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Mixed results for Daily Mail owner

Mixed results for Daily Mail owner

The differing fates of Associated Newspapers’ print and online publications have done little to stall a drop in operating profit of £13 million in the past year. Read the full story

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YouTube set to take on the big boys

YouTube set to take on the big boys

Google is reportedly set to invest £65m to make YouTube a genuine competitor to major broadcasters. Read the full story

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How to lose friends and alienate people

How to lose friends and alienate people

Is Facebook losing its edge? As it prepares to make the biggest changes to the platform since its inception, one has to wonder if the boffins at Facebook HQ have forgotten why the MySpace alternative was created in the first place. Read the full story

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July ABCes: Mail continues its online dominance

Mail Online has retained its dominant position at the top of the ABCe list for July, recording 70 million monthly users, despite Guardian.co.uk growing its audience by 7.5 per cent. Read the full story

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Film studios win ‘landmark’ piracy case in UK court

Film studios win ‘landmark’ piracy case in UK court

The high court has ruled that BT must block its customers from accessing a filesharing website in a landmark piracy case brought to the courts by Hollywood studios. Read the full story

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ITV’s micropayment system to go live in January

Viewers wanting to catch up on ITV programming online will have to pay for the privilege come January next year, when the broadcaster will implement a micropayment system into its ITV Player. Read the full story

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How the Guardian’s ‘digital-first’ tactic killed the NoW

How the Guardian’s ‘digital-first’ tactic killed the NoW

The News of the World scandal is a powerful example of why the Guardian is shifting to a ‘digital-first’ strategy. Read the full story

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MySpace founder ‘choked’ when Facebook arrived

MySpace founder ‘choked’ when Facebook arrived

One of the original founders of MySpace, Tom Anderson, has admitted that he “choked” before Facebook realised the vision he had set out for his own social media network. Read the full story

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"The Daily Mail is being far too modest… the runaway success of the website owes very little to piggy-backing on 'the strengths of the newspaper'."


The Media Blog‘s Will Sturgeon credits Mail Online’s picture desk as the “engine room” of its booming growth after comScore named it the world’s biggest newspaper site.


(Source: The Media Blog)