Netflix’s Chances After Rate Hike Remain Stronger Than Ever
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All through the past decade, observers in industry and on Wall Street have had a handful of reasons to discount Netflix’s efforts. First, th… Read more »
Sina Flaunts Its Microblog Growth In Times Square
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Sina’s Weibo microblogging service isn’t even available in English yet – but that hasn’t stopped it reaching 200 million users in two years,… Read more »
One Crazy TouchPad Weekend, Measured In Tweets
About the only thing more remarkable than the flurry of buyers scrambling to get their hands on the last remaining TouchPads over the weeken… Read more »
Fox Mobile Vet Stalbow Joins Rovio As GM, North America
At our paidContent Mobile conference in May, Andrew Stalbow and Peter Vesterbacka paired up to tout the value of a major studio partnering w… Read more »
Avatars Become Authors In Stardoll, The Book
Members of the teen girl dress-up website Stardoll will find their online input going to create a range of books for a second time. Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-22-11
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» Newspapers Edit Down Outlooks (WSJ)
» Murdoch told me to have someone followed: Buttrose (ABC News)
» T… Read more »
Miramax Launching Multi-Title Facebook Movie App In U.S., UK & Turkey
Watching movies on Facebook isn’t new — Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), Paramount and Universal each are trying variations on the theme. But toda… Read more »
Sina: Profit Slumps 60 Percent On Weibo Microblogging Investment
Sina (NSDQ: SINA) may have taken the crown in the Twitter-style, homegrown microblogging race in China, but its leadership has come at a pri… Read more »
Android Soars, But iPhone Users Still Seem To Like Video Better
Android may be the biggest mobile operating system, but do iPhone owners enjoy video more often? Statistics collected by video encoding comp… Read more »
Pot Calling Kettle Black? Mail Rumbled Over Unauthorised Photo Use
An ironic footnote to the story from yesterday that involved the Daily Mail shutting down a proxy site for making unauthorized caches of its… Read more »
Daily Mail Proxy Site IstyOsty Goes Down After Cease And Desist Order
The Daily Mail is more than happy for people to share links to articles from its site — it’s an important part of it maintaining its positi… Read more »
LinkedIn Upgrades Mobile Apps And Web Site With Simpler Design
Now that it’s a public company, it’s probably time to take that mobile thing seriously. LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) has rolled out fresh new mobil… Read more »
Pulse Beats The Drum For International Growth, Signs Up Al Jazeera
Pulse, the news-reading app for iOS and Android devices, has signed up its first international partner, and it’s a biggie: Al Jazeera will b… Read more »
ESPN Scores Aussie Sport Site Footytips For Social Push
A small but significant acquisition for Disney-owned sports network ESPN: it is buying Australian company ExtraCorp Pty. Ltd, owners of the… Read more »
Chinese Social Site RenRen Swings To Small Profit On Nasdaq
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In its second disclosure to the Nasdaq since floating there in May, Chinese social network RenRen says that it swung to a Q2 net income of $… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-12-11
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» If the current events of the world are scary for all of us, they’re particularly horrifying for news publishers. (Ken Doctor/Ni… Read more »
Social Media’s Mob: Disconnected From Riots’ Reality?
The moment David Cameron uttered those troublesome words, “social media”, during Thursday’s emergency Commons debate on England’s riots, it… Read more »
Red Herring Of The Day: Social Media Are Like A Train Station
The starring role of social media services like Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger in the recent riots in England has been much-debated: today… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-11-11
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» AOL (NYSE: AOL) Buying Back $250 Million Of Its Stock (paidContent)
» News Corp Claims No Hacking Financial Impact,… Read more »
UK Government Wants Police Empowered To ‘Close’ Twitter, BBM
The UK’s Home Secretary will meet media and social media companies regarding blocking access during emergency situations, in the wake of Eng… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-11-11: Riots/BBM; Android/Adobe; Sprint; OpenFeint
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– BlackBerry/London riots: As Prime Minister David Cameron considers whether social med… Read more »
Tencent Sees China Internet Growth Slowing
The operator of China’s biggest instant messaging service says its growth has slowed due to “increased scale and reduced growth rate in the… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-10-11
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» Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Shakes Off Apple’s Shackles With Its Kindle Cloud Reader App (paidContent)
» Angry Birds Spread… Read more »
Baidu Shuts Its Microblog Service, Handing Victory To Sina
Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) is closing its microblogging platform, in what is a victory for Chinese portal Sina (NSDQ: SINA) in the Twitter rival sta… Read more »
Demand Media Buys IndieClick, RSS Graffiti; Expands Google Ad Deal
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In addition to releasing its Q2 earnings today, content aggregator Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) has made two acquisitions: it’s bought a long-ru… Read more »
Facebook Unveils Distinct Mobile Messaging App For Group Chats, Texts
As it has rolled out a series of improvements to its messaging features, Facebook has been trying to encourage its users to think of its net… Read more »
What I Learned Mapping The London Riots
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“Wouldn’t it be interesting”, I thought, “if I did a little map of where the riots are?” So, at 6 o’clock or so last night, I started to put… Read more »
Cablevision Loses More Video Subs; Adds iPhone, Touch Apps
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Like its MSO rivals, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) saw more subscribers disappear, though it thinks it has a plan to retain the customers don’t le… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-09-11
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» Why the Web’s New TV-Style Ratings Might Not Mean More Ad Buys (AdAge)
» The Onion’s CTO: Our paywall experiment i… Read more »
As Riots Spread In London, RIM Will ‘Assist Police’. PS3 Also Playing Role?
As the sun goes down on London, the riots that started in the north of the city a few days ago in response to a shooting have spread to a nu… Read more »
The Role Of BlackBerry In London’s Street Riots
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In October 1985, on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham where the death of Cynthia Jarrett sparked riots that culminated in the brutal m… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-08-11
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» News Corp.’s Soft Power in the U.S. (David Carr/NYT)
» 20% of the UK online population use iPlayer. Here’s how the… Read more »
NYTimes.com Opens Research Project Beta620 To The Public
The NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) is rolling out a “new features” site beta620 to the public in a bid to solicit more involvement on the site’s fe… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-05-11
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» Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Fires Back At Microsoft’s Patent Offer: ‘We Didn’t Fall For It’ (paidContent)
» With Negativity… Read more »
Theory: Only Ultra-Competitive Americans Care About ‘Check-Ins’
From location, to TV viewing, to beer drinking, a growing number of social connectivity services are trying to drive real-world behaviours b… Read more »
Klout Adds Foursquare And YouTube; Coming Soon: Google+ And Facebook Pages
Klout score is not yet an easily recognizable metric compared to, say, one’s number of Twitter followers or Facebook friends. But the compan… Read more »
Meltwater Buys Ice Rocket For Pro Social Monitoring
The news monitoring service Meltwater is branching out in to social media monitoring, after its core business of crawling professional news… Read more »
Will Businesses Really Use Foursquare’s New Self-Serve Check-In?
I will warn you on this one. I have tried to be a location-based services user but I lose interest real quickly. My erratic check-ins at res… Read more »
Verizon Ordered To Pay $115M In Damages After Patent Loss
Certain smartphone companies may want to take note of this one: using patents aggressively can produce pushback from unexpected places. Veri… Read more »
Comcast’s Burke: NBCU Content ‘More Valuable’ Thanks To Retrans, Online
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Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has had some success with NBCUniversal programming since it took control early this year — taking credit for greenlig… Read more »
