The Sunday Times :: A former Google executive has blown the whistle on a massive and “immoral” tax avoidance scheme that has “cheated” British taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of pounds over the past decade.
Read Simon Duke, Jon Ungoed-Thomas, www.thesundaytimes.co.uk
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VentureBeat :: Better watch out, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Hot messaging app MessageMe has just raised $10 million in its first round of funding, the company confirmed today.
May 19, 2013 at 02:42 PM | Permalink
Venture Beat :: The Boston-based startup provides agencies, brands, media, and retail customers with a platform to publish and effectively distribute content.
May 19, 2013 at 02:39 PM | Permalink
Venture Beat :: When people run into major problems with the health industry — trying to get money from insurance companies or to get access to an experimental drug, for example — they’re no longer just turning to lawyers. Increasingly, they’re turning to online petitions.
May 19, 2013 at 02:27 PM | Permalink
DCMF :: DCMF has joined other rights groups in repeating calls for the immediate release of Mazen Darwish and his colleagues
May 19, 2013 at 01:32 PM | Permalink
Nieman Lab :: Robinson Meyer is tweeting up an interesting storm about the “death” of “tech blogging” — tied to Gizmodo’s announcement of some impressive new hires today. To get past the scarequotes, here’s Rob.
May 19, 2013 at 01:19 PM | Permalink
FDL News Desk :: The Koch Brothers seem to be in the middle of a strategy shift. The Kochs, after advancing astroturfing groups like FreedomWorks to browbeat the press, are trying to get into the media business outright.
May 19, 2013 at 11:28 AM | Permalink
CPJ :: When twin car bombs shook the district of Reyhanli in Turkey's southeastern province of Hatay near the Syrian border last Saturday, killing at least 51 people and wounding dozens of others, a local court issued a gag order on all news coverage of the attack. The ban was unprecedented in scope and in the way by which it came about.
Read Özgür Öğret, cpj.org
May 19, 2013 at 11:22 AM | Permalink
The Daily Beast :: “Binge watching,” as scores of breathless critics have christened it, is increasingly common, especially among younger viewers who’d rather screen their favorite shows online, on demand, or on DVR than wait around for them to air once a week on old-fashioned TV. First you fall for a show, and then you watch it endlessly. Because you can.
May 19, 2013 at 10:46 AM | Permalink
The Verge :: Sources say iRadio is still mired in licensing talks and may not be ready for WWDC.
May 19, 2013 at 10:27 AM | Permalink
Financial Times :: As Facebook prepares to mark its first year as a public company on Saturday, it is facing pressure from investors to address fears that young people are losing interest in the service.
May 19, 2013 at 10:05 AM | Permalink
Wall Street Journal :: Effective spycraft has long called for cover—a job, family or routine that would keep a government agent from drawing undue attention. Now, that calculation extends to spies' use of social media.
May 19, 2013 at 09:49 AM | Permalink
Reuters :: Amazon.com's main UK unit paid $3.7 million of taxes on its 2012 income, it said on Wednesday, despite group UK sales of $6.5 billion.
May 19, 2013 at 09:33 AM | Permalink
paidContent :: Gawker has just taken checkbook journalism to a whole new level — asking the public to help buy a video tape that is likely to bring down the mayor of a major city.
May 18, 2013 at 10:08 PM | Permalink
Bloomberg :: Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer will unveil updates to the company’s Flickr photo-sharing site at a press event in New York scheduled for May 20, according to a person familiar with the matter.
May 18, 2013 at 09:33 PM | Permalink
Folio :: New group formed to handle one-stop-shopping of international digital ad buys.
May 18, 2013 at 06:13 PM | Permalink
Washington Post :: So the Justice Department says that it conducted “over 550 interviews” before it took the measure of secretly subpoenaing the phone records of journalists with the Associated Press. In addition, it reviewed “thousands of documents” and took other steps as well. - Good job, Justice!
May 18, 2013 at 06:06 PM | Permalink
Sydney Morning Herald :: Analysts say the split into two divisions may lead to a re-rating of the embattled publishing business, writes Colin Kruger.
May 18, 2013 at 06:02 PM | Permalink
AllThingsD :: According to sources close to the situation, the Yahoo board plans to meet Sunday night to decide whether to approve a $1.1 billion all-cash offer for New York-based blogging site Tumblr.
May 18, 2013 at 02:15 PM | Permalink
New York Times :: The New York Times Company was a victim of online attacks earlier this week that slowed down The New York Times Web site and limited access to articles and other types of content.
May 18, 2013 at 02:01 PM | Permalink
Financial Post :: Canada’s Competition Bureau is gearing up to launch a formal inquiry into the business practices of Google Inc.’s Canadian operations.
May 18, 2013 at 01:19 PM | Permalink
Guardian :: Are sharents – parents who blog, tweet and post pictures about all aspects of their children's lives – doing their children harm by crossing the boundaries between public and private life?
Are you a parent who shares too much online? My @guardianfamily story from today's paper: guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2…
— Nione Meakin (@NioneMeakin) May 18, 2013
May 18, 2013 at 12:49 PM | Permalink
Huffington Post :: Even though Rasel Parvez is out of prison, he isn't out of danger. "They have pushed my life to a state in which I cannot walk free. I remain in self-confinement day after day, and my social relations are mostly snapped," said Parvez, 36, in an interview with The Huffington Post.
