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Open Data Now: Hottest Contenders for 2014
A book about open data, to be released in January—and the launch of a pilot website showcasing open data businesses—both forecast a big year for open data in 2014, and highlight the importance of...

News Corp Pays $25M For Storyful, Which Digs Up And Verifies News From Social Sites Like Twitter And Instagram
News Corp is raising its game in digital news again: the company has just announced that it is acquiring Storyful, a Ireland-based “village square” for social media news, aggregating stories found...

Rising Paywalls Are Already Paying Off for Publishers
Not long ago, Bloomberg Businessweek declared 2014 the “Year of the Paywall” for the news industry. Sure enough, everywhere you look in publishing these days, you see news organizations ranging fr...

Scripps Buys Newsy For $35M To Expand From TV And Newspapers To Digital Video
Another exit for a new media startup into the arms of the old media industry: E.W. Scripps, the storied owner of 19 local television stations and daily newspapers in 13 markets across the U.S., today ...

Experiments in viral journalism: Trinity Mirror launches Ampp3d for sharing data-driven stories
As we pointed out recently, everyone seems to be trying to come up with an Upworthy or BuzzFeed-style portal that does “viral” content, and that includes media outlets like the Washington Post, wi...

Slingbox Can Now Stream TV on Roku Players
Sling Media announced a new SlingPlayer channel for Roku streaming devices on Monday. This means you can enjoy live or recorded TV via a Slingbox on a Roku streaming player. The result is similar to t...

Beyond the paywall: Beacon wants to make it easier for journalists to become like Andrew Sullivan
While newspapers everywhere are doing their best to emulate the New York Times by erecting a one-size-fits-all paywall around their content, some individual writers like Andrew Sullivan are trying to ...

Kaltura Introduces MediaGo, Its ‘Netflix-In-A-Box' Portal For Media Companies
Kaltura has long enabled service providers, universities, enterprises, and media companies to deliver video to viewers, with an extensible platform for publishing, distributing, and monetizing content...

Are Flipboard and Currents marketing partners or scams that take advantage of publishers?
Tablet-based reading services like Google Current and Flipboard — which says it has doubled its userbase to 90 million in the past six months — are a boon for anyone who wants to consume content q...

Study: Apps and Content Startups Miss Out Because Affiliate Model Is Broken
Skimlinks, the platform which gives publishers greater control over affiliate links and content monetization, releases some major research today which could well concentrate the minds of online “pub...

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