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Versión en español aquí. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos isn’t the only e-commerce billionaire making news with acquisitions. Jack Ma, chairman of China’s e-commerce leader, Alibaba, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in a Twitter-like microblogging service and a mapping service. Both of these giants have been bolting on companies that can help them gain synergies […]
Read More »Yoichi Nishimura (photo by Yang Shaogong) Versión en español aquí. Japan’s newspapers expanded their role of serving the community by using social media in the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. Yoichi Nishimura, former managing editor of Asahi Shimbun, with daily circulation of 8 million, said news organizations cooperated to share information about missing persons […]
Read More »Catalina Morales de FayerWayer ha escrito una entrada sumamente interesante y relevante, dado el lanzamiento de Facebook como empresa cotizada en la bolsa: “Al ver cómo creció Facebook y llegó a ser la mega empresa que es hoy, nos preguntamos ¿qué le falta a Latinoamérica para poder tener un ‘emprendimiento’ tipo Facebook? Le hicimos esta pregunta a los […]
Read More »Lately I have been teaching my students at Tsinghua University how to verify information they get in press releases, hear from news sources and see on the web. This is my third entry on the subject. Crap detector Part I: Credibility as business modelCrap Detector Part II: Mr. Daisey’s Apple Factory The website journalism.co.uk has […]
Read More »A new Facebook app launched by The Guardian in England could signal a major challenge to Google’s dominance of referral traffic to news websites. Google used to drive 40 percent of The Guardian’s traffic, but social networks referred more than search several times in February, said Tanya Cordrey, director of digital development at Guardian News […]
Read More »English version here.Hace poco, el prestigioso diario The Wall Street Journal ha reconocido la importancia de desarrollar su presencia en Facebook con su nueva aplicación, WSJ Social. “No podemos limitarnos a esperar a que los usuarios vengan a nuestros sitios”, le dijo Maya Baratz al Nieman Lab. Para leer más, pulsa aquí.
Read More »Versión en español aquí.Not long ago the Wall Street Journal, which thrives inside its paywall fortress, recognized the importance of opening the gates a crack with its new Facebook application, WSJ Social. “You can’t rely on users coming to you anymore,” said Maya Baratz, head of new products for the Journal, in an interview with Nieman […]
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