GameStick, a console on a stick, shrinks Ouya down to size
We recently saw the tremendous appetite for Ouya, the small Android-based games console whose Kickstarter funding drive was oversubscribed almost ten-fold. Now Ouya could be the template ...
Digital boom couldn’t stop 2012 entertainment slump in UK
Revenue from digital-format sales of music, videos and games jumped 11.4 percent through 2012 to pass the £1 billion ($1.6 billion) mark in the UK. According to the country’s ...
Belgian media planning shared digital content passport
Fresh from apparently wrangling online content fees from Google last month, Belgian newspaper websites will, in 2013, launch an industry-wide platform to take back their readers. Major ...
Targets missed, Nook sells stake to Pearson to secure book distribution
Talk about vertical integration. Pearson is taking a five percent stake in newly-reconfigured ebook device and retail brand Nook Media in order to gain favourable distribution for its ...
Mail.ru kills its Twitter killer, wants a bigger slice of VK
In January 2012, I reported how the big Russian portal operator Mail.ru was aping Chinese peers by launching its own microblog service. Whilst China’s Twitter clones have flourished, ...
Christmas content: ebooks boom, iOS uplift
This holiday season appears to have created the conditions for another uplift in the digital content market. Ebook spike In ebooks, one publisher, Hachette UK, saw 86 percent more global ...
All-singing devices are eating up MP3 player sales
Earlier this month, we reported how ebook reader sales were set to sink in 2012 — and plummet in future years. We also know compact camera sales are declining. Now there is also ...
Dailymotion nears ownership switch with kids subscription plan
YouTube rival Dailymotion is making its first foray into subscription video on-demand (SVOD) with a €4.49-per-month bundle aimed at children, as it aims to show circling investors ...
The world’s best paid content market? China, research says
Of all the nations where you would expect to find the greatest consumer willingness to pay for digital content, China — land of so much piracy — would not be it. But that ...
The world’s best paid content market? China, research says
Of all the nations where you would expect to find the greatest consumer willingness to pay for digital content, China — land of so much piracy — would not be it. But that ...