Google, Facebook and even Yahoo have been hailed as visionary companies that aren’t just disrupting old media, they’re replacing it. That conjecture hasn’t applied as readily to Apple, which after all deals in high-end hardware, not eyeballs or advertising. A closer look, however, reveals...
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Apple has more than 435 million iTunes accounts stored in the company’s database, according to Talal Khan, an analyst.
Apple’s ITunes Would Be One of World’s Biggest Media Companies
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Nick Miller's career in public policy began when he came across a message on Facebook.
Intern Leads Battle With Cable TV as Proposed Rule Threatens Boxee
Some interns fetch coffee. Nick Miller, a 26-year-old intern at online-video startup Boxee, is busy staging a regulatory battle in Washington with the biggest media companies in the world. It didn’t start off that way for the Rutgers University graduate....
Read more »Tech Execs Meet in D.C. to Plan 5-Year Transition to Digital Textbooks
Last month, two top U.S. regulators challenged the nation to get all students to use digital textbooks by 2017. Today, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are meeting with textbook publishers and technology companies in Washington...
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