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Is there a future for tablet-only publications? The last few weeks have cast an ominous shadow over this niche industry following substantial staff cuts at News Corp.'s The Daily and a…
Digital magazine newsstand Zinio is putting itself up for sale, according to reports. The 12-year-old San Francisco-based firm has hired Montgomery & Co. and supposedly is seeking $50 million to…
Nearly two years after launching a digital publishing company for mobile devices, Nomad Editions founder Mark Edmiston is still figuring out how to make a business model that works in…
Remember when we just watched TV? As ownership of Internet-connected devices goes up, people are increasingly likely to be surfing and tapping away on their phones, computers and tablets while…
When the tablet market launched two years ago, it was a decidedly luxury buy. Since then, tablets have become more of a mainstream purchase, as the Apple iPad has dropped…
Since the iPad launch, countless magazines have released apps for the tablet. But many have largely resembled their print counterparts. Rather than emulating print, Punch Media wanted to create something…
Specs Age 50 New gig Chairman and CEO. Old gig President and director, Akamai Technologies You’ve had sort of an interesting couple of years, moving from an agency trading desk, VivaKi, to a tech company, Akamai,…
Since the news last month that Apple had started rejecting mobile applications that access UDIDs (unique device identification numbers), the mobile ad world has been racing to come up with…
The challenge: getting kids undergoing cancer treatment—exhausted from chemo and radiation therapy—to keep detailed logs of their pain. The solution: disguising the chore with a crime-fighting iPhone game. Last month, the…
Apple doesn't often use celebrities in its advertising. (Hodgman and Long don't really count—they were both largely unknown at the outset of "Get a Mac," and they played characters, not…
