Outbrain - which helps websites suggest stories to users -- announced $35M in new funding, bringing overall investment to $99M. Reports in September had said the company was filing to go public in 2014.
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A patent troll is using patents from 1998 owned by the Shoah Foundation and USC to sue a wide rang of companies; the latest targets include the New York Times. The troll appears to claim that it owns a method for digital libraries.
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Fortune editor Adam Lashinsky's response to readers -- who were upset about a LinkedIn post he wrote pointing to a paywalled article -- shows a lack of understanding of both paywalls and how to use social platforms.
Read More »As paid “stories” about cancer and financial ruin flourish on the web, are better labels the answer?
Big publishers like Time and USA Today are posting "stories" on their web sites that are really ads. Taboola, a company responsible for distributing those ads, is promising more transparency by better labeling the paid-for stories.
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Amazon and MGM announced a deal Tuesday to make more MGM movies, as well as the History Channel hit Vikings, available for streaming on Prime Instant Video. Previously, Vikings had been available exclusively through Amazon’s European streaming service Lovefilm. It’s not available for streaming on Netflix. Movies included […]
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Netflix now has more than 40 million subscribers worldwide, and with strong results, it is now looking to expand into large additional markets in 2014.
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The San Francisco-based iOS publishing platform Inkling has acquired Open Air Publishing, a New York-based publisher of iOS how-to books.
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As Twitter prepares for its IPO, some points to its paucity of patents as a sign of long term strategic weakness. In fact, the opposite may be true.
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Protection for journalists via a so-called "shield law" seems like a good idea, but as Josh Stearns of Free Press notes, any such law needs to cover acts of journalism, not just journalists
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After you tune into Apple's event on Tuesday and learn about the latest in conspicuous consumption, why not check out the Al Gore-backed 24 Hours of Reality online broadcast? We chat with Gore about the project.
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Barnes & Noble and One Laptop Per Child have partnered to preload a new Nook kids' app on OLPC's $150 XO tablets, which are designed for children in the U.S.
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Netflix still sends DVDs to around seven million customers. So when will the company pull the plug on DVD subscriptions and finally go online-only?
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From the stage at our Mobilize Conference, Netflix VP of Product Innovation, Todd Yellin tells how the company is looking to integrate phones into TV watching.
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If you are looking for a solid contextual advertising network, I recommend you take a look at Chitika.
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