June, 2012 | Concurrent Media

Following the Flipboard flip-flops

Posted onJune 25, 2012December 11, 2014AuthorPaul Sweeting

Publishing The New York Times and Conde Nast each reversed its policy recently regarding aggregation of their content through the iPad and Android reading app Flipboard, and the reversals are revealing on the question of value-capture for online content publishers. After originally allowing all digital content from The New Yorker and Wired to be pulled into Read More …

Old media falling out of favor at DOJ

Posted onJune 18, 2012June 25, 2012AuthorPaul Sweeting2 Comments

Antitrust The U.S. Justice Department has opened a “wide-ranging antitrust investigation” into whether cable operators are illegally using bandwidth caps and other tactics to try to squash growing competition from online video services like Netflix, the Wall Street Journal reported last week. Subsequent reporting by the Journal revealed the investigation also covers the satellite TV services Read More …