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BusinessWeek
May 15, 2008 |
The Improbable Heroes of Toontown A new book highlights how Pixar's founders turned their dream - computer-animated films - into a wildly successful movie studio.   |
The Motley Fool
May 15, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
IAC Looks It Up IAC buys the parent company behind Dictionary.com. |
The Motley Fool
May 14, 2008
Tim Beyers |
"Iron Man" Is So Much Bigger Than You Think Marvel Entertainment is slowly but certainly morphing into the next Disney |
The Motley Fool
May 13, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
4 Questions for Sirius Churn is climbing at Sirius. Losses are widening at XM. These companies need to wrap up their 15-month courtship in a major way, if and when the FCC gives the merger its blessing. With that in mind, here are four questions for Sirius Satellite Radio. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2008
Tim Beyers |
THQ Plays the Hero Marvel and THQ book a deal to bring a new kid-friendly game series called Marvel Super Hero Squad to market. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Cablevision's Buying Binge Cablevision, the Long Island-based cable and entertainment company, soon will morph into a cable, entertainment, and publishing concern. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Sour Note From XM The satellite radio provider's loss widens in its latest quarter. |
Search Engine Watch
May 9, 2008
Michael Boland |
Black, White, and Blue all Over The LA Times is in the midst of an aggressive online product rollout. If anyone should be able to build solid local content sites, it's newspapers. |
The Motley Fool
May 9, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Don't Be Goofy, Send Mom Some Disney Love Disney is pretty special. Just like mom. |
BusinessWeek
May 8, 2008
Ronald Grover |
A Secret Identity for Marvel With Iron Man, comic book publisher Marvel has made an incredible transformation into a movie studio. |
Information Today
May 8, 2008 |
The Scientific Business of Thomson Reuters Adopts Plagiarism Detection Tool The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters announced that it will be incorporating the iThenticate checking tool into its submission and peer-review process in Manuscript Central's online workflow system. |
Information Today
May 8, 2008 |
Ingram Digital and Oxford University Press Offer More Titles Ingram Digital and Oxford University Press agreed to offer a comprehensive list of OUP titles through Ingram Digital's MyiLibrary platform, an aggregator of online ebook and econtent resources. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Quality Customers, Quality Profits Satellite TV operator DIRECTV Group is turning a profitable corner right about now, and it's all thanks to a smart customer recruiting policy. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney Earns Its Ears The family entertainment giant barreled past Wall Street's profit targets, just as it has done in every single quarter since CEO Bob Iger took over. |
The Motley Fool
May 6, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Leaving So Zune? Microsoft was bold enough to walk out on Microhoo. Will it be brave enough to bail on its Zune, as well? |
The Motley Fool
May 6, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Marvel Is So Money Marvel Entertainment's management knows how to deploy resources effectively. Even this quarter, with less revenue and higher debt, return on invested capital remains above historic levels. |
Home Theater
May 5, 2008 |
Download New NIN Album Free Much to the industry's chagrin, the prevailing price for much downloaded music is free. Perhaps not coincidentally, that's the pricetag of The Slip, the new Nine Inch Nails album download. |
Information Today
May 5, 2008
Susanne Bjorner |
CABI and Collexis Build a "Knowledge Dashboard" in Agricultural Sciences Agricultural publisher CABI, an international not-for-profit organization based in the U.K., has selected Collexis Holdings, Inc., a developer of high-definition search and knowledge discovery software, to build a knowledge discovery application and provide semantic search solutions by instituting a portal site in the area of agriculture and the environment. |
Information Today
May 5, 2008 |
AccuWeather.com Partners With Rhythm NewMedia on Ad-Supported Mobile Video Rhythm delivers a targeted and personalized video ad before the AccuWeather video content based on demographic data collected. |
Sports Central
May 5, 2008
Seth Doria |
