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Rising Relevance of Digital Media: More Publishers See Opportunities
The online market is breaking boundaries, and like every good publisher knows, that’s not something you let pass by your ear and iPad. Public broadcasting giant PBS and publishing tycoon Conde Nast are also aware of that fact, which is exactly what stands behind these two revolutionary moves that push digital media further into the ...
Sean Parker Talks Limitations; Users Scream Extortion
Spotify investor and Napster co-founder Sean Parker attended a discussion regarding his plan for the ever-popular U.S music streaming service. Apparently though, a Spotify dedication towards a more healthy customer-business relationship had slipped out of his mind for the sake of a nobler goal. That goal is to imaginatively exchange blows with hacking on users’ ...
How the Retail Store near You Will Look in 2015: Holograms, Smartphones and Fluffy
Everybody likes predictions, and with the recent U.S economic crisis in mind, it can be helpful in more ways than one to lean back a bit and read about the future of retail in 2015 – the time when pet stores will boom, and e-Commerce will score big time in terms of mass-revenue. “…American consumers ...
Google Cutting Groups to ‘Creatively Promote’ other Products
In a recent e-mail sent to Google Groups group owners, the Corp. politely announced that it will cut the leash on several of the app’s most favored features as of January next year, as these are evidently standing in the way of its other apps including G-Docs, G-Sites and more. “Starting in January 2011, Groups ...
UK Spotify Music App Hopeful for webOS
Spotify, the ever-popular if not leading UK music streaming app (currently not available in the U.S) has been reported here to have had attempted to raise some buzz around a prospected future expansion, arriving in the form of a HP webOS version of the app. The mobile competitors Grooveshark and Finetunes ,currently available for the ...
Viacom Storms High-Profile Appellate Lawyer on Google
There’s nothing like Court TV, but when it comes to the real deal, Viacom and particularly YouTube star at the top of the list. In its efforts to overturn an NY judge’s ruling of YouTube’s status as a sort of safe haven from direct and contributory copyright infringement lawsuits, Viacom has hired leading appellate lawyer ...
More Facebook Privacy Issues That Won’t Make Users Happy at All
Privacy, privacy, privacy – Facebook has seen all too many complaints, lawsuits and privacy concerns lately, but according to this, it’s only getting worst. As a poll by Microsoft’s Saikat Guha and Max Planck Institute for Software Systems’ Bin Cheng and Paul Francis reveals, Facebook advertisers can and already have detected gay users and angled ...
L.A. Startup Unsubscribe Raises $2.1M to Rescue You from Email Marketing
Unsubscribe, founded by the James Siminoff behind PhoneTag/Simulscribe has just raised an impressive $2.1 million in Series A financing – the round was led by Charles River Ventures. The start-up, which offers a quick and easy unsubscribe button next to e-mails in Outlook and G-mail had undoubtedly gained a hefty amount of momentum ever since ...
Zynga Chart Reveals what Farmville Players Knew a Long Time Ago
Earning more than one million dollars a day, the social gaming developer Zynga, named after a late dog, is on a 3-year roll, and takes the throne in more than sector. As it seems, spending $90 million a year on Facebook ads does have its benefits. As quite accurately described in this infographic, Zynga is ...
Corporate Blogging Begins to Match That Official FB Account
A recent eMarketer report reveals that corporate blogging has begun to spread its wings in the corporate ring. What was once considered to be a fading cyber branch of journalism and respectful coverage now spreads in the corporate sector like wild fire. Thanks to its indisputable status within (or beside) mainstream media, no company and ...