Category Archives: Syndicated News

Penguin’s DK: Goodbye Books, Hello ‘Flat’ Content. Make Once, Use Anywhere

Dorling Kindersley, the division of Penguin that publishes children, travel and reference titles, made a strong case for how it is moving to a “flat” content model, where a printed book is only one of many output options. The digital publisher of DK also said that companies like his need to do this to be ready for the next big thing in books—whatever it is—but as is so often the case for old media industries, the change is “massive” and not easy for everyone in publishing.

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3 Months After Its $2 Million Seed Round, Arts And Crafts Subscription Startup KiwiCrate Raises $5 Million More

We first wrote about KiwiCrate in July as one of 20 hot Silicon Valley startups to watch. 
Venture capitalists seem to agree because they just doubled down on their KiwiCrate investments. Three months after its $2 million seed round, the arts an… Continue reading

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Jerry Yang Had To Step Down To Give Scott Thompson A Chance With Yahoo Execs (YHOO)

Jerry Yang finally resigned from Yahoo’s board yesterday. 
There are plenty of reasons it had to happen.
A big one: until yesterday, some Yahoo execs assumed their new boss, recently appointed CEO Scott Thompson, was just Yang’s proxy.
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The Morning Lowdown 1-18-12

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:

»  Apple’s Textbook Push Spotlights Executive (Wall Street Journal)

»  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Finds Way To Get On SOPA Soap Box Without Going Dark (paidContent) Internet blackout against U.S. law fails to enlist big sites (Reuters) Taking SOPA/PIPA to the streets: Protests on for SF, NYC (GigaOm)

»  Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) to Launch Cloud Search Service, Possibly Tomorrow (PandoDaily)

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Apple’s Stock Is Trading At An All Time High (AAPL)

Investors are getting increasingly bullish on Apple in the run up to its earnings report. The stock is hitting its all time highs in today’s trading, going above $428 briefly.

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No One Will Top This SOPA Protest Page Today

A lot of websites (most notably Wikipedia) are going dark today in protest of SOPA.
Others are displaying
But the humor site The Oatmeal easily wins for its hilarious GIF about SOPA.
Watch it. We guarantee you’ll laugh.
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The Huffington Post Is Launching A Live-Streaming Web Broadcast To Compete With CNN

Arianna Huffington is ready to take on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News.
AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group is set to launch a live-streaming video network, Jeff Bercovici reports for Forbes, that would use editorial talent already in the newsroom.
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Nielsen: iPhone Really Ate Into Android’s U.S. Sales Last Quarter

One more analyst house has released some numbers that underscore just how strong an impact Apple’s iPhone 4S launch had on smartphone sales in the last quarter: Nielsen says the phone accounted for 44.5 percent of all smartphone sales in the U.S. in the month of December—just 2.4 percent below Android and a massive rise on iPhone’s U.S. sales share of 25.1 percent in October 2011.

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Zynga’s Shares Have Skyrocketed This Week On Speculation It’s About To Tap A Brand New Market (ZNGA)

Zynga’s shares are way up this week based on speculation that Zynga could expand into online gambling after the U.S. opened the door to possible legalization, according to a new research note by Sterne Agee’s Arvind Bhatia.
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Roy Bostock Hasn’t Left The Yahoo Board Because He Needs To Finish Selling The Asian Assets

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