Buzz Saw: The Battle For Sports Media's Soul Those in the traditional media have been taking shots at online writers. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2008
Anders Bylund |
"Iron Man" Makes War on Mediocre Films, Mediocre Profits Marvel Entertainment scored big with "Iron Man," the first movie released under the company's own production label, pulling in an estimated $104 million domestically and $201 million in worldwide box office receipts. |
Reason
May 2008
Greg Beato |
Hollywood's Decency Epidemic An onslaught of wholesome entertainment |
Reason
May 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Pirate Capitalism In The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism, author Matt Mason discusses that piracy is now an accepted business model, and competitive enough to be a major threat to traditional businesses going forward. |
HRO Europe
Jan 2008/Apr 2008
Elliot Clark et al. |
A Global Media and Events Entity Serving Today's HRO Market The parent of HRO Europe and SharedXpertise merge to form a new global firm offering more options for the HRO marketplace. |
Home Theater
May 2, 2008 |
Universal to Embrace DTS-HD Master Audio Universal will support lossless DTS-HD Master Audio in many of its initial Blu-ray releases. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2008
Tim Beyers |
A Marvel-ous Deal Without a penny of operating profit from movies, Marvel, over the past year, produced a 44% return on invested capital. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2008
Anders Bylund |
How Apple's Movie Move Helps Netflix The whole entertainment business is about to turn on its ear. Read on to see why Apple and Netflix will be the likely rulers of the new world order. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2008
Stanley Reed |
Media Giant or Media Muddle? Challenges abound as the newly formed Thomson Reuters tries to outflank Bloomberg. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2008
Jon Fine |
Now Wait Just a New York Minute Mayor Bloomberg is not the Times' ideal white knight, whatever some folks believe. |
Home Theater
May 1, 2008 |
iTunes, DVD Are Now Day-and-Date Equals Apple has struck a deal with Hollywood to give iTunes the same release window as brick-and-mortar stores. |
Information Today
May 1, 2008
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Introduces High-Priced Digital Archive Service The $750 a year minimum price tag for OCLC's Digital Archive service may make it vulnerable to challenges from the plummeting cost of large storage devices and "cloud computing" operations, such as Amazon Web Services. |
Information Today
May 1, 2008 |
Hoover's Paves Fast Track to New Features and Content Hoover's, Inc. announced the launch of HOOV Lane, an interactive microsite that's designed to introduce prospects and existing customers to Hoover's new features and content |
The Motley Fool
May 1, 2008
Anders Bylund |
What Happens to Macrovision's Media Dream? Content-management expert Macrovision and entertainment-information powerhouse Gemstar-TV Guide decide to merge. |
The Motley Fool
May 1, 2008
David Lee Smith |
What's Next for Time Warner Cable? Once it leaves the nest, what will become of Time Warner Cable? |
Information Today
May 2008
Marji McClure |
Case Study: Open Access Yields Solid Growth for Hindawi Hindawi was just like any other publisher for its first 10 years. But that changed in February 2007 when Hindawi, which had started to test the waters of open access (OA) journal articles a few years earlier, completed its full conversion to an OA publishing model. |
Searcher
May 2008
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Redundancy A basic goal of information professionals is the guaranteeing that all information in existence stays in existence, the command to archive. However, something is slipping and sliding away: redundancy. |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Split Already, Will You, IAC? The plan to split the IAC empire into five stand-alone units still hasn't materialized. |
Search Engine Watch
April 29, 2008
Greg Jarboe |
CNN and MSNBC Battle Yahoo News for Top News Site Integration of video into news stories may be making the difference in the battle for news supremacy. |
The Motley Fool
April 29, 2008
Anders Bylund |
"American Idol" Needs Your Help Following a dip in viewership, News Corp.'s Fox TV network sends out a survey to figure out what's wrong with this year's American Idol. |
The Motley Fool
April 29, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
