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Jobs’ Legacy: An Actual Consumer Model For Digital Content

Steve Jobs was the man who halted one media sector’s slide in to oblivion. Bringing o...

By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Telcos’ digital services could earn little yet still be valuable
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Music service Rara faces challenge to turn free in to $0.99
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Google, Yahoo see contrasting fortunes in South Korea
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Google News faces mass newspaper boycott in Brazil
By Robert Andrews  
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Market analysis
Musicians get paltry pay from worldwide digital play
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
Music supplier 7digital takes $10 million to do on-demand, radio
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
Nokia’s Lumia sales shrink; on to the next model again
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
What The Guardian really thinks about newsprint
By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators

Why France leads the IPTV world — but isn’t winning the race

The country that was long addicted to its aging Minitel national computer information...

By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
Internet may soon beat TV as main source of national news
By Robert Andrews  
M&A analysis
Dailymotion nears ownership switch with kids subscription plan
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
What does Yahoo want with Summly?
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Last.fm revels in its scrobbles as radio bar is raised farther
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
‘Russian CrunchBase’ raises $3 million to showcase RuNet startups
By Robert Andrews  
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Industry moves
Guardian hires first digital strategy director to grow online business
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
Tvinci raises $4.5 million to pitch its mobile TV platform worldwide
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
No more daily deals, new digital newspaper focus for Trinity Mirror
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Newspapers go to Rio for growth and discovery
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Guardian CEO says digital opportunity is “fantastic” but revenues are lagging
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Investors like New York Times‘ ‘paywall’ progress
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
US app ads help fund Chinese mobile ‘propaganda’
By Robert Andrews  
Analyst Views

Analysts: Apple may have better shot at Apple TV outside the US

While Apple TV(s AAPL) already exists as a set-top box “hobby,” prospects for it turn...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Europe wants to smash ‘barriers’ to digital health
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Spotify solves discovery by discovering music ain’t so social after all
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Spotify’s progress: challenging Rhapsody but freemium gap growing
By Robert Andrews  
Interviews
Interview: How News Corp’s Times will use cheap tablets to sell content
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
BBC begins UltraViolet streaming access for DVDs
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Pearson wants developers to remix its Dickens, Dorling Kindersley
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Can finger-biting Charlie profit from spin-off series?
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
YouTube adds more channels in original content expansion
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Let’s get physical: in music, bits take on appearance of atoms
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
In Warner’s stable, Deezer has funds for costly global Spotify fight
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Video portal LeTV going to Chinese living rooms through its own TVs
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Could TV’s ‘second screen’ be used for even more TV?
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Search engines escape Russia’s internet blacklist

More and more sites are getting blacklisted by Russia’s new hitlist of digital child ...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Coming in 2013 – targeted TV ads
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Leveson: Social media and blogs aren’t popular enough to carry proper news
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Leveson tied in knots over online news regulation
By Robert Andrews  
Insights
Inquiry: ‘Reckless’ UK press needs new regulator
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Lessons learned: The Independent to drop American digital charges
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Virgin Media readying to launch belated second-screen intiative
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Japanese music pirates face jail, big fines
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Yandex latest to build an empire off Google’s back
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Irish Times learns from its start-up incubator winner, finalists
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Forecast: Internet will take more than a fifth of ad dollars by 2014
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Research: Mobile search ad spending has slowed down this year
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
New Media Age folds in to Econsultancy
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Scoopshot is another UGC photo agency, but can it spot fakes?

Mobile citizen photojournalism intermediary start-up Scoopshot is closing out a fundi...

