While I was away from the internet for a hundred years and two weeks, one of the stories I briefly caught seemed to be the feel good Reddit story of the year. A redditor (who also like, won Jeopardy twice or something) […]
Okay, Tumblr, after a year of explosive growth and exponentially increasing user base, it’s probably safe to say you’ve made it. President Barack Obama now has a Tumblr account, adding the blogging/social media hybrid service to the stable of places where citizens […]
Brits and Irish folk jealous of their American cousins’ easy access to streaming films and TV content won’t have very long to wait until the same options become available on their shores. The DVD service formerly known as Qwikster and […]
Demand Media on Thursday watched as their price per share stumbled to $5.60 upon news that a technical glitched eroded traffic at their main property eHow.com while also announcing that nearly 85% of their freelance writing staff was essentially being […]
On September 22, 2011 the Guardian launched their beta version of a new Facebook news reading application and now one month later the company says they are about to surpass one million app installations. On October 5, two weeks after […]
The 26,000 members of the Newspaper Guild are no longer boycotting the Huffington Post over the company’s refusal to pay bloggers for their work. The boycott began seven months ago and on Friday the guild released the following statement: We […]
Mobile is big and getting bigger everyday if the numbers being bandied about concerning the incredible number of smartphones being activated every day are any indication. Along with that will obviously be our increased mobile consumption of content and searching for “stuff” which Gartner […]
Pandora on Thursday announced the availability of a new full page premium advertising option that uses HMTL5 via the newly redesigned Pandora website. The new 970 x 250 banner ad which runs video with an integrated skin is part of […]
Spotify on Thursday announced the first release of their Blackberry mobile app. The program is the sixth mobile application the company has developed and like their other mobile apps a premium Spotify account is requires to access and stream to […]
When it comes to marketing in this new media and social world Twitter is usually held up as the main force behind connecting with consumers and getting them to identify with brands. The question has been raised on more than […]
Yahoo Inc. may be losing some potential buyers after the company’s demand for confidentiality this week essentially stopped the possibility for firms to discuss joint bids. Under current terms Goldman Sachs and Allen & Co, advisers to the Yahoo sale […]
Demand Media, Inc. on Wednesday announced that recent traffic declines on their popular website eHow.com was caused by an internal technical issue which was recently resolved. The announcement comes just ahead of Demand Media’s Q3 2011 financial results which will […]
Apple’s Newstand product has helped digital publishers reach a broad new audience and the company benefiting most from the product is News Corp. who’s iPad-only publication The Daily is currently the number one subscription service on the program. With 120,000 […]
Music has always been big business but with the popularity of services like Pandora, Spotify, MOG, and any number of other music streaming services the competition is a lot tougher than it use to be. Perennial web giant wannabe AOL […]
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