How The FT And NYT Aim To Make Paywalls Pay
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(This version corrects an error in the percentage for the price increase of the FT)
Every newspaper, magazine or website is working on a pa… Read more at paidContent »
Eight Slovenian Media To Start Charging For Some Online News
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Eight big Slovenian publishers are about to start charging for parts of their online content all at the same time, using a single payment ki… Read more at paidContent »
Wal-Mart's Mobile Team Thinking Big With App Development Firm Small Society
Wal-Mart’s digital labs arm has snapped up a small but influential mobile software-development team, adding Small Society to its group of te… Read more at paidContent »
Confirmed: A New CEO For Yahoo, Scott Thompson
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) this morning confirmed that it has appointed a new CEO, Scott Thompson, formerly the president of eBay’s payment division… Read more at paidContent »
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Will Launch Metered Paywall
Starting tomorrow, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel readers who are not print subscribers will have to pay for online access above 20 articles per… Read more at paidContent »
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NewNet 2012: companies and technologies set to disrupt
Don’t expect the pace of change in web technologies to slow down in 2012. The web is far from dead. Social media may have anointed one huge player in Facebook, but even if there is little room for a start-from-scratch general-purpose social network, there are several companies creating useful alternative social graphs. Companies can leverage key technologies and trends in 2012 to earn revenue and gain share, whether that’s by leveraging HTML5 for rich cross-platform experiences, doing heavy data analysis or integrating collaboration tools across businesses.Companies mentioned in this report include Dropbox, Groupon, Twitter and Zynga. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
EU To Focus On Digital Content Policy In 2012
The European Commission says 2011 progress against its digital agenda ambitions has been “mixed”. Read more at paidContent »
Record-Breaking Christmas For iOS, Android And Mobile Shopping
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Christmas day 2011 was a record-breaking day for Android and iOS device activations, says a new report from mobile analytics firm Flurry: Ac… Read more at paidContent »
Apple had a really good Christmas
The numbers are starting to roll in, and it seems Apple had a very good holiday weekend. Waiting under the Christmas tree on Sunday was a gigantic pile of of new Apple customers, who promptly starting buying apps, playing games and shopping, according to new stats. Read more »
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What’s driving the next phase of the e-commerce evolution
The outsize growth in online spending this holiday season suggests that e-commerce as a sector of the economy has passed some kind of tipping point and that factors beyond simply convenience and price — both long-standing hallmarks of online shopping — are propelling the e-commerce sector ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
How Publishers And Authors Are Promoting E-Books For The Holidays
I asked publishers and authors how they’re promoting their e-books for the holidays and got answers from bundling and free samplers to Kindl… Read more at paidContent »
Italy's Paid Content Market Actually Seems Relatively Healthy
Italians are twice as likely to pay for digital content as consumers in some other major nations. Read more at paidContent »
Product Strategists Should See NFC As Much More Than Contactless Payments
A year ago, Forrester stated that 2011 would–finally–be the year that Near Field Communications (NFC) began to matter. We predicted that d… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Includes Circular In Weekend Newspapers
Among the Target, Best Buy and Radio Shack ads bundled with my Saturday New York Times this morning is a surprise: an 8-page circular from A… Read more at paidContent »
The new new commerce
The new breed of e-commerce sites offers consumers ways to socialize and be entertained. But as Rags Gupta of Brightcove points out, these new new commerce sites are taking advantage of old principles. Their innovation comes from introducing them online. Read more »
'Pain-Free Paywall' Company Signs First Four Publishers
TinyPass, a startup that aims to streamline the process of charging for content online by using existing platforms like Google (NSDQ: GOOG)… Read more at paidContent »
New Site Will Offer Groupon-Style Deals On E-Books
Andrew Rhomberg thinks discovering new books online isn’t much fun. It’s great if you already know what you’re looking for, but if you’re ho… Read more at paidContent »
Publishers' Social Site aNobii Relaunches To Put The 'Book' In 'Facebook'
Book-readers’ social commerce site aNobii has got the relaunch for which three book publishers invested in it back in March. Read more at paidContent »
Stop Freaking Out About Amazon's Price Check App
This Saturday, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is running a promotion that is making a lot of people very mad: Use the company’s Price Check mobile app… Read more at paidContent »
Chicago Sun-Times Papers Add Metered Paywalls — But Not For Roger Ebert
Chicago’s second-largest daily newspaper, the Sun-Times, and its 39 affiliated suburban newspapers will all start charging for online conten… Read more at paidContent »
Updated: Galaxy Nexus 'Pure Google' Except For Part Verizon Doesn't Like
For years, Google’s pitch for the Nexus class of Android phones has been that they offer the “pure Google” experience, a version of its soft… Read more at paidContent »
Lonely Planet's Mobile Travel Startup Launches, With Content From Rivals
Lonely Planet’s new San Francisco-based mobile startup has gone live with its flagship mobile travel guide app Wenzani, which paidContent fi… Read more at paidContent »
Updated: Report: Facebook Buys Location Sharing App Gowalla?
