Hachette Book Group will start selling books straight from tweets, though it can’t be labeled more than an experiment for now: The publisher has partnered with digital distributor Gumroad to sell… Read more »
Facebook is going to start sending TV networks weekly reports on activity around their shows. The move is partly an attempt to compete with Twitter, which is making TV a big… Read more »
Goodreads has started deleting some content from its site. Some of the site’s most passionate users are angry, but as Goodreads grows up it is going to face more challenges like… Read more »
Goodreads has begun deleting book reviews that focus on a book’s author rather than on its content. Some users are crying censorship, but Goodreads will face more challenges like this as… Read more »
Twitter’s standalone #Music app hasn’t really taken off, so the company is trying again: On Thursday it launched the app on Spotify. The app lets users listen to songs that are… Read more »
Twitter has acquired mobile advertising startup MoPub, the companies confirmed Monday evening following a report by TechCrunch that pegged the acquisition price at $350 million in stock. MoPub, founded in 2010,… Read more »
The New York Times website experienced another outage on Tuesday afternoon. The paper said it suspects a “malicious external attack,” and the Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for it. Read more »
Twitter has hired Jennifer Prince, who was head of media and entertainment ad sales at Google (s GOOG), as its new director of entertainment industry sales. She’ll expand the ways that… Read more »