Stressing the importance of mobile, the New York Times this week will temporarily block access to the nytimes.com homepage on desktop computers at its headquarters, according to an email sent to staff Friday. Steve Perlberg reports employees that try t...
Montreal’s La Presse has broken away from the newspaper pack in charting a course for its future, investing $36 million on a tablet app that it has positioned as its primary product and, ultimately, its main source of revenue. In part one of a fi...
Montreal’s La Presse has broken away from the newspaper pack in charting a course for its future, investing $36 million on a tablet app that it has positioned as its primary product and, ultimately, its main source of revenue. In part one of a fi...
Some of the biggest tech companies are betting that people around the world are eager to pony up and pay a monthly fee to have access to nearly every song ever made at anytime.But Tim Stenovec reports the truth is that we’re barely on the cusp of...
The ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington means that the FCC’s tough new net neutrality rules will take effect on Friday — with the Internet to be reclassified as a regulated communications utility. The U.S. Telecom Associa...
Joe Mandese reports that in a pattern that seems to be following the fragmentation of other media, Nielsen this morning released a report showing that while the number of apps available continues to rise, the number of apps actually used has remained f...
John Trimble said he thinks eight-second promos could be mobile video's silver bullet. Lauren Johnson reports that Trimble sees an eight-second ad is a nice balance between the length of a six-second Vine and a 10-second video.
The one constant across some of the most popular platforms -- Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Vine -- is the growing consumption of video on mobile. Garrett Goodman reports that, in turn, publishers need a new approach to video -- one that caters to...
Think making money on mobile advertising is hard now? Joshua Benton reports that it's going to be much more difficult when a significant share of your audience is blocking all your ads — all with a simple download from the App Store.
Twitter today introduced an advertising tool that enables targeting people based on the categories of apps they have installed on their phones. Martin Beck reports the company said the new targeting feature will allow app advertisers to reach people mo...