Amazon: Kindle strong, digital media disappoints

Amazon: Kindle strong, digital media disappoints
Rethink Wireless
While there had been fears about volumes and margins for the Kindle Fire, the Kindle device family trebled its sales, while the returns on its huge digital media investment were slower than anticipated. The retailer reported earnings of $177m or 38 ...

The Future of Learning in a Connected World: Digital Media & Learning ...
MarketWatch (press release)
How a group of Muslim girls is using digital media to tell the world what their lives are like. -- Youth who are designing and using videogames to explore critical social issues like climate change and human rights. -- Ways in which social media is ...

Mastering the Digital Media Campaign
Flip the Media
Unfortunately, too many marketing professionals or “hip” executives think that building up one digital media element will make their campaign successful. Like a perfectly tuned bicycle wheel, the spokes of a well crafted digital media campaign need to ...

Flip the Media

High digital media usage and device ownership make affluents a tempting ...
Media Newsline
“It helps matters for luxury brands that affluents are avid users of digital media, making them less elusive than conventional wisdom might suggest. However, this puts a premium on luxury brands' sometimes shaky expertise in using social, ...

Digital Media Summit set for Saturday (10:02 am)
Las Cruces Sun-News
LAS CRUCES - Digital Media Summit VI - a day of information exchange and discussions - is scheduled for 9:30 am to 12:30 pm on Saturday, Feb. 4. The event will take place at Doña Ana Community College's East Campus at 2800 Sonoma Ranch Blvd., ...

New York Area Digital Media Startup Competing for Entry into the McCormick ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Ruth J. Morrison, Founder, What's The 411 Networks, a digital media startup (www.whatsthe411.com), is counting herself among 400 women vying for entry into the Robert McCormick Foundation's New Media Women Entrepreneurs Program.

Advertisers Get Real-Time Metadata in Digital Out-of-Home Media With the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The rapid growth of the industry is attracting advertisers due to its ability to target and engage consumers with rich digital media. However, buyers were finding it difficult to create media plans due to the fragmentation caused by fast industry ...

Digital Media briefs
Medical Marketing and Media
Quintiles formed a Digital Patient unit, aimed at combining its online communities and digital expertise for clinical trial recruitment, among other things. Digital Patient will let firms recruit patients “by combing the digital universe” for patients ...

Dubai advertising agency Flip Media attracts Publicis
The National
One of the world's largest advertising groups has bought the digital-media agency Flip Media, which is based in Dubai. The Paris-listed Publicis Group, which controls advertising agencies such as Leo Burnett and Saatchi & Saatchi, ...

The National

BW Featured in Story on Alt Media's Digital (R)evolution
Boise Weekly
Boise Weekly is featured in a story out Tuesday from Net News Check (a news outlet with a lens on digital media) in a story about how alt weeklies are evolving online. As you'll read in the story, not all alt weeklies are as committed to digital media ...

Boise Weekly

Google testing out free digital media training pilot program in India
AGBeat
Without much fanfare, and so far, no press, Google has launched “Women Entrepreneurs on the Web,” a community they have launched and are currently being pilot tested in India to offer women-owned business the equivalent of free web and social media ...

YANGAROO's DMDS Launches "Rising Star" Music Competition
Sacramento Bee
1, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ - YANGAROO Inc, the industry's leading secure digital media distribution company, today announced the launch of its online music contest "DMDS Rising Star." This initiative will support the tens of thousands of independent ...

P&G to cut 1600 staff after CEO discovers digital media is free
Marketing magazine Australia
“In the digital space, with things like Facebook and Google and others, we find that the return on investment of the advertising, when properly designed, when the big idea is there, can be much more efficient. One example is ourOld Spicecampaign, ...

TripAdvisor censured over 'trusted reviews'
Financial Times
By Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent TripAdvisor has been banned by the UK's advertising regulator from claiming that its users' hotel write-ups are “reviews you can trust” from “real travellers”, after complaints that the site does not verify ...

Financial Times

Theres gold in them hills
ITWeb
Digital media companies have forgotten about the little country with the big wallet on the southern tip of Africa. By Simon Dingle, Independent writer, broadcaster, consultant and speaker. South Africans don't need reminding that when it comes to ...

Digital Technology: Problem of plenty
Business Today
If you're a tech freak like me, then you must own several portable computing and digital media devices. A smart phone, a pocket-sized music and video player, a laptop, a net book for travelling and a touch screen tablet are now standard-issue gear for ...

Business Today

Premature exit for TopTV CEO?
ITWeb
Embattled pay-television operator TopTV is sweating under the spotlight once again, as rumours of a shake-up within its holding company, On Digital Media (ODM), abound. Vino Govender, CEO of ODM since 2007, says reports that he has been ousted from his ...

ITWeb

Rise of electronic media prompts officials to rethink library spaces
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
Libraries have in recent years begun to focus more on expanding the role of digital media, community use space, and providing internet access, which may change the way libraries are designed. Several library projects are on hold while staff reshape how ...

Games and digital experts sought by Creative England
How Do
We are now looking to further strengthen this team with professionals who are at the leading edge of developments in the games and digital media sectors and who understand the challenges and opportunities facing independent creative businesses outside ...

