disruption
Vevo CEO: The war on piracy is like the war on drugs…’unwinnable’
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The Next Web is at the Guardian Changing Media Summit this week, a conference promising to deliver insights from the organisations and individuals capitalising on disruption within the digital content space. You can monitor all our coverage here. Following on from BSkyB’s CEO Jeremy Darroch announcing its new Now TV...
Yahoo Mail suffers disruption, outage
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Yahoo's e-mail service appears to be down for some people, with many taking to Twitter to voice their complaints. It's unclear how widespread the problem is, with some people still able to access their accounts....
If Facebook dies (and it might), its killer will be born mobile
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Remember when Facebook was the hot new thing on the Web? Now it's king of a dying medium, and Molly Wood doubts it has the mobile chops to survive the disruption that's shaking the entire Internet. [Read more]...
Bankiwi offers a fresh way for UK kids to manage their money
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As we saw at a recent SeedCamp event, the financial sector is ripe for disruption. Today Leetchi, the group payments application has released a new product to help shake up the business of finance with a focus on UK youth finance management. Bankiwi is a pocket money system where parents or...
BSkyB announces Now TV, offering pay-as-you-go Internet TV to the masses
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The Next Web is at the Guardian Changing Media Summit this week, a conference promising to deliver insights from the organisations and individuals capitalising on disruption within the digital content space. You can monitor all our coverage here. Jeremy Darroch, CEO of BSkyB, was the first keynote of the two-day...
Social Publisher Wattpad Raises $17.3M From Khosla, Jerry Yang, Others
techcrunch.com
Who says reading is dead? It’s certainly doing well for social publishing startup Wattpad, which just raised a big $17.3 million Series B. The funding was led by Khosla Ventures, with Khosla’s Andrew Chung (who, in the press release, says the publishing industry is “ripe for digital-native disruption”) joining the...
Our Source Has Seen The Apple HDTV, Here’s What It Looks Like
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We have a source who claims to have seen a prototype Apple high-definition television set in action, indicating that Apple is readying the long-awaited device for market. According to our source, who has asked to remain strictly anonymous, the Apple HDTV looks like Apple’s current lineup of LED-backlit Cinema...
Ebooks: the giant disruption
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At some point the ebook will become the publishing market's primary engine. Authors will go digital-first and the most successful will land a traditional book deal with legacy publishersIn the past 12 months, I've never bought fewer printed books – and I've never read so many books. I have switched...
Disassembling Android: Chinks in Google's Mobile Armor
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This is Part One of a two-part series on Disassembling Android. Android conquered the world in 2011. Hundreds of thousands of users activated Google’s mobile operating system every day, a growth rate unprecedented in any era of computing. This extraordinary strength has carried into 2012, but Android is not...
Even Ikea is getting into the TV business
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Uppleva is Swedish for “Ripe for disruption”:...
EU Cybercrime Bill Targets Anonymous: Makes It A Criminal Offense To Conduct 'Cyber Attack'
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While we're still sorting through the crazy cybersecurity bill proposals in the US, it appears that some in the EU are going through a similar process. The EU Parliament's "Civil Liberties Committee" has approved a legislative proposal concerning "cyber attacks," which appears to ramp up criminal penalties for all sorts...
Posterous is Joining the Flock at Twitter
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Big news: Posterous has been acquired by Twitter!The opportunities in front of Twitter are exciting, and we couldn’t be happier about bringing our team’s expertise to a product that reaches hundreds of millions of users around the globe. Plus, the people at Twitter are genuinely nice folks who share...
Web suffers weekend of weakness
www.bbc.co.uk
A double whammy of disruption saw several major websites and services go offline over the weekend....
Pay (less) to publish: ambitious journal aims to disrupt scholarly publishing
arstechnica.com
Can these two men upend publishing? PeerJ's Peter Binfeld and Jason Hoyt. The push to open access to scientific publications has seen some remarkable successes this year. After publishers appeared to over-reach by pushing to revoke the US government's existing open access policy, researchers started boycotting one of the...
PhoneDeck Is A Game Changer For Small Businesses, Divorce Attorneys
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I sold mortgages over the phone in a previous life. That involved calling over 100 people a day using an archaic but functional web-based phone system. That system cost the company a fortune to implement and required a dedicated support staff. PhoneDeck does most of it for free. And it...
Yahoo prepares to launch its ‘TV companion app’ IntoNow in the UK
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The Next Web is at the Guardian Changing Media Summit this week, a conference promising to deliver insights from the organisations and individuals capitalising on disruption within the digital content space. You can monitor all our coverage here. Up this afternoon was, James Wildman, Managing Director and VP for sales...
