Two new subscription plans, including NYT Now, a lower-priced app tailored for a mobile audience, are part of the company’s push to expand its digital offerings and increase its revenue.
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Medium, which will introduce a mobile app next week, is an effort by a founder of Twitter and Blogger to strike a balance between the old world, where professional editors were gatekeepers, and the new one, where anyone can post anything online.
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In the age of the mobile device, a television network may need to rethink the size of its content. Clips may be better than episodes.
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Overtaken by new technology and shifting consumer habits, the telephone movie listing and ticket service will be disconnected, and a free Moviefone app will be revised.
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Editors will supplement Facebook’s computers in recommending articles and blog posts on a dozen topics.
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Vice Media announced that it was buying Carrot Creative, a digital agency that creates apps, websites and games for media companies and brands.
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Mobile games are a major growth opportunity, and analysts say a recent flop underscores the challenges Disney faces in a shifting marketplace.
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A paint company is offering a smartphone app that suggests paint colors based on consumers’ favorite songs.
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"You can have anyone! All you have to do is dangle the right carrot." That's the promise of a new app, Carrot Dating, which allows users to bribe potential love connections into going on dates with them. The word "bribe" might sound a little harsh, but that's actually the terminology Carrot Dating uses.
"Messaging may get her interested, but bribery will get you a date. Don't waste time contacting countless singles in hopes that one will say 'yes.' The Carrot Dating app gives you the power to date your first choice, not settle for only the ones who replied."
The bribes range anywhere from flowers to jewelry to plastic surgery. If this sounds like thinly veiled prostitution, well, bingo. Carrot Dating is presenting women as gold-digging idiots just waiting to exchange amorous meetups for Botox. If Carrot Dating's website weren't sketchy enough, there's the promo video below, which really takes it past the line of "so gross I need to shower."
Of course, the founder disagrees. In an interview with the New York Daily News, entrepreneur Brandon Wade says, "It’s like a pickup line, but more classy and interesting." And if there's one man who knows classy, it's definitely the guy who created another dating site called WhatsYourPrice.com.
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Tablet computers are becoming the “first screen” for pre-school-age viewers and Disney is making a broader investment with the app debut of “Sheriff Callie’s Wild West.”
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Total digital sales are down almost 1 percent so far this year, and some in the industry cite the rise of streaming music services like Spotify and Pandora.
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The app, which recommends concerts for the hipster crowd, received the investment from some big players in the music industry.
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The $15 million investment in Jana is the first by the Publicis Groupe in a mobile technology start-up.
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Target joined forces with technology blog of the magazine Fast Company to find a shopping app. A group of developers from advertising agencies won the top prize.
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The New York Times Company said it would start charging nonsubscribers who want to read more than three articles a day on its apps for mobile devices.
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The live stream, which will be available only to cable and satellite subscribers, is the first time that any major broadcaster has turned on such a technology.
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The 81-year-old founder of Elektra records is behind a new iPad app that explores the music and history of the Doors.
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The company hopes to weave itself seamlessly into the mobile world.
Nick D’Aloisio, a programming whiz who wasn’t even born when Yahoo was founded in 1994, sold his news-reading app, Summly, to Yahoo.
The app, which would stream programming to the phones and tablets of cable and satellite subscribers, could become available to some subscribers this year.
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