M&A analysis

Securities Analytics Firm Data Explorers Acquired By Markit

Data Explorers, an analytics and analysis firm which helps subscribers track short-se...

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Company strategy
Orange Fancies Itself As GetGlue, Miso Social TV Rival
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Company strategy
Amazon Frustrates With ‘Suspension’ Of Kindle Newspaper Additions
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Company strategy
Video: Print’s Not Dead, It’s Getting High In The Sky
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Company strategy
UK VOD Regulator’s Competency To Be Reviewed
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Conference reports
Video: Slovakia’s Paid Content System Plans To Launch In Bigger Markets
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Conference reports
Video: Vevo To Launch In Six More Countries, CEO Caraeff Says
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Conference reports
Keep Calm, Carry On And Don’t Charge For News, Johnston’s Highfield Says
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Conference reports
BSkyB’s Internet TV Service Will Have A New Brand – ‘Now TV’
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Insights
Video: The Future Of The Remote Control In The Age Of Internet TV
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Company strategy
BBC Overcomes Xbox Hurdles To Launch iPlayer With Kinect Control
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Company strategy
All3Media Bypassing Broadcasters, Aggregators On Connected TV Screens
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Company strategy
Chinese Writers’ Apple Book Piracy Claims Grow Louder
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Industry moves

Social TV’s Zeebox Aims At U.S. Under Time Warner’s Forbes

Second-screen social TV startup Zeebox has poached Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) Medi...

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Company strategy
More Papers Put Faith In Daily Deals And Tablet Payments As Profit Shrinks
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M&A analysis
Cisco Wants To Buy News Corp’s TV Software Maker NDS For $5 Billion
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Company strategy
Slovenia’s Big Pay ‘Wall’ Has Made €26,000
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Company strategy
Britannica Ends Printing, Now Will Face Wikipedia On Price, Quality
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Company strategy
How Netflix’s Hastings Could Get BSkyB Off An Anti-Trust Charge
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M&A analysis
Youku And Tudou Merge To Create Chinese Online Video Powerhouse
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
For Connected TV, The New Last Mile Is Dining Room To Living Room
By Robert Andrews  
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Insights
Germany Wants To Charge Search Engines To Use News Excerpts
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BBC Plans iTunes Competitor With Download Fees For New And Old Shows
Company strategy
BBC Plans iTunes Competitor With Download Fees For New And Old Shows
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Virgin’s TiVo Slow-Mo: An iPad App, Two Years Later
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Funding analysis
Roku Needs To Raise $50 Million To Go Global
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Company strategy
Second Screen Must Find Its Own Voice To Redefine TV
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Conference reports

Sky’s Internet TV Service Could Offer Pay-As-You-Go Shows

BSkyB’s upcoming over-the-top internet TV service could create a new post-subscriptio...

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Company strategy
Revenge Of The Replicas – 70 UK Papers Hit iOS In One Go
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Earnings analysis
Axel Springer Fears Public Media Apps Will Blunt Digital Tipping Point
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Company strategy
Facebook TV Vote Slip-Up Earns Warning For Channel 5
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Company strategy
Flipboard Goes French And More Magazine-Like
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Earnings analysis
ITV Has Turned Around Online Fortunes With VOD, Next Comes New News Site
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Earnings analysis
Interview: UBM CEO Says Print Sell-Offs Complete, Digital Tip Point Ahead
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Interviews
Interview: FT CEO Denies Sale And Braves Strike Ahead Of Social Launch
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Earnings analysis
Pearson Sees Digital Income Beating Print Publishing In 2012
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Company strategy
Social TV Startup Zeebox Seeks Impact With TV Campaign
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House prices
Earnings analysis
Property Ads About To Quit Newspapers For Web, Rightmove Reckons
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Earnings analysis
Informa To Launch E-Book Portal As B2B Publishers Push Toward Digital
By Robert Andrews  
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Interviews
Interview: Vogue Publisher Plans To Digitize Archives For Tablet Long Tail
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Company strategy

Condé Nast Aims To Unify Tablet And Mobile Magazine Production

Wired and GQ magazine publisher Condé Nast is amongst those now seeking a cost-effect...

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Company strategy
Google Gets More Live Stock Data To Compete With Rivals
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Market indicators
Magazine Publishers Running Ahead Of Auditors With UK Digital Editions
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Company strategy
Two Become One: How Magazines Will Ape Their Apps
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Market indicators
Revealed: Rate Cards Show UK News Sites’ Bulls And Beggars
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
News Corp Sees Digital Payments Soften But Not Reverse UK Sales Decline
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Company strategy
YouTube’s Missing Monetization Makes Its Internet TV Prospects Patchy
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Meltwater, UK Newspapers Each Get Partial Victory In Web Fees Ruling
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Newspaper Ethics Scandal Has Not Yet Hurt Sun Sales
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Zeebox Searches For Money In TV’s Social Second Screen
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Company strategy
Virgin Media Slow To Build A Revolution On TiVo
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Market indicators
Never Mind The Numbers: Mail Online And New York Times Are Chalk And Cheese
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Earnings analysis
Virgin Media Profits As On-Demand Viewing Grows
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Earnings analysis

Mail Online Income Quickening After U.S. Expansion

Mail Online’s annual revenue growth rate has accelerated to a high of 70 percent foll...

