The Next Web :: Line, a rival app developed in Japan which has 150 million users, is the next in line to pal up to the Chinese government and restrict the use of certain phrases on its service.
很好，幹你媽的我現在開始不想用LINE傳任何內容了 twitter.com/hirakujira/sta…
— Hiraku (@hirakujira) May 20, 2013
May 21, 2013 at 09:21 AM | Permalink
sfbg.com :: Locally focused journalism in San Francisco took another big hit today with the announcement that The Bay Citizen is being folded into Center for Investigative Reporting
May 21, 2013 at 07:59 AM | Permalink
New York Times :: While companies weigh bids for Hulu and industry heavyweights complain that TV Everywhere isn’t going much of anywhere, another way to watch time-shifted television is quietly gaining traction: video-on-demand, or VOD.
May 21, 2013 at 07:38 AM | Permalink
Digiday :: We now live in a post-Oreo-tweet world. Acting fast is now an expectation. But surprisingly, brands are dropping the ball on basic social media interactions with consumers.
May 21, 2013 at 07:02 AM | Permalink
Digiday :: Converting Tumblr's audience into ad revenue is no easy feat for Yahoo.
May 21, 2013 at 06:53 AM | Permalink
MediaPost :: As traditional TV platforms project small gains in their $70 billion business, new digital TV video businesses are looking at major hikes in the coming years to a smaller $4 billion business -- with cost per thousands seeing, at best, modest hikes.
May 20, 2013 at 10:38 PM | Permalink
Wired :: Yahoo just laid down a $1.1 billion cash bet it can make Tumblr, the indie blogging-and-arguing platform, a profitable part of its advertising business. Here are some back-of-the-envelope calculations of what has to happen for that bet to pay off.
May 20, 2013 at 10:25 PM | Permalink
Guardian :: The BBC Trust carries out regular in-depth reviews of each of the BBC's services, as part of its Charter responsibilities. We have looked at every BBC service over the last five years and have now begun our second round of reviews. The first of these covers BBC Online and Red Button..
May 20, 2013 at 07:11 PM | Permalink
paidContent :: In a speech to Columbia business school graduates, the CEO of the New York Times described the company’s role in media disruption.
May 20, 2013 at 06:36 PM | Permalink
TechCrunch :: Expect more advertising by next year as well as more Tumblr content on Yahoo properties, but more of a cautious step as to how Yahoo will deal with some of Tumblr’s more NSFW content.
May 20, 2013 at 05:14 PM | Permalink
Guardian :: Web pioneer reveals details of acquisition of blogging platform, as site's 26-year-old founder tells staff: 'Fuck yeah'
May 20, 2013 at 04:46 PM | Permalink
Forbes :: Yahoo will buy New York City-based blogging service, Tumblr, for $1.1 billion. This is bad news for Yahoo shareholders because the deal fails the four tests of a successful acquisition.
May 20, 2013 at 04:42 PM | Permalink
Digiday :: Many publishers fear “data leakage,” the gross term for when sites lose their audience data to third parties that then use it for advertising elsewhere.
May 20, 2013 at 07:19 AM | Permalink
Tech in Asia :: Singapore-based luxury private flash sales site Reebonz (pronounced ‘ribbons’) has completed a $40 million (S$50 million) financing round led by Singapore’s media giant MediaCorp.
May 20, 2013 at 06:47 AM | Permalink
MediaPost :: Radio advertising revenues were flat at $3.5 billion in the first quarter of 2013, unchanged from the same period in 2012. Total spot advertising revenue, long the mainstay of the radio business, was down 2% to $3 billion, while digital revenues increased 9%.
May 20, 2013 at 06:24 AM | Permalink
China Internet Watch :: According to the data from comScore, Letv’s number of unique viewers in February is about 100 million, making it the third largets video network behind Youku and Tencent.
May 20, 2013 at 06:17 AM | Permalink
New York Times :: Viewers can already wake up with Charlie Rose on “CBS This Morning,” and wind down their day with his late-night PBS newsmaker interview program. If that is not enough, Mr. Rose, who has been called “the hardest working man in television,” will soon be hosting a Friday night prime-time PBS show, as well.
May 20, 2013 at 05:59 AM | Permalink
Variety :: Broadcast, cable nets tout cross-platform products aplenty, from Watch ABC to CW Seed.
May 20, 2013 at 05:43 AM | Permalink
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
May 19, 2013 at 06:14 PM | Permalink
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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.
May 18, 2013 at 12:29 PM | Permalink
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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
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