On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, another magazine publisher is gearing up to join the seven-figure club: Hearst says it is on track to reach one million paying subscribers to its digital editions in…

Some heartening news for Android device makers today from the mouth of Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will continue to back those of them facing legal disputes over patents. But that’s not stopping those device makers from shoring up their patent licensing deals, just in case. The latest…

Samsung’s legal setback in Australia—where the courts have now issued a formal, if temporary, injunction on its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet after patent claims from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)—is not the only bit of bad Apple news it had yesterday. In the Netherlands, it said that it has made changes to…

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.

Online media owners, on a panel at our paidContent 2011 conference, reported differing impacts from Google’s recent algorithm tweak in the name of “quality”.

A little over a year after joining Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) as SVP and editorial director of the news service’s Professional division, ex-BusinessWeek editor Stephen J. Adler will now run the unified Reuters News unit.  Adler has also been named to the newly created position of EVP, News, overseeing the…

Alisa Bowen, who has worked on overhauling Reuters’ consumer business, is heading to Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) to run the company’s digital business. Bowen was one of the point people on Reuters’ website redesign iPhone and iPad apps. She will now set the strategy, development and operations for the WSJ.com,…

As part of its continuing efforts to build out its multimedia strategy, Reuters.com is developing a series of online video programming for its website. Plans call for a daily “morning show” that would be aimed at a general business audience, said Keith McAllister, editor and publisher for Reuters’ Consumer Media,…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is doubling down in its patent fight against Nokia (NYSE: NOK), and is hitting Nokia a little closer to home by expanding its lawsuit to Britain. Nokia initially kicked off the legal battle close to a year ago when it filed suit against the iPhone maker in…

Two months after the Slate Group folded its business news site The Big Money, its former editor-in-chief James Ledbetter is heading to Reuters (NYSE: TRI) to run the company’s website, paidContent has learned. Both Reuters and Ledbetter confirmed the hiring. Ledbetter had stayed on to write for Slate.com following the…

—Brightcove: The web video company is hiring Citrix’s Asia-Pacific VP to the same post in its own company”. It’s doubled its customer base to 1,800 in the first half of this year. —Thomson Reuters: The agency is adding former Die Zeit newspaper editor and Germany culture secretary Dr Michael Naumann…

Reuters (NYSE: TRI) has promoted three media execs this week to reflect the constant changes and challenges for news organizations in the digital space, according to a memo obtained by paidContent. Keith McAllister, the former CEO of syndicated online content company Mochila who was hired  just over a year ago…

So, CEOs will be wandering around, toting iPads with critical business info on, right? Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) think so… I chatted with the consumer publishing division’s SVP Alisa Bowen, who said it’s “the perfect platform to engage with C-level executives” and who outlined the opportunity tablets present for business…

Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is shuffling two of it senior editors after moving one to focus on multimedia output alongside Chris Cramer. —EMEA managing editor Mark Thompson is becoming multimedia managing editor, remaining London-based, reporting to global multimedia editor Cramer. —Americas managing editor Brian Rhoads (pictured) will fill the Asia…

After spending much of the past year focusing its multimedia products at consumers, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) will introduce an on-demand, customizable online web video service that’s mainly for its paying subscribers. The service, called Reuters Insider, has been in the works for two years and makes its debut on…

Four months after redesigning its .com consumer website with a cleaner, more advertiser-friendly look, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) will get around to giving Reuters.co.uk the same lick of paint this coming Friday. “We’ve been hiding our light under a bushell as a consumer-facing organisation,” Thomson Reuters’ consumer media general manager Tim…

As major newspaper publishers have seen profits return and ad declines slow a bit, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is hoping that the time is right to sell a new product designed to enhance understaffed business sections. The news wire plans to unveil its Reuters Financial Infographics initiative, which provides automated delivery…

Nicholas Wheeler is stepping down from his position as the managing director of ITN On, the multi-platform division of news supplier ITN, reports Broadcast. He had been with the company 14 years and it is not known what his next position will be. Wheeler’s departure comes amid a restructuring at…

The media segment in Thomson Reuters’ Q4 results can be seen as a microcosm of the segment’s performance for the overall year. Both full-year and Q4 media revenues declined 8 percent. The company, now based in Toronto, pointed to “continued pressure” on the Professional Publishing and Advertising businesses.  The same…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q408	Net Inc. vs Q408
Thomson Reuters	Release		1%	68.4%

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