Can Social Micro-Earnings Help Micropayments Work for News?
Would readers pay as little as a penny, or even less, for news? They would, if paying was combined with social sharing, micro-earning, virtual currency and a centralized banking system, according to...
View ArticleProSiebenSat.1 agrees sale of Benelux operations
ProSiebenSat. 1 Group has agreed to sell its TV interests in Belgium and the Netherlands to a consortium of international media companies in a deal valued at €1. 2bn. The agreement follows a strategic....
View ArticleBreaking: More Insult To Injury As Nokia CTO Takes Leave Of Absence
Stephen Elop may be splashing a lot of water, but the platform is still burning: today the handset maker faced another big setback, as it emerged that its CTO, Richard Green, has taken a leave of...
View ArticleUpated: More Insult To Injury As Nokia CTO Takes Leave Of Absence
Stephen Elop may be splashing a lot of water, but the platform is still burning: today the handset maker faced another big setback, as it emerged that its CTO, Richard Green, has taken a leave of...
View ArticleNokia’s $200M Secret Shows The Rot Goes Way, Way Back
There have been plenty of attempts to pinpoint where Nokia, the struggling Finnish mobile company, really started to go wrong. Some think it was when the iPhone launched and left it in the dust; some...
View ArticleIntegration: Attitudes are more important than architecture
Building an integrated newsroom might require some architectural upgrades. However, at the.
View ArticleBundling a table with your newspaper subscription
Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat learned something shocking about non-readers in 2010 field studies: Many ordinary, middle-class, working families did not have a dining table. That is yet one more...
View ArticleLooking to Europe for news-industry innovation, Part 1: Sanoma’s big bundled...
The news business is an insular one. It is still largely bound by national borders, one of the few industries largely uninfluenced by the rampant globalization of business. That’s beginning to change...
View ArticleFinnish publisher Sanoma cutting and charging to adapt for future
Nokia is not the only company undertaking rapid down-sizing in Finland. News publisher Sanoma is the latest in media to undertake a big restructure in response to online and other pressures.
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