As tablets become more of a increasingly popular household fixture, the companies that package content for the devices continue make their own upgrades. Flipboard, often seen as the top dog among news aggregation apps, recently added an iPhone app, multiple accounts and larger social media footprint. Meantime, some new apps…

Just last month, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) rolled out its Kindle Fire, the first Kindle designed as a full media device—not an e-reader with some frills. That announcement was followed by Kobo’s announcement of the Vox. And, as expected, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS)—which already had a touchscreen color e-reader that…

paidContent Entertainment: Everything Everywhere is this Thursday, November 3rd in West Hollywood. We’ve tweaked the program, the format, and the panelists to keep the topics timely and the day moving. What you can expect is everything you’ve come to expect from paidContent-including forward-thinking discussions and high-level networking. If you haven’t…

Join us for paidContent Entertainment: Everything Everywhere event on November 3rd in West Hollywood, our one-day, fast-paced conference that explores the nexus of digital media and the entertainment industry. This interactive, single-stage event will take an incisive look at the biggest challenges facing in the entertainment world. In this constantly…

Times Of India’s online division is getting mobile and internet highlights of English soccer’s Premier League, after cutting a deal with online sports rights operator and broadcaster Perform Group.

One of iPad’s flagship apps wants to help publishers sell ads by flipping back to familiar old print rules. “One of the big problems with the web is that it scrolls,” Flipboard CEO Mike McCue told our recent paidContent Advertising conference. » Watch the video of McCue’s Q&A with paidContent UK…

From Flipboard and Aol Editions, to Ongo and News.me, the rise of tablets and apps is changing how we gather and consume content.  A couple of apps have grabbed the headlines in recent months. Flipboard has closed over $60 million in funding and has a $200 million valuation. More recently,…

With newspaper revenues in a downward spiral in the U.S., it’s easy to forget that there’s one area where daily tabloids and broadsheets are still thriving: India. While the NYTimes.com’s new India Ink blog is an online only, it does suggest that western publishers may look to the large Indian…

Finally, closure on the long-running question of what would happen to the BBC‘s magazine business, the biggest publisher of subscription magazines in the UK: commercial division BBC Worldwide has agreed on a multi-faceted sale of its assets, covering 34 magazine titles, to the private equity group Exponent. BBCWW has also…

If you, like millions of others, witnessed any of today’s Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on the TV, Internet or in person, you will have seen the crowds that assembled down the Mall, around Westminster Cathedral, in front of Buckingham Palace, and in many other places. But…

Forget iPads and smartphone apps - in India, the real “new media” are basic feature phones. Media companies aren’t letting the market’s relative technological immaturity stand in their way - they’re embracing new opportunities using old media

I’m pleased to announce that Andrew Wallenstein will be joining us to write about the digital-entertainment business, based in Los Angeles. Andy, who will be a senior editor for us, will also help develop new editorial features for the sites. If you had any doubts about the newsiness of the…

Jay Penske’s Mail.com Media Corp., which has been busily buying up media sites, is selling its Mail.com e-mail business to German internet firm United Internet Group. The sale means Mail.com Media Corp.—which will soon be getting a new name—will now primarily be made up of the media sites it has…

Instamedia, which is best known for its Instablogs citizen journalism platform, has raised $4 million in a first round of funding from Times of India-owner Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. The Instablogs site lets anybody submit an original article a la NowPublic or link to an existing news story anywhere…

CBS (NYSE: CBS) Studios International and Reliance Broadcast Network Limited (RBNL) Wednesday announced a deal to launch television channels in India through a joint venture company to be called BIG CBS Networks Pvt. Ltd. BIG CBS will be incorporated in India, and CBS and RBNL will each have a 50%…

It’s the most common question I get in my travels: Will people ever pay for content again? See what I had to say about that in this three-minute clip from a recent interview.

Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile, the online retailer of luxury goods. He is also an angel investor in various media and e-commerce companies. Last week, I…

Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile, the online retailer of luxury goods. He is also an angel investor in various media and e-commerce companies. If old-media traditionalists…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs is crowing this morning about breaking the one million mark with iPad in 28 days—less than half the time it took for the iPhone to achieve the same feat. At the same time, the company announces some usage stats as of April 30: 1.5…