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Kindle's Gift For The Holidays? Native PDF

Updated: Until today one of the biggest differences between the Kindle 2 and its top wireless e-reader competitors—aside from sheer availability during the holidays—was the inability to use the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) device for native PDFs. Some PDFs ...

From STACI D. KRAMER, paidContent.org,  24 Nov 2009

Twitter's Stone: No Sale But IPO, Alternatives Are Possible

Twitter’s generous investors—the latest round was $100 million—may be pleased to hear that “2010 is really going to be the revenue year” for the high-profile startup. Or so Biz Stone, one of three cofounders, told reporters at Oxford University Monday, ...

From STACI D. KRAMER, paidContent.org,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Biz Stone

Armstrong On AOL's New Branding And 'Very, Very, Very Inexpensive' Campaign

For instance, if you just glance at the new AOL logo— ‘Aol.’ —about all the lowercase lettering suggests is a complete break with the notion of AOL as acronym and the period at the end is just that. But to the man leading AOL down the homestretch to ...

From STACI D. KRAMER, paidContent.org,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: America Online,  Time Warner Inc.,  Yahoo!,  Google Inc.

AOL's New Branding Trades Iconic Running Man For Goldfish

AOL (NYSE: TWX) just released its new branding look—one consistent typography showing “Aol” with different “reveals” from various artists. The new identity fully debuts when AOL rings the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange Dec. 10. Images here; ...

From STACI D. KRAMER, paidContent.org,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: America Online,  New York Stock Exchange,  NYSE,  Tim Armstrong

ESPN.com's Bill Simmons Gets A Twitter Time Out, Sort Of

Part of the joy of following Bill Simmons on Twitter is the feeling that he doesn’t hold back—that, plus not only he can be snarky as all get out when the occasion demands, his tweets, snarky or not, are usually spot on. (He has one of the highest ...

From STACI D. KRAMER, paidContent.org,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  ESPN,  Bill Simmons,  NYSE

SEC Watch: New DirecTV CEO Could Make $35.5 Million (And Then Some)

Michael White, the PepsiCo vet who takes over as president and CEO of DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) Jan. 1, could make more than $35 million during his three-year contract, according to an SEC filing. His base salary is $1.5 million a year with up to 200 percent ...

From STACI D. KRAMER, paidContent.org,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael White,  NYSE

SEC Watch: Skype By The Numbers

On the balance sheet, Skype has $50 million in cash (the same amount as the debt financing from eBay), $37.5 million in accounts receivable and roughly $1.9 billion in goodwill. That’s against the $2 billion in liabilities, included deferred revenue ...

From STACI D. KRAMER, paidContent.org,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Skype,  eBay Inc.

SEC Watch: Activist Hedge Fund Harbinger Cuts NYT Stake To 14.6 Percent

Harbinger Capital Partners continues to slice its stake of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT). Co., selling its second batch of stock in two months. The activist hedge fund that spent more than a half-billion accumulating nearly 20 percent of the ...

From STACI D. KRAMER, paidContent.org,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  NYSE

Fox Sports Net Quietly Rolls Out A Dozen Local Sites

While ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) have been grabbing headlines for their online local sports expansions, Fox Sports Net has been rolling out the soft launch of a dozen local sites over the past couple of weeks. So quietly that it took an ...

From STACI D. KRAMER, paidContent.org,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: ESPN,  Comcast,  NYSE,  Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

DJ's Hinton: WSJ Has 30,000 Kindle Subs

At the current $15 a month, the WSJ Kindle subscriptions represent about $5.4 million annually. But it’s not that easy: the subscription price and the revenue split with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) shifted earlier this year; the price increased 50 percent from ...

From STACI D. KRAMER, paidContent.org,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rupert Murdoch,  Dow Jones,  NYSE

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