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Google Working Toward Paid News

22nd June 2010

Last week, an article in an Italian newspaper leaked out information about a service that Google has been talking about for a while now – a paid model for accessing content through their search engine. More »

Huge Gap In New Vs Old Media News Channels

27th May 2010

The growing popularity of the Internet, in general, and blogs and social media, in particular, has resulted in new sources from which people now collect their news. More »

Facebook As Popular As TV

20th April 2010

It is a known fact that social networks are gaining in popularity. According to the latest reports released by Nielsen Online, 73% of the U.S. population is now engaged in some form of social media activity or the other. More »

RSS Advertising Effectiveness Questionable

16th March 2010

Gawker Media recently announced their decision to truncate RSS feeds from their popular blog, Lifehacker. Their reasoning puts the effectiveness of RSS marketing in doubt. More »

News Consumers Favour Multiple Sources

5th March 2010

A joint survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism studied the habits of American consumers with regard to their preferred sources for daily news. More »

Yahoo! Gets Real Time News Updates

23rd November 2009

Earlier this month we had news that Yahoo! was experimenting with real time search. Now, Yahoo! has officially integrated with Twitter and is featuring results from the micro-blogging platform for hot news topics. More »

Twitter’s New Homepage

31st July 2009

Twitter has been trying to expand their user base, and as a positive step in that direction, they have changed their homepage. More »

Young People Abandoning Email And TV

4th February 2009

Change, they say, is the only constant. This seems to apply to the findings of studies conducted on the modes of entertainment pursued by youngsters – teenagers in particular – today. More »