Roy Greenslade
MediaGuardian
Feb 10, 2012 11:16 AM
The Financial Times now reaches 2.2m people across the world on a daily basis, according to the latest Average Daily Global Audience (ADGA) figures.
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Robert Andrews
Feb 9, 2012 2:28 PM
After quickly gaining a warm reception and a rapid post-launch investment from BSkyB, the social TV app startup co-founded by ex BBC iPlayer head honcho Anthony Rose is making its first real play at monetisation.
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Tom Krazit
Feb 9, 2012 11:09 AM
It’s been almost a year since former Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPad 2, and according to a new report, the company plans to launch the third version of its breakthrough tablet device around a month from now in early March.
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Robert Andrews
Feb 9, 2012 6:39 AM
Virgin Media thinks its new-ish TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set top box is a game changer. But, whilst the new box - with a big PVR drive, capability for over-the-top services and integrated broadcaster catch-up - is a large improvement on its predecessor, one year after launch, some aspects are more…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 9, 2012 4:06 AM
When the consulting firm’s logo appeared routinely in Six Nations rugby broadcast graphics this weekend, James Cridland was amongst the viewers to ask: “Accenture advertises on BBC Sport - how?” Sponsorship on the license-funded BBC in the UK is strictly forbidden. But the workaround, for Accenture, was to build a…
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Marketing, Mobile, Companies, BBC
Jeff Roberts
Feb 8, 2012 5:48 PM
News Corp surpassed analyst expectations in quarterly earnings announced today, but the numbers reflected two wildly divergent trends.
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Legal, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Money, Earnings, Companies, News Corp., hacking scandal, rio
Ernie Sander
Staci D. Kramer
Feb 8, 2012 2:00 PM
Yes, it’s true: We are joining GigaOM. And the combined group will be a powerhouse, with more than 20 writers and editors, a strong presence on the East and West coasts and in Europe, and coverage of everything from media and big data, to the cloud and mobile, to book publishing and…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 8, 2012 11:17 AM
After building up Lovefilm and selling it to Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), CEO Simon Calver is leaving for an unusual new challenge in retail, as CEO of parent-and-toddler chain Mothercare.
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Robert Andrews
Feb 8, 2012 8:55 AM
Mail Online may have overtaken The New York Times’ website for global audience, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) - but, in reality, the two are still an ocean apart.
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Advertising, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Research & Metrics, Metrics, Companies, DMGT, New York Times
Ingrid Lunden
Feb 8, 2012 5:35 AM
Last week, we highlighted how Facebook is already using mobile devices for commercial services—enabling people to buy Facebook Credits and charge them directly to their mobile bills. Now, it’s increasingly looking like that may just be the beginning: today, UK-based mobile billing and analytics specialist Bango (AIM: BGO) announced that…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 8, 2012 3:58 AM
UK pay-TV and broadband telco Virgin Media clocked its first annual profit in 2011, as its TV set top boxes continued to be an engine of video on-demand viewership.
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 8, 2012 3:24 AM
Today brings news of yet another round of capital-intensive cost-cutting for the challenged mobile phone maker Nokia: the company today announced that it would be transferring smartphone assembly from factories in Hungary, Finland and Mexico, and putting the operation in Asia.
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Robert Andrews
Feb 8, 2012 3:08 AM
Mail Online’s annual revenue growth rate has accelerated to a high of 70 percent following its big push in to the U.S., its publisher DMGT reported in Wednesday’s interim disclosure for its October-to-January earnings.
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Robert Andrews
Feb 8, 2012 2:04 AM
Magazine and web publisher Future has hit a key milestone in the media industry’s great transition - UK digital revenues made up for print revenue falls between October and December.
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Robert Andrews
Feb 8, 2012 1:28 AM
As it lays off another 75 staff and faces questions over CEO Sly Bailey’s salary, Trinity Mirror’s Mirror Group Newspapers is relaunching its Mirror.co.uk website on Wednesday with a stripped-back new look that accentuates the newspaper’s brand and core content.
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Robert Andrews
Feb 7, 2012 11:39 AM
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business…
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Industry Moves, Industry Moves Roundup, Companies, Channel 4, Telegraph
Ingrid Lunden
Feb 7, 2012 10:00 AM
It took one allegation of download bots on a message board, very little in the way of actual confessions, and a whole lot of murmurs, but Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is showing that it will respond swiftly if anyone starts messing with its App Store. But further investigation into the practices…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 7, 2012 7:36 AM
Research In Motion is undeniably on the ropes at the moment, with the mobile handset maker weathering a decline in global market share, delays on new products, and the departure of its co-CEOs/founders in the last month after several bad quarters. But at a developers’ conference that kicked off today…
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Laura Hazard Owen
Feb 6, 2012 1:27 PM
The Kindle Touch WiFi is now available in some additional countries, but not the biggest international e-reading markets that already have their own Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) sites.
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Media & Publishing, Books, e-books, e-readers, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, Countries, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, kindle touch
Ingrid Lunden
Feb 6, 2012 9:45 AM
When you read the headlines of how ubiquitous smartphones are becoming, and how in some countries the mobile device is overtaking the PC in terms of internet access, you would think that mobile internet usage would directly follow from these facts. In reality, it seems that it still lagging behind:…
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