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Scribd Aims For Niche Between Instapaper And Pulse With Reader App Float
Document sharing site Scribd is expanding its mobile publishing efforts with the introduction of Float , a free, Instapaper-like iPhone app that allows readers to organize their online reading in one space.
Time Magazine Adopts ‘All Access’ Subscriptions Across Print And Digital
Time magazine is rolling out an “all access” subscription plan that gives current print subscribers complete use of the title’s content across all its digital versions, including its apps on the iPad, HP ( NYSE: HPQ ) Touchpad and Samsung Galaxy Tab. The move reflects the unwillingness of most readers to pay twice for the same content, and the chance of attracting some readers back to the print version
Updated: Big Step For Google+: iPhone App Finally Ready
The next wave of Google+ activity looks set to take off now that Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) has approved an iPhone application for Google’s new social network, allowing people to use the service almost anywhere.
Promised Kindle App For HP TouchPad Finally Arrives
You can now add Kindle to the relatively short list of apps available for the HP ( NYSE: HPQ ) TouchPad, the company announced on the HP Palm blog.
In-Game Ad Provider SupersonicAds Raises $4.2 Million
Social gamer SupersonicAds has raised a $4.2 million first round as the company looks to continue it international expansion and the growth of in-game ads. A recent eMarketer report said that social gaming revenues in the U.S
The Biggest Losers From The Borders Bankruptcy
Yesterday’s news that the Borders bookstore chain is going to be sold off—much of it probably at fire-sale prices—means that some of the nation’s biggest publishers are going to be taking a bath, financially. Five publishing houses are owed more than $25 million by the bookstore chain, and many others are owed smaller amounts—but they’re likely to only receive a small fraction of those sums
@ Deals 3D: Foursquare, Yelp, Shopkick’s New Mobile Initiatives
“Showing your phone to redeem a deal sucks,” said Tristan Walker, Foursquare’s director of business development, today at BIA/Kelsey’s Deals 3D conference.
Facebook, AmEx Users ‘Link, Like, Love’ New Deal Site So Much It Crashes
Seventy-five percent of consumers say the best way to support a local business is to refer a friend, said Lexi Reese, Facebook director of local sales, at BIA/Kelsey’s Deals 3D conference this morning.
Yahoo Revenues Hobbled By Hobbled By Display Ad Sales Changes
Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ) pinned its 23 percent revenue decline on the divestiture of HotJobs and on changes to the search agreement with Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ). Aside from the absence of HotJobs, which was sold to recruitment site Monster.com in Feb. 2010 for $225 million, CEO Carol Bartz explained in a statement that display revenue was weak in the second half of the quarter because of “comprehensive changes we have made in our sales organization to position ourselves for more rapid display growth in the future.” In other words, display may still be surging elsewhere, but things will be slow for Yahoo for a while.
Apple’s Runaway Train: 9.25 Million iPads, 20 Million iPhones Sold In Q3
One of these days Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) may see a slowdown in its business, but it most emphatically did not happen over the last three months. Apple reported revenue and earnings per share for its third fiscal quarter that shattered analyst estimates on the back of huge increases in both iPhone and iPad sales. Apple recorded $28.57 billion in revenue during the quarter, a 82 increase over quarterly revenue of $15.7 billion in the year-ago quarter and way beyond consensus analyst estimates of $24.92 billion in revenue for the quarter.
