There’s a new sort of Internet colossus on the rise, and it is poised to wreak havoc on what might be called the world’s legacy business infrastructure–meaning many of the world’s important businesses big and small. If you’re a banker in Greece, a telecom executive in Thailand, or a retailer in Reno, watch your back. In the first phase of the Internet era, the worry was that brick-and-mortar...
In a move that could deal a blow to MSNBC, Microsoft is in talks with Time Warner's America Online to join forces against the might of Yahoo! and Google. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant is negotiating a possible stake in AOL as part of a broader deal that would place Microsoft's search technology on AOL.com and tie up their ad sales networks. Such a deal could give the two companies a big...
NEW DELHI, August 29: Most news directors are willing to share at least some of their planning and content with their partner, but they appear to be leery about sharing too much. These facts came to light through a study 'Television Newsroom Partnership Survey' conducted by researchers of the Centre for Media Design, Ball State University, United States. This was the first ever study of television...
NEW DELHI, August 29: Many television stations in the United States are relatively committed to providing air time to promote their partners’ brands and their stories, acording to a study 'Television Newsroom Partnership Survey' conducted by researchers of the Centre for Media Design, Ball State University, United States. A similar study conducted in 2004 had showed that most newspapers are not...
NEW DELHI, August 29: Almost every second television station news operations in the United States has a news partnership with a newspaper and those partnerships exist across market sizes. These facts came to light through a study 'Television Newsroom Partnership Survey' conducted by researchers of the Centre for Media Design, Ball State University, United States. This was the first ever study of...
It’s been a hush-hush issue for long, but now more players are openly talking about the working professional relationships that are happening out of the realm. For most channels, which do not have cross-media (radio, print etc) presence, an opportunity that is working well is a "cashless", "not on paper" tie-up with organisations with whom they have a "mutual understanding". A lot of these cross...
Search giant Google has teamed up with publisher Hearst Corp. and financial institution Goldman, Sachs & Co., to back a promising new means of distributing broadband Internet connections that could radically change the way people -- and even electronic devices -- send and receive data. The unusual alliance has made a nearly $100 million investment in Current Communications Group (CCG), a company...
India is speeding towards the broadband revolution, says Sudhir Narang*, senior VP, service provider and government, Cisco Systems, India & SAARC. After wireless, broadband is expected to be the next big revolution to sweep India. The day isn't far away when Indian consumers will have access to triple play broadband at their doorstep - whether home or office. Globally, broadband remains hot...
A little more than half the world's consumer magazines said their Web sites are profitable, up from about a quarter two years ago, according to the results of a small survey released on Tuesday by a trade group. Another 17 percent said they were losing money, down from 38 percent in 2003, the magazine publishing group International Federation of the Periodical Press reported. The study comes at a...
While Newsweek magazine has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons -- mainly for a faulty Periscope item on Koran abuse -- the magazine should be praised on a much larger scale for reinventing itself. This isn't about politics, but about the scope of Newsweek.com, the online home to Newsweek that has included everything from daily breaking news to video blogs from correspondents at the...
