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TV nets wrap upfront week: “The biz still goes through us”
What, me, worry? Those three words broadly sum up the attitude of the broadcast TV network chiefs regarding the encroachment on their turf by digital media companies, as they conducted their… Read more
A kinder, gentler DRM?
With Harry Potter fan site and e-bookstore Pottermore.com now using watermarkinginstead of heavyweight DRM on all the Harry Potter e-books, anti-DRM arguments are growing louder. Now the International Digital Publishing… Read more
Facebook IPO: Tracking the price
4:13 p.m. ET: Facebook’s stock came full circle on its first day as a public company, ending the day at $38.23 with more than 500 million shares traded. That’s barely… Read more
Facebook doesn’t want world domination: it needs it
In many ways Facebook is a very American success: forged at Harvard, warmed up in the crucible of Silicon Valley, and now reaching boiling point by becoming one of the… Read more
YouTube’s April video usage up 55% over 2011
Digital media companies like YouTube and Yahoo have yet to see how much they will have increased their ad base by upping the quality of their video content recently. But… Read more
Can This Computer Empower a New Generation of Programmers?
Big Idea: Raspberry Pi is a small, lightweight computer that runs on Linux and costs next to nothing — the Model A retails at $35, while the forthcoming Model B… Read more
6 Reasons Why the Facebook IPO Fell Flat
Well, that was anticlimactic. After all the hullabaloo about Facebook’s IPO, this is how it ends, with a mere $0.23 jump in share price? That kind of movement is what happens… Read more
What you need to know about that $15 billion Facebook privacy case
Lawyers tried to ruin Mark Zuckerberg’s big day with a sprawling lawsuit that portrays the Facebook founder as a rogue hacker, and accuses the company of tracking users on their… Read more
One TV Everywhere deal down! (Many more to go)
Hey, it’s progress. Whether it actually ignites the kind of momentum needed to ultimately propel TV Everywhere to live up to its ubiquitous promise remains to be seen. On Wednesday,… Read more
Is a cheaper, ad-supported Kindle Fire on the way?
Amazon is trying to sell ads that would appear on the Kindle Fire’s welcome screen, AdAgereports, at prices of at least $600,000 for a two-month campaign. Does that mean a… Read more
