Posts Tagged ‘Bloomberg’

Bloomberg News editor-in-chief Matthew Winkler has been known to be critical of Twitter in the past, making his conversion and first Tweet that much more surprising.

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The hacker used Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud, also known as EC2, service to infiltrate Sony’s online entertainment systems last month. EC2 is fairly cheap, 3 cents to $2.48 on the east coast. The hack had to be performed by a person with knowledge of the matter. The intruder used a fake name in order to set up an account.

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The American Society of Newspaper Editors released a new report, 10 Best Practices for Social Media, which examined the social media policies of 19 news organizations — large and small, local, national, and international — to come up with a list of best practices.

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Say hello to Bloomberg Media Group, a combination of the business operations of Bloomberg L.P. units Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets magazine, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg Mobile, uniting the company’s television, print, radio, mobile, and digital media properties under one umbrella.

Bloomberg Businessweek president Paul Bascobert will serve as head of business operations for Bloomberg Media Group, retaining his role at Bloomberg Businessweek and reporting to Bloomberg Media Group CEO Andy Lack.

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The future of advertising will be determined by how the media industry – publishers, platforms and agencies – responds to the technological and social disruptions it’s experiencing today. After the jump, the inside perspective.

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The scions of the publishing, content delivery and advertising industries are among those convening this week at the Bloomberg’s Media Summit New York. With loss of control of much of the technology upon which they depend, what is their strategy in the disruptive media landscape? A bit of my take, after the jump.

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Bloomberg.com established a special Davos-themed site for its coverage of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 26-30.

The site will feature live streaming and archived versions of television and radio coverage, as well as commentary from Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker, Francine Lacqua, and Tom Keene.

Bloomberg’s apps for the iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, and Android will also offer access to breaking news stories from Davos.

It was a December to remember for Bloomberg, as the site’s 13.7 million unique visitors for the month placed it in third on comScore‘s rankings of business and finance sites, zooming past AOL Money, MSN Money, CNN Money, Forbes, Reuters, and CNBC.

Yahoo! Finance and Dow Jones topped the list. Bloomberg tallied 9 million unique visitors in December 2009.

Bloomberg News head of global Web properties Kevin Krim told Beet.TV the media company’s goal is to build “influence,” added, “The first thing to realize about Bloomberg is that we invest in our media businesses, including our Web properties, for one primary reason: We want influence.”

Krim also said the site will remain subscription-free, Beet.TV reported.

Bloomberg News global head of Web properties Kevin Krim spoke with Beet.TV about its plans to expand live-streaming offerings to Apple devices, saying that the network “is not restricted in its business model” from doing so and not concerned about “offending” cable or satellite operators that carry its network. Its fare already live-streams online.

Social media has become very useful during the East Coast Blizzard of 2010. Social media is no longer just for keeping up with friends around the country now politicians and airlines are using Twitter to great effect.

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