Media - Internet

The humble television is coming to the aid of the Internet portals when it comes to extending their reach, and selling their wares. Consider this: TV advertising of the Internet portals registered a growth of 190 per cent during January-August 2007 as compared to the same period in 2006, on the back of 77 new websites and a rise in ‘Shopping Portals’ average advertisement on TV during the period...

NEW YORK - The recent rush by major Internet portals to buy advertising companies and extend their sales networks is a sign that the business of being a one-stop shop for information and entertainment isn't what it used to be. Gone are the days of emphasizing ways to attract and keep visitors — the way television networks long have operated — by creating destinations with anything people might...

REDMOND, Wash. - Msnbc.com is diving into citizen journalism and social media by acquiring Newsvine.com, a small but innovative player in what is known as “participatory journalism.” It is msnbc.com’s first acquisition in its 11-year history. Neither of the companies would disclose terms of the all-cash transaction, which was announced Sunday, but deals for other social media sites have ranged as...

Much of the news about Yahoo! recently has involved missed earnings, missing executives and missed opportunities. But there is good news--the Internet company’s news service itself. Over the past two years, Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) has quietly solidified its position as the No. 1 provider of general, financial and sports news on the Internet. Two out of every five people who use...

Oct 05: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry is now planning to bring online news portals and web editions of newspapers under the umbrella of the Press and Registration of Books Act that was 140 years old and carrying the old British law of that time till today without major amendment. For this reason the government will have to amend the PRB Act, which was originally enacted in 1867 and can...

A bill introduced this week by Australia's Parliament would give the Australian federal police the power to control which sites can and cannot be viewed by Australian Web surfers. Introduced on Thursday, the bill--titled the Communications Legislation Amendment (Crime or Terrorism Related Internet Content) Bill 2007--would empower the federal police to alter the "blacklist" of sites that are...

Google (GOOG) on Thursday released a free software tool that allows Google AdWords advertisers to create their own Google Print Ads for display in newspapers. The company released Google Print Ads in July, a service that enables advertisers, large and small, to buy traditional print newspaper ads. Citing a 2006 Scarborough Research report, Google on its Web site claims that 3 out of 4 adults in...

The New York Times Co will end its paid TimesSelect Web service and make most of its website available for free in the hopes of attracting more readers and higher advertising revenue. TimesSelect will shut down on Wednesday, two years after the Times launched it, which charges subscribers $7.95 a month or $49.95 a year to read articles by well-known columnists like Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman...

(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Newspaper ad sales are expected to decline 5 percent in 2007, so it's no surprise that print publications are eager to squeeze more cash out of their Web sites. One obvious source: local advertising, which accounts for more than 80 percent of ad spending but less than 20 percent of Internet ad sales. Now Canadian firm NewspaperDirect is offering the Adget, a new kind of...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday sketched out early plans for Dow Jones & Co Inc, saying he leaned toward making the online Wall Street Journal free but had not yet made a decision. Murdoch also projected about $100 million in cost savings, or double the amount earlier anticipated, saying he had identified "low-hanging fruit." His $5.6 billion purchase of the...