Smartphones are part of a revolution that is connecting and giving a voice to people for the first time. Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, warned on Friday that the revolution has a dark side too. Read more »
Should news outlets in China engage in occasional self-censorship for the greater good of reaching readers and projecting influence? Read more »
There was lots of hubbub Tuesday at the OpenStack Summit. Actual customers talking about real implementations of the open-source cloud. Here’s what I learned. Read more »
A new version of Bloomberg’s iPad app reflects a shift to mobile and tablet usage among financial professionals. The pattern mirrors what’s taking place in the consumer realm. Read more at paidContent »
Many long-standing legal rules of engagement between publishers and consumers tilted the playing field in unexpected ways in the first quarter. The period also saw a major expansion in the amount and quality of original productions for web-based video platforms and a major move by chipmaker Intel to stake a claim in the digital living room. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The financial company Bloomberg says it will add Twitter to its platforms now that the SEC has given a green light to companies to use social media to announce market moving news. Read more at paidContent »
If NRG Energy starts offering solar leasing options to home owners and small businesses, it would represent the mainstreaming of solar roofs and also likely disrupt the current sector filled with a variety of smaller players. Read more »
China’s growing number of power plants are putting pressure on the country’s water resources like never before. Read more »
Publishers’ lack of strategic focus on licensing and syndication today is matched by nearly equal indifference from software developers, entrepreneurs, and investors. To change this, they must structure their repositories of content so it can be searched, sorted, customized, repackaged, and accessed in real time via standardized APIs. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Last years’ gigantic court fight between Apple and Samsung continues to have ripples in the court and the press. This week, an appeals court agreed to let the New York Times and others argue that documents in the case should not be secret. Read more »
Can New York City be a major-league player in tech without a high profile IPO? City advocates think so, and point to the city’s “dash tech” and recent success versus other hubs Read more »
Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu is leaving his position, and the news will be announced next week, reports Bloomberg. If true, it’s an end of an era for the Obama Administration. Read more »
Financial giant Bloomberg has opened an app store in which it wil take 30 percent of revenue. The move is significant because it is the first time the tightly-controlled company is opening up its rich pools of data to outside developers. Read more at paidContent »
If one percent of retail investments in savings accounts, money markets and U.S Treasuries was put into crowdfunding of solar projects, that would deliver more than $90 billion for the creation of clean energy projects, according to a new white paper from Bloomberg. Read more »
Bloomberg, the mighty news and data empire owned by the mayor of New York City, is an unlikely candidate to strike a blow for flexible copyright laws. Read more at paidContent »
Should the New York Times charge hedge funds or large financial institutions more for early access to market-moving stories like its Walmart exposé? Reuters blogger Felix Salmon says yes, but doing this would fundamentally change what the New York Times and its journalism are all about. Read more »
Although the writing has been on the wall for traditional print-based media for some time, few companies have made any dramatic steps to try and adapt because they are too busy running their existing businesses. That’s why digital-native entities will almost always win. Read more »
New York City will receive millions from domain name sales at no risk to tax-payers, according to a spokesperson for NYC Digital. Read more at paidContent »
At the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit, NRG Energy CEO Crane said that he is less bullish on the impact that electric cars will have on consumers given the slow roll-out, and he now thinks that the greentech game changer could be solar roofs Read more »
In a difficult year for clean energy we need as many calls to action as possible. Here’s a 7 point plan for clean energy that Michael Liebreich, CEO and founder of Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance, showed off on Tuesday morning: Read more »
Executives today lifted the curtain on “Bloomberg NEXT,” a new edition of the company’s core product that Bloomberg LP says will provide use… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Prime has three to five million members, according to “people familiar with the matter” cited Bloomberg. The main thrust… Read more at paidContent »
News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) has appointed Lex Fenwick as the CEO of Dow Jones & Company, filling the position left open following Les Hinton’s re… Read more at paidContent »
A new report from Bloomberg says Apple’s next iPad has indeed begun production. The new iPad will have a sharper screen, according to the new report, but also “LTE access,” something we’ve yet to hear much about in early iPad rumors. Read more »
The judge in a controversial copyright case between Bloomberg News and watch-maker Swatch has changed his mind about whether it is legal to… Read more at paidContent »
Global investments in clean energy and energy efficiency have officially passed the trillion-dollar mark, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. It’s like the recent 7-billion-person mark, but for energy geeks! Read more »
As a result of the bankruptcies of Solyndra and Beacon Power, the Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program is now under heavy scrutiny. But a new Bloomberg report digs into the numbers and finds the program is a lot more successful than it has seemed. Read more »
Getty Images has amassed a library of more than 800,000 video files for licensing. Now it’s adding some newsy and fact-based clips from content partners like Bloomberg, the American Museum of Natural History, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, Barcroft Media and Boston public broadcaster WGBH. Read more »
You might have noticed the free-for-all on Netflix these days. The company’s vanishing stock market capitalization and missed earnings has everyone screaming for CEO Reed Hastings’ head. Sure, some of it the anger is justified, but I think now we all are going overboard. Read more »
News Corp has stopped stonewalling about The Daily’s circulation following reports from Bloomberg that the tablet tabloid had 120,000 weekly… Read more at paidContent »
For some time now, so-called patent trolls have aggressively targeted the biggest tech companies in the world. Now, they seem to be setting… Read more at paidContent »
Mobile payments — payments initiated by a phone for a transaction at a physical point of sale or online — will total over $750 billion worldwide by 2015, and many predict they will soon begin to replace a typical credit card transaction. This report analyzes and forecasts the mobile payments industry, from its current technologies to the companies implementing them and the trends we can expect in the coming months. Much of the near-term growth of mobile payments will be driven by near-field communication (NFC) technology, but QR and 2D bar codes, mobile POS systems and SMS transactions are also important platforms for companies to consider when creating business models and strategies. Meanwhile, services from the likes of MasterCard, Nokia, Amazon and Google offer examples for others to follow and clues into the future of the industry. Additional companies mentioned in this report include Research in Motion, T-Mobile, Zong and Groupon. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Mining terabytes of data isn’t just for service providers — media companies are also trying to make use of the oceans of information they have about their users to come up with better ways of recommending news to them, says Bloomberg Digital head Kevin Krim. Read more »
We can thank China, offshore wind and European solar rooftops for a record $243 billion of global investment into clean power — including funding mechanisms like the public markets, private investment, government funding, asset financing and corporate spending — according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Read more »
Could close to a quarter of the cars sold in the U.S. in 2030 be plug-ins, both plug-in hybrids and all-electric cars? Potentially, according to a report out this morning from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Read more »
Just how expensive are solar electric systems these days and how can you figure out your solar options? Read more »
The scariest thing to watch this Halloween isn’t in theaters — it’s in the stock market. It’s down! It’s up! It’s down! My 401k! Aaaaaaaaagghhh! We can’t help you manage your money, but we can help all those obsessive compulsives get up-to-the minute reports on the […] Read more »
LIN TV Stations Disappear from Time Warner Cable; retransmission contract expires as two sides fail to reach a new deal, 15 stations affected. (Multichannel News) New Web Series; TheWB.com to launch High Drama: Against All Oz and Rich Girl, Poor Girl this month; Boondocks writer signs […] Read more »
The extended version of Errol Morris’s Stand Up To Cancer features interviews with a wide spectrum of cancer survivors (including Friend of NewTeeVee Tom Green) about their experiences — it’s an intensely human eight minutes of humor and sorrow. And lacking, as I do, a keen […] Read more »
