The number of employees working at book, periodical, and music stores fell nearly 60% between 2000 and 2011. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penton's New Hope Natural Media is unveiling data and insights subscription tools as it tries to reach new entrants into the natural products market and deepen engagement with existing players. The company has launched a manufacturer incubator resource, Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For digital publishers, effectively harnessing data can turn a large but poorly understood audience into the targets advertisers covet, or help predict when certain consumers will be most likely to buy. The Weather Company has figured this out -- noticing that drops in summer temperatures, for... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cloud storage locker Dropbox has joined Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Facebook in their quest for permission to publish the number of data requests they have received from the U.S. government, and the number of users affected by those requests. Dropbox filed a brief with the U.S.... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Following the heels of Google and Facebook, Yahoo today published its first transparency report detailing government requests for user data in the first half of the year. It intends to issue a transparency report every six months. Of the 17 countries highlighted, the U.S. leads with the most... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Following in the footsteps of Facebook -- which revealed its first Global Government Requests Report just a few weeks ago -- Yahoo is finishing out the week by publishing data of its own. The firm's first "global law enforcement transparency report" covers governmental requests for user data... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tumblr was nearly as busy as Twitter during MTV's Video Music Awards on Sunday when it came to the sheer number of content contributors, per Union Metrics, a company that offers analytics for both platforms. The San Francisco tech firm says 1.1 million Tumblr users posted content with... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Last December, the New York Times published a story about something that happened during an avalanche. Something bad, I think, and likely thrilling, evocative, and perhaps, in the end, a stirring illustration of the strength of the human spirit. The story, called “Snow Fall,” was a huge hit.... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2013-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon imprint Thomas & Mercer is flying authors out to a party and conference in Seattle... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This may sound obvious, but data is now at the heart of just about every action publishers and advertisers make. There appears to be no end to the data sources and the appetite publishers and brands have for it. Data drives every decision, from the content we produce to the viability and... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookVibe allows users to search their tweets and extract the books that are being discussed by the people they follow on Twitter. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Just a few days after Google and Twitter pushed for the government to reveal the number of security-related requests, the Obama administration and Congress have just received another salvo backed by even more tech heavyweights -- 63, to be exact. A letter signed by many of the giants covered by... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Influential technology companies and groups want the U.S. government to lift restrictions on publicizing secret requests for user data as the fallout continues over the scale of government surveillance.Google, Facebook and Reddit are among the many signatories to a letter dated Thursday asking... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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O’Reilly just surveyed 250 data scientists about their skills and came up with the four types of data scientist--and one shocking outside finding. For a profession whose entire “raison d’etre” is quantitative analysis, the role of the data scientist has been surprisingly hard to pin down. Now... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On the first day of trading as separate companies, Rupert Murdoch's television and movie empire, 21st Century Fox, gained nearly 2% while the publishing company ended the day down 5%. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This year's US Innovations Seminar of the International Association of STM Publishers focused on the impact of data mining, MOOCs and new author/researcher tools. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins will not be publishing Amanda Knox's memoir Waiting to be Heard in the UK this... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced an agreement with the Associated Press (AP) to di ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This was PW’s third year at SXSW Interactive, the annual technology festival in Austin, Tex., and it may have been the toughest year to cover. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mimi Spencer and Michael Mosley's intermittent fasting guide, The Fast Diet, was comfortably... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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By incorporating trillions of calculations, Bookish.com, the new online bookstore financed by Hachette, Penguin and S&S, promises to apply Big Data to book discovery. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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