Enhanced Safari To Go App Brings 3G iPad Support to Safari Books Online ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SEBASTOPOL, Calif., Feb 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Safari(R) Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com ), the leading on-demand digital library for technology, digital media, and business professionals, today announced that its free Safari To Go iPad ...

Australia's richest person moves on media giant Fairfax
AFP
Rinehart had been seeking a further 9.9 percent stake in the newspaper, radio anddigital media firm in which she already held more than 4.0 percent to become its largest shareholder, the Australian Financial Review said.

AFP

Discovery taps Vehovsky for digital role: Exec to manage digital initiatives
Chicago Tribune
Vehovsky, whose current title is Executive Vice President, Digital Media Strategy and Client Solutions, will manage a pipeline of digital initiatives working with Discovery's leadership. Vehovsky came to Discovery as exec VP of strategy and research ...

Under Armour Amplifies "The Ultimate Intern Team" Digital Search for 2012
PR Web (press release)
“With the success of our first ”Ultimate Intern” search in 2011, we wanted to continue to evolve and expand the program to reflect Under Armour's growth and the ever-progressing world of digital media,” said Dan Mecchi, Under Armour, Director, ...

Amazon shares fall as outlook disappoints
Reuters
On Tuesday, the online retailer warned that it may post an operating loss for the first quarter, as it spends heavily on new categories like tablets and on infrastructure for digital media and cloud computing services. "While we had suspected Amazon's ...

Vyopta to Attend Annual TCEA Conference in Austin, Texas
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Vyopta Incorporated, a pioneer developer of video applications for Cisco business video technology (Cisco TelePresence, Media Experience and Digital Media Products) announced today they will be exhibiting at the Texas Computer Education Association ...

What Schools Are Really Blocking When They Block Social Media
Huffington Post (blog)
We decided to let the student teams pick which digital media project they wanted to pursue. Some students elected to team together to produce a series of Public Service Announcements (PSAs) that target teens. These students liked the idea of using ...

Campus host digital-media conference | KRQE.com Blogs
By Bill Diven
The program in the East Campus auditorium of the Dona Ana Community College is titled “Digerati: Encounters with Digital Media” and runs 1-5 p.m.. Admission is free, and tickets can be reserved online. Featured speakers include Barbara ...
KRQE.com Blogs

Digital media forum : Global mindset – local innovation in the MENA ...
By ajit
Having spoken at many events globally, The Digital media forum in Dubai was special because it created unique blend of innovation by combining global ideas with local innovation. The event was the second highest trending topic on twitter ...
Open Gardens

Journal of Digital Media ManagementDAM Foundation Creating the ...
By digitalassetman
Journal of Digital Media Management does not solicit advertising or publish advertorial and every article is peer-reviewed by its expert Editorial Board to ensure the Journal: Focuses on end users' concerns; Publishes real-life case studies ...
Dam Foundation

PitchIt Challenge offers $50K for digital media startups | WeMedia.com
By Andrew Nachison
Calling all media, technology and social dreamers: The 2012 We Media PitchIt Challenge is open to entries. The challenge offers $50000 in seed funding to help turn ideas for innovative media and technology startups into something real.
WeMedia.com

Saskatchewan Digital Media Developers Get Banff Media Festival ...
By Tami
Saskatchewan Digital Media Developers Get Banff Media Festival Opportunity.
Village Gamer

Digital Media &amp - ITbriefing
The Future of Learning in a Connected World: Digital Media & Learning Conference in San Francisco Draws Hundreds of Researchers, Technologists, Educators.
ITbriefing.net

Recommended Links of the Week | Alex Gamela - Digital Media ...
By Alex Gamela
This is a weekly digest of my favorite posts I collected on my Google Reader, Delicious et al. If you want to receive them almost in real time just subscribe.
Alex Gamela - Digital Media & Journalism

COFA Annual 2011 Videos: Art, Digital Media and Design | COFA ...
By Andrew Langcake
Join COFA's graduating students at the 2011 COFA Annual as they discuss their works and their time at COFA. Every year The ANNUAL launches the next generation of fine artists, media artists and designers. This massive exhibition features ...
COFA Online Gateway

Happy Digital Learning Day! |
By ExploreCreateShare
We've assembled an ecosystem of organizations with a shared ethos: that learning doesn't just happen in school, that youth can thrive when offered the opportunity to explore topics that interest them most, that digital media and technology ...

Join Discovery Education at TCEA! – DEN Blog Network
By Lindsay Hopkins
During this session we'll explore a variety of ways to use web-based tools and digital media to enhance your instruction tomorrow! We'll learn how to use these tools to check for understanding and differentiate by content, process, and product.
DEN Blog Network

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo talks censorship | Digital Media - CNET ...
In a live interview, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo talked about why Twitter announced it would withhold tweets when they violate a country's local laws. Read this ...
news.cnet.com/.../twitter-ceo-dick-costolo-talks-censorship/?...

Digital Media: Hot or Cool? Nicole Starosielski / Miami University ...
Digital Media: Hot or Cool? Nicole Starosielski / Miami University.
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