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- Apple's Upsell: The iTunes Pass
- Peter Kafka submits: At Steve Jobs’ insistence, the iTunes music store proposition to customers has always been simple: You pay us 99 cents, you get a song. But that’s starting to change. Earlier this year, the music labels finally got Apple AAPL to agree to a tiered pricing plan...
- External links 2009-02-24
- Liveblogging Amazon's Kindle DX Reveal
- Peter Kafka submits: Big questions at the newest Kindle unveiling at Pace University today: by Peter Kafka
- External links 2009-05-06
- David Geffen Wants a Chunk of The New York Times. But What Does Google Want?
- Peter Kafka submits: David Geffen, who had previously tried to buy the Los Angeles Times, has been trying to buy a chunk of The New York Times NYT. So says Fortune magazine, which says that Geffen offered to buy the stake owned by Harbinger Capital, and so says TheWrap.com...
- External links 2009-05-12
- New York Times Online Payment Plan Coming Soon?
- Peter Kafka submits: The New York Times NYT has already tried charging people to read part of its Web site. Now, like everyone else in the publishing business, it’s trying to figure out how to charge for online access again. A decision could come by the end of June,...
- External links 2009-05-15
- Are Microsoft's Anti-Apple Ads Actually Working?
- Peter Kafka submits: The Web is full of armchair ad critics, particularly when it comes to spots from Apple and Microsoft. And the usual consensus from the chattering classes: Apple ads goooood. Microsoft ads baaaaaad. But Microsoft’s MSFT latest campaign, which features documentary-like tales of youngish...
- External links 2009-05-19
- Why the New York Times Took Carlos Slim Over David Geffen
- Peter Kafka submits: The New York Times turned down a chance to borrow money from Hollywood mogul David Geffen last winter, and went with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim instead. So says he New Yorker, which has an extensive profile of Slim in this issue. Writer Lawrence Wright...
- External links 2009-05-26
- Get Me Rewrite! Boston Globe Union Rejects New York Times Pay Cut
- Peter Kafka submits: Remember a month ago, when the New York Times NYT said it had reached an agreement with a holdout union at the Boston Globe, which would prevent a shutdown of the Times-owned paper? Scratch that. Deal’s off. The Newspaper Guild, which represents some 600 editorial employees...
- External links 2009-06-09
- The New York Times Explains Why It Prints Old News
- Peter Kafka submits: You’ll be hearing about this most of the day, so best to take 5 minutes and watch it now: The Daily Show visits the New York Times NYT. Cheers to the paper for allowing itself to be savaged by correspondent Jason Jones. I particularly enjoyed watching...
- External links 2009-06-11
- Could Movies, Books and Music Be Amazon's Achilles Heel?
- Peter Kafka submits: Even as the rest of the retail world stumbled in the past year, Amazon kept cruising and increasing market share. So if a cratering economy can’t hurt the e-commerce giant, what could? Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney throws out a suggestion: Movies, books and music – the...
- External links 2009-06-22
- Does Google Need to Start Bulking Up Again?
- Peter Kafka submits: When the economy cratered last fall, even mighty Google was forced to pull back on spending: The company stopped growing its workforce, and put several big expensive projects on hold. But that’s likely to change, predicts Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay. He says that while...
- External links 2009-06-25
- Waiting for the Economy to Bounce Back? So Is Google
- Peter Kafka submits: Waiting for the economy to come roaring back? So is Google. The search giant had a decent quarter, but not one that’s going to blow away Wall Street, or convince anyone that the economy is roaring back. But it’s an okay performance for a media company...
- External links 2009-07-17
- New York Times: We Won't Have to Shutter The Boston Globe After All
- Peter Kafka submits: The New York Times NYT, which had threatened to shut down the Boston Globe unless that paper’s unions agreed to major concessions, says it got what it needed from the Globe’s workers, after all. Once exception: The Globe’s unionized editorial employees, who have yet...
- External links 2009-05-04
- Time Warner Makes It Official: AOL Spinoff Is Coming
- Peter Kafka submits: It’s hard for Time Warner TWX to have been clearer about this, but there’s still a bit of confusion out there about the company’s plans to spin off AOL. Maybe this will clear it up: Time Warner told the SEC today that it intends to spin...
- External links 2009-04-29
- Upside at the Washington Post: At Least Web Ads Didn?t Disappear Last Quarter
- Peter Kafka submits: At this point you need to be a skilled relativist to find something positive to say about the newspaper business. Last fall, for instance, executives at the Washington Post Co. WPO could argue that while their flagship newspaper had a lousy third quarter, it represented an...
- External links 2009-02-25
- Can Web Sites Make More Money Selling Fewer Ads?
- Peter Kafka submits: It’s a classic seller’s gambit: Increase prices by cutting supply. The online publishers’ version: Make your ads more valuable by selling fewer ads. Here’s how SmartMoney.com did it, according to Advertising Age. In October, it stopped selling one of the three display ads it sells on...
- External links 2009-03-01
- The New York Times Sells Its HQ, Starts Paying $2 Million a Month in Rent
- Peter Kafka submits: More cash to shore up the New York Times NYT: As the Times itself previously predicted, the paper has sold off most of its portion of its Manhattan headquarters for $225 million. by Peter Kafka
- External links 2009-03-09
- New York Times CEO: We Know What?s Wrong With Our Business. But We're Not Sure What To Do About It
- Peter Kafka submits: Good news for everyone who’s been insisting that the New York Times NYT needs a radical overhaul in order to survive the digital era: CEO Arthur Sulzberger Jr. agrees with you. The bad news: It’s 2009, and he doesn’t know what that overhaul should be. by...
- External links 2009-03-14
- Time Inc. Wonders What You?ll Pay For on the Web
- Peter Kafka submits: Time Warner’s Time Inc. TWX invited the press to its midtown headquarters yesterday to show off the latest and greatest at the publishing group’s digital portfolio. But while Time is happy to boast about its online audience, it is also acknowledging that Web advertising alone may...
- External links 2009-03-19
- Palm: Never Mind Our Earnings - The Pre is Going to be Awesome
- Peter Kafka submits: Give Palm credit: The handset maker, which has been struggling to figure out whether it wants to heighten expectations or dampen them, delivered third quarter results that were just as lousy as it had promised. Palm PALM said it lost 89 cents a share — or...
- External links 2009-03-20
- CBS Says No One's Getting Anything Done at Work: March Madness Web Traffic Up 56 Percent
- Peter Kafka submits: I’ve only watched a couple minutes of March Madness so far, and I haven’t watched a second on my laptop. But apparently I’m in the minority: CBS, which is streaming the entire college basketball tournament for free on the Web, says traffic to its video player...
- External links 2009-03-21
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