The Newsonomics of Disruption

Consider emerging tablet news disruption. For 18 months, the tablet and smartphone news environment has been single-brand-oriented. Early top-drawer brand winners include: The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, the BBC, NPR, the Financial ...

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The Quote

“I have talked to a dozen or so agencies and there’s going to be a lot of push back. They’ll probably be some that engage for the sexiness, but not for the ROI,” said Jumptap’s Chief Marketing Officer Paran Johar told PaidContent. Johar was responding to the news that Apple's iAds mobile ad ...

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Why We Have a Hard Time Thinking of Yahoo as a News Company

Bartz hardly seemed like the proud captain of a news enterprise. You know, the news, it's just so negative, so ungainly, just too darn hard to understand...The CEO of this $6.5 billion company, who is "on Yahoo all day", is just another one of those Americans who just can't through the Tea ...

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Attributor’s Anti-Piracy “Guardian” Trial Begins

Here's the 90-day question to watch: If Attributor's numbers are close to right, pointing to "112,000 near-exact copies of unlicensed article by more than 75,000 unlicensed sites" in a recent 30-day period, how will Google and Yahoo respond to a flood of thousands of notices?

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Dow Jones Wants All (the) Smart Money

Per fi magazines and sites haven't been immune from turndown; they're just a little better positioned on the road ahead. Where money's to be made -- or lost -- people (and advertisers) will spend money.

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“Fair Share”: Google, Trust, Anti-Trust….and What Happens Next

On the other hand, Google is particular has become the gateway of our times. It is the number one sender of traffic to news sites -- 25-35% as a rule. In saying that news companies are free to tell Google not to index them, and that Google will be glad to comply, you can practically hear the ...

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Yahoo: The Final (Star) Trek?

Yahoo’s announced reorg prompted more huhs than huzzahs last week. For instance: "The statements from both Sue Decker and Jerry Yang sound sort of like B-school jargon with the soothing tone of a dentist’s assistant, none of it really acknowledging that anything is wrong at the ...

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