Condé Nast Aims To Unify Tablet And Mobile Magazine Production
Wired and GQ magazine publisher Condé Nast is amongst those now seeking a cost-effective cross-platform tablet production workflow for the… Read more at paidContent »
How ResearchGate plans to turn science upside down
The tools that have revolutionized the way we live are only just starting to have an impact on scientific research. Now ResearchGate — the “Facebook of science” — is hoping to speed up the change, with a new round of investment from Founders Fund to make it work. Read more »
Wahwah.fm offers a social take on pirate radio
Berlin is famous for its thriving music scene — and now local startup wahwah.fm is taking on the idea of pirate radio with a social, mobile app that lets you broadcast to your friends. Read more »
Online Ad Spend Has Overtaken Print In Russia
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Online ad spend in Russia grew 56 percent through 2011, surpassing print media to become the country’s second-largest advertising medium. Read more at paidContent »
Google Gets More Live Stock Data To Compete With Rivals
Google (NSDQ: GOOG), whose own finance website trails rivals’, has signed a commercial deal to get real-time stock price data from London St… Read more at paidContent »
Yahoo Has No Bearing On Alibaba.com Privatisation, E-commerce Site Says
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group’s main business unit aims to delist from the Hong Kong stock market – but says the move is unrelated… Read more at paidContent »
paidContent 2012: New Date, May 23; Same Location, NYC
Our acclaimed one-day event, paidContent 2012, returns to The TimesCenter in New York City on May 23. Yes, we’ve moved the date — to take f… Read more at paidContent »
Huddle goes all Dropbox on users with new Sync service
Cloud collaboration software company Huddle is launching a new sync option for its hundreds of thousands of business users — centered on a smart matching algorithm that makes sure you only get the files you need Read more »
ThingLink targets advertisers with new Facebook embeds
Finnish startup ThingLink has been trying to find ways to encourage users to get excited about its “rich pictures.” Now it’s hoping it may hit the mother lode by helping advertisers and marketers build interactive images inside Facebook pages. Read more »
Yandex adds Twitter deal to power real-time search
Search engine Yandex is looking to extend its dominance in Russia through a deal to access Twitter’s firehose — allowing users to search millions of incoming tweets in real time. Read more »
Magazine Publishers Running Ahead Of Auditors With UK Digital Editions
Magazine publishers who publish digital editions have found those editions hit 1.7 percent of circulation in the UK – but auditing criteria… Read more at paidContent »
Court Comes Down Hard On Facebook Spammer
A California court ruled yesterday that social media site Power.com breached the Can-Spam Act and state criminal law when it induced Faceboo… Read more at paidContent »
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Two Become One: How Magazines Will Ape Their Apps
In a reversal of today’s content publishing model, print magazines pretty soon could start looking a lot like their app equivalents. Read more »
Latin America Drives DirecTV’s Growth; 590K New Subs In 3 Months
DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) continues to provide a useful blueprint for other U.S. media companies looking to expand into Latin America. On Thursday… Read more at paidContent »
More Stores In China Being Told To Remove iPads In Apple Trademark Dispute
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is no stranger to legal disputes around the globe over its mobile products, but it’s running into a problem that has noth… Read more at paidContent »
Revealed: Rate Cards Show UK News Sites’ Bulls And Beggars
What price do online newspapers put on their head? The amounts publishers charge advertisers indicates their bullishness about their busines… Read more at paidContent »
Industry Moves: Guardian, Yahoo, Trinity Mirror
Some of the latest hirings and exits in brief from the world of digital media business… Read more at paidContent »
News Corp Sees Digital Payments Soften But Not Reverse UK Sales Decline
More than a year and a half after News Corp.’s flagship UK “quality” papers introduced new paid digital outlets, their effect is becoming cl… Read more at paidContent »
YouTube’s Missing Monetization Makes Its Internet TV Prospects Patchy
YouTube’s fortunes in the emerging internet TV space may be hampered because it cannot yet help partners monetize their content on the new p… Read more at paidContent »
Online Game Developer Shanda Gets $2.3 Billion Buy-Out
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Shareholders in big Chinese online game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment (NSDQ: SNDA) have voted in favour of a proposal by which… Read more at paidContent »
If the shoe fits: Ozon, Russia’s Amazon, buys Sapato
