Ingrid Lunden
Jul 18, 2011 6:22 AM
Aegis Media, the media buying and marketing division of Aegis Group, is beefing up its mobile assets and activity: it is taking an undisclosed minority stake, worth $11 million, in TigerSpike, a developer of apps for blue-chip publishers like News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). The Economist, Telegraph Media Group and Mail…
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Robert Andrews
May 5, 2011 5:42 AM
The Telegraph, with its long-awaited version-two iPad app, out today, is the latest news publisher to try reasserting a paid news economy for its newspaper in digital tablet form.
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Ingrid Lunden
May 1, 2011 6:33 PM
The numbers are coming in on just how many people tuned in to watch the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton. While some are highly skeptical that the event pulled in the 2 billion viewers that the UK government predicted, the event—especially if you count not just the live,…
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Entertainment, Features, Tweets, Legal, Regulatory, EC, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, BBC, CBS, Disney, ABC, Facebook, Google, Android, YouTube, Microsoft, MSNBC, NBC Universal, NBC, Telegraph, Twitter, Yahoo, Countries, Europe, UK, akamai, kate middleton, prince william, royal wedding
Ingrid Lunden
Mar 21, 2011 10:52 AM
Another acquisition that points to the ongoing covergence and consolidation in the mobile and digital media industries, this time in the UK.
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Apps, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, Apple, iPad, iPhone, BBC, Google, Android, RIM, BlackBerry, Sony, Telegraph, Countries, Europe, UK, skinkers, sprawl technologies, umee
Robert Andrews
Feb 17, 2011 5:17 AM
The response from many publishers to Apple’s subscription announcement has been a shellshocked “errrr…” - many are confused exactly how they are impacted and are quickly seeking clarity from Apple.
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E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Companies, Apple, iPad, News Corp., News International, Pearson, Financial Times, FT.com, Telegraph
Robert Andrews
Sep 22, 2010 1:04 PM
Telegraph Media Group’s its iPad edition went live Tuesday morning. Note that, like The Times’ app, The Daily Telegraph app is allied with its daily newspaper rather than its Telegraph.co.uk website. Forget about rolling news - this is delivered in single daily “editions” at 5am each morning (including Sunday), and…
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Patrick Smith
Nov 6, 2009 5:11 AM
—Guardian iPhone app: Guardian News & Media’s forthcoming paid-for iPhone app, news of which we broke in September, is being developed by 2ergo—the people behind Arsenal’s paid-for iPhone app—and will be priced at £1.79 for a one-off download, according NMA. Disclosure: paidContent:UK’s parent company ContentNext Media is a wholly owned…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 16, 2009 10:53 AM
Telegraph Media Group is hiring Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android developer advocate Mike Jennings away to lead its mobile engineering team - one of two appointments as the news publisher beefs up its wireless commitment. Canadian-born Jennings had been with Google since 2006, first as a software engineer, then traveling around…
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