Raspberry Pi cooks up a storm on launch
Cambridge-based low-cost computer Raspberry Pi has finally gone on general sale — and the device is proving so popular that the group is struggling to keep its website up and running. Read more »
Interview: UBM CEO Says Print Sell-Offs Complete, Digital Tip Point Ahead
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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 »
Interview: FT CEO Denies Sale And Braves Strike Ahead Of Social Launch
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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 »
Gidsy goes to Hollywood with its Airbnb for activities
Hot Berlin startup Gidsy, which lets people find and book tours, lessons and other offline experiences, is opening the doors on a service in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Read more »
Vodafone lashes out as EU votes to cut roaming charges
European politicians have just voted up proposals to slash roaming charges for mobile users who stray across the continent’s borders. But it’s drawn a violent response from Vodafone boss Vittorio Colao who thinks it could create “hell” for operators. Read more »
No, BlackBerry, Europe can’t save you
New Research in Motion boss Thorsten Heins says that Europe — where the BlackBerry’s market share remains higher than in the U.S. — can save it from the brink of disaster. But he’s wrong: the reality is that the only thing that can save it is itself. Read more »
€10m Transferwise blows a raspberry at bankers
London-based peer to peer currency exchange Transferwise has passed €10 million in transactions, saving customers nearly half a million Euros in fees that would have otherwise landed in the hands of the banking industry. Read more »
Point, Apple: Motorola Must Wait On iOS ban In Germany
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The legal tennis match over smartphone patents is still dragging on, and it was Apple Read more at paidContent »
Nokia Unveils New Windows Phone, But Keeps Symbian Afloat
One year after it dramatically altered the course of its history by signing a landmark deal with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to use Windows Phone… Read more at paidContent »
Labels And Spotify Still Struggle To Convince Some Artists On Stream Rates
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 »
Facebook Ads Firm Brighter Option Acquired By Buddy Media
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 »
Teen Writing Site Figment Buys Rival, HarperCollins’ Inkpop
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Figment, a teen writing site launched by two Condé Nast vets in December 2010, is buying a competitor: HarperCollins’ Inkpop. Read more at paidContent »
Pearson Sees Digital Income Beating Print Publishing In 2012
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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 »
FT Digital Subscriptions Surpass Print In U.S. As Sign-Ups Slow
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 »
Social TV Startup Zeebox Seeks Impact With TV Campaign
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One of the nascent social TV space’s most interesting new second-screen software services will this week court mainstream users with a natio… Read more at paidContent »
Monoqi see, Monoqi do: Another European Fab launches
Monoqi, the European competitor to design flash sales site Fab.com, launches this week. What makes it different? CEO Simon Fabich says it’s a “curated design platform” that sports a less commercial taste than its American rival. Read more »
Do we need another mobile OS? Mozilla thinks so
Searching for a new lease of life, Mozilla is joining forces with Spanish operator Telefónica to build handsets that have web technologies at their heart. But can Mozilla succeed where Palm failed? And is there room in a difficult market for more players? Read more »
iZettle launches across Nordics — next stop U.K.
Despite being known as Europe’s answer to Square, the payments service iZettle has only officially been available in Sweden since launching last year. Now that’s changing, with news of a rollout across Norway, Denmark and Finland, and the first step toward a British service too. Read more »
Property Ads About To Quit Newspapers For Web, Rightmove Reckons
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UK online property listings leader Rightmove saw profit improve by a quarter in 2011.
Now it forecasts a tipping point, saying newspapers a… Read more at paidContent »
The End Of CDs: Russian Retailer Latest To Take Music Off Shelves
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It’s not just in western markets that content sales are moving rapidly from physical to digital. One of Russia’s largest electronics retaile… Read more at paidContent »
Motorola forces Germany to ban iOS push mail
After a patent dispute in Germany between Motorola and Apple, local users of iCloud and MobileMe have now had push email functions disabled. But don’t be surprised if the same problem wings its way across the Atlantic soon. Read more »
Tough for Telefónica as Euro mobile goes down the pan
Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica — the world’s third-largest mobile firm — saw profits cut in half after a troubled year. With Nokia, Siemens and Deutsche Telekom all facing a torrid time, is the writing on the wall for Europe’s mobile businesses? Read more »
Industry Moves: Twitter, Shazam, Pearson, Condé Nast, BBC
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 »
News Corp’s Times Hikes Digital Fee To Milk iPad Riches
With Rupert Murdoch in London to launch the Sunday Sun whilst grasping News International’s crisis for a second time, News Corp is doubling… Read more at paidContent »
Little, Brown Gets Print And Digital Rights For J.K. Rowling’s New Novel
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J. K. Rowling is writing a new book, for adults, but she’s not keeping the digital rights for herself as she did with the Harry Potter books… Read more at paidContent »
Informa To Launch E-Book Portal As B2B Publishers Push Toward Digital
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Two business information publishers are reporting improving fortunes after pushing their print media portfolio toward digital subscription o… Read more at paidContent »
Wunderbar! Why millions are flocking to Wunderlist
Om has called 6wunderkinder “one of his favorite new companies”, and there’s good reason. The startup is one of the leading lights in the burgeoning Berlin scene, and impressive take-up claims for its first app could spell good news for its second, more fully-featured offering. Despite […] Read more »
Interview: Vogue Publisher Plans To Digitize Archives For Tablet Long Tail
In music, celestial jukeboxes like Spotify replace vinyl and CDs with unlimited back-catalogue access. Could magazine publishers grant their… Read more at paidContent »
The Pinfluence Of Pinterest: Magazines And More Delight In Découpage
If Pinterest is attracting heat for copying publishers’ content, perhaps it’s only fair that publishers give the same treatment to the buddi… Read more at paidContent »
Condé Nast Aims To Unify Tablet And Mobile Magazine Production
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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
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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
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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
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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 »
