Big companies finally get to experience Facebook the way the rest of us do — with Timeline. While the idea of perusing corporate Facebook pages might not strike most people as exciting, the New York Times is setting an intriguing example for others to follow.
In an e-mail reportedly sent to employees, Apple CEO Tim Cook responds to the recent New York Times piece titled “In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad.”
“Where were you on 9/11?” It’s the fundamental question posed in this beautiful application of Google Maps’ API used by the New York Times.
Is Yahoo about to buy the New York Times Company?
The New York Times launched Beta620 yesterday, its public testing ground for new and upcoming features for the NYTimes.com website, almost a year after it was originally expected.
Start spreading the news: New Yorkers love to tweet – but maybe not as much as they would like to think.
The New York Times’ paywall may have seemed to launch successfully, with early reports of 100,000 paid subscriptions in its first three weeks, but its first full month of operation tells a different story: Page views dropped 24.4% from March to April, with the NYT’s share of all newspaper website traffic dropping from 13% in [...]
The Wall Street Journal appears to be the first major news outlet to get their own Wikileaks-style portal up and running. They’re calling it The SafeHouse, a haven where tippers can submit various forms of documentation anonymously.
Here’s an encouraging sign for the New York Times: Within three weeks of its paywall being in place, the paper had more than 100,000 paid digital subscribers in place – More than a third of the way towards its own target of 300,000 subscribers within the first year of the service.
Maybe AOL bought the wrong media company. According to comScore, MailOnline, the online version of reactionary British newspaper the Daily Mail, saw a massive 27% increase in traffic from February to March this year to become the world’s second largest newspaper site – beating the Huffington Post, which also saw a large 20% spike that [...]
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