Publishing
South Korean tech firms shake up Japan’s storied manga industry
Two South Korean platforms are borrowing from mobile gaming to shake up – and dominate – Japan’s manga industry, a plot twist that has expanded the comics’ ...
Facebook signs letter of intent with three Australian media firms
Facebook has said it had signed letters of intent with three Australian media firms, a day after the country’s Parliament passed a law forcing it to pay media companies for u...
Aussie lawmakers expected to pass amendments to Facebook and Google law
Australian lawmakers are expected to approve amendments to legislation to force Google and Facebook to pay media companies for news content, despite opposition from some minor poli...
French antitrust investigators say Google breached its orders on talks with publishers
French antitrust investigators have accused Google of failing to comply with the state competition authority’s orders on how to conduct negotiations with news publishers over...
Microsoft teams up with EU publishers amid Facebook’s Australian spat
Microsoft and European media groups have urged EU regulators to require online platforms to seek arbitration in disagreements over how to share revenues with news publishers, a sti...
Facebook ‘unfriends’ Australia: uproar as news pages go dark
Facebook is facing significant backlash from publishers and politicians after blocking news feeds in Australia in a surprise escalation of a dispute with the government over a law ...
News Corp signs news partnership deal with Google
News Corp struck a global news deal with Google, the Rupert Murdoch-controlled media company has said, in one of the most extensive deals of its kind with big tech.
Facebook news goes dark in Australia as content spat escalates
Aussies woke to empty news feeds on Facebook this morning after the social media titan blocked all media content in a surprise and dramatic escalation of a dispute with the governm...
Australia says content laws already working after Nine-Google deal reports
The Australian government said the promised laws forcing tech giants to pay media outlets for content had already succeeded after reports that publisher and broadcaster Nine Entert...
Australia: Seven West Media strikes deal with Google for news
Seven West Media became Australia’s first major news outlet to strike a licensing deal with Google, as the government pushes ahead with a law that would force the internet gi...
Google’s $76 million deal with French publishers infuriates outlets
Google has agreed to pay $76 million over three years to a group of 121 French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by Reuters show.
Google will shut down internal Stadia game development efforts
Google has said it would stop internal development of games for Stadia, making the cloud-based game-streaming service entirely dependent on other game developers and publishers.
Zuck reached out to Aussie lawmakers over new media rules
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg called Australian lawmakers last week to discuss rules that would make internet giants pay news outlets for content but failed to persuade them to ...
Google revives Aussie news platform launch amid content payment fight
Google is reviving plans to launch its own news website in Australia within weeks, according to a regional media outlet contracted to supply articles for the venture, since the sea...