World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.When World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: WWE) reported second-quarter results this morning, the company was able to beat the consensus analyst estimate for an earnings per share loss of…
Results from the American Customer Satisfaction Index 2014 E-business study are bound to set off more debate about which network or newspaper delivers the best news and whether their political leanings are…
Douglas A. McIntyre Despite all of the turmoil over a fired female editor and falling revenue, the stock market actually loves shares of The New York Times Company. They have risen 140% in the past…
Douglas A. McIntyre Hackers roam the Internet world, seemingly randomly. They apparently operate in China, North Korea, Syria and parts unknown (maybe even within the United States). They are hard to find, which means they…
courtesy of TwitterJust six weeks after acquiring mobile advertising platform MoPub, Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) is launching a native advertising platform for mobile apps. What that means is that the ad will…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockThe spin-off of publishing company Time Inc. by its parent, the entertainment company Time Warner Inc. (NASDAQ: TWX), will most likely be delayed until the second half of the 2014, according to…
ThinkstockTribune Co. announced 700 layoffs. The company owns a number of television stations, but most of the jobs lost come from the firm’s newspaper division. The jobs eliminated show how newspaper companies…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockIn light of a “malicious external attack,” New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) says its nytimes.com has been offline since 3:30 p.m. EST. At this point, the site has been down for 90…
Douglas A. McIntyre The New York Times website is currently down, according to several sources around the nation. Any attempts to reach the main page, section pages, or individual articles has failed HTTP 1.1
Douglas A. McIntyre By Steve Jurvetson CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe flagship of New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) and The Wall Street Journal each ran lengthy articles about how Jeff Bezos could transform the flagship…
The world of media convergence gets stranger and stranger by the month. Old media wants to be new media, but now it seems that the billionaires want to control the world of…
ThinkstockWhat big city daily is not for sale, or has been sold already? The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) has not parted with its flagship. However, the company probably would get very little…
thinkstockTV represents the easiest way to get news, if the person seeking the news wants to expend as little effort as possible. Tapping the Internet or newspapers requires effort, and the desire…
ThinkstockThe Boston Globe is barely there anymore. Its circulation has fallen so far that it is below those of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Honolulu Star Advertiser. And Boston, the home to…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockA move to digital formats was supposed to save the newspaper industry. However, the approach cannot work if the public’s confidence in the industry slips toward zero. It seems that is exactly…
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