The man helping Yahoo’s new CEO plot the company’s rejuvenation has told his staff he is leaving his role as SVP of the Europe, the Middle E… Read more at paidContent »
After threatening to sue each other for copyright infringement in December, the largest players in China’s fast-growing online video market… Read more at paidContent »
Europe’s biggest plastic-box video game retailer Game Group has warned its shares may become worthless, as it struggles to avoid the same fa… Read more at paidContent »
Last week, I lambasted Virgin Media for taking two years to launch its iPad TV guide for its TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set-top box.
I have since le… Read more at paidContent »
She may not be convinced of the name, but “cloud” computing has risen close to top of European Commission vice-president Neelie Kroes’ 2012… Read more at paidContent »
Germany’s government wants search engines and news aggregators to pay news publishers for using pieces of their material. Read more at paidContent »
Veteran music access vendor Omnifone may not own a stake in Rara, the fledgling Spotify rival it span off last year – but CEO Jeff Hughes te… Read more at paidContent »
The BBC is developing a radical scheme under which UK viewers would pay to download new and old BBC TV shows from a service it hopes will co… Read more at paidContent »
Talk about “agile development”! Virgin Media has finally put a September 2012 launch date on the long-promised iPad controller for its TiVo… Read more at paidContent »
Internet TV box service Roku is prepared to take on a big and high-risk new investment to support its international ambitions. Read more at paidContent »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 (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 »
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 »
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 (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 »
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 »
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 »
Having already launched a Chinese-language app recently, iPad social magazine app Flipboard has used its latest upgrade to support the Frenc… Read more at paidContent »
Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) Blizzard says it will launch further direct consumer premium digital channels after the success of its Call Of Duty… Read more at paidContent »
Record labels’ equity in Spotify has allowed the music subscription service to start and to flourish. But, if the company decides to file fo… Read more at paidContent »
Does James Murdoch’s UK exit bode ill or well for News Corp.’s UK newspapers? That’s the question many are asking. Read more at paidContent »
James Murdoch has been removed as executive chairman of News Corp.’s UK newspaper wing News International, as the phone hacking and media et… Read more at paidContent »
Music’s new wave of unlimited-access services is now supported by most labels, who dearly hope that new subscription payments will make up f… Read more at paidContent »
The European Commission reckons it could unlock €110 ($147.99/£93.27) billion a year in new digital business by harmonising rules for the… Read more at paidContent »
UK commercial TV leader ITV (LSE: ITV) will launch a bold new news website this spring, will start trialling its delayed “Pay Player” this M… Read more at paidContent »
Fashion blogging has grown from a few wannabe writers looking from outside in at the industry to an influential new media category that desi… Read more at paidContent »
UBM CEO David Levin tells paidContent the business publisher is done with off-loading content businesses for now and is about to see online… Read more at paidContent »
Financial Times CEO John Ridding rejects dinner-party chatter that the publisher may be sold to Bloomberg or Thomson Reuters.
Instead, he i… Read more at paidContent »
The debate over whether artists get enough money from streaming played out in public last week when EMI and Spotify executives failed to win… Read more at paidContent »
With Facebook’s advertising fortunes taking off, one cog in that machine has become an M&A target. Social marketing platform operator Buddy… Read more at paidContent »
Pearson’s digital revenue grew 18 percent to £2 ($3.17) billion (a third of the total) through 2011, as its book publisher Penguin’s e-book… Read more at paidContent »
The Financial Times is still signing up new digital subscribers, but at the slowest rate since iPad lit up its business model in mid-2010. Read more at paidContent »
