Is Facebook Worth $100 Billion? Investors Bullish, Analyst Cautious
Facebook’s value has risen to $100 billion since its IPO announcement, based on private trades of its stock. But could Mark Zuckerberg justi… Read more at paidContent »
Would you give 20% equity for three days at an incubator?
Germany’s IdeaCamp, a short mentoring program for budding entrepreneurs, is causing concern among Berlin’s startup community. Why? Because it asks attendees to give up a fifth of any business developed as a result of its three-day workshops. Read more »
Second Screen Must Find Its Own Voice To Redefine TV
For all the talk about TV’s “second screen” device experiences, so far they are mostly being used for social interaction around shows. But s… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook hasn’t fixed Friend Finder, says German group
Facebook has been slapped down again by the German authorities over privacy problems with its Friend Finder feature — but while reports suggest the social network has fixed the problem, the consumer group that launched the complaint says it is still not happy. Read more »
NBC Sports Doubles Olympic Digital Ad Revenue With Time Left On The Clock
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NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Sports sold $25 million in digital advertising for the 2008 Beijing Olympics — and has more than doubled the amount for t… Read more at paidContent »
Yahoo's Next Strategy: There's Gold In That There E-Commerce
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New Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Scott Thompson’s upcoming turnaround may centre on mining Yahoo’s green plains for different prospects, including… Read more at paidContent »
Updated: BBC Worldwide Re-Jigs Digital Leadership After Jones Joined Sky
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BBC Worldwide is aiming to more closely unify its various web brands, after BBC.com’s managing director Luke Bradley-Jones left in January. Read more at paidContent »
Asian Video Games Could Sink Social Gaming Patent
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A new patent troll last week fired a shot at Facebook, Zynga and others with a lawsuit that claims rights to in-game payments — the process… Read more at paidContent »
Sky's Internet TV Service Could Offer Pay-As-You-Go Shows
BSkyB’s upcoming over-the-top internet TV service could create a new post-subscription ecosystem for pay-per-view and pay-as-you-go TV shows… Read more at paidContent »
Revenge Of The Replicas – 70 UK Papers Hit iOS In One Go
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Historically slow to innovate their products and their editorial for the digital age, a trio of UK regional news publishers is this week tak… Read more at paidContent »
Staggered Sponsored Tweet Campaigns Ruled OK
A controversial Twitter marketing campaign that used celebrities, not Promoted Tweets, to advertise chocolate did not cross a line, the UK’s… Read more at paidContent »
Axel Springer Fears Public Media Apps Will Blunt Digital Tipping Point
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Online advertising and new content fees have helped Europe’s largest news publisher become the latest to reach a print-to-digital tipping po… Read more at paidContent »
Exclusive: Wrapp CEO goes toe to toe with Samwer bros.
Social gifts startup Wrapp says it is massively speeding up its expansion plans as a direct response to a copycat funded by the notorious German Samwer brothers — and the company’s CEO is warning retailers that doing business with the clone could prove costly. Read more »
Why UK antipiracy laws won’t spark SOPA-like protests
After the Court of Appeal in London told Britain’s two biggest Internet providers they must abide the controversial antipiracy rules brought in by the Digital Economy Act, some experts suggest it could spark a SOPA-style protest. Is it likely? Read more »
In Major Digitization Effort, Scholastic Launches E-Reading App For Kids
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The kids’ e-book market is still nascent, with e-books making up just about three percent of children’s book sales. That could change now th… Read more at paidContent »
UK ISPs Must Write Letters To Pirates, Other Measures Some Way Off
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UK ISPs will have to write warning letters to illegal downloaders identified by rightsholders, after the ongoing protests of two of the larg… Read more at paidContent »
Google Aims To Convince Mobile Game Makers On In-App Payments
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will this week try to convince mobile game developers to adopt its improved in-app payments features, as it vies with Ap… Read more at paidContent »
BonaYou’s social-gifting Mastercard scheme gets funding
BonaYou, which lets people send prepaid Mastercards as gifts to their Facebook friends, has just received cash to help it expand across Europe this year Read more »
UK ISPs Must Write Letters To Pirates, Other Measures Some Way Off
UK ISPs will have to write warning letters to illegal downloaders identified by rightsholders, after the ongoing protests of two of the largest ISPs were apparently finally floored by a court ruling on Tuesday. Read more »
Videoplaza plots ‘device-agnostic’ future for ads
Ad delivery technology firm Videoplaza is unveiling a new built-from-the-ground-up system that it says can help advertisers and media companies make money without having to cope with the headache of managing every new device that comes on the market. Read more »
Chinese VOD Rush Continues – Lionsgate Signs Latest Deal
Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) became the latest Hollywood studio to make an online movie distribution deal in China, announcing Monday that it has r… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook TV Vote Slip-Up Earns Warning For Channel 5
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The UK’s media regulator will consider the reliability of social networks as premium-rate TV interaction mechanisms, after Britain’s first e… Read more at paidContent »
France Launches Google-style Plan To Scan And Sell Out-of-Print Books
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A year after the collapse of the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Books Settlement in a New York court, the government of France has passed a law to digi… Read more at paidContent »
The Economist Hands All Digital Strategy To Its Tablet Chief
The Economist is handing control of its website to its tablet magazines controller, in a bid to unite the previously competitive units. Read more at paidContent »
Pearson Cooks Up More Content Giveaways Through API Payments
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Pearson (NYSE: PSO) plans to let developers re-use more of its varied content, after its latest effort repackaged 2,500 recipes from its coo… Read more at paidContent »
Just how fashion crazy is Index Ventures?
