John Paczkowski

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My Kid Is an Honor Student at iTunes U

Downloads from Apple’s iTunes U program topped the 300 million mark today–a formidable feat for a virtual insitution of higher learning that’s just three years old. Today, roughly 350,000 audio and video lectures (and commencement speeches) are available for download from some 800 universities, among them Harvard, Brown, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT and Oxford. And that list is growing quickly as universities in China, Japan, Mexico and Singapore join the initiative.

A nice little bit of back-to-school marketing for Apple (AAPL), which likely has an eye trained on education sales as the new school year begins.

Twitter’s Tanking

December 30, 2013 at 6:49 am PT

2013 Was a Good Year for Chromebooks

December 29, 2013 at 2:12 pm PT

BlackBerry Pulls Latest Twitter for BB10 Update

December 29, 2013 at 5:58 am PT

Apple CEO Tim Cook Made $4.25 Million This Year

December 28, 2013 at 12:05 pm PT

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The problem with the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse has always been that billionaires don’t tend to like the kind of authority-questioning journalism that upsets the status quo.

— Ryan Chittum, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review about the promise of Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture with Glenn Greenwald