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Research: Internet Is UK's No. 2 News Source, But Only 3.8 Percent Pay
Online may be challenging TV to be UK consumers’ primary news source – but only 3.8 percent pay for it, new research says. In an annual media habits survey by the Oliver & Ohlbaum consultancy, 75...
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RadioPlayer Teams Up With Audioboo To Offer Listen-Again Service
The pan-industry internet radio service RadioPlayer has joined forces with Audioboo to offer an instant listen-again service for its 300-plus stations. The tieup is likely to be of most benefit for...
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Industry Moves: Univision Radio; Precision Health; NBCU; Rocket Fuel
Here is a roundup of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business… – Univision Radio: Evan Harrison has been appointed EVP of content and entertainment....
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Pandora, Not Radio, Doesn’t Understand Radio
I’ve met Tim Westergren, the founder of Pandora (NYSE: P). He’s a lovely man. But, not only do I believe that Pandora is not radio (they stole our brand for a non-live, non-local, non-shared jukebox),...
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Court tosses Howard Stern’s $300 million claim against Sirius XM
Shock jock Howard Stern can rant all he likes but he will not be paid a $300 million bonus after Sirius XM won a dispute over subscriber counts. In a ruling handed down on Monday, a New York state...
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It’s official: News consumption is all about social and mobile
Anyone who watches the way those around them consume the news, or thinks about their own news consumption habits, is probably well aware of how large a role social networks like Twitter and Facebook...
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Spotify hits 6 million paid users as market for music streaming heats up
Music subscriptions services, which provide an alternative to purchasing songs on sites like iTunes, continue to gain in popularity. One example is Sweden-based Spotify, which is expanding rapidly...
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Swell launches a Pandora for podcasts to help you decide where to tune in
I’ve never been a huge podcast fan — the ones I tried always took too long for me to get into. Plus, aside from This American Life and the GigaOM podcast, of course, I wasn’t sure what else was out...
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No more engagement rings: how Gracenote wants to personalize radio ads in...
Here’s the number one reason why I hate commercial radio: I got married eight years ago, but to this day, my car radio is bombarding me with ads for engagement rings. Every single time. Media...
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Radio Search Engine turns the world’s radio stations into a music jukebox
This is cool: Radio Search Engine, a new site launched out of beta this week by serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson, turns tens of thousands of radio stations into an easily searchable music jukebox....
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Pandora Shares Fall Sharply, Then Recover, As Spotify Hits the U.S.
Pandora (NYSE: P) may have gone public just in the nick of time. With rival Spotify's long-awaited U.S. arrival finally at hand, Pandora sha… Pandora Shares Fall Sharply, Then Recover, As Spotify Hits...
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Pop-Up Radio Potential: Australia Gets It, UK Fails
Radio is going digital all over the world - on DAB Digital Radio in Europe and Australia, HD Radio in the United States, and via television,… Pop-Up Radio Potential: Australia Gets It, UK Fails...
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Spotify Launch Sponsors Pay $1 Million Each
We spoke with an executive very close to Spotify and several advertising executives to understand the company's strategy behind its hybrid a… Spotify Launch Sponsors Pay $1 Million Each originally...
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The Young Turks–MSNBC dispute is a cautionary tale
This week's drama between The Young Turks creator and host Cenk Uygur and MSNBC has a sad tinge of inevitability to it, given the compromises required by the mainstream media. The major twist is just...
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Wall Street Analysts Like Pandora, Investors Not So Sure
Pandora (NYSE: P) shares popped nearly four percent in pre-market trading Monday after several analysts issued bullish research reports on t… Wall Street Analysts Like Pandora, Investors Not So Sure...
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Sirius Profits Surge, Raises Expectations For Subscriber Numbers
Despite the aggressive growth of personalized, "online radio" offerings such as Pandora (NYSE: P) and Spotify, which recently arrived in the… Sirius Profits Surge, Raises Expectations For Subscriber...
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BBC Bows Out Of Print For £121 Million, Sells Magazine Business To Exponent
Finally, closure on the long-running question of what would happen to the BBC's magazine business, the biggest publisher of subscription mag… BBC Bows Out Of Print For £121 Million, Sells Magazine...
