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Pinterest taking $100m for e-commerce play
Now two things are more clear about the fast-growing social pinboard curation service – a business model and a valuation. Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has confirmed it is leading a $100 million investment in Pinterest, together with existing backers Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners and FirstMark Capital plus angels.
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4 pillars of media transformation
The print-vs. -digital debate seems almost trite by today’s increasingly complex media landscape.
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Ad exchange Centro shields publisher data
Advertising exchanges are still viewed warily by some publishers, which fear that they will commoditize their inventory and undercut their pricing. To address these concerns, Centro has partnered with Krux to launch an ad exchange for premium publishers that shields their audience data from third parties. Original Story:.
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Study: Websites average 14 third-party tags
Websites are juggling third party tags from an average of 14 vendors, according to a new survey from Econsultancy. The survey, done in association with enterprise tag management company Tealium, identified the three top challenges to tag management: cost/budget, limited understanding, and finding the right vendor. Original Story:.
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Publishers hiring top-tier C-suite talent
The economic recovery seems to have passed big consumer magazines by, but there’s one area that’s still growing: the corporate suite. Condé Nast just hired three new EVPs. Bonnier has created a new corporate brand development position. And Hearst hired its first CTO earlier this year to broaden its digital footprint.
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Google Knowledge Graph provides answers, not just links
Hinted at for months, Google formally launched its “Knowledge Graph” on Wednesday. The new technology is being used to provide popular facts about people, places and things alongside Google’s traditional results. It also allows Google to move toward a new way of searching not for pages that match query terms but for “entities” or concepts that the words describe.
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Adobe adds social sharing, iPhone support to DPS
Adobe highlights the growth of its tablet publishing suite with new customers and new functionality. Social sharing features enable browser-based viewing of shared content. Highlighting the momentum behind its Digital Publishing Suite, Adobe on Tuesday.
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ESPN teams with Twitter on ad programs
ESPN is teaming with Twitter to create new ad programs around major sporting events. These new programs will be promoted online and on-air across Twitter, ESPN and ABC and ESPN's digital properties. A Twitter exec said the program will allow advertisers to engage ESPN’s audience "across screens and where the conversation is happening on Twitter.
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New USA Today publisher gets to apply 'new newsroom' theories
New USA Today Publisher Larry Kramer hasn’t had a newspaper job since 1991. But he’s thought about newspapers ever since, and has written about newspapers' need for new business models. At USA Today, he’ll get to apply some of that thinking to the country’s second-largest newspaper.
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Report: iPad will regain market share in 2012
Amazon’s Kindle Fire attracted millions of buyers after its release last November, dropping the iPad’s share of the tablet market to 55%. But the iPad is set to recover and maintain a comfortable 61% share of the tablet market for all of 2012, according to the IHS iSuppli Worldwide Tablet Market report.
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