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PaidContent Feb 03 12
It’s a little stunning to contemplate how wrong things have gone for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in just the first month of 2012, as the company hopes to put a disastrous January in the rear-view mirror with perhaps another tear-jerking Super Bowl ad this Sunday. Larry Page and Sergey Brin haven’t turned into Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis or anything, but Google just endured the worst month in the company’s history and nothing will get easier as rivals and the government take aim at what used to be such a delightful fuzzy little tech success story.
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Barnes & Noble's hopes of entering the UK e-books market may rest on Windows 8 and other apps, after a key retailer opted to sell Amazon's Kindle e-reader over the Nook.
Sanford Bernstein senior analyst Todd Juenger doesn't believe digital media companies like YouTube, Yahoo and AOL can entice advertisers into committing huge portions of dollars all in one buying session, a la TV's traditional upfront market.
Google today released a new picture of the millions of links it scrubs from its search results in response to requests from Microsoft, movie studios and other content owners.
"Operators treat partners like vendors.” That quote comes form Google director of global android partnerships John Lagerling, who said it at a Dublin conference where it was captured by Light Reading.
Amazon is finally banning some of the junkier content in the Kindle Store, including "content that is freely available on the web, unless you are the copyright owner of that content.
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning...
Several hundred execs filled The TimesCenter Wednesday for a day of intense conversation and discovery (on stage and off) about the current state of digital content online… and where we’re headed.
Just what do you call a company that hurts and helps your business at the same time? With Netflix draining ratings for some programs, spiking the performance of others, and all the while increasing broadband sales, Cox Communications Patrick Esser came up with the perfect term.
"If you buy a digital book you should be able to read it on anything you want to read it on", said Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne at paidContent 2012.