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Pound for pound, Pandora ads now worth more than radio
Internet radio company Pandora reported the financial results of its first three months as a public company Thursday. The company confirmed that while it still has a long way to go before it reaches...
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Pandora Revenues Jump Triple Digits; Chance Of Breaking Even In 2012
Pandora (NYSE: P), which has seen its stock price battered since the brief euphoria that surrounded its IPO pricing back in June, posted tri… Pandora Revenues Jump Triple Digits; Chance Of Breaking...
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Pandora’s Kennedy: We Will Gradually Increase Audio Ad Inventory
For the most part, Pandora's quarterly numbers show a company headed in the right direction, with revenue numbers up substantially along wit… Pandora’s Kennedy: We Will Gradually Increase Audio Ad...
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Deezer Streaming Music Service Launching In UK
They may not have produced a band as big as The Beatles, and may bear some responsibility for the musical output of Claude Francois, but the… Deezer Streaming Music Service Launching In UK originally...
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UK Gives Green Light To Fast Wireless Broadband Service, Free To All Comers
The UK is preparing to roll out a new, superfast mobile broadband service that would also more than double the amount of spectrum that is cu… UK Gives Green Light To Fast Wireless Broadband Service,...
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Lawsuit Magnet Sirius XM Wins One Ruling, Loses Another
Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) likes to tout its large and diverse offerings -- though sometimes it's hard to tell if the company is talking about i… Lawsuit Magnet Sirius XM Wins One Ruling, Loses Another...
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FCC set to trial first database for Super Wi-Fi
Call it what you want, but Super Wi-Fi or white spaces broadband just got a big win today when the FCC approved the first trial using the radio and database needed to deliver the broadband service. the...
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The Morning Lowdown 09-21-11
» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Signs Expanded Two-Year Streaming Deal With Discovery (paidContent) » Andreessen's Ning Finds… The Morning Lowdown 09-21-11 originally published by Gigaom, © copyright 2011....
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Pandora Website Revamp Bets On Turning ‘Listeners’ Into ‘Viewers’
Internet radio provider Pandora is primarily known for its mobile apps, but as it looks to build up its ad offerings, it's overhauled its we… Pandora Website Revamp Bets On Turning ‘Listeners’ Into...
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The Morning Lowdown 09-21-11
» NYT Paywall: 12 Percent Of Subs Are International; IHT Paywall Coming (paidContent) » Documentary Streamer Snagfilm… The Morning Lowdown 09-21-11 originally published by Gigaom, © copyright 2011....
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Spotify’s Levick: Facebook Integration Will Help Drive Ad Strategy
Just a few weeks after landing in the U.S., European-based streaming music service Spotify has gotten an immediate shot in the arm by being… Spotify’s Levick: Facebook Integration Will Help Drive Ad...
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Pandora Smacked With Class Action For Revealing User Profiles
Pandora (NYSE: P) is the latest company to stumble into the minefield of privacy lawsuits that are blowing up all over the tech industry. A… Pandora Smacked With Class Action For Revealing User...
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NPR Turns To Public TV Vet Gary Knell As New CEO
Seven months after Vivian Schiller was ousted as president and CEO of NPR, the public radio network has turned to a public broadcast veteran… NPR Turns To Public TV Vet Gary Knell As New CEO originally...
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Pittman Gives Into Temptation; Takes Over As Clear Channel CEO
It seemed like a no brainer back in November. If Bob Pittman was willing to return to radio after forays at MTV, AOL (NYSE: AOL), Time Warne… Pittman Gives Into Temptation; Takes Over As Clear Channel...
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BBC Cuts: Nearly 2,000 Jobs To Go
The BBC will axe nearly 2,000 jobs as it looks to save £670m a year in long-awaited cost-cutting plans announced on Thursday morning. BBC Cuts: Nearly 2,000 Jobs To Go originally published by Gigaom, ©...
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Is It Legal To TiVo The Radio?