By Robert Andrews  
Essays
New BBC boss should stick with Entwistle’s bold online plan
By Robert Andrews  
Earnings analysis
Mail Online’s 2013 resolution: money for video
By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
Where Europe’s subscribers are — and aren’t
By Robert Andrews  
Funding analysis
Ex Apple VP backs payment platform Cleeng to break U.S.
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
NFC payments already a $500 million business in Russia?
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
Sales growth outpacing audience growth at world’s biggest online newspaper
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Newsprint joins the internet of things
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
HuffPo goes to Italy, asks more of UK edition
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Megaupload arrest tactics deemed unlawful as Kim Dotcom vows to ride again
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Frustrated with poor mobile sales, publishers blame ad agencies
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Guardian’s chief investigator wants ISP tax to fund journalism
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
Mobile can be the ‘personalization lens’ for offline stores
By Robert Andrews  
Conference reports

HuffPo is not for sale, except maybe at the right price

Within months of AOL acquiring Arianna Huffington’s blog and news network in 2011, re...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Second-screen hopefuls hard-pressed to disrupt Hollywood ‘cabal’
By Robert Andrews  
Conference reports
Microsoft and Skype are dreaming up new ad formats
By Robert Andrews  
Conference reports
East vs West: Tumblr’s Karp on why New York is no ‘Valley Jr.’
By Robert Andrews  
Funding analysis
After Flipboard and Tumblr, Chernin bets on YouTube video boom
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Pulse competitor Taptu sold to Mediafed for mobile ad exposure
By Robert Andrews  
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Analyst Views
Analyst: Streaming music may already be hitting a ceiling
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Official: Yellow pages may be worthless
By Robert Andrews  
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Industry moves
The Guardian has a new chief digital officer
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Android video mess calls BBC to replace Flash with… Flash
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
TV sees itself in a ‘second screen’ primed for popularity
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Research: Social now sucking eyeballs from search
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
New BBC chief vows to re-invent content, not just re-purpose it
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

In China video wars, giants battle, upstart rides Android to homes

When it comes to internet video, China’s giant online services operator Tencent seems...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Russian ‘social TV network’ Videomore expanding as JV like Hulu
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Crowdfunding helps non-starters and re-livers ride again
By Robert Andrews  
Earnings analysis
Five ways digital isn’t working for Trinity Mirror
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Two years later, Virgin’s two-screen app takes TV wireless – via Ethernet
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Streaming media could have larger carbon footprint than plastic discs
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Spotify for TV – could it finally be true?
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Web adds a fifth to UK newspaper readership, print still dominates
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Music service Omnifone on acquisition trail as it moves to profit
By Robert Andrews  
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Industry moves
News Corp picks Cheesbrough to lead technology strategy
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
Ivi.ru is Hollywood’s route to Russian VOD
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
‘EE’, UK’s first 4G network, caps T-Mobile and Orange, adds fibre broadband
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
iTunes Store may launch in Russia, cheaper than U.S.
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

The Telegraph brings web meter, mobile subs to overseas readers

UK news publisher Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is the latest to try two vogeuish flavo...

By Robert Andrews  
Analyst Views
As paid content booms, will ad opportunities shrink?
By Robert Andrews  
Essays
The very long tail – how magazines could make their archives sing
By Robert Andrews  
M&A analysis
Paywall provider Piano buys cookie-beater to build a better meter
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Domino’s aims to eat in to Netflix with its own VOD offering
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Perform’s online sports roll-up continues with Sportal acquisition
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Finnish publisher Sanoma cutting and charging to adapt for future
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
Mail.ru Group sees user payments boost as it turns down advertising
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
French publishers unite real-time ad buying efforts
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Russia may get its own national flavor of Android
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Tesco fills the e-books piece of its digital puzzle by buying Mobcast
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
Majorca’s Playspace takes Miami money to build social games
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Baidu shows China pushing forward mobile, cloud, maps and apps
By Robert Andrews  
Earnings analysis

Russians happy to pay for Mail.ru’s games and gifts

One of Russia’s leading internet services operators is seeing continuing success from...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Lovefilm’s Kindle inclusion helps Amazon’s global content ambitions
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Updated: Homeless hawk codes, not content, as charity mag adds digital edition
By Robert Andrews  
Funding analysis
Italian publishers’ online ad firm financed to develop new formats
By Robert Andrews  
M&A analysis
Yelp buys Europe’s Qype for $50 million to globalize its local reviews
By Robert Andrews  
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Industry moves
Out of frying pan, HMV’s Fox picked to stoke Trinity Mirror’s fire
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Spotify gets a leg-up in Germany from Deutsche Telekom bundling
By Robert Andrews  
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