by Yukari Iwatani Kane, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Apple Inc. said Thursday it will let iPhone application developers offer their users the option to buy additional content or features within a free app on its App Store.
App developers said they received an e-mail notice from Apple informing them that the in-app purchase feature was now available for free apps and that it would “simplify your development by creating a single version of your app that uses in App Purchase to unlock additional functionality, eliminating the need to create Lite versions of your app.”
by Evan Ramstad, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Samsung Electronics Co.’s profits are on the rise again as its chip and display businesses recover from operating losses earlier this year. The turnaround recently helped push its market capitalization past Intel Corp.’s for the first time.
by Tiernan Ray, Blogger, Tech Trader Daily, Barron's
Chinese Web portal and mobile phone content provider Sina’s deal to acquire the billboard operations in China of Focus Media Holding has collapsed today, almost ten months after it was first announced.
by Simon Dumenco, Columnist, Ad Age, The Media Guy
Oh, those clever birds at Twitter. When the microblogging service announced recent changes to its terms of service, its executives knew exactly how to spin the news.
Last year, we talked about some language in a contract being used by a company that was supposedly trying to help copyright holders track down content being shared online, for the purpose of sending out threatening “pre-settlement” letters.
by Ronald Grover, Los Angeles Bureau Manager for BusinessWeek
It was a week after the annual Allen & Co. mediafest, and Barry Diller, the fabled former Hollywood mogul and chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp, was eager to chat.
For people who hope the openness and flexibility of the Internet will come to mainstream television, the deal announced yesterday between Comcast and Time Warner is great news. They just don’t see yet how it blows apart the tight bond between cable content and cable delivery.
by Kelly Jackson Higgins, Senior Editor, DarkReading
A pair of researchers has discovered a way to use modern browsers to more easily build darknets–those underground, private Internet communities where users can share content and ideas securely and anonymously.
by Mathew Ingram, Communities Editor of the Globe and Mail
Curation has become a popular term in media circles, in the sense of a human editor who filters and selects content, and then packages it and delivers it to readers in some way.
by Nick Wingfield, Staff Writer, The Wall Street Journal
When Apple first started promoting applications for the iPhone, CEO Steve Jobs touted physician reference guides and other medical programs as an important category of software for the device. At least a tenth of the doctors in the U.S. concur with that view.
I have mentioned Google’s music-related activities in China a few times during the past two years; and just yesterday this topic seems to have heated up considerably.
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