PaidContent.org |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) has created a new position of chief digital officer, and has named Vijay Ravindran; he will start in February of next year. Ravindran is currently the CTO of of Catalist, a startup political tech firm that built a national voter database. This past election [...]
BuzzMachine |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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My Guardian column this week argues that we're witnessing not just the collapse of the financial (and auto and newspaper…) industries but the birth of a new economy best seen through - you guessed it - the lens of Google: The financial crisis might be damaging countless companies around the [...]
Rex Hammock |
November 10th, 2008 |
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Admittedly, I sign up for lots of web "social media" services. But I don't sign up on far more than those I do. Sometimes I'm asked how I decide what shiny new web thing to register on. Here's how: I have to answer "yes" to at least two of the [...]
GigaOM |
November 7th, 2008 |
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Amazon Web Services' platform is increasingly gaining popularity beyond Web 2.0 and video companies. Case in point is the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge, whose seven finalists are a diverse group of companies, among them Knewton, which provides live online educational testing prep services; remote health record management software firm [...]
After a string of high-profile ad exec departures, including the loss of Kevin Johnson, President of Platforms and Services, and Digital Sales GM Lisa Utzschneider, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has made a key hire: former Time Inc. vet Robin Domeniconi. Starting January 1, Domeniconi will serve as VP of U.S. ad [...]
At first I thought the ad in last week's New Yorker was a mirage, a promise of a digital edition that would arrive when the magazine was published—not a week later like the print edition. And when the post-registration response was a promise to let me know when the first [...]
GigaOM |
November 4th, 2008 |
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Maybe Larry Ellison was right - maybe cloud computing has been so overhyped that the term now applies to pretty much anything. A perfect example: Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce event. After riding the SasS wave to a market capitalization of $3.7 billion, it seems co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff and his minions [...]
Editor |
November 3rd, 2008 |
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On October 24, Oprah Winfrey endorsed Amazon's electronic reader, the Kindle. As a result, Amazon's website has seen a surge in traffic and the blogs are all buzzing about it.According to Ad Age, Amazon.com saw web-page visits increase by 6% on the 24th. Eighty percent of blog posts about the [...]
Editor |
October 29th, 2008 |
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With shrinking newsrooms due to increasingly drastic budget cuts and a biting global economic environment, newspapers have been searching for a solution to the age-old problem of profit margins versus quality of product. A relatively new player is marketing a solution to this problem; Daylife this week is launching Daylife [...]
Economist.com took a pass on the free-content phenomenon first time around - now, just as flares and yo-yos came back in to fashion, the publisher sees pay walls regaining popularity in an advertising downturn. The news mag's site already charges for stories over a year old and, publisher Paul Rossi [...]
GigaOM |
October 28th, 2008 |
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Web game developers can make decent money through advertising, but that revenue generally depends on clickthroughs and other variables beyond their control. What if they could earn some cash simply by making their games popular? That's essentially the value proposition of Plura Processing, a startup that sells distributed network computing [...]
GigaOM |
October 28th, 2008 |
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AdaptiveBlue has raised a $4.5 million Series B round from RRE Ventures and Union Square Ventures and will use the funds to add to its fulltime staff of eight and continue developing Glue, a new, contextual social networking layer it has added to its well-thought-out semantic browsing technology. Glue is [...]
Digital music distribution firm TuneCore, based in New York City has received $7 million in funding, led by Opus Capital. TuneCore allows any artist to upload their songs on their service, via an up-front fee (and no cut on royalties), and then distribute it to services like iTunes, Rhapsody, Amazon [...]
Exact Editions |
October 24th, 2008 |
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We are a web service in the strict sense. We deliver a service through the web to subscribers and to publishers. We turn print pages into web pages and organize, search and serve them; and that is all we do. We are a set of pure web services but the [...]
Kindle owners, you may be able to get some gaming time in between reading the WSJ and Proust very soon, as Amazon.com has acquired Reflexive Entertainment, a privately held casual games developer and portal founded in 1997. The Lake County, Calif.-based developer announced the deal on its blog, though terms [...]
The Q308 earnings season has started in earnest, and this promises to be a busy week. Watch out for: Monday, October 20, 2008 -- Netflix -- SanDisk Tuesday, October 21 -- Yahoo -- McClatchy Company -- Apple Wednesday, October 22 -- *AT&T;* -- Amazon.com -- Baidu -- Omniture Thursday, October [...]
EBay moved into the black for Q3 but will it be there this time next year? The e-commerce company reported third-quarter net income of $492 million after charges, or $0.38 per share, up from a loss of $.69 in the same quarter last year. (Q307 included the massive $1.43 billion [...]
The growth of online gaming make this the last year that Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) will produce offline-only games, said CEO John Riccitiello, speaking in a Q&A; at the Dow Jones/Nielsen Media and Money Conference. He sees the growth of gaming constrained mostly by piracy and the difficulties in getting [...]
On the eve of the Frankfurt Book Fair, which opens Tuesday, the organizers have released the results of a mega-survey on digital issues in publishing. More than 1,000 industry professionals from over 30 countries responded to the survey in the Frankfurt Book Fair Newsletter. Among the findings: -- E-book timeline: [...]
EMI is planning a pre-holiday launch of a new music portal that will include the ability to buy downloads, according to the FT. We've confirmed that but a source familiar with the project says it is not an attempt to displace digital retailers like iTunes or Amazon or as some [...]
We're in e-book leapfrog mode ... the third generation of *Sony's* Reader Digital Book (PRS-700BC) offers a 6-inch touch screen with built-in LED lighting, a stylus, a virtual keyboard and a faster processor. Priced at $400, $50 higher than the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle, it should start shipping mid-November. Sony [...]
