KMR - 18.05.11 06:15 Apple has won over some of the big magazine publishers, who have reached deals to sell subscriptions via iTunes. But it’s not an exclusive arrangement: Now the magazine guys are starting to sell on Google’s Android, too.

Starting Thursday some Samsung Galaxy tablet users will be able to buy app versions of seven magazines, as single copies or...

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KMR - 09.05.11 07:57 Apple is winning over the big publishers. Last week, Hearst Corp. said it planned to start selling its magazines using Apple’s new iTunes subscription service. Now rival Conde Nast is actually doing it, via the publisher’s New Yorker title.

An updated version of that magazine’s iPad app gives lets users subscribe to the weekly magazine for $5.

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KMR - 20.04.11 15:00 While News.me, the social news service built with the help of the New York Times, gets ready to launch, another big media aggregator is already out the door: The Washington Post has rolled out Trove, a “personalized site that aggregates news across subjects of interest and important headlines of the day.”

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KMR - 20.04.11 09:07 The 99-cents a week-service looks like the kind of thing that could drive the New York Times and the Associated Press batty. Instead, they've signed on for a piece of the action.

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KMR - 28.03.11 12:26 AppNexus, the start-up that’s trying to help Microsoft build a competitor to Google’s display advertising business, has added another Googler to its team.

You can’t say that AppNexus poached Ari Paparo from Google, because his last job was at Nielsen, where he spent the last nine months.

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KMR - 18.03.11 06:47 Kickstarter has all the requisite characteristics for a hot startup: An ah-ha! concept, a growing user base, and great buzz.

The one thing it doesn’t have are stories about investors clamoring to throw money its way. And the 3-year-old company has never disclosed a funding round. Is it possible it has never taken in any money?

Nope. It’s not.

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KMR - 29.01.11 23:23
Demand Media and its peers pay lots of writers small sums in order to generate lots and lots of content, with the help of computers. But you can do it for even less if you eliminate the writers altogether.


That’s the premise behind Narrative Science, a startup that sells technology that “generates news stories, industry reports, headlines...

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KMR - 03.12.10 21:36
Still waiting to see that Google Chrome App store? Circle next Tuesday on your calendar: People familiar with the company’s plans tell me Google will open up the store — at least a bit — on December 7. That jibes with what I’d heard in October, as well as with reporting this week from TechCrunch.

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KMR - 23.11.10 21:13
Question every Internet wisenheimer had last week: “Doesn’t every Beatles fan already have every Beatles song“?


Answer: Nope. Consumers had room for at 2 million Fab Four songs, and another 450,000 albums in their digital catalogs, it turns out. That’s from EMI, via Billboard.

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KMR - 08.11.10 15:38
Boxee, which makes software that makes it easy to watch Web video on your TV, celebrates a big milestone this week, whenthe first Boxee-branded hardware starts shipping to consumers. The startup is celebrating with an event at New York’s Irving Plaza.

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