Yell.com: Not the future of local search.
Yell.com are one of THE big names, everywhere, which is why I was suprised to read the other day about their financial difficulties (and tweeted about it). Yell.com are seeking to refinance £3.8billion (that’s £3,800,000,000!) and, at the same time, are looking to raise a further £660m (that’s another £660,000,000 ) from its investors. For [...]
Sunday night Twitter
Love him or hate him, and his x-factor productions, you have to admire Simon Cowell’s commercialism to keep interest in a story running. The ‘Jedward’ saga generates so much media interest for the X-factor that Simon could not bring himself to judge them out of the competition (no matter how much he claims to hate [...]
Kindle frustration
As an early adopter, I was delighted when I heard that Kindle has a launch date for the UK – October 17, 2009. As a husband of a top author (check out www.theharcombediet.com), I was equally excited about the prospect of being able to help her find an additional route-to-market for her writing skills. So [...]
Pay-per-article: A brave step by Financial Times
With sales of traditional newspapers in continued decline, media houses have been faced with the challenge of how to adapt their revenue model to the digital era, where content is expected to be free. Financial Times recently revealed that it’s looking at a pay-per-article model which is an extension of its current subscription service. They, [...]
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