It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service—once built and owned by News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) and sold, along with the rest of Fox Mobile, to IT services company Jesta when News Corp. couldn’t make a…

Over the years, the Associated Press has made a profile for itself by syndicating its news across thousands of newspapers both in the U.S. and abroad. Now as newspaper readers move to new platforms like tablets to consume their news content, the AP wants to make sure it is syndicating…

Rolling Stone magazine will release an iPad app companion this week for its The Beatles: The Ultimate Album-by-Album Guide book this week, as its parent Wenner Media prepares to launch full digital magazine replica apps on the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) tablet next year for its flagship title and US Weekly.

Spotify is ready to launch in Belgium, Austria and Switzerland, possibly as early as this week, paidContent understands.

After years of employing an ad-hoc community-driven approach to mobile, one of the world’s biggest Web sites is going mobile in a much more organized way. Wikimedia Foundation is currently pitching deals involving a new mobile version of its ubiquitous Wikipedia site that it hopes wireless carriers will offer to…

News International has finally decided against introducing usage fees for The Sun’s website and is performing a restructure to place more emphasis on advertising sales, paidContent understands.

Welsh-language broadcaster S4C must make significant corporate changes to turn around an online record that is weak, crude and years behind the industry, according to a report it commissioned to influence its digital strategy.

ITV (LSE: ITV) is making 10 dedicated online news producers redundant from regional newsrooms around the UK, as it tries to instill digital capability across its staff, paidContent has learned.

Lonely Planet has created a separate technology startup in San Francisco to develop next-generation social mobile travel guides together with competitors.

A couple of months after being jettisoned in an executive restructure, former AOL (NYSE: AOL) global advertising president Jeff Levick has surfaced as the guy to lead Spotify’s advertising ambitions.

Now is kill-or-cure time for troubled UK TV-VOD service SeeSaw, which has not received promised investment. Platform controller John Keeling, commercial director Matt Rennie and product director Richard Dines resigned last night.

Watching movies on Facebook isn’t new—Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), Paramount and Universal each are trying variations on the theme. But today, paidContent can report, Miramax is launching the largest-scale Facebook streaming movie venture yet, the latest in a series of moves to mine the most ore possible from its rich…

I have seen the future of TV and it is called “Zeebox”. The next project from Anthony Rose, the technologist who built KaZaA and BBC iPlayer in to some of the most disruptive digital media plays, is due to go live in October.

AOL’s post-HuffPost content restructuring is coming to Europe. It is closing its main music and sports sites in the UK - AOL Music and FanHouse - paidContent has learned. A number of staff are in consultation.

A day after AOL (NYSE: AOL) held a gala presentation for analysts in New York’s Soho, execs are now descending on France for the week-long Cannes Lions Festival, the annual gathering of ad agency awards shows and networking. In addition to getting in front of agencies in person, AOL hopes…

Spotify’s global head of business development, Faisal Galaria, has left the music startup, which is now creeping closer to breaking out of Europe.

Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is officially launching an online service offering live video access to breaking and scheduled news events to outside publishers as it attempts to challenge the Associated Press and burnish its profile as more than provider and financial news and data.

Mobile operators have largely been cut out of the mobile content ecosystem as it has been developed by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), but there are still opportunities for them in the wider mobile world. One of these is in the area of mobile marketing: a new survey from YouGov in the…

Spotify is due to name independent label Domino Records’ long-time head of digital Steve Savoca as its U.S. content operations head, paidContent:UK has learned - another sign the music subscription service is gearing up for launch Stateside.