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Earnings analysis
Milestone: Digital Gains Offset Magazines’ Decline At Future
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Company strategy
Exclusive Video: Mirror.co.uk Relaunches Amid Group Cuts
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Earnings analysis
Uneven E-book Growth Sees Lagardere Book Sales Slim
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Company strategy
Academics Revolt Against Elsevier’s Journal Pricing
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
BT Overhauling Vision As It Maintains Summer YouView Launch Forecast
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
As Sky Growth Slows, Can Internet Defend It From Downturn And New Rivals?
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Company strategy
Sky Will De-Couple Pay-TV Content From Satellite For IPTV Era
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Sky to create 1,000 jobs
Company strategy
Sky Adding Broadcaster-Branded VOD Services From BBC And ITV
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
The Times And Spotify: Why Pay When Everything’s Free?
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Company strategy
Administrators Seeking Buyers For IP Vision
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Company strategy
Netflix Sees Overseas Losses Doubling To $118 Million This Quarter
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Company strategy
iBooks 2 Is ‘A Huge Missed Opportunity’, Publisher’s Developer Says
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Company strategy

Future’s Newsstand Transformation: 75,000 New Subscribers

UK magazine publisher Future made $1 million in new tablet magazine revenue within a ...

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Market indicators
Research: Professionals With iPads Are Deserting Printed Media
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Interviews
Interview: News Int. Hacking Scandal Has Spurred Innovation
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Interviews
Interview: ‘No Decision’ On Sun Paywall In Absence Of NOTW
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Company strategy
UK’s Biggest Regional Newspaper Ending Web Fees
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Company strategy
X Factor Maker FremantleMedia Has Beefed Up UK Digital Operations
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Company strategy
Lovefilm Adding ABC TV Show Archive In UK Netflix Fight
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Company strategy
Illegal Books Available For Free On Google’s Android Market
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IPO analysis
China’s State Media Plan IPOs For Their Online Operations
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
China Round-Up: E-book Wars, Digital Music Opportunity And Games Go Large
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Company strategy
Guardian Starts Charging 280,000 iPad Readers From Friday; How Will It Go?
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Interviews
Interview Part 2: Netflix’s Hastings Hurt By Criticism But Over Transition
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Interviews
Interview Part 1: Netflix’s Hastings Aims To Challenge BSkyB
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Funding analysis

BSkyB Buys Stake In Social TV Start-Up Zeebox

News Corp-controlled pay-TV firm BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is buying itself a foothold in the...

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Company strategy
Netflix Has Launched In UK, Price War With Amazon’s Lovefilm
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Company strategy
Lovefilm Adding More ITV, BBC Worldwide Archive TV
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Company strategy
The Lesser-Spotted Android Magazine: Future’s T3
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Company strategy
Connected TV: BBC News On Sony, Absolute On Samsung, PlayJam Adds Games
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Company strategy
Lovefilm Adding More ITV, BBC Worldwide Archive TV
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Company strategy
Strictly Dance Costumes Cost Girls £5.95 A Month On Stardoll
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Company strategy
Future Launching TechRadar State-Side To Turn U.S. Fortunes
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Company strategy
Kobo Book Buyers Up 10x At Christmas On New E-Reader Gifts
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Premier League Rights: Google And Apple Unlikely To Bid
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Market indicators
Research: One In 40 In UK Got The Gift Of E-Reader This ‘Kindle Christmas’
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Analyst Views
Apple Wants To Offer Subscription TV Packages, Analyst Says
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Company strategy
EU To Focus On Digital Content Policy In 2012
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Company strategy

What’s Coming In 2012: Internet TVs Out-Box The Boxes

This is the third in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, comp...

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Market indicators
Online Video Sales Growing In China
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Market indicators
Mobile News Consumption Is Highest In UK
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Market indicators
The Most-Read Newspaper Websites In Europe
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Funding analysis
ePub Direct Funded To Supply E-Books To Kindle, iBooks Et Al
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
China E-Reader Sales Down Thanks To Lack Of Content
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Analyst Views
Analyst: Downturn And Intransigence Pushing French Papers To Web, Oblivion
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Company strategy
TV Traction: BBC Gets Comcast Leap, Al Jazeera Relies On Online
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Company strategy
Publishers’ Social Site aNobii Relaunches To Put The ‘Book’ In ‘Facebook’
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Company strategy
Axel Springer Becomes Industry’s Latest Newsstand And Flipboard Clone
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Company strategy
BBC Now Allowing Mobile iPlayer To Stream On Mobile Networks
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Company strategy
UltraViolet’s First Web Channels Are Now Live, Now It’s Going Global
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Conference reports
Schmidt Reckons Most TVs Will Have Google TV By Mid-2012
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Company strategy

From Leanback To Stand-Up, iPad’s Flipboard Flips To Phone

After demonstrating how tablets trump smartphones and PCs for leisurely and long-form...

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Company strategy
BSkyB ‘Perplexed’ By On-Demand Movie Judgement
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Company strategy
Europe Probing Apple And Publishers For E-book Price ‘Cartel’
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M&A analysis
The ‘Hangover’ Part II: Business Publishers Tipped For Slower Growth
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Company strategy
The Camera In The Book: Engaging Paddington On iPad
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M&A analysis
The ‘Hangover’ Part II: Business Publishers Tipped For Slower Growth
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M&A analysis
Mecom Sells Norwegian News Unit But Retains Digital Interest
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