Ingrid Lunden
Jan 23, 2012 5:03 AM
Huffington Post today took one more step in its ongoing march for a wider international reach: it has now officially opened Le Huffington Post for business. This is not the first non-U.S. edition of the news site, but it is the first to produce the content in partnership with an…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 10, 2012 8:03 AM
Today we know a bit more about how Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) plans to extend its business opportunities in the years ahead: mobile services will be playing a key role, and so, it seems, will carriers.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 23, 2011 6:04 PM
Some more detail appears to be emerging in the lead-up to Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) launching in the UK next year: in the midst of signing a series of key content deals, the streaming service looks like it could also be missing out on some of the most popular local TV…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 22, 2011 6:00 AM
This is the fourth in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we cover, from publishing to mobile to advertising. Despite the economic slowdown, digital advertising and marketing revenues grew in 2011 and remained a cornerstone…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 21, 2011 12:09 PM
Android’s Market and the App Store from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may be getting ever-closer to being level in the number of apps on offer, but when it comes to making money for developers, it looks like Apple’s iPhone app storefront is still very much in the lead. And freemium looks…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 12, 2011 7:37 AM
The news aggregating behemoth Huffington Post is continuing its march into new markets: the next stop is Spain, where the site will partner with respected national daily El Pais to produce a local edition.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 6, 2011 7:24 AM
Following on from its acquisition of mobile software developer SPB at the end of November, Yandex is making one more move to increase its ubiquity among the growing number of smartphone users in the country: the search giant is reportedly planning to launch search apps for Apple’s iOS devices by…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 1, 2011 5:51 AM
It’s taken a few years, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has really ramped up the number of countries where it is selling its Kindle products. Today it’s announcing two more countries to the list where it sells its keyboard-free Kindle e-reader, Spain and Italy, where it will sell for €99 ($133),…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 30, 2011 5:15 AM
Here’s why the most valuable part of A&N Media’s digital empire has little to do with news and its display ads, and everything to do with classifieds…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 28, 2011 11:16 AM
Just a few days after DMGT said online car classifieds are proving “challenging”, AutoTrader‘s operator has reported strong gains in the same area.
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Guardian.co.uk
Nov 14, 2011 9:16 AM
Yell Group, the telephone directories business struggling under a £2.6bn debt pile, is hoping to spend £160m buying back its own bonds and is looking to renegotiate the terms of its loan for the second time in two years.
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 28, 2011 7:59 AM
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) appears to be ramping up its activities in China. Today a report notes that the company is in talks with the Chinese government to retail its Kindle products, including e-readers in the country. If true, that would make China the first market in Asia to get a…
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David Kaplan
Oct 25, 2011 9:42 AM
Scott Moore has left his post as partner and executive producer of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) portal MSN to become chief digital officer of Yell Group, the UK-based owner of the Yellow Pages and other local directory services. He’ll be based at a new Yell office to be opened in Seattle,…
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David Kaplan
Oct 19, 2011 12:00 PM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is fully releasing its DoubleClick for Publishers Video ad serving tools after a year of beta testing, as the company looks to accelerate its growing share of display advertising. In particular, small business is considered an untapped market for local video advertising and Google is not only…
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 17, 2011 6:13 AM
Looks like Russia’s search giant Yandex is following in Google’s footsteps once again. Yandex is taking its services to new screens by inking a deal with Samsung to preload access to Yandex on its line of connected TVs as well as its bada-powered feature phones distributed in Russia and other…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 12, 2011 9:28 AM
Johnston Press will use a startup run by a former Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) executive to serve rich media ads across its 273 news sites. It is the latest online service Johnston, now helmed by Ashley Highfield, is outsourcing, following births, deaths and marriages notices; recruitment ads and local business…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 12, 2011 5:14 AM
A TV producer, a rugby club and and a university are the latest players to try filling a content gap in Neath and Port Talbot, the south Wales towns left without a local newspaper when Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) folded its Neath and Port Talbot Guardians in 2009.
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David Kaplan
Oct 10, 2011 5:00 AM
The Huffington Post is planning a French edition—Le Huffington Post—with two established partners who will share equity: The Le Monde Group and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendante. It was not clear if the three will own an equal share.
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 6, 2011 9:42 AM
Today’s big round of cuts announced by the BBC—it will lose some 2,000 jobs, order relocations for others, and make big changes to the programming schedule in order to cut 20 percent from the BBC budget—largely left digital assets at the corporation untouched. But that’s mainly because the BBC had…
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 3, 2011 6:36 AM
There’s no question that apps have become a global phenomenon in the mobile world—and who doesn’t want to catapult a cute red bird onto some logs to kill a pig? But not all apps are as wildly successful as Angry Birds. So just as importantly, when it comes to what…
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