Conde Nast Brings iPad Presentation App to the Enterprise [Mashable]

Magazine publisher Conde Nast has launched an enterprise edition of
Idea Flight, its app for group presentations on the iPad, as well as
several notable upgrades to the original version.

http://mashable.com/2011/08/23/ideaflight-ipad-app/

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Five Years in, Twitter Seeks PR Help [AdAge]

Even social-media companies need a dose of good old-fashioned PR.
Twitter is on the hunt for an agency to help it through its next stage
of growth, Ad Age has learned. Twitter is currently in talks with a
mix of large and small PR firms with offices in New York, where the
company has just opened a new office on Madison Avenue, executives
familiar with the matter say.

http://adage.com/article/agency-news/twitter-seeks-public-relations-year-run/...

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Google May Pursue Acquisitions in Southeast Asia, Following LivingSocial [Bloomberg]

Google Inc. (GOOG) may pursue technology assets to expand in Southeast
Asia after Internet operators including Tencent Holdings Ltd. (700)
and LivingSocial acquired companies to add services and users in the
region. “We’ll continue to innovate ourselves, but where it makes
sense, we will look out for opportunities,” Julian Persaud, managing
director for Google in Southeast Asia, said in a video conference from
Bangkok today, without elaborating.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-24/google-may-acquire-internet-firms-in...

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Zite Going Corporate As CNN Takes Over [appadvice]

Zite for iPad, which arrived on the scene earlier this year, is being
acquired by CNN according to Tech Vibes. Launched in March by
Vancouver, Canada-based Worio, Zite is a free personalized news
service that keeps track of a user’s reading patterns. Then, an
algorithm formulates future news stories based on these patterns. The
end result is a constantly-changing news reader specifically geared
towards the individual user.

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/08/zite-going-corporate-as-cnn-takes-over

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Daily Dot Launches as Community Newspaper for the Web [Mashable]

An online newspaper billing itself as “the hometown newspaper of the
World Wide Web” made its debut Tuesday in a daring bid to prove that
there’s still more of the social web to cover. Under the direction of
former Valleywag editor Owen Thomas, The Daily Dot pledges to cover
the biggest online communities — think Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
Tumblr, Reddit and Etsy — in the style of a hometown newspaper.

http://mashable.com/2011/08/23/daily-dot/

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Report: As Tablets Market Grows, Paper Media Will Have Steep Decline [PCMag]

As print goes increasingly digital, many wonder if the growth of the
tablet and e-reader space mean the death of traditional paper media. A
new report from RISI, a company that monitors the paper industry, says
it doesn’t look good for print.
RISI predicts that combined tablet and e-reader sales will hit 195
million units by 2015.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391553,00.asp

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Magazines Flex Their Apps -- But Will They Make Any Money From Them? [TheWrap]

The revenue for iPad apps has yet to materialize. Neither Conde Nast,
nor Time nor Hearst has provided figures for what they're making off
their iPad apps. They have released subscription numbers, which, while
growing, remain miniscule.

http://www.thewrap.com/media/article/magazines-wrestle-best-app-strategy-30204

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