It looks like News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). accelerating its plans for how best to make use of its last month’s acquisition of the Skiff e-reading platform and the stake it took in the Steve Brill/Gordon Crovitz paid content start-up Journalism Online. The company is considering whether to create a dedicated...
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When will Spotify, the best music service Americans can't use, finally make it to the U.S.? No time soon, according to a new report from Billboard. The good news for impatient people: There are plenty of substitutes available right now.
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MTV has reorganized the heads of its Integrated Marketing Group with the return of MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) sales executive Angela Courtin to the Viacom (NYSE: VIA) company. Courtin will serve as SVP, MTV Integrated Marketing. In conjunction with the new hire, MTV also promoted Jeannie Scalzo to SVP, MTV Integrated...
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» The new Kindle is lighter, cheaper, faster than ever—but will it kill the iPad?» Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) execs are increasingly d...
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UK satcaster BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) CEO Jeremy Darroch channeled much the same belief in paid content as its its largest shareholder News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). while discussing healthy growth from the last financial year with investment analysts Thursday morning…
Web publishers and TV networks are doing just fine. But if you're in the radio, newspaper or magazine business, it's a different story.
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IGN, the News Corp.-owned video game site, is launching a gamer-focused social network called My IGN. On the social network, which launched in beta today, users can “follow” games in order to see the latest news about them in a Facebook-like news feed. They can also communicate with other...
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Time Inc. likes to show off its iPad apps as a symbol of the company's future. But inside the publisher, the digital editions have become a source of hair-pulling frustration.That's because the magazine giant has been unable to get Apple to let it sell and manage subscriptions for its iPad apps--much to Time Inc.'s...
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Times Newspapers in the UK is giving its early iPad customers a free one-month subscription for the second time in as many months, in an attempt to migrate readers to a more stable version of the app.
The Times’ paid model is just two weeks old but, still, a number of stats came through this weekend - none of them from the horse’s mouth…
First, the meat - some potentially significant first numbers on how successful the paper’s paid websites have been in their first two weeks. There’s no...
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