Amazon is set to launch a new e-book service that will enable customers to access a library of books for a fixed monthly fee.
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Twitter, the micro-blogging site which boasted 100 million active users last week, will be used by a British hedge fund to predict whether share prices will rise or fall.
AOL and Yahoo! are thought to be in talks about a possible merger between the two internet companies, following the departure of Yahoo!’s chief executive Carol Bartz last week.
Jeremy Hunt is set to ask Ofcom to establish an agreed means of measuring cross-media ownership in the UK following the row over Rupert Murdoch’s previous bid for BSkyB.
JP Morgan has upped its forecasts for tablet sales in 2011 to 51.9 million units, from 46.1 million previously, according to Mobile Insider.
100 million Twitter users now log in to their account on a daily basis, meaning that half of the social network’s registered users are ‘active’.
Having let the dust settle, allowing me time to watch Eric Schmidt’s MacTaggart lecture in its entirety, I was struck by his sincerity, self-deprecation (“if we were responsible for TV programming, you’d get a lot of bad sci-fi”) and an innate understanding of where TV fits in the new media eco-system.
Raymond Snoddy says it is totally banal to say that instant communication tools in the hands of almost every citizen can change societies dramatically at breakneck speed and be a force for both good and evil in equal measure. But it would be true…
Greg Grimmer, partner, Hurrell Moseley Dawson & Grimmer, says six years on and people have finally come around to his way of thinking…
The online TV company SeeSaw has taken a huge hit recently – not only has the private equity firm lost a key content deal with Channel 4, but the company’s designated chairman, Michael Jackson, has stepped down from his position.
