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- Apple pitching media companies on tablet?
- If you read between the lines in yesterday's post, one could conclude that Apple is talking to the New York Times about it's upcoming tablet product in an effort to get buy in from the media giant on what's presumed to be a completely new form-factor...
- Tags: Media Company, Apple Inc., Fairfax Media, Tablets, Notebooks, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- The key to understanding Google - CEO admits it is a media company
- Google publishes pages of content with advertising. What is *not* a media company about that? This is key to understanding its success... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Media Company, Google Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- Is keeping big media alive good for the future of journalism?
- All old media companies need to die off...They are too constrained reliving memories of past glory to change in any meaningful way. What we need are modern 21st century media companies who understand the digital world. If Amazon, Google, or Facebook were to start new media companies, you can bet...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, media, media company, big media, First Amendment
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- Every company is a media company
- Not a fact."every company needs to publish to its various communities, its customers, its staff, it?s neighbors."Eh, no. Not every company. A lot of small "mom & pop" businesses don't. A lot of franchises just let the corporate side take care of that. A lot of small churches don't.In your...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, media company
- Discussion threads 2009-08-23
- Every company is a media company
- Every company has to become a media company -- because every company needs to master the technologies of publishing to their customers, staff, neighbors, and to raise their media profile against their competitors. by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Media Company, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-08-22
- Startup wants to help newspapers but (get this!) news execs need proof of problem first
- Startup wants to help newspapers but (get this!) news execs need proof of problem firstNot optimisticAt the risk of appearing to bite the hand that used to feed me, even the brightest newspaper executives didn't understand "the Internets" until it was too late, and the dimmer ones STILL don't understand...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, calorie, media company, StartUp
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- The disruptive tectonic forces at the intersection of technology and media
- Last week I didn't have much chance to post because I was on four panels and at two conferences. I spent a lot of time talking about the massive disruptive changes happening the in the media industry. It is my favorite subject and it is one I've...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Media Company, Intersection, Media, Media Industry, Media Technology, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-05-02
- The economics of online advertising affects online software publishers
- There are many startups that hope to support themselves and their services through online advertising, through clicks and pageviews, in the same way as media companies. About three years ago, when Jeff Nolan was working as a venture capitalist at the enterprise software giant SAP, he told me that...
- Tags: Software, Media Company, Software Company, Online Advertising, Advertising & Promotion, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Maybe It's Time for Twenty-Somethings To Take Over Media
- Media companies have to become technology companies, able to quickly and effectively deliver new services that appeal to a generation of readers who only spend about seven minutes a day of their free time reading stuff printed on paper. That’s the contention propounded this morning by Harold...
- Tags: Media Company, Technology Company, BusinessWeek, Media, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Is Google a media company?
- Is Google a media company?Google is a Tech company for realhi As you may noticed by the 17 th of September Google will launch with T-mobile the android first mobile terminal how can we call an os manufacturer ? a still media company ? source : http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=1356thanks http://www.monghone.frGoogle's still a...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, media company, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Is Google a media company?
- The New York Times recently wrote an article headlined: "Is Google a media company?" The article was mostly about Knol, Google's Wikipedia-like service, but it wondered if this meant Google was a media company because it owns content sites such as Knol, Blogger, and Youtube. ...
- Tags: Media Company, Google Inc., New York Times Co., GOOG, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- More reflection on the Kindle: Did Amazon just answer an unnerved media industry's prayers?
- This is a replay of a conversation with my father who spent most of his life as a media executive (though not with any company that I've ever worked for). Dad: Oh, you have the Kindle? Me: Yes. It's pretty neat. Raises a lot...
- Tags: Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc., Content, David Berlind, Kindle, Media Company, New York Times Co., RSS, Screen, Times
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- Corporate-sponsored Presidential debates: No, thank you
- Yahoo had its Democratic Candidate Mashup. Google and YouTube teamed with CNN for a series of presidential debates. It's a troubling trend: Politics is baldly dependent on corporate largess this election cycle. Now, you may say, "Hey, Ratcliffe, these are media companies covering the election. We...
- Tags: Media Company, Candidate, Nothing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Get ready for the 'Twitterization' of mainstream media
- Back in 1991, when I first started as a tech journalist for PC Week now eWeek, there was no Web. There was print, TV, and radio. PC Week was a print book and, to the extent that any of the parent company Ziff Davis' publications were online, it...
- Tags: Blog, Blogging, CBS Interactive Inc., David Berlind, Information, Investor, Media, Media Company, Microsoft Windows, PC Week, Twitter, Web, Windows Sources, Ziff-Davis Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- YouTube videos downloadable and storable on new RealPlayer
- RealNetworks says its forthcoming RealPlayer software will be configured to allow users to save YouTube videos - as well as those by other providers- for later viewing.The upgrade, which is expected in June, will also let users store these clips on DVDs.Reuters reports that this video storage option will be...
- Tags: YouTube, News
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- FAST battles GOOG and YHOO for media markets, says its search traffic larger than Yahoo!
- FAST Search and Transfer, the leading European search firm, today introduced a search based business platform for media companies and said that search traffic from its customers has surpassed Yahoo! and will overtake Google in 2 years.The Norwegian based company said its FASTMedia software platform is the first to match...
- Tags: New Rules, FAST, Enterprise IT
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Will Google follow Viacom's lead?
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation applauds Viacom today for standing up for upfront “fair use” rights of YouTubers.Responding to Viacoms willingness to take steps to protect the free speech rights of those who post videos to YouTube and similar video sharing sites, the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF and Stanford Law Schools...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, Legal, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Copyright, Content, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Major Media Company Puts the "Team" Back in Software Development
- Clear Channel Communications, a Fortune 500 media company, owns more than 1,200 radio and TV stations across the United States and 750,000 billboards worldwide. The company's Enterprise Application Development group lacked a standard development methodology, formal software testing, and requirements authoring standards. In addition, the group missed project deadlines because...
- Tags: Software, Media Company, Team, Software Development, Clear Channel Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing
- Case studies 2007-04-01
- Digital culturus interruptus: Right here, right now, the almighty copyright finally comes home to roost
- Digital culturus interruptus: Right here, right now, the almighty copyright finally comes home to roostI liked this article so much...I bought the domain! (theothertube.com)Excellent reporting!Thanks David,this is the sort of in-depth article that ZDNet needs - factual, up-to-date, informative and entertaining. Too often lately others have posted rehashed old non-news....
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, recording industry, Joe Blow, Viacom Inc., media company, Roy Orbison, YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-13
- Silicon Valley is turning into media valley
- Silicon Valley is rapidly turning into Media Valley--and New York, NY should look out--the capital of the media world is shifting about 3,000 miles westwards.Some of Silicon Valleys largest companies are media companies: Google, Yahoo, EBay, for example are media companies--they publish pages of content and advertising around it.Some of...
- Tags: advertisement, Google Inc., media, media company, media industry, Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Trend watch
- Blog posts 2007-02-25
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