The world of online gaming has become big business, and now fans of e-sports have their own mobile news and stats-tracking app, which was just launched by a Canadian company called… Read more »
Authors complain that features like Amazon’s new Kindle Unlimited book-rental program are devaluing books, but it’s not Amazon that is devaluing book writing — in a very real sense, the internet… Read more »
The market for grocery services that deliver food to your door — a market that for many investors is still synonymous with the worst excesses of the tech bubble of the… Read more »
As journalist/programmer Stijn Debrouwere has argued in a persuasive essay about the challenges facing the news business, journalism isn’t being disrupted just by different forms of journalism — it’s being disrupted… Read more »
Businessweek is reporting that a magazine-style Washington Post app will come pre-loaded on the new Kindle Fire, a deal that has potential benefits for both the struggling newspaper and for its… Read more »
New owner Jeff Bezos hasn’t done anything spectacular like shutting down the Washington Post’s printing presses, but the paper has been making some interesting moves lately that other media companies could… Read more »
The Washington Post saw record traffic to its website in July, and editor-in-chief Marty Baron credits the paper’s new digital projects and the addition of about 60 new editorial staff for… Read more »
The conventional wisdom seems to be that by putting the screws to publishers like Hachette, Amazon is displaying its monopoly powers and ruining the book industry. But it is actually making… Read more »
Revelations about surveillance by governments and spy agencies have made it harder for cloud providers like Amazon, but chief technology officer Werner Vogel says the company has responded by promoting its… Read more »
A group of writers and journalists have launched a publishing collective called Deca that is modelled on Magnum, the co-operative agency formed by a group of pioneering photojournalists in the 1950s,… Read more »