News Corp mastheads in Australia have topped the half-million subscriptions milestone anticipated by group chief executive Robert Thomson when he announced earnings on May 5.

Arc Publishing, the newsmedia software development business of Jeff Bezos' Washington Post, has added almost 100 staff in the last 18 months.

CBS is investing in the digital business of its Australian Network 10 operation with new appointments.

A newspaper in Alaska which was one of the first users of Brainworks advertising system has signed up for its browser-based successor.

Lineup Systems have announced a new 360 Analytics feature to its Adpoint system.

Dutch regional newspaper publisher Rodi Media has integrated Miles 33's Gemstone sales platform with a new Pubble editorial and production system.

How publishers can manage the emerging platform-influenced economics of attention to grow audience and revenue is the focus of a new INMA report.

EidosMedia has added a new formatting tool to its Prime interface, used to create and publish research.

Brightcove says it has completed the acquisition of Ooyala's OVP technologies -including its video content management and publishing platform and the underlying IP and associated patents.

An IPTC survey is underway to establish how (and whether) photo metadata is being used by news publishers.

With so much to talk about, organisers of Swinburne Institute's CXI Futures Forum have decided to make its public seminar free.

AI-based technology that captures match and player data from broadcast video has been announced by software pioneer Stats.

News agency AFP has launched a new API to simplify access to its real-time production.

Ahead of the footy season kick-off, News News Corp Australia has upped the pace of co-promotions for its Kayo Sports streaming service with bundled subscriptions.

A new INMA report focusses on audio opportunities for news media companies.

Ad operations at Sonoma Media in California's North Bay area will be a whole lot slicker following implementation of Lineup's Adpoint management system.

Lineup has introduced a feature to increase efficiency in programmatic booking by allowing teams to book guaranteed campaigns from within its order system and push them to Google Ad Manager.

German logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL is to make use of EidosMedia's Méthode technology to communicate with its 13,000 partner branches.

Germany's biggest news portal, t-online.de expects to be faster and better following a switch to EidosMedia's Cobalt platform.

Austrian daily Tiroler TagesZeitung, eight local newspapers and various digital products are going after new revenue sources commissioning Newscycle's advertising platform.

WAN-Ifra's Digital Media India/Newsroom Summit India event in Mumbai is approaching, from February 19-20.

The value of blockchains in micropayments and advertising are analysed in a new WAN-Ifra report supported by its Global Alliance for Media Innovation.

A solution for publishing interactive content on Apple News has been launched by WoodWing Software, leveraging software and services.

It's Christmas and Google has hundreds of thousands of dollars to give away to news publishers. So perhaps you should apply.

A "reimagined" Cebit Australia - headed by former Facebook regional chief executive Stephen Scheeler, aims to be the Asia-Pacific's most significant B2B innovation and technology event.