Zeebox Searches For Money In TV’s Social Second Screen
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After quickly gaining a warm reception and a rapid post-launch investment from BSkyB, the social TV app startup co-founded by ex BBC iPlayer… Read more »
Report: Apple’s iPad 3 Set To Arrive In Early March
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It’s been almost a year since former Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPad 2, and according to a new report, the company pla… Read more »
Spotify, iTunes Expansion Helping WMG Hit Digital Music Milestones
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Recent roll-outs to new countries of download and streaming services helped Michael Bublé’s Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) offset physical… Read more »
Virgin Media Slow To Build A Revolution On TiVo
Virgin Media thinks its new-ish TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set top box is a game changer. But, whilst the new box – with a big PVR drive, capability… Read more »
How Accenture Used A Mobile App To Get On The BBC
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When the consulting firm’s logo appeared routinely in Six Nations rugby broadcast graphics this weekend, James Cridland was amongst the view… Read more »
News Corp: Earnings Surge But Scandal Bill Hits $104 Million
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News Corp surpassed analyst expectations in quarterly earnings announced today, but the numbers reflected two wildly divergent trends. Read more »
GigaOM And paidContent Join Forces
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Yes, it’s true: We are joining GigaOM. And the combined group will be a powerhouse, with more than 20 writers and editors, a strong pr… Read more »
Oh Baby, Lovefilm’s CEO is Bouncing To Mothercare
After building up Lovefilm and selling it to Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), CEO Simon Calver is leaving for an unusual new challenge in retail, as CEO… Read more »
Never Mind The Numbers: Mail Online And New York Times Are Chalk And Cheese
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Mail Online may have overtaken The New York Times’ website for global audience, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) – but, in reality, the tw… Read more »
Facebook’s Mobile Plan: Carrier Billing, Analytics For Apps Via Bango Deal?
Last week, we highlighted how Facebook is already using mobile devices for commercial services — enabling people to buy Facebook Credits an… Read more »
Virgin Media Profits As On-Demand Viewing Grows
UK pay-TV and broadband telco Virgin Media clocked its first annual profit in 2011, as its TV set top boxes continued to be an engine of vid… Read more »
Nokia’s Mexico, Hungary, Finland Phone Assembly Goes To Asia; 4,000 Jobs Go
Today brings news of yet another round of capital-intensive cost-cutting for the challenged mobile phone maker Nokia: the company today anno… Read more »
Mail Online Income Quickening After U.S. Expansion
Mail Online’s annual revenue growth rate has accelerated to a high of 70 percent following its big push in to the U.S., its publisher DMGT r… Read more »
Milestone: Digital Gains Offset Magazines’ Decline At Future
Magazine and web publisher Future has hit a key milestone in the media industry’s great transition – UK digital revenues made up for print r… Read more »
Exclusive Video: Mirror.co.uk Relaunches Amid Group Cuts
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As it lays off another 75 staff and faces questions over CEO Sly Bailey’s salary, Trinity Mirror’s Mirror Group Newspapers is relaunching it… Read more »
Industry Moves: Telegraph, We R Interactive, Briefing Media, Turner
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business… Read more »
Apple Promises A Crack Down On Those Who Manipulate App Store Rankings
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It took one allegation of download bots on a message board, very little in the way of actual confessions, and a whole lot of murmurs, but Ap… Read more »
RIM: App World Is Now At 60,000 Apps; 13 Percent Of Publishers Earn $100k+
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Research In Motion is undeniably on the ropes at the moment, with the mobile handset maker weathering a decline in global market share, dela… Read more »
Uneven E-book Growth Sees Lagardere Book Sales Slim
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Global holiday-quarter books revenue dipped by 3.8 percent at Hachette operator Lagardere Publishing despite booming western e-book sales, t… Read more »
Populis Blog Network Buying In To Latin America
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) rival Populis is continuing to build up its non-English blog network and publishing business through acquisition, t… Read more »
Kindle Touch Now Shipping Abroad–But Not To UK/Germany/Spain/France/Italy
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The Kindle Touch WiFi is now available in some additional countries, but not the biggest international e-reading markets that already have t… Read more »
Chinese Ad Money Moving Quickly From Print To Web
Marketers in China are fast moving advertising spend from offline to internet, one of the country’s largest online operators, Sohu (NSDQ: SO… Read more »
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Only 8.5% Of Internet Usage Comes Via Mobile
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When you read the headlines of how ubiquitous smartphones are becoming, and how in some countries the mobile device is overtaking the PC in… Read more »
HTC Needs A (New) Hero: Q4 Earnings, Forecasts Point to Lean Times
Another bad-news day for HTC, which is sorely in need of one or two killer, new products to turn around its fortunes in the ever-competitive… Read more »
Slovakia’s News Pay Wall Gets A Little Higher
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The content payment system which signed up many of Slovakia’s leading publishers in 2011 is now adding two more. Read more »
Facebook Mobile Ads Developing: Sponsored Stories Coming ‘Within Weeks’
It’s not digital advertising in the sense of display ads and search results, but it looks like we are getting a bit more color on what it is… Read more »
Academics Revolt Against Elsevier’s Journal Pricing
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Academics are staging a mini-revolt against science and medical journal publisher Elsevier’s terms, and analysts fear the movement could hit… Read more »
Briefing Media Takes Farmers And Doctors Off UBM’s Hands
B2B publisher UBM is off-loading its UK magazines for farmers and doctors, as it looks to further exit the direct content publishing busines… Read more »
Ebook Sales Are Being Driven By Downmarket Genre Fiction
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Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that plastic case, other th… Read more »
Update: Facebook Has A Mobile Card Up Its Sleeve In Addition To Advertising
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Much has been made of the mobile risks that Facebook laid out in its S-1 IPO filing earlier this week. Essentially, it’s seeing/pushing mass… Read more »
Google Fined In France For Offering Free Maps
The French are kicking Google (NSDQ: GOOG) again. This time, in a strange ruling, Paris’ commercial court has found the company is anti-comp… Read more »
Europe Wants Google To Freeze Its New Privacy Policy
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An influential European privacy body has urged Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to “pause” its new privacy policy due to be implemented in March. The Art… Read more »
BT Overhauling Vision As It Maintains Summer YouView Launch Forecast
BT (NYSE: BT) signed up 39,000 customers to its Vision hybrid Freeview/IPTV service between September and December, taking it to 679,000.
N… Read more »
Apple v. Moto In Germany: One iPhone Injunction Ordered, Another One Lifted
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the last 24 hours has been dealt not one but two blows in court cases involving Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and patents in Ge… Read more »
A Second News International Paper Faces Questions In Hacking Investigation
The hacking investigation that led to the shutdown of News of the World has spread to another News International newspaper, The Times, poli… Read more »
Bloomberg’s Lex Fenwick Named Dow Jones CEO
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News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) has appointed Lex Fenwick as the CEO of Dow Jones & Company, filling the position left open following Les Hinton’s re… Read more »
Axel Springer Takes A Slice Of Airbnb In Exposure Deal
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Apartment-letting site Airbnb will get investment, endorsement and distribution from the publisher of Europe’s most-read newspaper. Read more »
Amazon Launches Junglee.com Marketplace In India
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Hoping to tap into India’s rapidly growing e-commerce market, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching Junglee.com in the country today. Read more »
Facebook May Not Be Into Mobile Ads Yet, But Plenty Of Others Are
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Mobile advertising may not yet be something that Facebook has explored in its strategy to monetize its massive user base, and given the grow… Read more »
