It took the whole day, but Facebook finally—as many expected—filed its S-1 with the Securities Exchange Commission for its long-awaited IPO. While guesstimates for how much Facebook would try to raise ranged from $5 billion to $10 billion, in the end, it looks like it is the lower of that…

It remains to be seen whether all social networks can be profitable on advertising alone—and crucially what formats will work best alongside people’s communications with each other—but for now we are at least seeing some big growth in the space.

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…

Is 2012 the year of the Smart TV? Manufacturers would have us believe that.

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…

Last week, the paidContent staff analyzed the sectors we cover most, highlighting the key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012. Some key topics: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), internet TVs, publishing, advertising, legal and the age of ubiquity. Below, links to our coverage:

This is the fifth in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. According to figures from ZenithOptimedia, global advertising revenues will reach $486 billion…

This past week, the paidContent staff has analyzed the most significant developments throughout the year in the sectors we cover most. We’ve taken a look back at the progression of paid content, tech and publishing lawsuits, the many chief executive changes 2011 has seen in digital media, and the year…

Digital music is now mainstream, thanks in part to the MP3. Will the e-book market be next to produce a one-size-fits-all format—a format that is universally readable, freely sharable, and with a reasonably good reproduction quality? The answer to this question, for at least in the foreseeable future, is: not…

Janet Robinson is retiring as president and CEO of The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) at the end of the month, the company announced after the market closed Thursday. Arthur Sulzberger Jr., NYTCo chairman and publisher of The New York Times, will serve as interim CEO until the company…

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.

E-bookseller and e-reader company Kobo is being acquired by Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten for $315 million. The company says it will continue to expand in the U.S., while growing its international market share through Rakuten. Look for upcoming partnerships with fellow Rakuten-owned company Buy.com, as well as a Japanese-language Kobo…

While Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is busy courting developers with free Lumia devices to promote its new mobile OS of choice, Microsoft’s Windows Phone, a timely infographic from Israel’s Inneractive demonstrates that the company’s legacy OS, Symbian, is actually doing quite well when it comes to consumer responsiveness to apps—specifically, one…

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.

Flipboard may have raised $60 million and counting, and Zite may have just been bought by CNN, but another popular reading app, Pulse, sees its growth coming from being on as many platforms as possible, as quickly as it can. This week, the startup plans to go live as a…