Social platforms like Facebook and Snapchat are trying hard to become publishers or to host content from media companies, but one of the platforms that has been quietly doing this for… Read more »
SnapChat has convinced media companies like CNN and Yahoo and Vice to be part of its new Discover feature, and they were easy to convince because of SnapChat’s 200M-plus millennial audience… Read more »
The New York Times’ research and development lab has launched a new project asking readers for help in identifying old advertisements from its print archive — and the project is the… 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 »
Media companies like BuzzFeed, NowThis News and Fusion are increasingly creating content that is designed to live on other apps and services rather than just including links to their websites. This… Read more »
Posting things to Twitter might feel like conversation, but in practice it’s a lot more like publishing — which is how a New York Times movie reviewer’s off-hand comment on Twitter… Read more »
With the launch of a web version, Flipboard highlights how far it has evolved from its early days as a standalone app, and how it is both a partner and a… Read more »
In his annual letter to shareholders of the seed-stage incubator Betaworks, founder and CEO John Borthwick argues that while closed platforms can be valuable in the short term, open systems and… Read more »
Professional social network LinkedIn revealed a strong Q1 performance and capped the day by announcing it was buying SlideShare for $119 million. Revenues doubled to $189 million, and LinkedIn showed a… Read more »
In late March GigaOM Pro conducted a survey for GigaOM readers to get their opinion on the social network and its competitive prospects. This report examines the results of the survey,… Read more »