Once protected by the hype bubble, Facebook is getting a hard lesson in the realities of the public markets. Despite the massive build-up to its IPO today, the market response has been more tepid than ...

With Pottermore.com now using watermarking instead of heavyweight DRM on all the Harry Potter e-books, anti-DRM arguments are growing louder. Now the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) hopes ...

This weekly feature tells the backstory of how one e-book became a bestseller, and highlights bestselling titles that are selling more copies in digital than in print. This week: Crashing a book about ...

Russia's leading social network, Facebook copycat vKontakte, loses an appeal against a copyright conviction - is that an opportunity for Mark Zuckerberg in Moscow?

Amazon is reportedly trying to sell ads that would appear on the Kindle Fire's welcome screen, at prices of at least $600,000 for a two-month campaign. Does that mean a cheaper, ad-supported Kindle Fire ...

The time for talking has passed, and the time for buying has begun. We're tracking what could be one of the biggest IPOs in American history--and what will almost certainly be the biggest tech IPO ever--in ...

By now you might have heard of this little thing called Facebook's IPO. Check out links to our coverage so far.

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No more need for price speculation, folks. Facebook just put out amendment S-1 filing number 8, which sets its IPO price at $38.00 a share. Get your checkbooks ready.

With the rise of social platforms and emergence of new mobile and connected devices, we have entered the post-search world and companies are finding ways to organize information around "knowledge" ...

Netflix isn't satisfied with Comcast's announcement that the broadband provider is going to raise its bandwidth cap from 250GB to 300GB per month. The real issue, the video service said, is Comcast's unwillingness ...

With huge anticipation around Facebook's IPO, we decided look at how other digital media companies that have gone public over the past year have fared. Most have had a bumpy ride -- and only one has had ...

An agreement between Viacom and Time Warner Cable ends a year-long court fight and lets the No. 2 cable service stream channels like MTV and Comedy Central on iPads. But will it finally kick-start the ...

Ki Mae Heussner is the newest member of GigaOM New York team. Along with Ryan Kim and our PaidContent colleagues, we are ramping up coverage in the big city. Our focus is the startup ecosystem, changing ...

Now that Pinterest has a big new investor and a $1.5 billion valuation, it needs to keep users engaged. One good way to do that is through e-mail. So the image-sharing site has started sending users a ...

Now that Pinterest has a big new investor and a $1.5 billion valuation, it needs to keep users engaged. One good way to do that is through e-mail.

Many self-published authors are still turning to literary agents to sell foreign rights to their books. In a move that could cut some agents out, Amazon now allows those authors to distribute their print ...

Many self-published authors are still turning to literary agents to sell foreign rights to their books. In a move that could cut some agents out, Amazon now allows those authors to distribute their print ...

San Fransciso-based online video course startup Udemy today released the salaries of the top 10 instructors on the 2-year-old platform. All of them earned more than $50,000 on their own and the top individual ...

Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: paidContent 2012: Just a few days to go (paidContent) ...Media General to sell most of its newspapers to Warren Buffett’s group (Poynter) ...

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten wants to plug Pinterest in to purchasing, after leading a $100 million investment in the social pinboard curator.

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten wants to plug Pinterest in to purchasing, after leading a $100 million investment in the social pinboard curator.

As much as things change, one goal remains the same: the creation and evolution of sustainable business models that will support quality media, entertainment and information across platforms -- and paidContent ...

When will the floodgates open? It feels like an eternity that the casino industry and makers of games like Zynga Poker have been waiting for states to flip a legal switch that will let them turn virtual ...

Speaking at an investor event in Boston Wednesday, Netflix CFO David Wells said online viewing of Nickelodeon content probably has very little to do with the double-digit ratings drops on the linear Viacom ...

The latest hires in the tech and media industry.

Google is trying to encourage searchers to spend more time on its pages while also hoping they'll continue to think of the search company as their first destination when looking for information. A new ...

Facebook's advertising woes, including the highly publicized departure of General Motors, reinforce the fact that while Facebook may function like a social network, on the business side it looks almost ...

Today Intel is launching a Flipboard-like digital magazine, "iQ by Intel," that aims to attract "a younger audience" through a blend of employee-curated content and original stories. ...

Today Intel is launching a Flipboard-like digital magazine, "iQ by Intel," that aims to attract "a younger audience" through a blend of employee-curated content and original stories. ...

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Fotolia is taking a $150 million private investment as Shutterstock goes public to raise $115 million. Coincidence? Crowdsourced-photo rivals are bulking up to challenge microstock's market-leading iStockPhoto....

As cable's most powerful programming brand, you'd expect that ESPN would spend the day of its upfront presentation bolstering its still-very-lucrative linear TV model. But the Disney-owned sports media ...

BBC News & Knowledge general manager Phil Fearnley tells paidContent BBC Online has conceived Olympics Web, connected TV, mobile and tablet products as platforms for re-use on future large events.

NBC may have been criticised for not streaming enough Olympics Games - but, in the UK, the BBC plans to stream all 2,500 hours of this summer's London 2012 events across web, mobile, tablet and connected ...

NBC may have been criticised for not streaming enough Olympics Games - but, in the UK, the BBC plans to stream all 2,500 hours of this summer's London 2012 events across web, mobile, tablet and connected ...

To address the fragmentation exploding across the digital advertising market, Luma Partners founder and CEO Terence Kawaja floated the possibility of an operating system for digital ad companies to use ...

Brian Sugar and his wife, Lisa, have built a women's media and e-commerce empire that grew out of the company's flagship celebrity site, Pop Sugar. We caught up with Brian to learn more about how he made ...

Brian Sugar and his wife, Lisa, have built a women's media and e-commerce empire that grew out of the company's flagship celebrity site, Pop Sugar. We caught up with Brian to learn more about how he made ...

Brian Sugar and his wife, Lisa, have built a women's media and e-commerce empire that grew out of the company's flagship celebrity site, Pop Sugar. We caught up with Brian to learn more about how he made ...

Twitter describes itself as an information network rather than a media entity, but it is making some interesting moves into the content business, including hiring a sports producer to curate content and ...

In the mid-1990s, DoubleClick co-founder and CEO Kevin O’Connor developed a platform for data-driven advertising. With his latest startup, FindTheBest, he’s aiming to do the same thing for content.

Unlimited-access digital music services are racing to beat iTunes - and each other - in new countries each week. Our map breaks down the world's digital music market, country by country.

In an interview about the future of the media industry, Google's head of news products Richard Gingras said that newspapers are like old-fashioned internet portals such as AOL and Yahoo, and that unless ...

A survey of the top 10 publicly traded cable, satellite and telco TV services providers reveals video subscriber growth of only around 494,000 in the first quarter. First-quarter subscriber growth among ...

Nearly four years after the process began, the New York Times Co. finally has sold its remaining shares in the Green Monster, the New England Sports Network and other sports asset. Initial investment: ...

Nearly four years after the process began, the New York Times Co. finally has sold its remaining shares in the Green Monster, the New England Sports Network and other sports assets. Initial investment: ...

Verizon Communications has had a history of standing up against publishers seeking to subpoena information about its subscribers and their downloading habits, so it's not a big surprise to see Big Red ...