All Things Digital:
By Juliet Ye, Reporter, The Wall Street JournalVideogames are serious business in China. The country’s online game market will reach 41 billion yuan ($6 billion) by 2010, accounting for half the global market, according to newly released data from Cnzz.com, a Beijing-based data analysis firm.The Cnzz.com report says that al (Read More)
Global Neighbourhoods:
['I propose a return to normalcy.' Warren G. Harding]I've been out speaking a lot lately, mostly promoting Twitterville and always talking about social media and it's impact on business, government, nonprofits and other institutions. The most frequent question I get is regarding what I see coming next.Predictions m (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Zachary M. Seward, Assistant Editor, Nieman Journalism LabBecause it’s my job, I’ve followed pretty much everything Steve Brill has said in public about Journalism Online, the pay-for-news firm he launched in April with Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindrey. From the start, they’ve been offering infrastructure and consulting fo (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Fred Wilson, Blogger, A VC
I went down to city hall yesterday to participate in a hearing on net neutrality. I realize the NYC city council has no oversight on this issue but the lobbyists were coming out in force so I figured I might as well show up too.
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All Things Digital:
By Vadim Lavrusik, Contributor, Poynter OnlineDemand Media has advertising-driven content down to a science. Instead of creating content for the Web and hoping that it generates revenue, the company works backwards by determining how much revenue each piece will generate before anything is produced.The company uses a series (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Emily Steel, Reporter, The Wall Street JournalInternational Business Machines (IBM) and a handful of other major marketers, including casino operator Harrah’s Entertainment and software giant Microsoft (MSFT), are experimenting with developing ad campaigns based in part on what consumers are chatting about on the Web.For (Read More)
All Things Digital:
After market close Monday, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) reported fourth quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates by a penny. Excluding items, HP earned $1.14 a share on revenue of $30.8 billion, down 8 percent from $33.6 billion a year earlier.. Analysts had expected earnings of $1.13 a share, on $30.4 billion in revenue. Resu (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Eric Bellman, Reporter, The Wall Street JournalIn the furthest reaches of India’s rural heartland, the cellphone is bringing something that television, radio and even newspapers couldn’t deliver: Instant access to music, information, entertainment, news and even worship.Despite its rapid modernization, many of India’s 75 (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Richard Bennett, Contributor, GigaOMThe rise of video streaming is dramatically affecting the Internet, according to a two-year study of Internet traffic trends that Arbor Networks recently presented to the North American Network Operators Group. Two years ago, Internet traffic was distributed evenly among a dozen Tier-1 (Read More)
All Things Digital:
Warner Music Group (WMG) has mixed bag of results for Wall Street this morning: The music label posted revenues of $861 million, a bit higher than the $820 million analyst had expected. But even after factoring out one-time severance charges of $14 million, the company lost three cents a share, and the Street was assuming i (Read More)
All Things Digital:
German entertainment conglomerate Bertelsmann, which made a move into the online kids/education market earlier this year, appears to be having second thoughts.Bertelsmann is looking for an investor to buy some or all of Scoyo, which it launched in Germany in January of this year and previewed in the U.S. in September, the c (Read More)
AppScout:
Freed from its oppressive Time Warner overlords, AOL is understandably undergoing something of an identity crisis. The company this week is showcasing "its new brand identity for its future as an independent company committed to creating the world's most simple and stimulating content and online experiences."So, what's a n (Read More)
All Things Digital:
The people who own EMI Music Group may regret the purchase, but here’s a tiny bit of good news: Sales are creeping up, even as the rest of the business contracts.The company’s revenue climbed 7.4 percent in the 12 months ending March 31, the company disclosed (via PaidContent).That’s due to both increases in the sale of rec (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Julia Angwin and Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporters, The Wall Street JournalWikipedia.org is the fifth-most-popular Web site in the world, with roughly 325 million monthly visitors. But unprecedented numbers of the millions of online volunteers who write, edit and police it are quitting.That could have significant implication (Read More)
Business Opportunities Weblog:
San Diego Business Journal Online:Carlsbad housewife-turned-entrepreneur Stacey Ross has taken the informality of a neighborhood mothers group to the Internet to build a thriving new business.Her enterprise, sandiegobargainmama.com, offers up a plethora of local bargains, discounts and handy tips, all targeting the market f (Read More)