by Arthur Goldstuck One of the highlights of the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week was the dramatic strides made in TV technology.
Category archives: Media
Naspers to benefit from Facebook IPO
Forget the Mayans. The real apocalypse in 2012 will come via Facebook, and Naspers will be laughing all the way to the bank.
News censorship never ends well for governments, says CNN exec
Tony Maddox, the executive vice president and MD of CNN International, is responsible for CNN’s international news and information portfolio. Maddox, who is based at CNN’s Atlanta headquarters, is responsible for five CNN services in English; CNN en Español; CNN-IBN, CNN Turk and CNN Chile.
Magazine mindset undermines tablet opportunity
The rush by media owners to embrace tablets borders on the unseemly. And who can blame them given the continued decline of print revenue and resistance by folk to pay for content on the internet. Tablets, we are told, are much closer to print magazines than to the free-for-all interwebs.
Pulp fiction with Jungle Jim
So you want to start a magazine. How far do you think R1500 will take you? Quite far, it seems, as Sean O’Toole brings you a true story about the impossible.
Our surprising social media addictions and what they say about us (Infographic)
Frugaldad.com created an infographic illustrating ‘news’ as defined by users of social media.
Arthur Goldstuck calls 2012
Smartphones, tablets, undersea cables, fibre networks and the Cloud will all contribute to a storm of change in 2012.
2011: The best of MarkLives // Media stories we covered
2011: The best of MarkLives // Media stories we covered
Framing the alcohol advertising regulation debate
The advertising and media industries are bracing for stricter government regulation of alcohol advertising. It is an incredibly complex and global issue, so here is a framework to help contextualise what is actually going on.
Tablets leaking ad dollars to mobile from ‘Net – BuzzCity CEO
BuzzCity is a global mobile advertising network focused on emerging markets. In Africa this Singapore-based company, in which media giant Naspers owns a stake, does substantial business in South Africa (where it also has a sales office), Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana. It also sees significant growth in mobile traffic in African markets north of the Sahara.