Media - Internet

Lauren Rich Fine, Merrill Lynch & Co.'s top-ranked newspaper industry analyst and a voracious newspaper reader, is optimistic about the future of newspapers - even if her teenage children won't pick up the print editions. "Interest in news is greater today than it's ever been," she said. And while interest in newspapers themselves has declined, the companies likely to survive view the Internet as...

IBM has warned of a looming crisis with old and new media on a collision course over how and where content such as TV, news and user-created will be carried, and says billions of dollars in revenue are at risk. The report, to be released later today in New York, warns that the conflict between traditional and new media is seeing the emergence of a media divide that could erase hundreds of billions...

The Belgian court copyright infringement ruling against Google News will not ultimately damage the search engine service, but it will bring the company to the negotiating table with publishers who are concerned about how their content is being used online. Losing Copiepresse's content will not in itself cause Google News too many problems. Many publishers see the Google News service as a fantastic...

A Belgian court has ruled that Web search leader Google Inc. may not reproduce extracts of Belgian press reports, upholding an existing injunction, news agencies reported on Tuesday. Google, the owner of the world's most-used search engine, must pay 25,000 euros ($32,500) a day until it removes all Belgian news content, the Brussels Court of First Instance ruled, according to a Bloomberg News...

News agency Associated Press has tied up with NowPublic.com to bring citizen content into AP newsgathering and explore ways to involve NowPublic’s on-the-ground network of news contributors in AP's breaking news coverage. The goal of the effort is to expand the world’s access to news as it happens, the companies said in a press release Friday. In addition, it is designed to help NowPublic expand...

New Delhi, Feb 10 : Global Media Publications, a leading New Delhi, India-based publisher on South Asian issues has launched www.khabrein.info a dedicated online news paper for Indian diaspora residing around the world. Khabrein that means news in Hindi and Urdu aims to objectively present news and views to Indian audience living not only within the confines of this great country but also people...

US Internet advertising revenues may have grown more than 30 per last year, but many corporate advertisers and advertising agencies are concerned that their online ad impressions may not be properly counted. Respondents indicated two areas where audited Web metrics are useful: 91 per cent said it's important to audit ad impressions and delivery, while 89 per cent felt it's important to verify...

NEW YORK: The Internet has allowed consumers to trade stocks without using high-priced brokers and let travelers book flights directly from airlines. Now it may free advertisers to make their own television commercials without going through a traditional ad agency. Several companies are offering automated ad creation over the Internet and, in some cases, ad placement services that all advertisers...

LONDON - The Daily Mirror has relaunched its website to feature increased video and user generated content and a greater emphasis on its sport, news and entertainment coverage. Publisher Trinity Mirror said the redesigned Daily Mirror website, which was created by MGN Digital, would feature embedded video players containing coverage of the website's three core areas of news, showbiz information...

Monthly unique visitors to newspaper websites in the US averaged more than 57.6 million in the fourth quarter 2006, a record number and the largest in any quarter since the US-based Newspaper Association of America (NAA) began tracking online usage in January 2004. These numbers come on the heels of a separate study from Nielsen//NetRatings indicating that traffic to blog pages at the top 10...