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Battling Amazon: Pearson And Bertelsmann To Form Global Consumer Publishing Giant, Penguin Random House, To Build "New Digital Publishing Models"
Oct 29, 8:24AM
Publishing giants Pearson and Bertelsmann are creating a joint venture to pool their respective consumer publishing businesses, Penguin and Random House, in a bid to go the distance in the digital age. The pair said the combined organisation will have a "stronger platform and greater resources to invest in rich content, new digital publishing models".As Google And Amazon Fight Up, Apple Refuses To Fight Down
Oct 29, 6:38AM
After this past week's Apple event, one thing stood out to me above all others. And just to make sure, I watched the event again. Same result. The shots fired at Android tablets. For everything that Apple announced (new MacBook Pros, Mac minis, iMacs, iPads, and iPad minis), this was what I walked away thinking about. It was a fascinating look into the collective mind of Apple.Why The Future Of Search May Look More Like Yahoo Than Google
Oct 29, 6:38AM
Rewind to the late 90s. Almost everything you needed – email, news, sports, stocks, maps and more – was conveniently on one site: Yahoo!. Yahoo! was the "portal" to the Internet that strived to deliver everything you could ever want on its own properties. The crazy thing is how successful Yahoo! was at this. Few, if any, have ever done content or media online at that scale.NYSE And NASDAQ To Close Down On Monday And Possibly Tuesday Due To Hurricane Sandy
Oct 29, 3:03AM
According to Reuters, the U.S. Stock Market will be closed on Monday due to interference that will be caused by the logistical nightmare that comes along with such a huge weather event like Hurricane Sandy. Parts of New York City have already been evacuated. As early as six hours ago, it was said that the NYSE would not be closing down, but that decision has apparently been reversed as the severity of the storm has picked up.Is FastPay A Real Alternative To VC Funding? Two Digital Media Startups Say Yes
Oct 29, 3:00AM
Back in June, I wrote about a startup called FastPay, which offers credit lines to digital media companies. At the time, CEO and founder Jed Simon pitched the service as an alternative to venture capital. Well, a couple of months later I asked: Are there really companies that used FastPay instead of raising venture funding? In response, the FastPay team put me in touch with two customers — Moguldom Media Group and Giant Media. Since I only talked to two out of what Simon said is about 100 total customers, Moguldom and Giant's probably aren't entirely representative of the FastPay experience. But they did answer my question. So yes, there at least two startups that used FastPay as a VC alternative.Badabing! For iOS Helps You Find All Of Your Facebook Friends' Bikini Pics
Oct 29, 2:00AM
Ok, so this app made me feel really dirty when I downloaded it. It's called Badabing! and it basically goes through your friends' photos on Facebook to pull out the ones of them at the pool or beach. In other words, we're talking about scantily clad photos here. I of course, for the sake of technology journalism, had to download the app and give it a whirl. It actually kind of works and it's really creepy. To protect the Everyone At Once On The Second Screen
Oct 29, 1:01AM
When the world's gaze focuses on a single televised moment, it's what's in the periphery of our vision that unites us. The second screen brings awareness of the millions watching alongside, no matter where they are. It reaffirms our interest and passion, while adding depth and fresh perspective. If you watch the game on delay, or check out the debates online later, you're missing something special.The Paper I Buy
Oct 29, 12:53AM
We're living in a pre-barbaric age. Gutenberg and the printed word cast out the darkness of a hundred mistakes, a thousand benighted cities hastened from the gloom, a million lights winked on in a million windows. The word, once hidden in the chests of the mind, was now scratched onto paper and carefully typeset into folios. The barbarians were cast out, fleeing ahead of the coming enlightenment.Amazon Gets Feisty, Updates Homepage To Talk Smack On The iPad Mini
Oct 29, 12:18AM
Competition in the low-cost tablet space has been heating up for a while now thanks to strong new hardware from the likes of Asus, Google, and Barnes & Noble, but it seems the time has come for the Kindle Fire hucksters at Amazon to go on the offensive against a very prominent rival: Apple's iPad mini.To Successfully Launch A Product, You Have To Tell A Compelling Story
Oct 29, 12:05AM
"The art of narration and dramatic presentation, together with a keen sense of the oral epic style, became a characteristic quality of the Russian people." —Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folktale At the end of a week filled with product launches and press conferences, it's hard not to compare those marketing events. Without even talking about the products, some were much more compelling than others. And it all comes down to the story that you tell, as a company. Failing at that task will greatly endanger your product.The Best Ad Campaign on the Web?
