In the past making money from a mobile app has usually involved signing up to an advertisement network and allowing the app to display banner ads. The problem with this is that it doesn't make for a particularly good user experience and may actually turn people off using the app. For some time... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2015-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Baker & Taylor this week announced that it has released a new “all-in-one” mobile app for library users. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Association of Online Publishers Digital Publishing Awards give consumer publisher of the year award to newspaperThe Guardian picked up three prizes at this year’s Association of Online Publishers (AOP) Digital Publishing Awards, including consumer digital publisher of the year and best mobile... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ello's mobile app will hit the Apple App store Thursday, about eight months after the ad-free social network launched as an invite-only alternative to Facebook. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook’s cred is still intact with teens, survey saysA Pew Research survey has found that Facebook is the most popular social network among teens, debunking the notion that it was losing ground among the younger generation. While 71 percent of all teens surveyed use Facebook, 41 percent said... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
After attracting more than 50m monthly readers on tablets and smartphones, US startup smashes down its walled garden and hopes partners will see the potentialFlipboard came to prominence as a news-reading app for tablets and smartphones, attracting more than 50 million monthly active readers by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Charlie Hebdo is printing 7 million copies of its "survivor's issue," published one week after terrorists attacked the magazine's Paris office Jan. 7, killing 12 people. To print the additional copies, Charlie Hebdo, which usually puts out 60,000 copies per issue, received financial help from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has launched a one-hour new delivery service in selected areas of Manhattan, New York, today (19th December), which it plans to expand in 2015. The service, called Prime Now, promises to deliver in one hour a range of more than 25,000 daily essentials, such as “paper towels, shampoo,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facing industry pressure from mobile ride-booking applications Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc., American United Taxi Services is pushing back with an app of its own. "TAXIMKE" is designed with its competitors' concept in mind: order, book and track a taxi through your smartphone. Unlike... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2014-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The mobile version of its ebook distribution platform will have more than 350,000 titles from IngramBooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook is to release a new feature on its mobile app that will listen to and identify your music and TV shows before publishing them in a status update. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2014-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo's not quite done with the news tonight. In addition to an e-reader, three tablets and Pocket integration, the Canadian-turned-Japanese company has also got some announcements on the content side of things. First up is the addition of magazines to its store, bringing titles from Conde Nast,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Heavy hitters across several industries have tried to find the perfect balance between the old and the new to breathe some life into what's been described as a dying medium. Layar "wants to make the world clickable" with its augmented reality software and doesn't plan on letting paper-based... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
After months of planning, PARADE Magazine is rolling out a mobile app to cultivate advertisers and enhance the content offerings to its existing reader base. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
By Tim Conneally, Betanews Yahoo on Thursday announced that it will soon debut a new magazine-style method of digital content delivery especially aimed at touchscreen mobile devices like tablets and smartphones called Livestand."Publishers and advertisers must expand their content to [phones and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2011-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]