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Live blog: Google I/O 2013 showcases Android, Chrome, YouTube and more
It’s time once again for Google I/O, and the company plans to pack a week’s worth of announcements into a single keynote address, so this should be interesting.
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Reports say Twitter has reached multimillion dollar deal with ad-buying company
The Financial Times is reporting that Twitter has reached an advertising deal “worth hundreds of millions of dollars over a multiyear period” with Starcom MediaVest Group, a large ad-buying firm with clients including Procter & Gamble, Walmart, Microsoft and Coca-Cola.
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5 startups changing the way the news business delivers content
It’s fair to say that the future of news consumption and media won’t look like a bunch of traditional newspapers copied onto the desktop web, and when five different entrepreneurs addressed paidContent Live Wednesday about the ways they’re bringing content online, the approaches were as diverse as the startups themselves.
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Why digital book publishers are starting to embrace data
With more than 20 percent of Americans over the age of 16 having read an ebook in the past year, and publishers seeing more than 20 percent of revenues come from ebook sales, there’s no question the future of ebooks is bright, and the industry has a lot of potential customers.
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Branch announces simplified version of commenting and conversation site
Typically, an updated version of a site or product includes more bells and whistles. But Branch, the commenting and conversation site launched by former Twitter founders, announced some changes on Tuesday that will simplify, rather than further complicate, the site.
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Twitter co-founders clarify Obvious Corp. structure, say Medium now operates independently
Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams re-launched the Obvious Corporation in June 2011, bringing back the umbrella organization from which they’ve launched startups like Blogger and Twitter. On Friday, Williams explained in an update how Obvious is currently structured and operating, as well as what’s up with Medium, the group’s most prominent current venture.
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Prince would Sue U 4 using Vine
It seems that not everyone wants in on the Vine party — especially not legendary pop artist, Prince.
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Generation Mooch? Why 20-somethings have a hard time paying for content
I distinctly remember learning how to read, and it wasn’t from a book or in a kindergarten classroom.
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Remember Ning? Once-buzzy social network has relaunched again as a publishing platform
Back before Facebook really took off, people were all abuzz about Ning, a social network co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini in 2004 that raised more than $100 million in its first five years. But the site hit the social market perhaps a little too soon, and has largely faded from prominence, having been acquired by Glam Media in September 2011 and made various attempts at a comeback.
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Twitter to provide video highlights of the biggest March Madness moments
While it won’t be all that easy to watch full NCAA March Madness games online unless you’re a cable subscriber, you will be able to tune into quick highlight clips from the big games at a slightly unlikely source — Twitter.
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