By Megan Garber Some of the most exciting work taking place in The New York Times building is being done on the 28th floor, in the paper’s Research and Development Lab. The group serves essentially as a skunkworks project for a news institution that stands to benefit, financially and otherwise, from creative thinking; as Michael Zimbalist, the Times’ [...]

By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO Hulu LLC’s subscription video service will surpass one million subscribers in 2011, chief executive Jason Kilar said in a blog post Monday. Mr. Kilar also reiterated that the company is on track to approach $500 million in revenue in 2011, up from $263 million in 2010. Its first-quarter revenue grew 90% from [...]

By Jim O’Sullivan Thursday, March 31, 2011 Reports of the demise of newspapers may be greatly exaggerated. According to a new Harvard study, the denizens of the digital age — 18-to-29-year-olds — would prefer to get most of their political news about the next presidential campaign from — believe it or not — major national newspapers….more [...]

By JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG Last October, suspense writer Jonathon King launched “Midnight Guardians,” the sixth novel in his Max Freeman crime series. Unlike the previous five titles, this one didn’t have a major publisher or a cash advance. Instead, “Midnight Guardians,” available at Amazon.com for $14.99 as a digital text and $23.08 as a print-on-demand paperback, [...]

by Erik Sass Huh?  The New York Times is clearly struggling with the whole social media angle of its new online pay-wall — or rather, trying to have its online cake and eat it too. On one hand, the NYT wants heavy users to pay for access to online content, shelling out $15 per month for [...]

by Lauren Indvik EveryBlock, a hyperlocal news site acquired by msnbc.com in August 2009, unveiled a new version Monday designed to encourage conversation and collaboration among neighbors. “We’re shifting from a one-way newsfeed to more of a community-empowered website,” says EveryBlock founder Adrian Holovaty. “Instead of going to the site to passively consume information, we’re going to [...]

(Reuters) – Media giant News Corp aims to build its own social-gaming business as valuations of games companies, such as FarmVille maker Zynga skyrocket, its head of digital media said on Wednesday. Jonathan Miller also said News Corp’s The Daily, a newspaper designed for Apple’s iPad, had had hundreds of millions of downloads since its launch [...]

TOKYO – Dentsu Inc.  and Facebook, Inc. announced an agreement under which Dentsu will become the official representative of Facebook’s sales and marketing support to companies in Japan. Under this agreement, Dentsu, as Facebook’s official ad sales representative in the Japanese market, will provide consultation on effective Facebook Page (see Note 1) development, exclusively market [...]

By April Dembosky in San Francisco Published: March 14 2011 Facebook said it was entering the fast-growing “deal of the day” market, posing a challenge to online discount marketing pioneers Groupon and LivingSocial. The social network’s large audience and detailed database of user preferences positions it to be a fierce competitor in this market, which is [...]

by Erik Sass Here’s one of those stats that makes you sit up and take notice: Facebook was identified as “the ‘primary source’” of evidence in divorce cases by fully two-thirds of divorce lawyers surveyed by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. This figure is especially incredible when you consider that Facebook didn’t even exist ten [...]

By Chris Nuttall in San Francisco Published: March 10 2011 I rediscovered my old AOL e-mail account this week and was taken down e-memory lane as the famous “You’ve Got Mail!” message boomed from the PC speaker as I signed in. After years of neglect and only spam in my inbox, it was like a voice [...]

By Tim Bradshaw Published: March 8 2011 Spotify is this week celebrating signing up its millionth subscriber – but only quietly. Staff at the digital music service’s offices in London have not been treated to a big party, slap-up feast or cracked open the champagne. Spotify says there will be a few pats on backs, then it’s [...]

By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER And STEVEN RUSSOLILLO Warner Bros. will begin offering select movies through Facebook, a move that will enable the social-networking giant to compete in the online movie-rental market. The new offering—which was made by Warner Brothers without explicit assistance from Facebook—puts Facebook Inc. in greater competition with Netflix Inc. and other tech companies vying [...]

By Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent Published: February 21 2011 20:46 | Last updated: February 21 2011 20:46 Advertising agencies and technology investors are rushing to snap up fledgling companies that are providing additional marketing services around Facebook, as a new industry grows up on the back of the social networking phenomenon. Start-up companies in [...]

By DAVID CARR Published: February 13, 2011 Some of the fizz, if not a great big bubble, seems to have returned to media, depending on how you define “media.” There have been reports in The New York Times and elsewhere thatFacebook is now valued at $50 billion, and The Wall Street Journal reportedthat Twitter had been in low-level talks [...]

Dan Frommer | Feb. 12, 2011, 10:12 PM Former Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker, now at Kleiner Perkins, is famous for her amazing slideshow presentations about the future of the Internet, the rise of mobile computing, and new business models. Here’s her latest presentation, which, according to TechCrunch, she’ll be delivering today with Matt Murphy at a Google event…more

By JAVIER ESPINOZA LONDON—Last month, citizenrobert was enjoying “the pleasures of slow cooking.” The month before, he was battling with “brutal” winds in Suffolk. Citizenrobert, it turns out, is Robert Phillips, the U.K. chief executive of public-relations firm Edelman, and he has been using the microblogging site Twitter to share his views and anecdotes with his [...]

Let me just say right up front: I did not volunteer to reinvent myself. I was drafted. I wasn’t interested in being another me; I was cool with the me that I was. I was a reporter for  The Washington Post, one of the most respected newspapers in the world. To add icing to my [...]

By STEVEN JOHNSON Friday, Jun. 05, 2009 The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your “followers,” and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It’s not as if we were [...]

Who owns the content in the social network and who controls it?