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Yahoo app now summarizes stories with beautiful, full-screen images
April 22, 2013 11:48 AM
Meghan Kelly
Yahoo updated its app today to include technology from recently acquired "summary" startup Summly.
Content-recommendation app Trapit grows up, enters formidable world of publishing
April 3, 2013 10:37 AM
Rebecca Grant
Trapit launched its new publisher suite today, the startup's first business-to-business product that publishers and brands can use to create personalized, more engaging reading experiences.
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke says Apple & Google are destroying music (and he’s sorta right)
February 28, 2013 10:04 AM
Ricardo Bilton
Thom Yorke still hates the music industry, but he's already had a huge hand in changing it.
Google may sink $50M into music video service Vevo
February 6, 2013 9:23 AM
Tom Cheredar
In what would become a very expensive game of musical chairs, Google is interested in making a $50 million investment into music video service Vevo.
Q: Is Quora the next big blogging platform?
January 23, 2013 2:41 PM
Christina Farr
A: Yes. And every author will enjoy the benefits of an in-built audience.
How Jonah Peretti built BuzzFeed into a content-sharing powerhouse
December 11, 2012 8:05 PM
Dylan Tweney
The founder of Buzzfeed found success by ignoring Google search results and focusing obsessively on getting people to share content.
Wiki Wiki what? Wikia raises $11M to help people create, collaborate, and be original
November 29, 2012 3:18 PM
Rebecca Grant
Wikia is raising $11 million to support its growing network of pop culture wikis.
Case study: How Cleeng can help set up paywalls and registration gateways
October 2, 2012 7:45 AM
Dylan Tweney
Many content publishers looking for new revenue streams have experimented with paywalls, with mixed success. But if you've got content that people are willing to pay for, paywalls can work very well indeed.
3taps sues Craigslist to save the internet (no, seriously)
September 24, 2012 4:52 PM
John Koetsier
Editor's Pick Data harvester 3taps is countersuing Craigslist to save the internet. Believe it or not, that just might not be an overstatement.
"Craiglist was an innovator at one time," says 3taps chief executive Greg Kidd. "But time has moved on, and the concept of what the open web is today has evolved."
Mobile app Tagwhat tells the online story of our lonely planet
September 24, 2012 1:42 PM
Rebecca Grant
Tagwhat introduces new publishing features.
GENWI takes extra $2M to be the delivery boy of mobile content
September 18, 2012 4:30 AM
Rebecca Grant
GENWI hooks extra $2M to distribute content to mobile devices.
With Jon Stewart back from vacation, Viacom wisely lifts its web content ban
July 17, 2012 6:43 AM
Tom Cheredar
Less than a week after yanking its cable TV shows from the web, Viacom has restored access to them, which is cause for celebration among many cord cutters and DirecTV subscribers.
Last week, satellite TV service provider DirecTV was forced …
Glam Media is now bigger than fading web portal AOL (scoop)
July 11, 2012 3:42 AM
Tom Cheredar
Editor's Pick
It may have taken a while, but the age of web portal dominance is finally starting to show visible signs of erosion.
For the first time, media and advertising startup Glam Media now has a higher global audience reach than …
Pulse’s jump into video channels sets a new standard for digital magazine apps
June 14, 2012 9:15 AM
Tom Cheredar
Pulse, a customized news aggregation service for mobile devices, is adding support for video content, the company announced today.
Most video aggregation/curation services I’ve experienced are either really good at collecting content that can be viewed elsewhere, or they are …
Amazon Prime gets MGM videos & new queue—but it’s still no Netflix
June 13, 2012 10:35 AM
Tom Cheredar
Amazon signed new licensing agreement with MGM Studios that will bring hundreds of movies and TV shows to its Prime streaming video service, the company announced today.
Amazon Prime Members, the $79 annual service offering access to free shipping on …
Oh joy, Facebook is giving you more access to your own data
April 12, 2012 10:57 AM
Meghan Kelly
Facebook added more categories to its “Download Your Information” feature Thursday, which the social network touts as an important part of protecting your own privacy.
Now you’re able to access and download more data than just messages and photos. You’ll …
Facing limits of traditional PR, Original9 Media will arm companies with content
March 5, 2012 5:00 AM
Sean Ludwig
Editor's Pick
What happens when a public relations firm sobers up and realizes it actually has limits? When it realizes clients could benefit from content it doesn’t have the bandwidth to provide? This is a serious question that plagued the founders of …
Tablet magazine publisher Zinio raises $20 Million
November 23, 2011 11:29 AM
Chikodi Chima
Online magazine publisher Zinio has raised a an investment round of $20 million, according to documents filed with the SEC.
Zinio lets magazine publishers who don’t want to build their own mobile apps distribute their content on devices such as …
YouTube’s original channels could be Google TV’s killer app
October 30, 2011 9:43 AM
Devindra Hardawar
Google has officially announced plans to bring a slew of original content to YouTube, backed by some big names, but the news could also be huge for Google TV.
The company’s smart TV platform could certainly use a killer product …
