell Ryan says it’s taking “a significant investment” from Portugal-based larger prodco beActive Entertainment… Read more »
PR Database Gorkana Sells To Private Equity
Gorkana – the public relations database of 130,000 journalists – is being bought by private equity house Exponent, which will place it along… Read more »
Digital Economy Bill: Passed 189-47 With Piracy Measure Intact
Irate MPs passed a cut-down, sick-looking version of the Digital Economy Bill Wednesday night by 189 votes to 47 – lacking several key propo… Read more »
Digital Economy Bill: Quick Guide To All 45 Measures
The controversial Digital Economy Bill may have had a few parts stripped out, it may even be a damp squib. But the remaining, 76-page bill i… Read more »
The iPad Watch: 04.07.2010
» The iPad won’t save the publishing industry from itself. [Harvard Business Review]
» Experts are unsure whether the… Read more »
Five Things We’ll Be Watching For At Apple’s iPhone Announcement
Tomorrow is a big day for the wireless industry, as one of the most influential innovators in the mobile world announces the latest edition… Read more »
iPad’s Early App Economy: Games Dominate, News Makes In-Roads
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It’s four days after launch, so how is the nascent iPad app environment shaping up? The numbers are in. There are now 2,385 iPad-only apps,… Read more »