The decision to back a new $9 million round of fundraising for LA-based fashion website Nasty Gal shows exactly how deep Index Ventures — one of Europe’s most successful VCs — is invested in the market, and how big they’re betting online fashion will be. Read more »
A plea to startups: kill your nonsensical stats
In the never-ending quest to provide easy sound bites and press-friendly stats, startups often flirt with numbers that just don’t make sense. Case in point: London-based kids’ website Moshi Monsters, which has a very strange piece of numerical wizardry. Read more »
512 Gbps! Deutsche Telekom touts speed breakthrough
Deutsche Telekom’s T-Labs researchers have successfully demonstrated a 512 Gbps transmission over a single fiber channel — more than quadrupling the maximum bit-rate possible on today’s backbone networks. Read more »
Pew: Papers' Biggest Revenue Threat Is Inertia; Second Biggest Is Action
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Before we get into the results of the latest detailed look at how U.S. newspapers are faring on the digital revenue front, let’s get one ser… Read more at paidContent »
Hackers Allegedly Steal Sony's Archive Of 50k+ Michael Jackson Tracks
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) is facing yet another major security breach. Hackers reportedly illegally downloaded over Michael Jackson’s entire back cat… Read more at paidContent »
Five Companies Steer All News
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Prior to the digital age, there were three companies that, acting like undersea currents, steered all news. Namely, I am referring to the bi… Read more at paidContent »
How startups can hack the PR machine
With big data and a little bit of knowhow, it could be possible for any smart startup get a truckload of national press. Read more »
What Is The Future Of Books?
In three words, here’s what nine writers and thinkers said… Read more at paidContent »
How To Do Free WiFi Right
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Notable about all the places that offer free WiFi in London is a requirement to accept the terms and conditions – and, in almost all cases… Read more at paidContent »
The Samwer brothers suddenly lose their shyness
It’s become almost cliche to say that the Samwer brothers, Europe’s most successful — and notorious — internet entrepreneurs are publicity shy. A series of exits to the likes of eBay and Groupon have made them millions, but they have tended to keep away from the […] Read more »
Ezeep offers new portal to printing in the cloud
We lift the lid on stealth startup Ezeep, which wants to reinvent printing for the mobile generation by using a cloud portal that gives businesses a simple and secure way to let guests carry out one of life’s mundane but necessary tasks Read more »
Startup Factories: a guide to Europe’s accelerators
The rising number of startup accelerators across Europe can leave budding entrepreneurs bamboozled. Step forward UK investment group NESTA, which is compiling a detailed list of the continent’s programs. Read more »
Industry Moves: A&N Mobile, Future TechRadar, Johnston Press, Accel
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business… Read more at paidContent »
Spotify reportedly launching in Germany by mid-March
Spotify is launching in Germany within the next two weeks, according to German media reports. The streaming service already has an office in Berlin. It also recently hired a PR rep for the country, which in the past has been a difficult market for music services. Read more »
Mail.ru Yanks Domestic Ads From ICQ
Mail.ru’s DST may have spent $187.5 million taking ICQ off AOL’s hands, but it’s in no rush to make a direct return on the veteran IM servic… Read more at paidContent »