More mobile movements from Facebook today: it has bought the check-in social media service Gowalla, according to a report in CNN. Read more at paidContent »
The state of e-commerce: M&A surging, daily deals still big
It’s been a big part of the Internet picture for well over a decade, but right now e-commerce is really hitting its stride, according to a new report out of CB Insights and the BizTech@Wharton Conference. M&A activity is surging and investment dollars are growing steadily. Read more »
Travel Site Fathom Launches Shop, Plans Curated Hotel Booking
Fathom, the travel site launched by two former Daily Candy editors earlier this year, is expanding its commerce side with a shop of travel-t… Read more at paidContent »
Slideshow: The Future Of Movies According To Blinkbox And Tesco
Tesco will start retailing its own line of internet-enabled TV in stores under its Technika brand in the new year – amongst the many ways it… Read more at paidContent »
Tesco, Blinkbox Marry DVD, Online Movies Ahead Of Ultraviolet
When Tesco bought 80 percent of online PPV movie vendor Blinkbox in April, paidContent reported how the UK supermarket giant would give buy… Read more at paidContent »
Frugalo aims to wake us up from daily deal fatigue
Nowadays, many people’s email inboxes are overflowing with deal advertisements. As much as everyone loves a bargain, it can all be a bit overwhelming. A new app called Frugalo aims to separate the wheat from the chaff in our daily deal overloaded email inboxes. Read more »
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Going social: Recommendations engines need to factor in consumer reviews
Ebay’s recent purchase of Hunch illustrates how social media has leveled the playing field for e-commerce recommendations engines. Mixing human-powered reviews with algorithm-powered recommendations will be a key driver of social ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Cyber Monday on track for record growth
It’s Cyber Monday and servers are humming as shoppers head to their PCs, tablets and smartphones to find the best deals available. Scot Wingo from ChannelAdvisor discusses the e-commerce trends that have emerged over the last five days, known as the “Cyber Five.” Read more »
DailyCandy Looks To Closer Ties Between E-Commerce And Ad Sales
With last week’s hiring of Gilt City’s Fernando Romero, as VP of ad sales of women’s lifestyle guide DailyCandy, the company has decided tha… Read more at paidContent »
An E-Book Gifting Campaign, Starting On Cyber Monday
In a holiday season when e-readers are more popular than ever, many consumers still don’t know how to give them to others as gifts. So today… Read more at paidContent »
Mail Online Readers Say They Will Pay, But They Won't Be Forced To
“We’ve done qualitative research in the UK that did tend to indicate users of Mail Online would pay something for certain aspects of the con… Read more at paidContent »
The Latest Chinese Export: Tencent's QQ Mobile Browser, Via GetJar
We’ve observed a lot of western companies looking to cash in on the explosive growth of China’s mobile population by taking their products i… Read more at paidContent »
MPA: Majority Of Digital Magazine Readers Want In-App, E-Commerce Features
Although advertising is the strongest part of print magazine publishers’ revenues streams, that area has been weakening for some time. In it… Read more at paidContent »
Twilight 'Breaking Dawn' Viewers Set Fandango Mobile Ticketing Record
The latest installment of the Twilight movies, Breaking Dawn, enjoyed one of the top-grossing opening weekends of all time (for some inexpli… Read more at paidContent »
Updated: Newsstand's Few Early Adopters Have Stolen A March On Laggards
Magazine and news publishers who have not yet joined iOS Newsstand have lost out to the system’s early adopters, according to research data. Read more at paidContent »
Google Closes Register For Checkout, Moving Users To Google Wallet
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has decided to fold Google Checkout into its newly launched Google Wallet, in what fits right in with the pare-down-and-… Read more at paidContent »
Major Newspaper Publishers Band Together On Social Shopping Portal
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A group of eight newspaper publishers — Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Cox Media Group, Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Hearst, MediaNews Gr… Read more at paidContent »
Condé Nast Partners With Art.com To Reopen Online Image Store
Condé Nast is relaunching its online image archives store in partnership with online prints and posters retailer Art.com as tries to find a… Read more at paidContent »