Boundless Learning raises $8 million to disrupt the textbook industry with free online course books
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As college tuition costs increase, the cost of buying a semester’s worth of textbooks poses an added burden to university students. That coupled with the physical weight of textbooks, and the fact that many science and technology books are likely to be outdated within a few years, paints a picture...
Twitter has acquired shortform blogging company Posterous, Spaces will remain up and running for now
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Blogging and sharing company Posterous has announced via its company blog that it has been snagged by Twitter in an apparent ‘acqui-hire’, with Twitter interested mostly in the people, not the product. Various Posterous engineers, product managers and more will join the Twitter team and the existing ‘Spaces’ that users...
Twitter has acquired shortform blogging company Posterous, Spaces will remain up and running for now
Steve Jobs was right: Dropbox is a feature, not a product
pandodaily.com
I’ve always been a big fan and committed user of Dropbox. Over the last couple years the handy file-sync app has gotten me out of many scrapes—when I need to access six-month-old interview notes when I’m out of town, it’s always a thrill to find them in my Dropbox. Along...
Forget the business case, open online courses are about learning
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Will Massive Open Online Courses replace the conventional system? Probably not, but they can offer something different, says Bonnie StewartEver since MITx was unveiled last December, futurists have been predicting what it might all mean for higher education. They're calling it "The Great Disruption", a brand name worthy of Nostradamus....
4G disruption threatens millions
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When 4G services start rolling out next year, two million homes will find it affects their TV signal, Freeview boss warns....
‘Anonymous’ hackers plan to shut down the Internet this Saturday
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Notorious hacker group Anonymous has previously stated its intentions to shutdown the Internet on Saturday, March 31st, as a form of protest. “To protest SOPA, Wallstreet, our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun, on March 31,...
RIP Yellow Pages? Phone books re-shape themselves for life after listings
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Time was, only strong man competition entrants would exert themselves to tear up phone directories for Now publishers themselves are this month twisting their books and businesses in to new shapes, to find relevance amid ongoing digital disruption… Yell Group: the Yell.com, U.S. Yellow Book and UK Yellow Pages operator...
Mobile Payment Solution LevelUp Now Seeing $1M Per Month In Transactions; Launches API
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With increasing smartphone adoption and with users in turn becoming more and more comfortable with using their mobile devices to do things traditionally reserved for the Web or desktops, everything is going mobile. When you look at mobile transactions, paying for services or goods with your phone, there is a...
TransferWise Raises $1.3M From Index, Others For The Next Disruption In Money Transfer: Crowdsourcing
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If you’ve ever had to transfer money from one currency to another, you know that it can be a frustratingly pricey business. Now a new company, TransferWise, has raised seed funding totaling $1.3 million to tackle that problem. TransferWise describes itself as the “Skype of money transfer” because it allows...
TransferWise Raises $1.3M From Index, Others For The Next Disruption In Money Transfer: Crowdsourcing
Virgin Mobile USA's text and data services are out across the USA
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As customers of Sprint's contract-averse MVNO have probably noticed, Virgin Mobile has been having a national outage of its text and data services for at least several hours now. While we're hearing from some customers it's been out all day, acknowledgement of the disruption only just became Facebook official. There's...
Twitter has acquired shortform blogging company Posterous, Spaces will remain up and running for now
thenextweb.com
Blogging and sharing company Posterous has announced via its company blog that it has been snagged by Twitter in an apparent ‘acqui-hire’. Various Posterous engineers, product managers and more will join the Twitter team and the existing ‘Spaces’ that users have will remain up and running for now. Posterous founder...
Twitter has acquired shortform blogging company Posterous, Spaces will remain up and running for now
Neutrinos shot through 780 feet of stone, spell out their name
arstechnica.com
A group of researchers communicated a message through 780 feet of solid stone using a beam of neutrinos, the University of Rochester announced Wednesday. When the message came out the other side, the scientists were able to read it perfectly: it said, perhaps unimaginatively, "Neutrino." Neutrinos are nearly massless...
GetTaxi Raises Capital in Race to Launch in New York
pandodaily.com
It’s a crowded market out there for taxi disrupters. There’s Hailo, there’s Uber, There’s Taxi Magic, TaxiPal, TaxiSelect… They’re solving the taxi problem. A giant market. Ripe for disruption. We get it. GetTax is one with a market is slightly more ambitious twist on the model that of Uber or Hailo. Not...
UK 4G networks will disrupt TV signals, at a cost of £180m to mobile operators
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UK regulators haven’t even announced the auction date for Britain’s 4G network coverage, and already it is costing operators hundreds of millions of pounds to ensure the new wireless networks don’t interfere with television signals, reports The Telegraph. Communications Minister Ed Vaizey said that a fund has already been set up...
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