Last week, the Wall Street Journal updated its online privacy policy to actually give it more rights to our information. The resulting lack of outrage highlights that we have a long way to go to get online privacy where it needs to be. Read More »
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News Corporation has named Accel Partners’ Jim Breyer to its board of directors.The 50-year-old Breyer, a Silicon Valley venture capital veteran known for making early bets on AOL and Facebook, could bring some much-needed digital savvy to the New York City-based media behemoth. Read More »
Startup founders and company leaders are the ones who define its culture. By being open and transparent, they build a company with a healthy and a positive outlook. On the flip side, culture of fear and hiding erodes trust and proves to be counterproductive. Read More »
Remember when social media was going to reinvent the entertainment business? Though past efforts made little headway in the social-entertainment space, announcements from Warner Home Entertainment and News Corp. suggest the space is far from dead. Here’s what companies looking to capitalize on it can learn. Read More »
Photobucket wants to reclaim a spot at the top of the crowded photo and video sharing space, and it’s prepared to open its wallet to do so. The company is actively looking at potential acquisition targets, CEO Tom Munro told me in an interview this week.… Read More »
Does The Daily live up to its billing? Is it the future of newspapers? Not really. It does some interesting things, but it also does some very confusing things. And much of it consists of fairly humdrum stories that you might read in, well… a newspaper. Read More »
News Corp. has finally released official figures on the effect of paywalls at two of its British newspapers, which show that the two papers have lost a huge proportion of their previous readership, and only a tiny fraction of those readers have chosen to pay. Read More »
News Corp. billionaire Rupert Murdoch doesn’t like to admit failure, but he appears to have conceded defeat in his attempts to build a competitor to Google News. Project Alesia, designed to aggregate news and distribute it via the iPad and other platforms, has reportedly been axed. Read More »
Fans of newspaper paywalls like to roll out a number of defences for their position, including the fact that other content industries charge for access to what they produce, and therefore newspapers should be able to do likewise, but this isn’t the case at all. Read More »
News Corp. is doubling down on his bets that paid content will eventually win the day online, by buying the Skiff e-reader business from Hearst Corp. and buying a stake in Journalism Online. But are these just the latest in a series of Hail Mary passes? Read More »
Clay Shirky says large media entities are like ancient societies such as the Mayans and the Romans, in that they have grown so complex that they are no longer able to function in any other way. The media theorist says that could cause their eventual collapse. Read More »
Rupert Murdoch, the legendary founder of News Corp., has always had a love hate relationship with the digital world. In an interview he disses Google and Search and praises the potential of iPad. The wily old fox is always great viewing. Watch and enjoy the video. Read More »
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