Piano Media, the joint web news payment system operating in Slovakia and Slovenia, is preparing to launch in a third, larger market this summer, after recently taking funding for globalisation.

David Galbraith may get too much credit for developing RSS, but the one thing that he unashamedly claims to have invented is visual bookmarking. The creator of the visual bookmarking website Wists reflects ...

Video is becoming more of a casual form of communication, with people leaving video chat services like OoVoo on in the background for hours on end. Video sharing is becoming more immediate with more live ...

The latest moves and hires in the digital media and tech industry.

Arizona man David Elliott wants a court to declare that "google" is a word that means "search on the internet" and to cancel Google's trademarks for the term.

On Friday, activity around Dish's highly controversial "AutoHop" feature was, well, hopping. Not only did NBC and CBS join Fox in the court battle against the satellite TV service, but Dish issued ...

On Friday, activity around Dish's highly controversial "AutoHop" feature was, well, hopping. Not only did NBC and CBS join Fox in the court battle against the satellite TV service, but Dish issued ...

Three months after Amazon yanked book distributor IPG's 5,000 titles from the Kindle store in a fight over terms, the two companies have come to an agreement and Amazon has restored the titles. IPG's letter ...

Two months after Amazon yanked book distributor IPG's 5,000 titles from the Kindle store in a fight over terms, the two companies have come to an agreement and Amazon has restored the titles. IPG's letter ...

There has been a growing revolt in the publishing community against the idea that iPhone and iPad apps are the best route to digital dollars. The Financial Times shuttered its apps this month while a popular ...

There has been a growing revolt in the publishing community against the idea that iPhone and iPad apps are the best route to digital dollars. The Financial Times shuttered its apps this month while a popular ...

As painful as the decision to stop printing daily may be for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and its staff, it grappling with a reality that almost every newspaper will have to face sooner or later, whether ...

This weekly feature tells the backstory of how one e-book became a bestseller, and highlights bestselling titles that are selling more copies in digital than in print. This week: The next "50 Shades ...

Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: 5 key takeaways from paidContent 2012 (paidContent) ...NBCU Exploring Buyback of MSNBC.com (AdWeek) ...

Philip DeFranco's new YouTube channel Sourcefed clocked 100 million views since it launched three months ago as part of YouTube's new channel roll-out. But with YouTube focusing on professional content, ...

High-def digital video recorders, which can use as much power as a small refrigerator, are about to become a lot more efficient, thanks to chip innovations that put these devices to sleep. But will your ...

Here we go again. Another disruptive TV technology, another major lawsuit. This time Dish Network and the major TV networks are suing each other over what Dish calls its "best in class DVR" technology....

It's all about the platform -- except when it isn't: Speakers at paidContent 2012 spoke about the opportunities, challenges and constraints of creating digital content.

Barnes & Noble's hopes of entering the UK e-books market may rest on Windows 8 and other apps, after a key retailer opted to sell Amazon's Kindle e-reader instead of Nook.

Sanford Bernstein senior analyst Todd Juenger doesn't believe digital media companies like YouTube, Yahoo and AOL can entice advertisers into committing huge portions of dollars all in one buying session, ...

Google today released a new picture of the millions of links it scrubs from its search results in response to requests from Microsoft, movie studios and other content owners.

"Operators treat partners like vendors.” That quote comes form Google director of global android partnerships John Lagerling, who said it at a Dublin conference where it was captured by Light Reading. ...

Amazon is finally banning some of the junkier content in the Kindle Store, including "content that is freely available on the web, unless you are the copyright owner of that content."

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning...

Several hundred execs filled The TimesCenter Wednesday for a day of intense conversation and discovery (on stage and off) about the current state of digital content online… and where we’re headed. But ...

Just what do you call a company that hurts and helps your business at the same time? With Netflix draining ratings for some programs, spiking the performance of others, and all the while increasing broadband ...

"If you buy a digital book you should be able to read it on anything you want to read it on", said Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne at paidContent 2012.

The killer asset in the video age is widely believed to be a large library full of content that can be sold, licensed and re-distributed onto emerging platforms. But media executives Rob Burnett and Lisa ...

In the latest court filing in the ongoing Justice Department e-books price-fixing suit, Apple says it did not conspire to fix the prices of digital books to hurt competitors and its business strategy around ...

Amazon is a "predator," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo said at paidContent 2012 this afternoon, and he believes that young undiscovered writers are at particular risk.

With each passing elections season, we're seeing more how social media is changing the political news coverage business. It's not just sped up the news cycle, but it's helped kill it, said Josh Marshall, ...

Amid growing speculation that Hulu doesn't fit the TV Everywhere goals of its media-conglomerate parents, News Corp.'s digital chief said at paidContent 2012 direct-to-consumer businesses like the streaming ...

FT.com Managing Director Rob Grimshaw made no secret of his distaste for Apple's in-app subscription terms at padContent 2012. iOS apps don't work for publishers, he told the audience, and the Financial ...

Most people want to share content that makes them look good -- a concept that Gravity CEO Amit Kapur called "peacocking" at paidContent 2012 this afternoon. Sometimes that urge is a good thing, ...

GigaOM Pro Research Director David Card took the stage at paidContent 2012 to discuss one of the key challenges content distributors are facing -- discoverability.

In order to benefit from digital media and the disruption created by the social web, content companies and publishers have to think differently about what they do: it's not content, it's information, John ...

It can be a scary world out there for modern media companies, but it’s actually very simple, according to Conde Nast president Bob Sauerberg. “If content is going to remain king, we have got to innovate,” ...

Apparently The Boston Globe didn’t get the memo that it’s an app-only world when it comes to mobile. The Globe says at paidContent 2012 its website is doing very well in mobile -- more than 30 percent ...

Dish and Roku have partnered to launch a new streaming service focused on international programming. The service, dubbed DISHWorld, will offer foreign-language TV stations targeting Indian, Arabic and ...

Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Wordpress and Automattic, said at paidContent 2012 that the service is preparing for a significant change of direction -- by releasing a much simpler version designed to ...

The pitched war between content owners and technology companies doesn't have to persist if media companies would acknowledge and adapt to the new realities of digital distribution, famed venture capitalist ...

Big-six publisher Hachette Book Group is making free chapters of upcoming books from bestselling authors like James Patterson and Michael Connelly available through a new Facebook app.

In order to tell the story of Star Wars, George Lucas had to create a new technology company that was powerful enough to tell that story. The same thing has to happen in digital news publishing, industry ...

The biggest challenge for a media company like Meredith is shifting focus to consumer engagement across platforms, Meredith's Liz Schimel said at paidContent 2012. Part of that means making the brands ...

Qwiki, the start-up known for creating automated multimedia presentations, is launching a new media format that allows publishers, bloggers, web personalities and others to create 60-second video stories ...

The hype surrounding Facebook has rapidly turned sour since the company went public in a media frenzy last Friday.

Tablets may be a hot item now, but they're just getting started. At paidContent 2012, Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey noted that it's not just a "tablet or iPad world" coming, but an ...

While video lovers have gotten more social services that highlight interesting clips, it's still hard to construct a more comprehensive look at video news. Newslook is trying to fill that gap with an iPad ...