Over the years, the Associated Press has made a profile for itself by syndicating its news across thousands of newspapers both in the U.S. and abroad. Now as newspaper readers move to new platforms like tablets to consume their news content, the AP wants to make sure it is syndicating…

Rolling Stone magazine will release an iPad app companion this week for its The Beatles: The Ultimate Album-by-Album Guide book this week, as its parent Wenner Media prepares to launch full digital magazine replica apps on the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) tablet next year for its flagship title and US Weekly.

The New York Times is ready to start extending sales of its “all access” digital subscriptions across tablets and smartphones to companies and organizations with more than 50 employees. The introduction of a new structure of paid digital circulation comes as the promotion that gave 100,000 NYT digital subscribers access…

The latest installment of the Twilight movies, Breaking Dawn, enjoyed one of the top-grossing opening weekends of all time (for some inexplicable reason) following its Friday debut. The movie also shared another distinction: it generated the highest percentage of mobile ticketing purchases in Fandango’s history, paidContent has learned.

So a changing of the guard at mobile ad company 4INFO, which announced a funding round of $14 million just last month: Zaw Thet, the company’s outspoken founder, has left his role as the CEO and is getting replaced by Tim Jenkins, who has worked for a number of tech…

Digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media is getting into e-singles with a new program, “Short Shots,” which will publish short-form fiction and nonfiction.

Teenagers who founded their own start-ups could find themselves featured in titles from Backlit, a new young adult e-book publisher based in Santa Monica. While bestselling YA series like Gossip Girl have centered around the Manhattan elite, Backlit is a product of Silicon Valley and Hollywood—with a first-look agreement from…

After years of employing an ad-hoc community-driven approach to mobile, one of the world’s biggest Web sites is going mobile in a much more organized way. Wikimedia Foundation is currently pitching deals involving a new mobile version of its ubiquitous Wikipedia site that it hopes wireless carriers will offer to…

Book and magazine publisher Rodale is looking to some of its most popular magazines for content as it introduces e-originals this week. First up are a Runner’s World “Essential Guides” series and a Grete Waitz title, to be followed by a Kindle Single on the Afghanistan War by Men’s Health…

Lonely Planet has created a separate technology startup in San Francisco to develop next-generation social mobile travel guides together with competitors.

Watching movies on Facebook isn’t new—Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), Paramount and Universal each are trying variations on the theme. But today, paidContent can report, Miramax is launching the largest-scale Facebook streaming movie venture yet, the latest in a series of moves to mine the most ore possible from its rich…

The value of 2D barcodes by print magazines looking to connect with reader’s mobile phone activity is getting a big test of with Glamour‘s large September fall fashion issue. The Condé Nast magazine worked with Facebook to add “SnapTags” to its cover and inside advertising pages that will encourage readers…

A day after AOL (NYSE: AOL) held a gala presentation for analysts in New York’s Soho, execs are now descending on France for the week-long Cannes Lions Festival, the annual gathering of ad agency awards shows and networking. In addition to getting in front of agencies in person, AOL hopes…

Mobile operators have largely been cut out of the mobile content ecosystem as it has been developed by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), but there are still opportunities for them in the wider mobile world. One of these is in the area of mobile marketing: a new survey from YouGov in the…

Looks like game over for Thumbplay as a standalone entity: we have learned that the mobile content company’s last remaining asset—its ringtones, games and other casual mobile entertainment business—has been sold to SendMe Mobile for an undisclosed sum. As we revealed exclusively at the beginning of March, the music streaming…

Update: Clear Channel announced that it is the media company buying the cloud-based music subscription service Thumbplay Music—a deal that was first reported by mocoNews.net. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but our source says it is likely to be less than 10 percent of the company’s…

News Corp.‘s The Daily launched Feb. 2 with a two-week free trial sponsored by Verizon, ostensibly enough time to give potential subscribers a full taste. But launch glitches that stretched out for a week kept a lot of those potential subscribers from getting a good picture of the News Corp…

(Update: Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) has now confirmed our report that is canceling FLO TV) Qualcomm is shutting down its struggling direct-to-consumer FLO TV operations, paidContent has learned. According to sources familiar with the situation, the staff was informed late last week by Bill Stone, president of MediaFlo and FLO TV,…

While other publishers brag about surpassing single-copy sales on the iPad or look for ways to manage subscriptions outside of iTunes, ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is running a different pattern. The Disney sports unit has a number of successful free and one-time purchase apps. But its new ESPN the Magazine iPad…