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After nearly “starving to death,” Steve Jobs is set to return to Apple, according to the Wall Street Journal this morning. The news comes on the eve of next week’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, where Jobs is expected to make an appearance to introduce a new iPhone, possibly one capable of recording video, according to Read More …
The Wall Street Journal has the scoop today on the big idea to come out of last week’s huddle of top newspaper execs in Chicago: a royalty collection society modelled on the music industry. The idea would be for a new newspaper collective to offer Web sites a blanket license to republish news stories, just as Read More …
Voting begins Thursday across the 27 member countries of the European Union for representation in the 785-seat European Parliament. Record low turnout is expected. But the low turnout doesn’t mean that nothing interesting can happen. In fact, it could well open the door for smaller parties with, let’s call them, atypical agendas, to gain seats in the Read More …
Zucker acknowledges something that has been too slow in dawning on media executives generally: scale–and the economies that go with it–is a thing of the past. Read More …
…but does Google’s announcement that it will begin selling ebooks later this year through a more or less straight-foward e-commerce platform mean it expects its proposed settlement with publishers in the Google Books case to be rejected by the court? Or, regardless of what the court does, to be scotched by the Justice Department, which Read More …