Media - Internet

Controversy-dogged Google has hired an experienced lawyer and international policy activist to defend its efforts to extend the reach of its internet search engine. Elliot Schrage, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, will be joining Google as it re-embarks on its ambitious plan to digitise the contents of a number of leading university libraries and make the...

Consumer spending for online content in the US grew to $987 million in the first half of 2005, an increase of 15.7 per cent over the same period last year. For the first time ever, in Q2 of 2005, quarterly sales of content topped half a billion dollars, according to a study commissioned by the Online Publishers Association (OPA). Spurred by growth in online music sales, entertainment/lifestyles...

Remember James Guckert, a.k.a. Jeff Gannon, the male prostitute-turned-conservative blogger-turned-White House briefing regular? When he emerged on the scene last winter as the White House correspondent for GOP-connected TalonNews.com, his ability to get into both press briefings and several Bush news conferences sparked a firestorm of controversy that even had some members of Congress calling for...

Steve Case, a co-founder of AOL and one of the key architects of the disastrous AOL-Time Warner deal, said Monday that he has resigned from Time Warner Inc.'s board of directors. Case had relinquished the role of chairman two years ago, but remained on the media conglomerate's board of directors, despite the opposition of shareholders angered by the fallout of AOL's purchase of Time Warner at the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Entries from Wikipedia, the popular free online encyclopedia written and edited by Internet users, may soon be available in print for readers in the developing world, founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday. He said content from the Web site may also be burned onto CDs and DVDs so computer users in places like Africa, who lack access to high-speed Internet, could consult parts of...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Yahoo extended its push into original content today by adding new content produced by Dennis Publishing’s The Week, in a new twist for the Internet behemoth. The Week will produce "The Best of Today’s Business," a daily roundup of print and online business news that will appear on the Yahoo Finance page. A first for Yahoo Yahoo has recently hired individual writers and...

It's a fair bet that, given a political scandal of a certain scale, the usual blogs - DailyKos, AmericaBlog, Instapundit and Wonkette - will draw traffic and links. Make it a media scandal, like Dan Rather's "60 Minutes" fiasco or Jayson Blair's fabrications at The New York Times, and other sites might bubble to the top: Romenesko or perhaps Gawker for a snideways view of things. And why not? As...

After its disastrous marriage with Time Warner, America Online (AOL) became the ugly duckling of the online world. Five years down the line, the circle has come full again, and the belle now has a string of suitors lining up. The big three of the new media – Google, Yahoo and Microsoft – are falling head over heels in trying to woo AOL. NET PROFITEER: Google chairman Eric Schmidt When Time Warner...

The New York Times won three Online Journalism Awards and darkhorse newbie NewWest grabbed two at the Online News Association's (ONA) sixth annual convention Saturday in New York. NYTimes.com won the General Excellence award, the Outstanding Use of Multiple Media (for its Class Matters series, and Breaking News for Asia's Deadly Waves, the website's coverage of the Indian Ocean tsunami. NYTimes...

Google may launch its widely anticipated online payments system Google Wallet before the holidays, an analyst said Friday, giving the search giant yet another way to profit from its widening Web empire. The service is expected to rival eBay’s PayPal, which allows web users to transfer money from, say, consumer to merchant without using a credit card. PayPal users have to credit their accounts...