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When Media Giants Attack! Cease-and-Desist Letter to News Reader Zite Claims All Kinds of Copyright Damage

Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:24 pm PT

A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app. The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty, Time, Dow Jones and many other media organizations were part of the copyright violations action, which you can read all about after the jump.

Appolicious Signs Partnership to Integrate With Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on April 21, 2010 at 3:23 am PT

Although serial entrepreneur Al Warms sold his start-up to Yahoo and ultimately left the Internet giant to launch a new one, he is coming back a bit via an interesting partnership. Warms’s Appolicious is aimed at encouraging discovery and social networking in the mobile apps market. Now it will carry Yahoo’s brand at the top of its site and be surfaced throughout Yahoo’s news, sports and other powerful media properties.

The iPhone Lost Market Share in Q4? Who Cares?

John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 1, 2010 at 12:30 pm PT

In its fourth quarter, Apple shipped some 8.7 million iPhones–nearly double the number shipped in the same quarter a year earlier and 18 percent more than it shipped in its third quarter. Impressive gains by any measure. Interesting to learn, then, that Apple actually lost smartphone market share.

A Clicker To Watch TV Online

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on November 24, 2009 at 5:43 pm PT

Katherine Boehret looks at Clicker.com, which helps viewers find their favorite shows online faster.

Serial Entrepreneur Al Warms Debuts Appolicious, Hoping iPhone Apps Fans Will Find It Delicious

Kara Swisher in News on September 1, 2009 at 12:01 am PT

Longtime Internet entrepreneur Al Warms paid a visit to BoomTown HQ today to show off a new company he has founded called Appolicious. That is the unusual name Warms–who sold his Participate Media, along with its BuzzTracker content aggregator, to Yahoo in late 2007–has given to a start-up aimed at encouraging discovery and social networking in the Apple iPhone mobile apps market. The site is kind of a combination of Twitter, Facebook and Yahoo, but devoted solely to organizing and making sense of the app galaxy in the universe of smart phones.

iTunes 69-Cent Bargain Bin to Debut April 7

John Paczkowski in News on March 26, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

April 7. That’s when the 99-cent-per-song rate that iTunes first set in 2003 will finally end, says the LA Times. On that day–and not April 1 as Apple originally claimed–the company will introduce a new tiered-pricing plan that will see it peddling songs for 69 cents, 99 cents, and $1.29, according to popularity.