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Building a better paywall: strategies for monetizing news content
Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.Report: Monetizing Digital ContentWho and what to watch in the new era of the living roomConnected world: the...
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The paywall debate: monetizing news in the digital era
The transition from print to web-based publishing has been rocky for many traditional newspaper and magazine publishers. While online readership has soared, online advertising revenue is a fraction of...
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Super Bowl of eSports proves more popular than cable
The numbers are in, and Major League Gaming‘s Pro Circuit championship tournament in Providence, R.I. proved to be one of the bigger events streamed on the Internet. The three-day tournament, which...
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Law of large numbers: the issue behind Facebook’s IPO
According to some, Facebook’s IPO — which could value the company as high as $100 billion — could be the most popular tech-stock issue since Google went public in 2004. And with close to a billion...
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Xbox Live: Worth a bundle
Apart of what it would do for Microsoft’s Xbox games business, the purported new hardware-and-services bundle, if successful, could hold significant implications for its broader digital living room...
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SoftLayer says its cloud beats Amazon in online gaming. Here’s why.
It might not be immediately obvious, but online games are a bear on data center infrastructure. To keep players interested, games have to be fast and responsive, they are often played simultaneously...
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How to compete with Facebook in 2013
Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.Social-TV apps and consumer behaviorConnected world: the consumer technology revolutionNewNet Q4: Platform...
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Online gaming power Steam disses Windows 8, pushes Linux
Steam, the popular online gaming platform from Valve Software, made its name running and selling games for Windows then Mac. and Linux. But now it’s putting its thumb on the scale in favor of Linux...
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Giddyup! Horse betting site DerbyJackpot lets casual gamers play the ponies...
Bosses are going to love this one. A website goes live today that lets people go to racetracks across the country and make real bets using a goofy, cartoon-like interface. The arrival of DerbyJackpot,...
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Why Nevada’s first online gambling license is more symbol than substance
The state of Nevada granted a first-of-its-kind license to a U.K. company last week to operate online poker games in the state. The move will help return internet gambling to American shores but,...
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Where the next-generation console fits in today’s video game market
The console era is over — or so a growing number of game-industry executives would have us believe. While social and mobile gaming have taken a sizable share of the video games market, there is room...
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How to compete with Facebook in 2013
Facebook, with its network-effect-driven scale, dominates the social media landscape. LinkedIn and Twitter follow at a distant second and third. This market will continue to be defined by these...
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Amazon Introduces Mac Download Store, a Mac App Store Competitor
Amazon unveiled its Mac Download Store today: a web-based competitor for the Mac App Store. The store provides direct downloads of Mac software directly from your browser, and ships with some marquee...
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Intel Deal, Universal Controller Bring OnLive to Connected TVs
OnLive is a few steps closer to bringing its streaming video game service to new TVs and Blu-ray players, thanks to a partnership with Intel to add its service to chip sets and the release of a...
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OnLive Player will be the iPad’s answer to the gaming console
Nintendo is making a home console that incorporates a tablet, and the Sony PlayStation Vita borrows liberally from this generation of smartphones. But thanks to OnLive, gamers may not have to go...
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Video gamers: the secret stars of live streaming
Forget live music: One of the hottest trends in live streaming is competitive gaming, also known as e-sports. Gaming competitions attract hundreds of thousands of simultaneous viewers, and the events...
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Microsoft’s Xbox Live platform passed a significant milestone last month. It was then that entertainment apps passed multiplayer gaming as the most popular use for the online platform. Total monthly...
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After toying with the idea of going download-only for the next generation of PlayStation console, scheduled for release next year, Sony has decided to include an optical drive after all, the Wall...
View ArticleSocial networkers survey: how to compete with Facebook in 2013
Social networking adoption is currently a two-tiered landscape: Fifty-seven percent of consumers use just one social network while 43 percent belong to more than one. We call these two groups “single...
View ArticleWith PlayStation 4, Sony seeks to balance past and future
In designing the new PlayStation 4 game console, Sony seems to have learned some hard lessons from its experience with PlayStation 3. As Mike Wolf noted, adopting the ready-made x86/AMD architecture...
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