Posts Tagged with ‘financial-times’

What seemed to grow more and more apparent throughout the last few months in advance of Macworld Expo ’08 has finally been outed by big media.
The Financial Times reported early yesterday (in its trademark salmon-colored pages) that Apple and 20th Century Fox, a entity held by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, inked a deal that would grant iTunes users the option to rent films produced by the studio. The news of the impending partnership comes in anticipation of [...]

In a piece published yesterday here on Profy, we mentioned Apple?s curious shift toward acceptance of Web app development, if only to appease the wolves in the third-party universe eager to make themselves at home on the iPhone platform. In short, Mr Jobs told the world of Web 2.0 to get coding, because they now have a chance to get their feet in what could be a very big door before even so much as a morsel of an [...]

If recent pieces in the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times are any indication, Apple will be debuting a movie rental feature on iTunes in a number of months. Autumn ’07, the mysterious Apple tipster(s) have stated. Big deal? Small deal? Medium-sized?
I’m leaning towards small, but if all goes as I hope all goes, medium-sized is where things’ll end up. Here’s why.
A little framework before we talk about content. If Apple’s serious about the Apple TV (the [...]

Research by the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that an “advertising surge in 2006” on the Web in the UK pushed the net sum spent for ad space past that of national newspapers as a whole, reports the BBC. Online placements made up 12.4% of the United Kingdom’s total market. In total, advertisers purchased 2.01 billion pounds of advert space on the Web.
What does this show? It shows that everything from the online version of The Register to the many [...]

The New York Times is doing it. The Financial Times is doing it. A great number of other reputable newspapers are doing it. What am I speaking of? Blogging.
David Pogue of NYT fame (Circuits writer) regularly submits items to Pogue’s Posts, a collection of informal writeups about stuff not quite column-worthy or stuff that didn’t make it past the editor or the author just felt like jotting down and seeing what the public had to say in response. The [...]