The confluence of better location data and audio-recognition could mean big changes to seemingly static industries such as retail and radio as they learn more about what customers really want. Read more »
What do you get when you combine cleantech, server tech, the internet of things and robotics with a surfboard? The answer can be found in this week’s podcast featuring Liquid Robotics. Read more »
A report shows that music subscription service Spotify continues to grow at a rapid pace. The growth validates Spotify’s business model but is also inviting a growing cluster of rivals. Read more at paidContent »
New research from the Pew Center into news consumption habits shows that the impact of mobile and social continues to grow. Almost twice as many users got news from a mobile device compared with 2010, and almost three times as many got news from a social network. Read more »
In this busy new world of multiple social networks and recommendations tools, the discovery process itself is being disrupted by innovation and by the changing ways in which consumers now interact online. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Howard Stern can rant all he likes but he will not be paid a $300 million bonus after Sirius XM won a dispute over subscriber counts. Read more at paidContent »
I’ve met Tim Westergren, the founder of Pandora (NYSE: P). He’s a lovely man.
But, not only do I believe that Pandora is not radio (they st… Read more at paidContent »
Here is a roundup of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business…
– Univision Radio: Eva… Read more at paidContent »
The pan-industry internet radio service RadioPlayer has joined forces with Audioboo to offer an instant listen-again service for its 300-plu… Read more at paidContent »
Online may be challenging TV to be UK consumers’ primary news source – but only 3.8 percent pay for it, new research says. Read more at paidContent »
Researchers from UC Santa Barbara, Intel and IBM have shown they can send data between servers without those pesky Ethernet cables, using 60 GHz wireless and bouncing radio signals off the ceiling. It’s crazy, but wireless could offer fat pipes economically over short distances. Read more »
Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million… Read more at paidContent »
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration t… Read more at paidContent »
The local online ad marketplace has experienced two years of fairly flat revenues, but Borrell Associates says that the space is on the verg… Read more at paidContent »
Connectivity changes everything. That’s the credo driving just about every corner of our day-to-day lives. As human beings, we are now connected to one another through not just our social networks but also our cars, the books we read, the albums we download and even our own health and wellness habits (to name just a few areas). With that in mind, GigaOM Pro has singled out certain areas in the technology industry where we see this shift to constant connectivity taking place most drastically. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are… Read more at paidContent »
RealNetworks has chosen Thomas Nielsen as its new president and CEO, succeeding interim CEO Mike Lunsford. He starts next week and is intend… Read more at paidContent »
Bloomberg may still be battling with Comcast over better placement on its cable systems, but the financial news and information company is l… Read more at paidContent »
More people appear to be listening to less BBC Radio through BBC iPlayer.
Within one week in March, average weekly minutes for radio listen… Read more at paidContent »
Being the most popular is not a good enough business model, it seems, when it comes to music mobile apps. Pandora, the music-streaming app,… Read more at paidContent »
Today’s big round of cuts announced by the BBC — it will lose some 2,000 jobs, order relocations for others, and make big changes to the pr… Read more at paidContent »
Univision, the Spanish-language media giant, has opened a new front in the long-running battle over where and how people can make copies of… Read more at paidContent »
The BBC will axe nearly 2,000 jobs as it looks to save £670m a year in long-awaited cost-cutting plans announced on Thursday morning. Read more at paidContent »
It seemed like a no brainer back in November. If Bob Pittman was willing to return to radio after forays at MTV, AOL (NYSE: AOL), Time Warne… Read more at paidContent »
Seven months after Vivian Schiller was ousted as president and CEO of NPR, the public radio network has turned to a public broadcast veteran… Read more at paidContent »
Pandora (NYSE: P) is the latest company to stumble into the minefield of privacy lawsuits that are blowing up all over the tech industry. A… Read more at paidContent »
Just a few weeks after landing in the U.S., European-based streaming music service Spotify has gotten an immediate shot in the arm by being… Read more at paidContent »
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Internet radio provider Pandora is primarily known for its mobile apps, but as it looks to build up its ad offerings, it’s overhauled its we… Read more at paidContent »
» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Signs Expanded Two-Year Streaming Deal With Discovery (paidContent)
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Call it what you want, but Super Wi-Fi or white spaces broadband just got a big win today when the FCC approved the first trial using the radio and database needed to deliver the broadband service. the test brings us one step closer to better broadband. Read more »
Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) likes to tout its large and diverse offerings — though sometimes it’s hard to tell if the company is talking about i… Read more at paidContent »
The UK is preparing to roll out a new, superfast mobile broadband service that would also more than double the amount of spectrum that is cu… Read more at paidContent »
They may not have produced a band as big as The Beatles, and may bear some responsibility for the musical output of Claude Francois, but the… Read more at paidContent »
Internet radio company Pandora reported the financial results of its first three months as a public company Thursday. The company confirmed that while it still has a long way to go before it reaches the listener levels of traditional radio, its ads are now just as valuable. Read more »
Europe’s web scene is now thriving, and we’ve compiled a list featuring some of the best and brightest European web startups — what we’re dubbing the GigaOM Euro 20. Depending on how closely you watch Europe’s online scene, some of these companies may be familiar to you. Others you may not have heard of. But all of them are worth watching closely. In this report, we profile the 20 startups that we feel best represent Europe’s current tech scene. We have organized our list around perception, and as lists go, it is intended to be a guideline rather than a rule book. It’s not exhaustive, and clearly, with such a diverse and vibrant continent as our playing field, it never could be. Companies mentioned in this report include GetJar, Huddle, Made.com and Songkick. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The second quarter of 2011 was a fast-paced one for the connected consumer segment, with every sector of the digital media landscape — music, e-books, online video and gaming — experiencing significant events and changes. Media consumption, purchase and management continued its shift towards the cloud, ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
This week’s drama between The Young Turks creator and host Cenk Uygur and MSNBC has a sad tinge of inevitability to it, given the compromises required by the mainstream media. The major twist is just how loudly Uygur is raging against his former employer. Read more »
Twenty years after it started out in radio production, British digital agency Somethin’ Else is making waves with its innovative iPhone games — and representing a new generation of creative technology firms that are ready to step up and make it big. Read more »
Michael Robertson’s new cloud service Dar.fm makes it possible to remotely record shows from hundreds of radio stations and then stream these recordings to mobile phones and other devices. Robertson is currently fighting with the music industry in court, and Dar.fm may also face some resistance. Read more »