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First Monday :: With its open API, Twitter has become one of the most popular data sources for social research, yet the majority of the literature has focused on it as a text or network graph source, with only limited efforts to date focusing exclusively on the geography of Twitter, assessing the various sources of geographic information on the service and their accuracy.
Read Kalev Leetaru, Shaowen Wang, Guofeng Cao, Anand Padmanabhan, Eric Shook, firstmonday.org
May 18, 2013 at 09:51 AM | Permalink
Digiday :: Digiday’s mission is to write about where digital media is going. We do it in a way that’s honest about the very real challenges and shortcomings of the present.
May 18, 2013 at 09:13 AM | Permalink
AlJazeera Stream :: App allows customers to boycott products tied to corporations like Monsanto and Koch Industries.
May 18, 2013 at 09:12 AM | Permalink
The Content Brief | Huffington Post :: At the television upfront presentations this week, networks tried to prove they can catch up to consumer habits and deliver viewers, who have more choices than ever for video content.
May 18, 2013 at 07:47 AM | Permalink
Globally, some 2 billion mobile and tablet users will watch TV and video on these devices in 2017 according to a new report by Juniper Research.
May 18, 2013 at 07:41 AM | Permalink
TechCrunch :: Tumblr feels that Yahoo’s $1.1 billion offer as “too low” and view it as “only a first offer”, according to sources close to to acquisition talks. Yahoo may have to significantly increase the offer to close the deal. An acquisition by some tech giant is likely in the cards for Tumblr, though, as sources say the company only has a few months of cash runway left.
May 18, 2013 at 06:52 AM | Permalink
Wall Street Journal :: The Financial Times said its Tech Blog and various Twitter accounts were hacked on Friday by a group identifying itself as the Syrian Electronic Army.
May 17, 2013 at 09:28 PM | Permalink
Bloomberg :: Twitter Inc. has teamed with the National Basketball Association to stream video clips of game highlights as the blogging service expands beyond 140-character status updates ahead of a possible initial public offering.
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Guardian :: Financial news service appoints two advisors amid a series of apologies by executives over use of terminals to spy on clients
May 17, 2013 at 08:21 PM | Permalink
New York Times :: The future came crashing down on me this week at the Google I/O developer conference while I stood at a bathroom urinal.
May 17, 2013 at 07:44 PM | Permalink
Guardian :: Analysts say the telecoms giant is trying to defend its broadband base and the new TV service will lose up to £300m in first year
May 17, 2013 at 10:54 AM | Permalink
Guardian :: Sun+ service predicted to result in drop in online ad revenue with NI also paying £30m-plus for digital Premier League rights
May 17, 2013 at 10:48 AM | Permalink
Guardian :: Google and Amazon face fresh attack over claims that their multibillion-pound UK-facing businesses should not be taxed.
May 17, 2013 at 10:37 AM | Permalink
AllThingsD :: Earlier this week, Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman spoke at JP Morgan’s Global Technology conference and underscored the need for the aging Silicon Valley Internet giant to attract more users from the coveted 18-to-24-years-old age bracket.
May 17, 2013 at 08:11 AM | Permalink
MediaUpdate :: The Supreme Court, the highest court in the UK, has agreed with the PRCA and Meltwater that Internet users have the right to browse online freely without the threat of copyright infringement.
May 17, 2013 at 07:47 AM | Permalink
Digiday :: Many see video mostly as a top-of-the-funnel, brand awareness tactic, but Youtube wants to prove video can drive direct sales.
May 17, 2013 at 07:31 AM | Permalink
Digiday :: Google Glass has already gotten a reputation as a geek-guy thing, but Hearst doesn’t think that’s going to be the case in the long run.
May 17, 2013 at 07:23 AM | Permalink
Digiday :: Reddit is one strange media company. It is the summation of the Web: inspiring, creative, at times bizarre and profane, and a difficult place to figure out for advertisers.
May 17, 2013 at 06:59 AM | Permalink
AllThingsD :: Our memories are important. We take millions of photos every single day. We post to our Facebook Timeline, pin to Pinterest boards. Clearly, we care about the past. And our friends in Silicon Valley would love to take care of all of it for us.
May 16, 2013 at 07:44 PM | Permalink
Forbes :: Consumers increasingly demonstrate a preference for digital subscription plans that offer flexibility and variety rather than ownership.
May 16, 2013 at 06:21 PM | Permalink
Washington Post :: For five days, reporters at the Associated Press had been sitting on a big scoop about a foiled al-Qaeda plot at the request of CIA officials. Then, in a hastily scheduled Monday morning meeting, the journalists were asked by agency officials to hold off on publishing the story for just one more day.
May 16, 2013 at 05:34 PM | Permalink
The Australian :: FAIRFAX Media chief executive Greg Hywood has suggested that the launch of digital subscriptions at the company's mastheads is imminent, and has pledged to defend one of its journalists in the face of legal action from shareholder Gina Rinehart.
May 16, 2013 at 08:39 AM | Permalink
San Jose Mercury News :: Keeping the product vibrant and ever-changing is key to Costolo's goal of emulating the growth of Amazon.com. "I think Jeff Bezos is amazing," Costolo said of the Seattle web giant's CEO. "The way he's thought about building out the platform that the company has is exactly the kind of model we want to build at Twitter."
May 16, 2013 at 08:34 AM | Permalink
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