Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Financial Times Feels Vindicated by Web Strategy
Two years ago, when other media executives were convinced that the only way to succeed on the Web was to give away their content, “we were regarded as slightly freakish,” says John Ridding, chief executive of The Financial Times.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Charging for Access to News Sites
John Plunkett, reporting for the Guardian last week, in a story titled “Financial Times Editor Says Most News Websites Will Charge Within a Year”:
Friday, July 17, 2009
Financial Times Editor Says Most News Web Sites Will Charge Within a Year
The Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, has predicted that “almost all” news organisations will be charging for online content within a year.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Note by ‘Teenage Scribbler’ Causes Sensation
A research note written by a 15-year-old, who was not born when former UK chancellor Nigel Lawson dismissed London analysts as “teenage scribblers”, has become the talk of middle-aged media executives and investors.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Long haul still ahead on Intel case
Intel has come out fighting, after being slapped with a record €1.06bn fine by the EU for anti-competitive practices.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Startup Tries to Rally Publishers with Ad-Sharing Proposal
A Silicon Valley startup and handful of publishers have a new plan to bring peace to the war between Web sites and media companies accusing them of stealing their content.
The group, which includes Reuters and smaller online publishers like Politico, wants companies that broker advertising to Web sites to give them a share of the revenue from ads they sell alongside full copies of their content.
Monday, March 9, 2009
The Coming of the Megacomputer
Here’s an incredible, and telling, data point. In a talk yesterday, reports the Financial Times’ Richard Waters, the head of Microsoft Research, Rick Rashid, said that about 20 percent of all the server computers being sold in the world “are now being bought by a small handful of internet companies,” including Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Amazon.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Obama’s Team Must Fight “Cultural Agoraphobia”
Almost precisely 17 years ago, a young British researcher from Cern, the European organization for nuclear research, gave a presentation in Texas on a technology that was to change society dramatically. That same month, the Cern newsletter announced it to the world: It was called the World Wide Web.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Surprise! Universal Music Revenues Up 5 Percent Thanks to Downloads
After having $10 billion wiped off their collective worldwide revenues this decade, the four major music labels haven’t had much to crow about. Indie labels, which have banded together to negotiate as Merlin, together are as large as EMI, the smallest of the majors.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
iPhone as Advertising Platform
It seems a safe bet that most of the money made by iPhone application developers will come in the form of advertising. That is the overwhelming lesson from the PC-based internet. So if Steve Jobs is right in saying that the marketplace for paid-for iPhone applications will eventually reach $1bn, how much bigger might the [...]
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Why Can Employees Not Sell Their iPhones?
Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, unveiled a new version of Apple’s iPhone yesterday. Unfortunately, some of the phone’s most effective marketers are not around to sell it because they have been fired. O2, the exclusive network provider for iPhone in the U.K., recently dismissed several employees for buying phones at the staff discount price and selling them over the Internet.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Google Triumphant: Search Wars Look Settled
Eric Schmidt was doing his level best late last week not to gloat. With Microsoft dropping its attempted takeover of Yahoo, the Google chief executive had just seen his arch-rival abandon its most direct attack yet on Google’s growing dominance of online search and advertising.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Google Homes in on Revenues from Phones
Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset, adding weight to the group’s confidence at being able to generate significant revenues from the mobile Internet. If the trend continues and other handset manufacturers follow Apple’s lead in making Web access easy, the number of mobile searches will overtake fixed Internet searches within the next several years.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Yang’s Options Shrinking Fast
Jerry Yang must be starting to understand how Alfred Chuang of BEA Systems felt when Larry Ellison of Oracle came calling last year. Like Chuang, the Yahoo boss has just been landed with a takeover offer at such a big premium that he can’t possibly just ignore it. Also like Chuang, the options for other deals–or for staying independent–are shrinking fast. Here are the other partnerships or alliances that Yang could have grabbed at in the last year or so, and the chances that he can turn to them again now as he looks for an alternative to Microsoft …
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