Digital business

A year after print cuts, News backs tags and footy to slow churn

Mar 30, 2021 at 12:17 am by Staff

Enhanced topic and geo-tagging technology on News Corp's Australian websites is part of a push to sustain subscriptions and arrest churn a year after the publisher began shutt.... Read More

Publishers' group teams for ad tech, sign-ins

Mar 30, 2021 at 12:02 am by Staff

Local Media Consortium, a members' group of "locally focussed" North American news media, TV and radio companies, is working to create an advertising network and single-sign-o.... Read More

News adds digital rival and lucrative book backlist

Mar 29, 2021 at 11:36 pm by Staff

News Corp has announced two purchases - of a financial daily and a book publisher. The 'books and media' segment of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will be operated by subsidiary Ha.... Read More

Lancaster joins Nine board as WIN returns to the fold

Mar 28, 2021 at 12:56 am by Staff

Andrew Lancaster has joined the board of Nine Entertainment as a non-executive director, replacing Patrick Allaway. Lancaster is chief executive of regional broadcaster WIN Co.... Read More

KaiOS deal adds Outbrain to light OS mobiles

Mar 28, 2021 at 12:26 am by Staff

Recommendation platform Outbrain has announced a partnership with KaiOS Technologies, developer of the Linux-based KaiOS mobile operating system for keypad feature phones. Out.... Read More