Apple is ready to take on Amazon.com in the digital book market again, years after regulators forced the iPhone maker to back down from an earlier effort to challenge the e-commerce giant's lead. Apple is working on a redesigned version of its iBooks ebook reading application for iPhones and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2018-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Facebook announced it was rolling out a major overhaul to its News Feed earlier this month, it did so with the intention of prioritizing interactions between people over content from publishers. It was a notable shift in strategy for the company... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2018-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A survey used to determine which publishers to favour amounts to two brief questions. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2018-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
"We’re not taking resource from Facebook and investing elsewhere; we’re doing the opposite.” The post UK Facebook-first publishers have a stiff upper lip on feed changes appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers that find themselves at the end of their rope with Facebook have found one person they don't hate: Adam Mosseri, its head of news feed. The post ‘He’s not a PR guy’: Adam Mosseri, Facebook’s head of news feed, has become an unlikely good guy to publishers appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook has been fighting something of a losing battle against the problem of fake news, but media mogul Rupert Murdoch thinks he has come up with a solution. He says that the social network should pay "trusted" publishers for the provision of news content. Facebook recently said that it wants... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corp. executive chairman and 21st Century Fox executive co-chairman Rupert Murdoch is taking on Silicon Valley. The media mogul released a statement today noting that if Facebook is going to revamp its news feed to ensure it's publishing the most legitimate, "trusted" news content on its... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rupert Murdoch is calling on Facebook to pay "trusted" publishers if it wants to carry their news stories and videos, much like a cable company pays networks for their channels.The media mogul, who controls The Wall Street Journal and Fox News, has been among the most vocal of the old media... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rupert Murdoch, the media billionaire who controls the Wall Street Journal, called on Facebook Inc. to begin paying publishers fees to carry the news that its users post and share online. His move is a sign of the print industry’s growing frustration with social media. “If Facebook wants to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook has plans to tweak its News Feed to include more posts from friends and family and less from news publishers in an attempt to fix some of the platform's problems. Now news magnate Rupert Murdoch thinks that the social network should adopt a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
"It’s hard to react and get upset because the one thing about Facebook is, they’re going to continue to make changes.” The post Cheatsheet: Facebook’s attempt to rank publishers in the news feed appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch — the executive chairman of News Corporation, and the big boss at Fox News, the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal — has a message to Silicon Valley's social media giants: Pay up. Murdoch's specific targets Monday were Facebook and Alphabet's Google, two... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amid policy changes at social network, media mogul criticizes it for failing to ‘adequately reward’ publishers that add value and integrityRupert Murdoch issued a new salvo in the row between Facebook and news publishers on Monday, calling on the social media company to pay publishers for their... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers were able to make decent money on Facebook by making and selling custom videos for advertisers, but that could soon change. The post Facebook news-feed changes will cut into publishers’ branded-content revenue appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
For independent and non-profit outlets, small shifts in algorithms – as Mark Zuckerberg just introduced – can pose an existential threatFacebook’s recent company announcement should scare anyone who values independent and non-profit media.In response to mounting criticism over its role in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook Messenger has come a long way since vice president of messaging products David Marcus left his post as president of PayPal to join the social network in June 2014. Marcus shared six trends that he believes will emerge for the messaging application in 2018 in a note published on Facebook... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2018-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook Inc., which is cutting the amount of news in its news feed, will prioritize information from the publishers that remain on the social network based on how trustworthy they are, the company said. Trustworthiness is based on a recent survey of U.S. Facebook users that gauged their... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook will rank news outlets based on how "trustworthy" they determine them to be, in another News Feed tweak announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the platform Friday.Zuckerberg added that he expects a 20 percent drop in the amount of news people see."There's too much sensationalism,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2018-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fire and Fury may have missed out on the print number one last week, but after a shortage of hardback copies in bookshops over the weekend, readers hungry to learn all about Donald Trump’s McDonald’s habit turned to the digital shelves. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The disappearing messages app is stepping up efforts to curry favor with publishers as Facebook deprioritizes them. The post As Facebook retreats from publishers, Snapchat is rolling out a publisher charm offensive appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2018-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]