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Washington Post Finishes Digg Deal

Peter Kafka in Media on May 10 at 4:00 am PT

The Washington Post has closed its deal to acquire some of Digg’s technology staff, who will go to work for SocialCode, a Washington Post subsdiary that helps marketers buy ads on Facebook and Twitter. AllThingsD had previously reported that the Digg hires would work alongside the team that built the paper’s Social Reader; that team works for WaPo Labs, a different subsidiary.

New York Times Sees Digital Ads Droop

Peter Kafka in News on April 19 at 6:10 am PT

The New York Times says its digital paywall strategy is a success with consumers. But its digital advertising business stumbled last quarter.

The Daily Has an Angry Birds App — And the Start of a Custom Publishing Business

Peter Kafka in Media on March 14 at 10:20 am PT

New media, old business model: Use your existing publishing infrastructure to make stuff for other people.

So It’s the Kodak Strategy for Yahoo — The Last Refuge of the Vaguely Patented

Kara Swisher in News on February 28 at 6:00 am PT

In poking Facebook, Yahoo might now learn what it is really like to be de-friended.

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New York Times Digital Subscription Numbers Grow 20 Percent

Peter Kafka in Media on February 2 at 6:09 am PT

The New York Times ended 2011 with 390,000 digital subscribers, up about 20 percent from its third-quarter total. Some of the new subscriptions came from the publisher’s International Herald Tribune, which started digital sales last fall. The Times saw overall revenue drop 2.8 percent for the quarter, as ad revenue shrank 7.1 percent while circulation revenue increased.

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A Year After iPad Launch, News Corp.’s Daily Comes to (Some) Google Tablets

Peter Kafka in Media on January 10 at 9:01 am PT

A year after it launched on Apple’s iPad (and much later than AllThingsD had reported), News Corp.’s Daily tablet newspaper has made it to Google’s Android. It will come preloaded on some tablet models marketed via Verizon Wireless, starting with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 this month. Verizon was a launch sponsor for the Daily a year ago; News Corp. also owns this Web site.

New York Times Starting CEO Search Without a Search Firm

Peter Kafka in Media on December 15, 2011 at 6:17 pm PT

But they are using one to fill a board seat vacated in June. Draw your own conclusions.

Threatening Birds

The threat comes from the direction of everyone who competes with us for the readers’ attention. Even Angry Birds, for that matter, because it consumes people’s time.

— New York Times associate managing editor Jim Schachter, in an interview with Israel’s Globes, talking about who he sees as a threat

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Singapore Press Holdings Sues Yahoo

Chun Han Wong, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 24, 2011 at 10:21 am PT

Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. is suing Yahoo Inc.’s Southeast Asian unit for alleged copyright violations, saying that the Internet firm reproduced news content from its newspapers without permission, the companies said Wednesday.

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