Oct 29, 12:00AM
Over the past two weeks, I've been involved in a Facebook ad campaign whose results are astonishing. It's a political campaign supporting California's Proposition 37 (Label Genetically Engineered Foods). Our Facebook sales rep was ecstatic when she first saw the numbers. She'd never seen anything like it in her career. But before I share the details, let me explain why I'm passionate about this.Now That Windows 8 And The Surface Tablet Have Launched, Microsoft Turns Its Focus To Developers
Oct 28, 11:00PM
Microsoft's heavy schedule of launches and events this month, including the Windows 8 and Surface events in New York last week and its Windows Phone 8 event in San Francisco on Monday, is set to reach its end with the Build developer conference on the company's huge Redmond, WA campus starting on Tuesday. In some way, this is almost symbolic, given that the future of the Windows 8 platform is now really in the hands of the developers.6 Business Friendly Features In iOS 6 And What They Say About The New "Surface" Threat
Oct 28, 10:00PM
Apple CEO Tim Cook said in the earnings call this past week that 80% of the Fortune 500 companies use iPhones and iPads. To make his point, Cook said companies such as Canon are outfitting its entire field sales teams with iPads.Attention Rupert Murdoch: Steve Jobs Passed Away On October 5th, Not October 28th
Oct 28, 8:42PM
So this guy, Rupert Murdoch, who is supposed to know a thing or two about technology, tweeted this out today.Killing Your Startup on a Thursday Night
Oct 28, 8:00PM
This is what you do when you close down your startup: you call Rackspace and cancel the Windows SQL server plan. You email SendGrid and give them notice on your Silver SMTP Service Package. You close down your Wells Fargo Business Checking account and your Paypal Merchant account. Glamorous stuff. Harder than that: you email your cofounders and tell them you're jumping into the deadpool. Your fingers will hover over the keyboard for a long time as you decide what to say. Because now shit is getting real.The Sleeping Giants Of African Mobile Payments
Oct 28, 7:00PM
Kenya's M-PESA is the poster child for mobile money services in Africa, but it is also increasingly gaining attention further abroad. It is, however, only one of the mobile payment systems on the continent that have bypassed the typical financial rites of passage and are very quickly catapulting consumers into a truly cashless economy, as well as transforming lives in a very real sense.Anonymous Is Going After Zynga For Mistreating Employees, It Has Leaked Confidential Documents And Games
Oct 28, 6:29PM
As you know, gaming company Zynga laid off employees last week and shut down a few of its offices right before its quarterly earnings call. Well, Zynga has pissed off the online group Anonymous, and it's quite serious. Here's a video just released by them, discussing exactly what it plans to do and why. CNet is also reporting on this story, and we're actively checking to see if this is a legitimate maneuver. According to BusinessInsider, the group is threatening to take down both Zynga and Facebook on November 5th. The offensive has been dubbed "#OP MaZynga"The Internet Bands Together To Weather Hurricane Sandy: Helpful Resources And Details, Including Google's Crisis Map
Oct 28, 6:15PM
Google has a fantastic program that prepares the world for major events involving Mother Nature, and it has set up a crisis map for people on the East Coast preparing for Hurricane Sandy.This Guy's Mom's Square Reader Is Cooler Than Your Mom's Square Reader
Oct 28, 5:59PM
It's almost Halloween, which means that all of your grown up friends with kids will be crowding up your Facebook News Feed with ridiculous photos of 2-year-olds dressed as the Incredible Hulk. It also means that the inner-geek in all of us come out. Yes, it's a fun holiday, and we love it because it brings out our creativity. I mean, did you not see the awesome Path Pumpkins, which I've dubbed Pathkins?Iterations: "It's Delicate, But Potent"
Oct 28, 5:00PM
very now and then, I'll get sucked into the distracting, immersive, emotional habit of flipping through pictures online. Rifling through albums can stop time. It's disorienting, like stumbling upon an old photograph in your drawer, the type of visually arresting trigger that takes you back through time. For me, I keep a small cigar box full of all my old photographs, dating back to childhood. They're all warped now, fading in color. I keep the box tucked away under the bed, forgetting about it because I know going through it would take me places, some good, and maybe some not so good. Maybe you've heard a song that triggered a memory locked up in the corner of your brain. Maybe you run into someone from your past in real life, and you just stop in place. Or, maybe you see a photograph that ties it all together, jarring and powerful. If you've watched Mad Men, you'll no doubt recall the famous carousel scene at final episode of the first season, a classic moment where Don Draper talks about a consumer product, based on photographs, that had the rare chance to create a sentimental bond with people.If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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