5 posts and columns on Times

The Shipping News: Plenty of iPhones for the Holidays

in News on November 9, 2010 at 10:40 am PT

It’s taken the better part of four months, but iPhone 4 supply has finally caught up with demand. Ship times for the device fell to 24 hours yesterday for the first time since its June launch, which bodes well for Apple as it it heads into the holiday season.

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U.K.'s Times Gives Tally of Digital Sign-Ups

in News on November 2, 2010 at 11:58 am PT

News Corp.’s U.K. newspaper division announced Tuesday that more than 100,000 readers have paid for digital editions of the Times and Sunday Times–with about half of those being monthly subscribers–following a move to put the newspapers’ content behind a paywall.

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Traffic-Reduction Strategy Seems to Be Working at U.K.'s Times

in News on July 19, 2010 at 10:46 am PT

Some outside numbers are in on the effect of a two-week-old paywall at the Web site of News Corp.’s Times, and there’s good news. So far, visits to the site are down by only 67 percent. That may sound grim, but it’s not nearly as bad as the 90 percent drop-off that management had feared. According to Experian Hitwise, most of the loss came when the Times started asking users to register in the month before the wall went up.

MicroHoo: Stop Them Before They Publicly Negotiate Again!

in News on March 9, 2009 at 2:59 pm PT

Oh dear, one endless, screwed-up global airline ride without Internet connectivity and when I finally manage to get online (looking right at the Spanish Steps in Rome–sweeeeet!), BoomTown finds that a new round o’ MicroHoo is apparently on again. (In the immortal words of Michael Corleone–see video below–in the otherwise awful “Godfather: Part III”: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!”) Except, judging from exactly how loud the loudmouthed chatter from a trio of Microsoft execs has become about wanting to make a search deal with Yahoo, it’s actually not.
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Is The New York Times Selling About.com? No.

in Media on November 3, 2008 at 2:52 pm PT

The New York Times is in lousy shape, so it needs to sell off About.com, the kind-of-portal, kind-of-blog-aggregator it bought from Primedia in 2005. So says Jason Calacanis, whose Mahalo.com is a kind-of-portal, kind of blog-aggregator. Not true, say two people familiar with the Times and About.