Tuesday, 4 June 2013

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Apple denies conspiracy in ebook pricing trial: “Publishers fought (us) tooth and nail”

The Department of Justice's trial against Apple kicked off in New York Monday. The DOJ alleges that Apple conspired with publishers to set ebook prices, while Apple argues that there was no conspiracy and that Apple was operating the way it normally does with content providers.

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If media is being disrupted like the car industry, then who is the Tesla Motors of media?

If the media is being disrupted in many of the same ways that the automotive manufacturing industry has been, who would qualify as the most innovative or disruptive force in the media business over the last decade?

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Justice Department releases slides showing alleged Apple ebook conspiracy

The federal government is pressing its legal and PR case against Apple in New York federal court today. It released some slides from the proceedings that are intended to highlight the intended conspiracy. Here's a look.

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What newspapers need to learn from the disruption in the auto industry

Newspaper companies might not want to think of their business as being similar to industrial manufacturing like the car industry, but in many ways it is -- and they can learn from what other manufacturers have been through.

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Online ad spending up 16% from a year ago – report

Onwards and upwards -- advertisers, once again, spent more money than ever before on online ads. Here's the latest, and a nifty chart, by way of the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

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French court orders Apple to pay $6.5M copyright tax on iPads, country mulls future cultural levies

A new French court ruling raises questions about how far the country, which has robust support for artists and musicians, should go in imposing cultural taxes on connected devices.

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Why big media is buying YouTube stars — and who could be next

What does Phil DeFranco's new deal with Revision3 say about the state of the industry, and are there other creators who might be right for similar deals?

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The spoiler: how an LA playboy threw a wrench into Aereo’s plan to take over TV

Aereo's careful plan to upend the TV industry was going fine -- until an LA company, with a streaming service of its own, got in the way. Here's an inside view of what happened.

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The painful realities behind the demise of the Chicago Sun-Times photo desk

The Chicago Sun-Times' decision to lay off its entire staff of 28 photographers was widely criticized as a knee-jerk response by clueless managers, but the fact remains that newspaper cost structures are too high, and crowdsourcing works.

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