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‘Content is king’ again: why Bill Gates may be right after all

For many of us working in the content industries, the last few years have been challe...

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Old media’s prospects have improved but the new media threat looms large
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@ F8: Zuckerberg Wants Users’ Whole Lives, But To What End?
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Newspapers Are Messing Up Their Mobile Strategies, Researchers Say
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@ Midem: Labels Go Cold On Free Music Services; A Challenge To Spotify?
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Exploring the growth of branded content and native advertising – video
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Exploring the growth of branded content and native advertising – video
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Video: How to make digital content blow up
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HuffPo is not for sale, except maybe at the right price
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Microsoft and Skype are dreaming up new ad formats
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East vs West: Tumblr’s Karp on why New York is no ‘Valley Jr.’
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Product makers must tell a good toy story to stay focused
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Mobile boom means big challenges for Vevo’s global roll-out
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Facebook has 220 billion of your photos to put on ice
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Don’t put all your eggs in one cloud

What’s the best way to ensure maximum performance of hosted apps? Depend on multiple ...

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Mobile can be the ‘personalization lens’ for offline stores
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Mobile voice interaction: all-seeing butlers will usurp virtual assistants
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Real-time cloud juggling speeds flight to users
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Meredith’s Schimel: Now moms are early tech adopters, too
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FT’s Grimshaw: Digital subs will soon beat print circulation
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Slovakia’s news payment system going large in July
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Where now for Nook’s global ambition? Apps and Windows
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Learn European digital leaders’ strategies at paidContent 2012
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How tech’s giants want to re-invent journalism
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Video: Slovakia’s Paid Content System Plans To Launch In Bigger Markets
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BSkyB’s Internet TV Service Will Have A New Brand – ‘Now TV’
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Keep Calm, Carry On And Don’t Charge For News, Johnston’s Highfield Says
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Video: Vevo To Launch In Six More Countries, CEO Caraeff Says

The music distributor and service Vevo plans to triple its global footprint in 2012, ...

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Sky’s Internet TV Service Could Offer Pay-As-You-Go Shows
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Yahoo’s Next Strategy: There’s Gold In That There E-Commerce
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The Times Plans Social Sharing Upgrade, Real-Time iPad News
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Android’s China Problem – Schmidt Struggles To Keep Apps In His Market
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Schmidt Reckons Most TVs Will Have Google TV By Mid-2012
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Netflix’s UK Rivals Put Best Face On Imminent Assault
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Forget Smart TV, Is ‘Dumb TV’ The Next Big Thing?
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BBC’s Digital Olympics: Four Screens, 28 Streams, 2,500 Hours
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ITV Pleads For Ad Tech Standardisation
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Re-Examining Digital’s ‘Saint’ McLuhan In His Centenary Year
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@ F8: Can Facebook’s Social Discovery Set Media Alight?
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@ pcAds: Branded Content Combs For A Multi-Screen Opportunity
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@ pcAds: Hearst Wants Tablet Magazines To Adopt Movie, TV Pricing

New device opportunities should allow Hearst to drive its digital revenue model away ...

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Is Vanishing Profit Good For Online Media?
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ISP Music Deals Coming This Summer
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UK Times Plans Upgrade To Its ‘Berlin Wall’
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Mail Online Kicking Google OnePass’ Tyres
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Who’s Really Distorting The Paid Content Opportunity?
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@ pC2011: Publishers Learn To Live With Google’s Black Box
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Ahead Of The Shake-Out, Sony Says IPTV Sales Going Well
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@ AOP: Guardian, Mail Seeing Healthy Half-Year Digital Growth
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@ AOP: BBCWW Starts Thinking About YouView VOD
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Vodafone: more data tiers will come on mobile networks
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Vodafone: more data tiers will come on mobile networks
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Vodafone Getting Serious On Network Limits: More Data Caps Will Come
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Nokia’s Fightback Does Not Start Here
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@ paidContent Mobile: Live NBA Games Coming To iPad This Fall

“We anticipate we’ll have our live streaming games available on iPad in the fall,” NB...

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@ paidContent Mobile: American BBC Subscribers Devouring Radio 4
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paidContent Mobile: BBC.com’s Miranda Cresswell On Profiting From Auntie
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London 2012 Olympics Plans To Profit Online
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Photos From Our London Meetup & Panel
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London Meetup: 8 Reasons To Cheer The Future Of Digital Media
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‘The General News Business Is Dead – RIP’
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@ CMS2010: Jimmy Wales: Papers Should Ditch Columnists, Google Is Naive
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@ CMS2010: A Dose Of Wolff: Rupe’s Mad As Hell, Newspapers Are Over
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WPP’s Sorrell: Google Blundered In China, Should Open Its Robe To Europe
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FT Will Use PayPal For Daily, Weekly Payments
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FT Will Use PayPal For Daily, Weekly Payments
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BBC’s Thompson: Web Cull Is Biggest Part Of Our Cutbacks
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First Look: How Penguin Will Reinvent Books With iPad
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Vodafone Claims 450,000 Music Subscribers

No single kind of digital service is going to save the music business on its own, but...

