Topic: New business models

While it may sound like the stuff of science fiction, we now have technology that tracks our eye movements as we navigate the web or a mobile device. The technology knows where our eyes linger while reading a news article. Are we instantly pulled in by the article’s photograph – or by the headline? How [...]

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Tags: eye-tracking, i beam, iPad, tablet

During Apple’s announcement on Tuesday that it was releasing the iPad Mini, a 7.9-inch version of its popular iPad tablet, the media industry was abuzz. What could be better than another device on which consumers can read and watch content? Now that a few days have passed, we reached out to Lean Back 2.0 contributors [...]

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Tags: Apple, iPad, iPad mini, publishing, tablets

Last week Boxee announced a new $99 TV companion box for the US market that plays internet video apps, pulls down over-the-air broadcast signals and can record broadcast video on an infinite cloud-based DVR that you can later watch on your phone or tablet anywhere in the world. If you have been around long enough, [...]

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Tags: Apple, devices, iPad, iPad mini, platforms

The browser wars are notoriously brutal. It’s a competitive industry with high barriers to entry, entrenched giants battling for share and enormous inertia in customer behavior. Tilting at giants like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome, a courageous startup has entered the fray hoping to compete on quality of experience. RockMelt, [...]

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Tags: browser, content, desktop, iPad, RockMelt, sharing, social media

For those who missed it yesterday, Tina Brown, editor-in-chief and founder of the Newsweek Daily Beast Company, and Baba Shetty, chief executive, announced that Newsweek would end its print edition at the end of the year. Citing a recent Pew study, Brown and Shetty wrote, “In our judgment, we have reached a tipping point at [...]

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Tags: digital, magazines, Newsweek, print, publishing

Trapit, a Palo Alto startup that has launched a popular app, has an origin story that sounds like something Robert Ludlum would have dreamed up as a parallel plot for one of his Bourne spy novels. The company is built around patented intellectual property that was initially developed in a $200 million artificial intelligence project [...]

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Tags: A.I., app, DARPA, iPad, social, tablet, trapit