Daily Archives: August 3, 2012

Crossing the newspaper chasm: Is it better to be funded by readers?

August 3, 2012
Crossing the newspaper chasm: Is it better to be funded by readers?

Both the Financial Times and the New York Times have either already crossed or are close to crossing an important threshold: namely, the point at which revenue from reader subscriptions exceeds the revenue they get from advertising. For an industry that has been as dependent on ad revenue as the newspaper business, that is...

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Fol.io Is An Online Market For Digital Products

August 3, 2012
Fol.io Is An Online Market For Digital Products

Producers of digital goods have a few problems. The first is finding good clients (preferably not these clients) and the second is building a popular portfolio of work. But without the former, you can’t create the latter and vice versa. That’s where fol.io comes in. A Manhattan-based company, fol.io aims to make it easier...

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Why Google Felt Like It Had To Pay $350 Million For Wildfire

August 3, 2012
Why Google Felt Like It Had To Pay $350 Million For Wildfire

leweb3 Google just spent $350 million to acquire Wildfire Interactive, a site that helps brands manage their social media presence. A source says the deal came together because Google tried — and failed – to acquire the top player in the space, Buddy Media. “Google wanted to buy Buddy; they came in first,” says...

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Procured Health Nabs $1.1M From Bessemer, Athena Health Founder To Help Reduce Health Costs

August 3, 2012
Procured Health Nabs $1.1M From Bessemer, Athena Health Founder To Help Reduce Health Costs

Procured Health, a startup that aims to help hospitals better discover, evaluate and adopt quality medical devices, is today announcing that it has raised $1.1 million in seed funding from a flock of angels and VCs. Investors in the startup’s first round included Zimmerman Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Fidelity Biosciences, NaviMed Capital’s Bijan Salehizadeh,...

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This self-hosted newsletter app is 100x cheaper than MailChimp and Campaign Monitor

August 3, 2012
This self-hosted newsletter app is 100x cheaper than MailChimp and Campaign Monitor

For the technically savvy, using your own server or tapping Amazon’s super cheap Simple Email Service (SES) is obvious when it comes to mailing lists, but for everyone else who’s knowledge-base lies somewhere between expert and novice, diving head-first into those options is just too much. Here’s what the majority is left with: relatively expensive service...

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As paid apps go live in Windows 8, Microsoft details how it will pay developers

August 3, 2012

Windows 8 is done, and as promised, the ability to publish paid applications is now a go. However, you can’t publish paid apps unless you do so from a copy of the RTM build of the operating system. For developers, that means waiting until the 15th, at the earliest. Still, TNW has learned that...

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SpaceX Wins $440 Million NASA Contract to Replace the Space Shuttle

August 3, 2012

Aerospace firm SpaceX announced Friday that it won a $440 million contract from NASA to modify its Dragon capsule for human space flight as a private-sector successor to the Space Shuttle. The plan is to launch the first Dragon flight carrying American astronauts by 2015. The Dragon capsule can carry seven astronauts, and it...

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Zynga’s reaction to EA: Lawsuit is both unfortunate and ironic

August 3, 2012

As we just reported, EA has filed a lawsuit against Zynga over the striking similarities between EA’s The Sims and Zynga’s The Ville. Zynga’s General Counsel, Reggie Davis, has given The Next Web a statement on the matter: We are committed to creating the most fun, innovative, social and engaging games in every major...

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Windows 8 Leaked to File-Sharing Sites

August 3, 2012
Windows 8 Leaked to File-Sharing Sites

A version of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system has been published to the Web, but there are several reasons that potential pirates may not be able take full advantage of the leak. A “non-boot” version of Windows 8 Enterprise-N appeared on The Pirate Bay, a notorious site for sharing copyrighted software and other...

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Google’s New Nexus 7 Tablet Gives Android an Instant Boost

August 3, 2012
Google’s New Nexus 7 Tablet Gives Android an Instant Boost

Google’s slick Nexus 7 tablet – running the latest version of Android, dubbed Jelly Bean – arrived in stores in the middle of July. For the next couple of weeks, the Nexus 7 was so popular it was virtually impossible to find. The wait for delivery on the Google Play store was more than...

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