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Tap’s Revenge: Profiting From Pirates; Shazam Booming, Too
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@ Midem: New MusicDNA Format Wants To Bolt Rich Media On To MP3
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@ Midem: Spotify CEO: Everything Hangs On The Library
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@ Midem: Kodak Owns A Stake In TweetPhoto Service
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@ Midem: MySpace Eyes Virtual Goods, Will Help Pay Musicians $15 Million
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IFNCs: Trinity Mirror Amongst Five Expected Wales Bidders
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IFNCs: Consortia May Have To Give Away Content For Free
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IFNCs: Consortia May Have To Give Away Content For Free
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World Editors Forum: Mirror’s Kelly: We Must Put Search Engines In Their Place
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Tweet Of The Week: Poke London’s @nikroope On… Twitter
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Tweet Of The Week: Poke London’s @nikroope On… Twitter
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Tweet Of The Week: @CliveAndrews On ‘Content’
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Tweet Of The Week: @CliveAndrews On ‘Content’
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@ C&binet: Creative Industries So Far Divided On The Way Ahead
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@ C&binet: Vivendi Wants UK ‘Three-Strikes’, Mandelson Announcement Due Wednesday
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@ C&binet: Free Content Must Pack A Paid Punch

Is there such thing as a free lunch? Chris Anderson’s book says yes, when the food ju...

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Our London Mixer In Pictures, Audio And Tweets
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@ AOP: An Uncertain Media Mulls Charging With Little Enthusiasm
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@AOP: C4 Chairman: Old Media’s Party Is Over
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@ AOP: Murdoch On Paywalls Is ‘The Flip-Flopper In Chief’
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@ AOP: Hoberman & Meyer: VCs Must Take More Risks
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Corrected: Obama’s Web Strategist Not Helping Olympics Or Labour Party
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ITV Dreams Of VOD Micropayments, Through An ‘Online Oyster Card’
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ITV Dreams Of VOD Micropayments, Through An ‘Online Oyster Card’
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@ MEM: Mobile Biz Expects Content Sales To Keep Growing
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@ MEM: Mobile Biz Expects Content Sales To Keep Growing
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@ MEM: Vodafone Bets On Web Widgets, Not Apps
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@ MEM: Mobile Biz Expects Content Sales To Keep Growing
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@ MEM: ‘Too Many App Stores’, So Why No Hulu For Apps?
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@ MEM: O2’s Tanya Field On Gender, iPhone And Digital Britain
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@ MEM: O2’s Tanya Field On Gender, iPhone And Digital Britain
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@ Radio Reborn: New Online Player, Nokia DAB, Rules Call

The BBC and commercial radio operators have confirmed earlier-reported plans to team ...

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Trinity’s Bailey Still Fighting Google, ‘Unique Users Don’t Pay Wages’
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Undigital Britain: A Vision For An Unconnected Policyscape
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Hulu Eating At Digital Britain’s Table; Kangaroo Gently Weeps
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UMG’s Grainge: Media Entering Global Warming, Music Needs Graduated Response
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New Google UK Boss Brittin Defends Street View, YouTube
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New Google UK Boss Brittin Defends Street View, YouTube
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TIML Urges Patience On Absolute Radio Performance
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TIML Urges Patience On Absolute Radio Performance
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BBC May ‘Monetise’ And Share iPlayer, Plans £400 Million Savings
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BBC May ‘Monetise’ And Share iPlayer, Plans £400 Million Savings
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Pop Idol Maker Wants VOD Micropayments, Three-Strikes For TV Freeloaders
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Pop Idol Maker Wants VOD Micropayments, Three-Strikes For TV Freeloaders
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Carter: ‘Not A Lot You Can Do’ About Web Ads Turmoil
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Carter: ‘Not A Lot You Can Do’ About Web Ads Turmoil
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MidemNet Thoughts: Music Biz Chasing Its Tail; Is Legal P2P The Answer?
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MidemNet Thoughts: Music Biz Chasing Its Tail; Is Legal P2P The Answer?
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@ MidemNet Roundup: 7Digital Revenue, Isle Of Man, QTrax/PRS, We7/Beggars, Gracenote
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@ MidemNet Roundup: 7Digital Revenue, Isle Of Man, QTrax/PRS, We7/Beggars, Gracenote
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@ MidemNet: ISP Music Accord ‘Weeks Away’, But Will It Be Fee Or Free?
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@ MidemNet: ISP Music Accord ‘Weeks Away’, But Will It Be Fee Or Free?
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@ MidemNet: BlackBerry’s Balsille Sees ‘Music 2.0,’ But Can RIM Really Be In It?

Midem was only too happy to oblige its lead sponsor BlackBerry with a keynote Q&A...

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@ MidemNet: Robbie Williams’ Manager Attacks Govt On P2P Regulation
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@ MidemNet: Google’s Eun On Music: Some Labels Too Defensive
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@ MidemNet: Music Tipping Point In 2013, Spurred By Social Media, Subscriptions
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@ MidemNet: MySpace Music’s Holt On Challenges, Going Global In Q2
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@ MidemNet: MP3.com’s Robertson Vs EMI’s Nicoli: A Legal Divide; Music Biz Failed Like Wall Street
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@ MidemNet: MP3.com’s Robertson Vs EMI’s Nicoli: A Legal Divide; Music Biz Failed Like Wall Street
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@ MidemNet: Nokia Taking Music Service To Australia, Singapore This Quarter
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@ MidemNet: Nokia Taking Music Service To Australia, Singapore This Quarter
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