This Week in Review: Twitter’s censorship compromise, and Facebook files with big numbers
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Google Points to FX After Revenue Miss; Analysts Harp on CPC
Fun with acronyms after Google's numbers come in below Wall Street's expectations.
Hulu Says Subscription Service Revenue Climbing
Hulu, the video joint venture which may or may not be sold (a new round of bids hit this week), says that its subscription business is growing at a pace that means it will "account for more than half of Hulu’s overall revenues within the next 12 months." Unlike previous quarterly blog posts, CEO Jason...
43% of the Washington Post’s revenue generated online
At first glance, the Washington Post’s Q4 report suggests that newspapers may be able to rein in the revenue decline they’ve been experiencing for the last few years. Revenue remained stable from year to year and 43% of the paper’s revenue came from online. But Frédéric Filloux easily read between the lines: Now the bad...
It’s Back! Scripps’ Shopzilla, Nearly Left for Dead, Growing Again.
The comparison shopping site that Scripps Network Interactive was reportedly desperate to get rid of not long ago has rebounded.
Music Sales Still Going, Going…
More than a decade after the Napster era, the music business is still declining: Warner Music Group's sales dropped 14 percent in the last three months of 2010. And digital revenue, via Apple's iTunes and the mobile business, is sputtering too. It was up just 1.6 percent, and down 5 percent from the previous quarter....
AOL + Huffington Post Won’t Go to 11. But It Does Make Sense.
Former AOL CEO Steve Case is right to call out current AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's fuzzy math. But that doesn't mean this is a bad deal.
AOL’s Ad Turnaround Still Isn’t Here Yet
But Wall Street wasn't expecting Tim Armstrong to say otherwise.
Arianna Huffington on Her New AOL Job: "I Want to Stay Here Forever"