The Morning Lowdown 05-03-11
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» Second Sony (NYSE: SNE) Videogame-Service Is Hacked (WSJ)
» US digital sales up 2% in volume and 12% in value but s… Read more »
TweetDeck’s Sale To Twitter Expected Soon
Oft-rumoured lately, the reported sale of the TweetDeck Twitter client to Twitter itself now looks more likely, with both TechCrunch and Reu… Read more »
Graphic: The Osama Bin Laden Effect In Mobile
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You’ve seen the stories about how Twitter was used to break the news on Osama bin Laden’s death, and the huge effect the event has had on In… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-02-11
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» How the Bin Laden announcement leaked out on Twitter. (Media Decoder)
Dish, Echostar (NSDQ: SATS) Settle Long-Running Patent D… Read more »
The Royal Wedding: Big Hats, And Bigger Viewing Figures
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The numbers are coming in on just how many people tuned in to watch the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton. While some are highly s… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-29-11
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» A Right Royal Opportunity: The Big Wedding In Digital Media (paidContent)
» The iPhone Location-Tracking Issue Won’… Read more »
How The Wedding Was Watched: Social Media Does A Royal Flyover
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If you, like millions of others, witnessed any of today’s Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on the TV, Internet or in… Read more »
A Right Royal Opportunity: The Big Wedding In Digital Media
The marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton is the latest big global event which media companies are falling over themselves to cover… Read more »
Visa Invests In Mobile Payment Startup Square
Visa has invested an undisclosed sum in mobile payments firm Square in what the companies are describing as a “strategic investment.” Square… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-26-11: Amazon/Apple; WP7 Checkin; Twitter; Foursquare
Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) looks to get Apple’s “Appstore” suit thrown out; Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 04-22-11: Google Lawsuits; Twitter Mobile; Apple Privacy
Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: progress on the Google/Oracle lawsuit while Google (NSDQ: GOOG) gets a setback in a Linux-r… Read more »
Infographic: App Usage Soaring, Apple Disproportionately Huge
There were 5 billion apps downloaded in 2010, with that number predicted to balloon to 21 billion by 2013. The infographic below details how… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-20-11: Groupon; News.me; Digital Chocolate/Appitalism
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Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Check-in service Whrrl to shut down as part of Groupon’s acquisition of Pelago; News.me… Read more »
TweetDeck’s Latest Suitor: Twitter
TweetDeck, which only two months ago was close to being acquired by Bill Gross’ UberMedia, is now in “advanced talks” to sell itself to Twit… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-14-11: Apple Cloud, iOS; Moto/Huawei; Millennial Ads
Our look at some of the stories today in mobile: the latest Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iOS question marks on its cloud strategy and iOS devices; the… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-11-11
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» Bloomberg BusinessWeek launches iPad app with monthly subscription plan. (paidContent)
» At Gannett (NYSE: GCI), fu… Read more »
The Harsh Reality About User-Gen Content: There Isn’t Enough To Go Around
Kevin Smokler is the co-founder/CEO of BookTour.com, an Amazon-funded startup which offers affordable software tools for authors. He is base… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-07-11
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» Cost of NYT paywall estimated at $25 million (paidContent)
» Facebook About To Launch Its Groupon Clone? (Business… Read more »
@ AADigital: Twitter’s Bain: Twitter Beats Facebook In Driving Purchases
Six months after Adam Bain was hired by Twitter from News Corp.’s Fox Audience Network, the microblog’s president of revenue offered the aud… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-06-11
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» Satellite television company Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) Corp won an auction for video rental chain Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) Inc o… Read more »
Twitter Co-Founder Dorsey Returns To Head Product Development
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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who stepped down as CEO of the company two and a half years ago, is returning to a day-to-day role at the co… Read more »
The NYT Pay Plan’s Most Dangerous Foe: Perception
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By now, we were supposed to have clarity about how The New York Times will use a meter to create a digital subscription revenue stream. Afte… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-25-11
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» Condé Nast has brought back consultancy McKinsey & Co. Though this time it’s not to lay off waves of staffers, but to assess g… Read more »
@ CTIA: Forget Angry Birds, Mobile Is Tool For Social Change And Hope
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After a week of obsessing about spectrum and tablets, the wireless industry took time Thursday to consider the far-ranging effects of mobile… Read more »
Color Me Intrigued: Color App Launches With $41 Million In Its Pocket
Hard to say yet whether this is just another spark from the over-rubbed balloon that is today’s social media startup world, or an actual spa… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-23-11
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» AOL (NYSE: AOL) Folds 30 Brands, Including Politics Daily (Mixed Media)
» The proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger could h… Read more »
Hedge Fund Is Betting That Twitter Is Wall Street’s Crystal Ball
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Twitter may not yet be in the frame for its own stock market debut, but some investors think they can make millions by using Twitter to pred… Read more »
Can Twitter Predict The Future Of Stocks?
Will Duff Gordon is editor of DataExplorers, an analyst firm which digs in to stock market trends.
Stock markets are skittish and here is w… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-22-11
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» That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes for The New York Times’ paywall to come tumbling down (Nieman Lab) [Check ou… Read more »
Updated: Facebook Buys Feature Phone Developer Snaptu For Up To $70 Million
Facebook has made one of its biggest moves yet in its strategy to dominate mobile services: the social network has acquired Snaptu, a develo… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-18-11
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» The NYT paywall arrives
» The Newsonomics of The New York Times’ pay fence
» Selling Video Scoops Onlin… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-17-11
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» Viral Videos Catch On That Only Hint at a Sponsor’s Purpose
» Tablets For All! (And Especially Apple)
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The Morning Lowdown 03-16-11
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» After Ad Changes, Yahoo Media Unit Gets a Management Shakeup
» On the Media: Patch.com’s Newark plan smells of conf… Read more »
SI Expands App Horizon With ‘Front Row’ Photos; Flipboard, iPhone, Android
Sports Illustrated’s newest digital product launches today — without a standalone iPad app. Based on a framework developed for use across… Read more »
In Wikileaks-Related Case, Court Says Twitter-Account Info Isn’t Private
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Last year, as part of a broad web offensive against Wikileaks, U.S. government lawyers filed court papers seeking information about several… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-14-11
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» Engadget’s Top Editors Topolsky and Patel Exit From AOL’s Giant Tech Site
» Postscript: Aggregation Aggro
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Twitter Says Third-Party Developers Shouldn’t Build Twitter Clients
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Twitter has told third-party developers straight-up what it has been implying for months: Don’t build Twitter clients. In a message on the c… Read more »
LinkedIn Expands Into Social News
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LinkedIn is moving into social news, with a new site called LinkedIn Today that aggregates stories that people in a specific industry are sh… Read more »
Real-Time Search Lives On: Topsy Raises $15 Million
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Search startup Tospy has raised $15 million in a new round of funding. The company, which ranks results based on what’s being shared by “inf… Read more »
Daily Mobile Lowdown: 7digital PlayBook; Nokia On Symbian; Foursquare; Zite
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Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile. Today, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) preloads 7digital on the PlayBook; Nokia’s still happy with Sym… Read more »