Univision, the Spanish-language media giant, has opened a new front in the long-running battle over where and how people can make copies of… Is It Legal To TiVo The Radio? originally published by...
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BBC Cuts: Digital To Get £40 Million Annual ‘Innovation Fund’
Today's big round of cuts announced by the BBC -- it will lose some 2,000 jobs, order relocations for others, and make big changes to the pr… BBC Cuts: Digital To Get £40 Million Annual ‘Innovation...
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Pandora Learns The Hard Way, Mobile Ads Are Still Far From Being A Cash Cow
Being the most popular is not a good enough business model, it seems, when it comes to music mobile apps. Pandora, the music-streaming app,… Pandora Learns The Hard Way, Mobile Ads Are Still Far From...
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Missing: 30 Percent Of The BBC’s Online Radio Traffic
More people appear to be listening to less BBC Radio through BBC iPlayer. Within one week in March, average weekly minutes for radio listen… Missing: 30 Percent Of The BBC’s Online Radio Traffic...
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As Cable TV News Wars Heat Up, Bloomberg Builds ‘Live TV’ Placement On iPad
Bloomberg may still be battling with Comcast over better placement on its cable systems, but the financial news and information company is l… As Cable TV News Wars Heat Up, Bloomberg Builds ‘Live TV’...
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Adobe’s Thomas Nielsen Named RealNetworks CEO
RealNetworks has chosen Thomas Nielsen as its new president and CEO, succeeding interim CEO Mike Lunsford. He starts next week and is intend… Adobe’s Thomas Nielsen Named RealNetworks CEO originally...
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A Tale Of Two Strategies: Home And Away With Orange And Vodafone
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are… A Tale Of Two Strategies: Home And Away With Orange And...
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Borrell: After Two Years Of No Growth, Local Ad Spend Will Spike In 2012
The local online ad marketplace has experienced two years of fairly flat revenues, but Borrell Associates says that the space is on the verg… Borrell: After Two Years Of No Growth, Local Ad Spend Will...
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Spotify Launching Integrated Apps Within Its Platform
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify's first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service's Facebook integration t… Spotify Launching Integrated Apps Within Its Platform...
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Get Ready For Another Streaming Music Service: The Ad-Free Rara.com
Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million… Get Ready For Another Streaming Music Service: The Ad-Free...
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Forget Ethernet, researchers want data centers to go wireless
Researchers from UC Santa Barbara, Intel and IBM have shown they can send data between servers without those pesky Ethernet cables, using 60 GHz wireless and bouncing radio signals off the ceiling....
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Podcast: Shark Week for the Internet of Things
What do you get when you combine cleantech, server tech, the internet of things and robotics with a surfboard? The answer can be found in this week's podcast featuring Liquid Robotics. Podcast: Shark...
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Here’s how smartphones, tablets and huge databases will upend market research
The confluence of better location data and audio-recognition could mean big changes to seemingly static industries such as retail and radio as they learn more about what customers really want. Here’s...
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Researchers invent wireless Morse code for the internet of things
Batteries are a necessary evil for our connected life, but research from the University of Washington has built a way for devices to communicate without their own power source. This is big for the...
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ZigBee wants to be the Bluetooth of the internet of things. Too bad everyone...
ZigBee is fighting for its place in the internet of things against Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy and Z-wave. It has to overcome fragmentation, sneak into user's homes and keep Bluetooth at bay. Can it do...
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Nest and Samsung launch Thread, a wireless mesh standard for the smart home
Does the smart home need a new network? Some really big companies have created Thread, a new standard that aims to supplant Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and ZigBee as the ideal radio tech for the home. Nest and...
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Shoutcast relaunches with new hosted streaming service
Radionomy has relaunched Shoutcast and is now offering free hosted broadcasting with ad monetization. Shoutcast relaunches with new hosted streaming service originally published by Gigaom, © copyright...
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As Qualcomm buys CSR, Bluetooth is set to invade the smart home
Today's a big day for Bluetooth, with a bunch of new smart home products adopting the standard and a big bet on the radio by Qualcomm. As Qualcomm buys CSR, Bluetooth is set to invade the smart home...
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