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- Hyperlocal Newswire Fwix Launches In 12 UK Cities; But Is It Local Enough?
- As local enthusiasts, laid-off journalists and established news publishers try to replace disappearing local newspapers with community-specific websites, Darian Shirazi, founder of US real-time local news aggregator Fwix, thinks he can help.Fwix runs 80 US city-based newsfeeds bringing together pro-amateur blogs and professional content and reaches some nine million...
- External links 2009-10-05
- Incisive Media Carved In Two By Private Equity Backers
- B2B publisher Incisive Media’s private equity backer is splitting the business in to two, FT.com reports.Apax Partners, which owns 59 percent of Incisive, will take full control of its US-based American Lawyer Media portfolio of magazines, websites and events, which Incisive bought for $630 million (£387 million) in 2007.Apax...
- External links 2009-09-03
- UK eBook Publisher Signs Google Books Content Deal
- UK ebook publisher Interead has partnered with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to add more than one million “public domain” books to its Coolerbooks.com site and Cool-er e-reader, making it the first book publisher outside the U.S. to sign up with the search giant. Critics including the German government have warned...
- External links 2009-09-02
- Germany Opposes Google's Books Settlement In US Court Filing
- Germany has declared itself an enemy of Google’s ambitious and controversial plans to digitise millions of out-of-print books, fearing the creation of an unfavourable “new copyright regime”. In a filing to a New York court on Tuesday, Angela Merkel’s administration urged US authorities not to green light Google’s settlement...
- External links 2009-09-02
- Earnings: Vivendi H1 Up On Games, Digital Music Growth
- Fast growing digital music sales and the ongoing popularity of online multiplayer video games helped Vivendi (EPA: VIV) to a recession-beating 15 percent year-on-year revenue growth in the first half of 2009.—Activision Blizzard: The games division continued to power on - revenues up 300 percent from last year to...
- External links 2009-09-01
- EC Media Commissioner Backs Google Books Plan
- Given all the controversy, legal action and anti-trust scrutiny surrounding Google’s plans to digitise millions of books, the search giant has been given some welcome backing from European Commissioner Viviane Redding. The outspoken French politician and former journalist, responsible for Europe’s digital media policies, said in a Q&A document...
- External links 2009-08-28
- UK Newspapers Want £1 Million From Aggregators; 5p A Link
- The Newspaper Licensing Agency tells paidContent:UK it wants news monitoring companies and “content-scraping” aggregators to give it “circa 10 percent” of their revenues for the privilege. At the NLA’s estimate, aggregators and PR monitors like Moreover and Newsnow make a combined £10 million in annual revenue, meaning £1 million...
- External links 2009-08-28
- Global Gaming's Pirate Bay Deal Approved By Shareholders
- The new Pirate Bay is born: Global Gaming Factory X’s long-running and controversial attempt to buy the infamous and often outlawed Torrent-tracking site has been approved by the company’s shareholders. It’s against all the odds: key investors pulled out of the the SEK60 million (£5.1 million) deal in the...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Pirate Bay Buyer Revises Deal At Eleventh Hour, Faces Market Delisting
- With hours to go until its deadline, would-be Pirate Bay buyer Global Gaming Factory X is having to perform a financial contortionist act to convince shareholders and market authorities its acquisition can work.Though it last week said funding for the acquisition had been secured, just hours before presenting the...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Earnings: WPP Revenue Slides But Digital Target On Track
- In the first half of 2009, advertising group WPP made one quarter of its revenue from its digital activities, showing that advertisers are investing in new online ways to track, measure and expose their brands in the recession. In an unaudited interim report covering the six months to June...
- External links 2009-08-26
- Alibaba Removes Classifieds Business From Yahoo China
- Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is facing a setback in its plans to build market share and revenue in Asia: Alibaba Group, which runs Yahoo China and is 39 percent-owned by Yahoo, is separating classified listings business Koubei.com from Yahoo China and adding it to its own retail site Taobao.com, as...
- External links 2009-08-24
- Londonpaper Closure: Murdoch Has Lost Faith In Free
- Thelondonpaper‘s launch team, led by former Campaign editor Stefano Hatfield, flew to New York in 2006 to convince Rupert Murdoch and his executives that the plan would work: easy-going, care-free news for young professionals to flick through on the Tube back to Hampstead, Clapham and Shepherds Bush. A captive...
- External links 2009-08-20
- FT.com Profiling IP Numbers To Drive Corporate Subs
- FT.com’s subscription sales team is now mining the site’s traffic logs to target companies whose staff visit its free stories most often. Profiling firm Trovus has been hired for the task, hoping to add to FT.com’s 600 corporate subscriptions.Trovus is monitoring the IP address of frequent readers to find...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Fox Launches Pay Euro Soccer Streaming Service
- Fox Sports International has unveiled a premium subscription video service showing every game from the UEFA Champions’ League soccer tournament, the world’s most glamorous and lucrative club competition. The preliminary rounds of the league gets underway Wednesday, and prices range from $9.95 for a single match to $99.95 for...
- External links 2009-08-18
- Why Ridding And Murdoch Can't Stop Talking About Pay Walls
- Rupert Murdoch and Financial Times CEO John Ridding sure like talking about why newspapers should charge for content—but few papers have followed FT.com in charging and none are yet as squarely behind Murdoch. Ridding appears in yet another newspaper today (NYTimes.com), talking up the paid content paradigm. But what’s...
- External links 2009-08-18
- UK's Perform Signs Soccer VOD Deals With CONCACAF, Univision
- British online sports management company Perform has signed a deal with CONCACAF, the North, Central American and Caribbean soccer authority, to provide VOD highlights to its CONCACAF.com site from October, meaning fans will be able to watch the national US team in action.The company already provides video—and online sales...
- External links 2009-08-14
- Terra, Telemundo Stream USA Soccer Match Online
- The USA soccer team kicks off its tricky World Cup qualifier match against Mexico's national side later today (4pm ET/1pm PT), but if you're still at work you could watch the whole thing for free on Futbolestar.tv, from Spanish-language online publisher Terra USA and NBCU-owned Latin American broadcaster Telemundo....
- External links 2009-08-12
- FT.com Considering iTunes-Style Micro-Payments Model
- FT.com executives are considering introducing a pay-as-you-read model loosely based on Apple's iTunes to increase its digital revenues further. FT.com MD Rob Grimshaw told paidContent:UK in an interview that the site is "exploring the possibility of pay-per-view" and could introduce some form of micropayment model within 12 months, as...
- External links 2009-08-07
- France Joins Germany In Google Books Protest
- First Germany, now France. Nicolas Sarkozy’s government has written to a US court urging it to stop a $125 million settlement between Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and US book publishers, warning that Google will have unfair control over European works and a “monopoly on digitising European orphan works without permission”...
- External links 2009-09-08
- Email Marketer ExactTarget Buys UK's Keymail Marketing
- Indianapolis email marketing firm ExactTarget has bought London-based Keymail Marketing to spearhead a new international division. The acquisition, which is for an undisclosed sum, means Keymail’s London office will be the centre of ExactTarget’s operations outside North America and a base to take on the UK and Europe markets.The...
- External links 2009-09-08
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