In a move that echoes Amazon’s purchase of Zappos back in 2009, Russian web store Ozon is buying online shoe seller Sapato.ru — a deal that Ozon CEO Maelle Gavet says will turn it into a “powerhouse online retailer”. Read more »
NBCU Taps Google To Create Cross-Platform Audience Metric For 2012 Olympics
NBCUniversal (NSDQ: CMCSA) will once again use its Olympics coverage to search for what it calls the “holy grail” of audience measurement. T… Read more at paidContent »
Interviews: Meltwater Appeals UK Web News Fees As Both Sides Claim Victory
The Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) and Meltwater put their own contrasting spins on Tuesday’s setting by the UK’s Copyright Tribunal of th… Read more at paidContent »
Meltwater, UK Newspapers Each Get Partial Victory In Web Fees Ruling
In its ruling setting copying fees for news monitor clients who receive newspaper websites’ online story clippings, the UK’s Copyright Tribu… Read more at paidContent »
Why your next smartphone could have better Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi is now a staple in today’s smartphones, but it’s expected to improve in the handsets of tomorrow. The new 802.11ac standard, or “5G Wi-Fi,” offers improved power efficiency and speeds faster than 802.11n Wi-Fi, and it could be your smartphone’s new best friend. Read more »
iPad Import/Export Ban Application In China Could Hurt Or Cost Apple
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) could soon be forced to withdraw production from China not by ethical concerns but by a legal dispute, if a claimant to t… Read more at paidContent »
Yell Finds Mixed Digital Fortunes As Google Swoops For Advertisers
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Yellow Pages publisher Yell Group must fight off not only the decline of its traditional print directories business but also now that of its… Read more at paidContent »
When is the social curation bubble going to burst?
French startup Pearltrees just scored another $6 million to help scale up its social curation service that helps people save, sort and share what they find on the web. But with dozens of services in play, is this a bubble waiting to pop? Read more »
Justice Dept, EU Approve Google’s Motorola Purchase
The US government and the European Commission today gave the green light to Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobil… Read more at paidContent »
IM+ App Maker Takes $10 Million From Russia’s Finam
One of the more popular instant messaging mobile apps is taking a $10 (£6.32) million investment from a Russian investor. Read more at paidContent »
Netvibes Web Dash Service Acquired By 3D Software Firm
The seven-year-old personalised web content dashboard service Netvibes has confirmed it has been acquired by 3D and CAD software maker Dassa… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Kindle To Japan And Brazil This Year?
Kindle may launch in Japan and Brazil in 2012, according to reports published in the last week. Read more at paidContent »
One Chinese City Raids An Apple Reseller In Growing iPad Trademark Row
Government officials in the city of Shijiazhuang raided an unnamed Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reseller (not an official brand store) over the weeken… Read more at paidContent »
Samwers clone Wrapp: Have they gone too far this time?
Europe’s most notorious cloners have built their reputation by copying big American companies. But now they appear to be readying a new rival to small Swedish startup Wrapp — a change of tactics that has ‘surprised’ Wrapp CEO Hjalmar Winbladh. Read more »
Charts: Platform Wars, App Stores And Ecosystems
Smartphone sales have overtaken PC, iPhone app spend is rising and Android is beset by fragmentation problems, this visual stat compendium b… Read more at paidContent »
Ringtones reborn: Just call them notifications now
Remember Crazy Frog? The bike-riding amphibian and his irritating, ubiquitous song symbolized the premium ringtone market a few years ago, before fading into obscurity. The frog has disappeared, but one startup thinks it has found a way to evolve the idea for the modern mobile user. Read more »
Newspaper Ethics Scandal Has Not Yet Hurt Sun Sales
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While the UK’s media ethics furore ended up closing the News Of The World last year, how did News Corp.’s next-best-selling UK newspaper far… Read more at paidContent »
Update: Netflix Pays $9 Million To Settle Video Privacy Lawsuit
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) disclosed this afternoon that it will pay to settle nationwide claims that it illegally retained customers’ rental hist… Read more at paidContent »
FT Stakes Claim To 2.2 Million Daily Audience
The Financial Times now reaches 2.2m people across the world on a daily basis, according to the latest Average Daily Global Audience (ADGA)… Read more at paidContent »
Roku adds BBC iPlayer to bolster UK launch
Roku has filled a vital gap in its lineup by announcing the addition of a channel for the BBC’s popular iPlayer service, just as it starts shipping its media streaming boxes to Britain for the first time. Read more »
