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…

More VC money getting invested into one more independent mobile ad network: 4INFO has raised $14 million in funding in a round led by Paul Allen’s firm Vulcan Capital and Mitsui Global. The money will mainly be used to spin off and develop the company’s AdHaven mobile audience platform division.

Today marks the official launch of USA Today’s new books site, books.usatoday.com. The most noticeable changes are to its bestseller list, which now has a more colorful interface and for the first time, features buy links. It’s another way that USA Today’s bestseller list is trying to set itself apart…

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: the EU opens GSM frequencies for 4G services; Sony* Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) reports earnings; Mobile Content Venture details launch plans for its mobile TV service in 32 U.S. markets; the first white iPhone 4 finally “on sale”; Nokia (NYSE:…

Gannett (NYSE: GCI) CEO Craig Dubow began the company’s largely positive Q4 earnings results by highlighting the local digital moves on the hyperlocal and marketing fronts and offered a lot of credit to its partners in display for newspapers and TV (Yahoo) and hyperlocal (DataSphere). Although not anywhere near the…

Wasn’t the iPad supposed to save print journalism? A Reynolds Journalism Institute survey of 1,600 iPad users this fall says that more than half—58.1 percent —of print newspaper subscribers who devote about an hour a day reading news on the device are “very likely” to cancel their print subscriptions within…

The New York Post is the latest newspaper to take a chance on selling subscriptions via an iPad app. The News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) paper launched its news app yesterday, charging $1.99 for the initial download. To get it daily after that, readers have to choose from three options: $6.99…

USA Today Publisher Dave Hunke is embarking on the biggest change in the Gannett (NYSE: GCI) flagship’s 28-year history as he shifts away from print and towards mobile. The newsroom is being restructured around content rings instead of its four traditional departments of news, money, life and sports. On the…

With advertiser interest in Gannett’s USA Today iPad app still running high, CEO Craig Dubow said that the app will remain free and ad supported at least through Q3. USAT has a set of free news and travel apps available across Apple’s portable devices, including the iPhone and iPod touch…

USA Today’s free, solely ad-supported iPad app will switch to subscription in July when the app’s exclusive sponsorship deal with Courtyard by Marriott concludes, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) CEO Craig Dubow said during the company’s Q1 earnings call. The app, which hit Apple’s iTunes App Store just before the iPad launched…

After working together for years through a trade association, a dozen broadcasters are now forming a financially-backed joint venture to develop a national mobile service, including live and on-demand video, local and national news and entertainment from both TV and print companies. The joint venture is upping the financial stakes…

While USA Today has seen its hotel distribution cut in the past year, the Gannett (NYSE: GCI) newspaper is still betting that travelers will respond to the brand as an app. The newspaper has released AutoPilot, its second free app, today with exclusive sponsorship from Hampton Hotels. The hotel chain…

Gannett (NYSE: GCI) flagship USA Today is the latest paper to be sold through Amazon’s Kindle. The top-selling U.S. paper has yet to show up is now available at the Kindle Store but Amazon told Kindle subscribers on Christmas morning that they’ll be able to download the Dec. 26 edition…