Rocket clones Amazon in Indonesia
A new Rocket company has just popped up in Indonesia, offering a suspiciously similar service and look to the world’s most prominent e-tailer Read more »
Video: Slovakia's Paid Content System Plans To Launch In Bigger Markets
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The online news payment system introduced across Slovenian and Slovakian publishers in May and February wants to launch in three more countr… Read more at paidContent »
Slovakia’s paid content platform plans to launch in bigger markets
Piano Media, the online news payment system introduced across Slovenian and Slovakian publishers in May and February wants to launch in three more countries this year. Read more »
So where could DST spend its cool billion dollars?
Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies — a significant backer of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other Silicon Valley darlings — is raising a new $1 billion fund. So where will this tranche of money go? Read more »
Video: Vevo To Launch In Six More Countries, CEO Caraeff Says
The music distributor and service Vevo plans to triple its global footprint in 2012, CEO Rio Caraeff tells paidContent while answering quest… Read more at paidContent »
Cross-platform iCloud rival Fruux plans to keep teams in sync
The contact and calendar sync service hopes to use newly-acquired seed funding to release a collaborative product by the end of the year Read more »
Google To Sell E-Books In France
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will reportedly start selling e-books in France. Read more at paidContent »
Google To Sell E-Books In France
photo: Flickr user fdecomite
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will reportedly start selling e-books in France. Read more at paidContent »
Keep Calm, Carry On And Don’t Charge For News, Johnston’s Highfield Says
Johnston Press CEO Ashley Highfield says the news business shouldn’t panic, as he aims to make a quarter of its revenue from digital, turn i… Read more at paidContent »
BSkyB's Internet TV Service Will Have A New Brand – 'Now TV'
UK pay TV platform leader BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) will take a bold step for its upcoming satellite-less, over-the-internet TV packages by launchin… Read more at paidContent »
With Airbnb expanding in Europe, Wimdu cranks it up
A year ago Airbnb clone Wimdu was getting ready to launch. Now CEO Arne Bleckwenn is presiding over hockey stick growth and international expansion, just as the peer-to-peer travel sector starts to heat up. Read more »
What German startups really think of web privacy rules
As America and Europe try to harmonize their data protection regulations, startups in Berlin explain the benefits of a more level playing field. Read more »
Airbnb acquires UK-based Crashpadder for Olympic flats
Airbnb expects a ton of bookings during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but it wasn’t the only game in town. So the U.S.-based startup is taking out some of the competition, with the acquisition of Crashpadder, which is its biggest competitor in the U.K. market. Read more »
Video: The Future Of The Remote Control In The Age Of Internet TV
Wand, joypad, keyboard, trackpad, voice, mobile, wave, tablet or just plain ‘ol candybar? Which of these is the best way to navigate televis… Read more at paidContent »
EU v Google: Why ask one question when you can ask 69?
French data watchdog CNIL has sent Google a list of 69 questions about its new privacy policy that it must answer within three weeks. But the poser that Europe really wants to find an answer to is a simple one: why? Read more »
Shoptime’s $50m heats up Russia’s e-commerce war
With Russia recently becoming Europe’s biggest internet market, retailers are fighting over who can dominate proceedings. Now flash sales site KupiVIP is pumping $50m into online shopping rival Shoptime to try and crack the nascent market. Read more »
BBC Overcomes Xbox Hurdles To Launch iPlayer With Kinect Control
The BBC has overcome Microsoft’s wish for iPlayer to be bundled with its paid Xbox Live Gold subscriptions.
The catch-up TV service on Tues… Read more at paidContent »
Tripbirds is gorgeous, but can social travel fly?
Swedish startup Tripbirds wants to bring its stylish approach to bear on the social travel market. But with so many services around, and so few obvious winners, is there even a market worth competing for? Read more »
Nook May Be Expanding Internationally, But Barnes & Noble Stores Aren't
At a Nook Developers Workshop in London today, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) said it won’t be opening stores outside the U.S., but did not offe… Read more at paidContent »
All3Media Bypassing Broadcasters, Aggregators On Connected TV Screens
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The connected TV revolution promises new distribution opportunities to content owners.
