PluggedIn Ventures is hosting its next roundtable event on September 27. The event will focus on "Digital Publishing," and will feature talks from founders, editors and industry executives. Discussions will center around the challenges in digital publishing and how to monetize content. The event [Full Story…]
FINOVATE: Mobile and Social FinTech Innovations Dominate
September 14, 2012 at 10:03 am
By Lauren Keyson One thousand people poured into the Finovate Fall 2012 to watch 64 entrepreneurs demo their innovative financial technology products to 1,100 financial institution executives, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The founders had seven minutes to present their fintech [Full Story…]
TheStreet Buys The Deal, Shuts Down Print and Accelerates Digital
September 13, 2012 at 11:38 am
TheStreet bought The Deal LLC, which owns the mergers and acquisition magazine The Deal, for $5.8 million recently, according to The Wall Street Journal. Elisabeth DeMarse, Chairman and CEO for TheStreet, wrote, "We own investing journalism here at TheStreet, and The Deal owns deal journalism, [Full Story…]
CBS Partners With nRelate for Content Discovery
September 8, 2012 at 2:09 pm
CBS Interactive announced a new partnership with nRelate. Recently purchased by IAC, nRelate is a content discovery service that targets article recommendations. CBS properties including CBSNews.com, CBSSports.com and CNET will join nRelate’s network. Zack Rogers, SVP of revenue operations at [Full Story…]
City Limits Goes All Digital
September 7, 2012 at 12:32 pm
Recently, City Limits announced it would cease printing its magazine. The 36-year-old journal devoted to NY urban affairs and investigative journalism will now only be available on the web. City Limits’ circulation is about 10,000 and Editor Jarrett Murphy said that magazine side wasn’t [Full Story…]
OnSwipe Builds Revenue Model
September 1, 2012 at 10:33 am
OnSwipe, the NY based iPad publishing platform, has more than 5,000 published users that use their free software to make beautiful and touch-screen friendly sites for tablets. Originally the company received six million dollars in venture backing, but this was not enough to support a 48-person team [Full Story…]
Lucky Magazine Launching Shopping Site
August 11, 2012 at 12:09 pm
The online magazine Lucky will be introducing a shopping site called myLucky.com that directs readers to buy clothing and accessories directly from more than a dozen retailers. Instead of directing shoppers to store sites, users can now stay on the myLucky.com site to make purchases from their [Full Story…]
The New Yorker Launches iPhone App
August 7, 2012 at 2:10 pm
The New Yorker released their app for the iPhone today, according to All Things D. The app presents all of the same content as the New Yorker iPad app, the magazine and some digital extras through Apple's Newsstand. Access for print subscribers is free, but it is possible to purchase a digital [Full Story…]
NYTimes.com’s Paywall is Succeding
August 6, 2012 at 8:11 am
The Sulzberger family has had control of The New York Times for over a century and seems to always be in the middle of one controversy or another, and the financial troubles of the last ten years have threatened to take the famous publication out of existence. New York Magazine's Seth Mnookin [Full Story…]
The New Yorker Struggling with Web
August 3, 2012 at 12:32 pm
The New Yorker seems as though it is lagging behind other competitors in terms of adapting to the Internet. According to Buzzfeed, the magazine has been hindered by Conde Nast's lack of resources and contractual writer's agreements, and a recent resignation of Jonah Lehrer ended up worsening the [Full Story…]
NYTimes Reports Digital Paywall Growth
July 31, 2012 at 2:02 pm
The digital paywall that The New York Times implemented in March 2011 continues to pick up speed. According to Mashable, about 509,000 people now subscribe, which is up 13% from March 2012. Additionally, people who are not subscribed can only read 10 articles a month on the website, down from 20 [Full Story…]
NYU Grad Seeing Success After Blog Goes Viral
July 31, 2012 at 9:32 am
At just 24 years old Emma Koenig has a viral blog, a book that is to be released next month, and a pending deal for a television series. That is not to say that she isn't like other recent college grads, she left her East Village apartment to move back in with her parents in NJ, had a line of low [Full Story…]
Vook Enhances Site For Easier E-book Publsihing
July 30, 2012 at 8:02 am
Vook, which was created for non-tech people to publish books, is enhancing its cloud-based book platform this week. The company recently moved from SF to NY, and is now introducing features like an HTML5-based reader that allows tablets and smart-phones to view published titles. Vook's VP of [Full Story…]
Andy Borowitz Joins The New Yorker Blogs
July 19, 2012 at 12:51 pm
The Conde Nast-owned publication, The New Yorker, will add Andy Borowitz's Borowitz Report to its network of blogs. Borowitz, satirist and comedian, boasts about 275,000 Twitter followers and has been a frequent contributor to the "Shouts and Murmurs" section of the magazine. According [Full Story…]
Social Discovery Service Bitly Raises $15 Million
July 13, 2012 at 9:48 am
Bitly, known to most as a link shortening service, raised another $15 million in a new round led by Khosla Ventures. The NY-based Betaworks company hopes to use the money to shift the company focus to be the “primary online service for sharing and discovering interesting content,” according to [Full Story…]
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