Tag Archives: The New York Times Company

About 609 days ago Innovation | Internet and Online Business | Video

Netflix Loses More Customers Than Expected Over Price Change

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Netflix dethroned the former video-rental upper class, the Blockbusters, the Hollywood Videos, by creating a rabid fan base that appreciated the ease of its service. Now those customers are deserting Netflix. READ MORE »

About 609 days ago Cloud Computing | Gaming | Smartphones and PDAs | Tablets and eReaders | Video

Jesta Digital Uses $15 Million to Form an Incubator

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Jesta Digital, a mobile-video group, has pledged $15 million toward creating a start-up incubator for businesses looking to move into cloud computing, social media, and mobile web technology. READ MORE »

About 612 days ago E-Commerce | Internet and Online Business

Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft form Ad Triumvirate

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Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft have grown chummy as Google has cast its long pale digital shadow over the world of online advertising. To counter the search engine giant, the three companies that formerly competed for display ad crumbs will now sell slices of the pie for each other. READ MORE »

About 614 days ago Blogging and Social Media | Internet and Online Business | Managing Technology

Twitter to Add Support for Five Asian Languages

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Yes, Twitter has been banned in mainland China since 2009, but “let a thousand microblogs bloom” the company says. Twitter has announced that it will be adding Hindi, Malay, Filipino, and traditional and simplified Chinese to its platform. READ MORE »

About 619 days ago Blogging and Social Media | Internet and Online Business | Managing Technology

Twitter Has 100 Million Active Users. There’s Bad News, Too.

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Twitter proudly announced today that 100 million active users regularly reduce their thoughts to 140 characters. This represents “a 100 million reasons to celebrate,” according to a post on Twitter’s company blog. Others stopped short of popping champagne corks over this news, as you might consider this as just clever marketing. READ MORE »

About 619 days ago Hardware | Smartphones and PDAs

iPhone Will Lead All 2011 Smartphone Shipments

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Apple will finally achieve some form of world dominance. By shipping 86.4 million iPhones this year, Apple will dethrone Nokia as the globe’s leading smartphone shipper. Even more impressive: This is a 82-percent increase in iPhones from last year, when Apple shipped 47.5 million, according to a Digitimes report. Now second place Nokia saw a 26-percent decrease in shipments. READ MORE »

About 620 days ago Cloud Computing

Dropbox Raises $250 to $300 Million in Third Funding Round

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Count this as another sign that our entire lives will soon take place in the clouds. DropBox will soon close a financing round that’ll bring in $250 million to $300 million. The funding involves a number of investors, including Index Ventures and Goldman Sachs, and will value the cloud-computing firm at nearly $4 billion. READ MORE »

About 620 days ago Internet and Online Business | Location-based services | Managing Technology | Online Marketing

Google Places Feature Irks Some Businesses

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Healthy businesses across the country recently have been listed as closed on Google Places — sometimes for hours, other times for weeks — when in fact, they’re alive and kicking, reports The New York Times. READ MORE »

About 620 days ago Hardware | Innovation | Tablets and eReaders

Times Co.’s Team Develops ‘Magic Mirror’

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If you want stock tips with your morning shave or conflict-zone reporting with your Colgate, the New York Times Co.’s R&D Lab may have just the thing. The Lab has developed a device that looks like a bathroom mirror and that, it seems, is supposed to offer an attractive way to get your news while trimming your nose hairs. READ MORE »

About 622 days ago Innovation | Internet and Online Business

Michael Arrington Announces Venture Fund, TechCrunch Future Uncertain

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Tech writer Michael Arrington, who founded TechCrunch and sold it to AOL a year ago, announced last week he is raising a $20-million venture capital fund to invest in early-stage technology companies, reported The Los Angeles Times. Since then, he has been widely criticized for what many say is a conflict of interest and now the future of TechCrunch itself appears to be on the line. READ MORE »