One, super-indie TV producer All3Media, is taking th… Read more at paidContent »
Chinese Writers' Apple Book Piracy Claims Grow Louder
Twenty-two Chinese authors now plan to sue Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for 50 million yuan ($7.9 million), claiming 95 of their books were published… Read more at paidContent »
PeerIndex Taking On $3 Million To Quantify Influence, Glocer Among Backers
PeerIndex, a service started by a former Reuters (NYSE: TRI) and Economist journalist to measure Twitter users’ influence in topics, is taki… Read more at paidContent »
Jolicloud evolves again with ‘personal cloud’ search
French startup Jolicloud has spent the last few years trying to do ambitious things with cloud-based computers, operating systems and portable desktops — but it’s failed to get much mainstream traction. Can its new service for centralizing your data change all that? Read more »
Microstock's Fotolia Acquires Wilogo Designer' Site
Microstock photo repository Fotolia is expanding within its crowdsourced-creativity segment by acquiring Wilogo, a site through which startu… Read more at paidContent »
Microstock's Fotolia Acquires Wilogo Designer' Site
Microstock photo repository Fotolia is expanding within its crowdsourced-creativity segment by acquiring Wilogo, a site through which startu… Read more at paidContent »
Readiymate hits Kickstarter: ghost of Nabaztag lives on
One of the faces behind the Nabaztag — the pioneering French Internet of Things gizmo — is back, with a new spin on the idea of objects you can program to react to the web. And guess what? He’s running a Kickstarter project to get it made. Read more »
Tweek.tv’s social TV guide comes to the iPad
Tweek’s ‘next-generation TV guide’ unites different islands of online film and TV content with curation provided by Facebook’s social graph. Now it’s launching an iPad app for European users to try and convince more people to pick it up. Read more »
PeerIndex taking on $3m to quantify influence, Glocer among backers
PeerIndex, a service started by a former Reuters and Economist journalist to measure Twitter users’ influence in topics, is taking on its first full round of venture funding. Read more »
No time? Not enough cash? Try these bootstrapping tips
In the summer of 2010 I caught the startup bug. Some close co-workers and I had day jobs that paid reasonably well but weren’t quite as fulfilling after almost a decade in the same business. We were really tired of using bad CRM in our sales […] Read more »
Mike Lang Leaving As Miramax CEO
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Mike Lang has resigned as CEO of Miramax effective immediately, according to the film company. Lang, a former News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) exec i… Read more at paidContent »
Harry Potter E-Books Available For Reserve At NY Public Library Now
The Harry Potter e-books, which will be released for the first time by Pottermore in April (after months of delays), are now appearing in th… Read more at paidContent »
Ian Fleming Estate Reverses Course, Gives Up James Bond E-Book Rights
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Ian Fleming Publications attracted attention when, in 2010, it announced it would publish the James Bond e-books directly instead of selling… Read more at paidContent »
This is why Google is losing the future
“Google is a crack dealer” is a phrase Larry Page never wanted to hear: but as the company’s relationships with developers begin to fracture across the board — from the web to mobile to apps — it is losing its grip on its own destiny. Read more »
Transfer files inside Facebook, thanks to Pipe
A new Facebook app called Pipe will let users transfer large files to their friends, through a peer-to-peer service that makes novel use of Adobe’s AIR technology Read more »
Groupon UK told to clean up after record complaints
British watchdogs have told Groupon that it needs to clean up its act, after a record number of complaints about the way the company advertises its offers and behaves towards users. Read more »
Under Deal, New Bollywood Films Will Go Global Via Subscription VOD
For Hollywood studios, the international market is a potential goldmine. In 2010, for example, the U.S. movie industry made 67 percent of it… Read more at paidContent »
Social TV's Zeebox Aims At U.S. Under Time Warner's Forbes
Second-screen social TV startup Zeebox has poached Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) Media SVP Jason Forbes to head its upcoming competition wit… Read more at paidContent »
More Papers Put Faith In Daily Deals And Tablet Payments As Profit Shrinks
Some low-hanging fruit in newspapers’ shrivelling orchard – Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) says it is investing in a Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) copycat… Read more at paidContent »
Cisco Wants To Buy News Corp's TV Software Maker NDS For $5 Billion
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Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) says it wants to buy News Corp.’s TV set-top box software maker NDS Group for $5 billion to improve its own offering and… Read more at paidContent »
Slovenia's Big Pay 'Wall' Has Made €26,000
photo: Boris Stroujko
Piano Media, the online news payment system which first launched in Slovakia last year, says it made €26,000 ($33961.2/£21616.4) in its f… Read more at paidContent »