XM and Sirius Call It Off The satellite-radio stars postpone their annual meeting, but there's no reason for alarm about their pending merger. |
The Motley Fool
April 29, 2008
Will Frankenhoff |
Grupo Televisa's Strong Signal Grupo Televisa should continue to benefit from its dominant position in its core Mexican market and from favorable demographic trends within Latin America and the United States. |
Home Theater
April 28, 2008 |
PS3 Mulls Online Video, Adds DTS-HD Sony is in negotiation with the studios to activate the long-promised online video feature in the PlayStation3. |
Home Theater
April 25, 2008
Mark Fleischmann |
Managed Copy Deemed Unmanageable Managed copy will not be part of the final spec for AACS, the digital rights management used by Blu-ray. |
Information Today
April 24, 2008
Marydee Ojala |
Dow Jones Buys Generate Combining Generate's patented technology with the rich content within Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group should significantly improve the ability of Dow Jones to deliver pertinent, authoritative information to its main B2B customer base. |
Information Today
April 24, 2008
Corilee Christou |
Publishing Technology, PLC Powers BBC Monitoring Library Publishers must adapt to survive and embrace all forms of content delivery and all media. |
Information Today
April 24, 2008 |
Harlequin Romances Go Digital A new digital service that uses the LibreDigital Internet Digital Warehouse solution to provide readers with new ways to access Harlequin titles digitally, including online and mobile formats. |
Smart Money
April 23, 2008
Paulette Miniter |
CEO Interview: Gannett's Craig Dubow Craig Dubow has led publishing giant Gannett into new territory. Hopefully its shares will follow. |
Information Today
April 21, 2008 |
CrossRef to Launch Plagiarism Detection Service CrossRef announced an agreement with iParadigms, LLC to launch the CrossCheck service to aid in verifying the originality of scholarly content. |
Fast Company
May 2008
David Kushner |
Rebel Alliance How a small band of sci-fi geeks is leading Hollywood into a new era. |
Fast Company
May 2008
Ellen Gibson |
The Wide, Wide World of Heroes NBC's Heroes racked up the network's top-selling DVD for 2007 by cultivating die-hard fans with extensions of the show's fantasy world across every form of media. |
Home Theater
April 17, 2008
Mark Fleischmann |
Universal Goes Blu This Summer Doomsday will be the first of 40 Blu-ray titles to arrive from Universal in the second half of this year. This will be the first round of Blus from the former HD DVD supporter. |
Search Engine Watch
April 16, 2008
Greg Jarboe |
Print Journalists Optimistic...Or Not A recent survey of journalists found that many thought their publication will continue to exist in its current state. But is the survey sample skewing the results? |
Home Theater
April 14, 2008 |
Music Copying Rampant in Britain Copying, not downloading, is the real key to declining music-industry revenues, according to a survey of British young people commissioned by British Music Rights. |
Information Today
April 14, 2008 |
MPS Upgrades BookStore Platform for Publishers As Web 2.0 technologies revolutionize the way publishers market books to their readers, MPS Technologies announced that it has upgraded its BookStore platform for publishers. |
Home Theater
April 11, 2008
Mark Fleischman |
Blockbuster Eyes Downloads, Gets Blu-er Blockbuster is developing a set-top device for streaming films directly to TV sets and is expected to announce the offering sometime this month. |
Reason
April 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Too Good to Be Legal The Recording Industry Association of America has a warning for music fans: If an album seems too good to be legal, it probably is. |
Information Today
April 10, 2008
George H. Pike |
Section 108 Study Group Releases Report A panel of government, academic, and information industry experts formed to study the copyright challenges faced by libraries and archives in managing and preserving digital content recommends changes to the U.S. Copyright Act. |
Inc.
April 2008
Leigh Buchanan |
Legacy: Seymour "Cy" Leslie, 1922-2008 Remembering Seymour "Cy" Leslie, who invented the greatest-hits album and brought cinema to your living room. |
HRO Europe
Oct/Nov 2007
Elliot Clark |
CEOs Corner: Random Thoughts on the Future An HRO magazine CEO touches on the environment, the industry, the future of our magazine content, the growth of online content, and why he's finally in the tree-hugger camp. |
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