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newsweek.com - James Roberts - AI search is pushing publishers toward a new business model
AI search is pushing publishers toward a new business model
Newsweek

The economics of digital publishing are being rewritten at a pace few anticipated. In early 2026, Forbes reported that more than 60 percent of Google searches ended without a single click to an external website, according to various analyses. This…

wwd.com - Tianwei Zhang - Reebok Taps Cult London Publisher Idea for Glow-in-the-dark Club C 85
Reebok Taps Cult London Publisher Idea for Glow-in-the-dark Club C 85
WWD

Reebok is teaming with cult London publisher and design studio Idea on a new take on the court shoe model Club C 85. Dubbed Reebok x Idea Club C 85, the project applied Idea's eye to the classic Reebok style. It comes with an Idea-designed upper in…

foxnews.com - Lindsay Kornick - Mamdani's property tax dubbed 'dangerous' and 'a little weird' by comedians after published list
Mamdani's property tax dubbed 'dangerous' and 'a little weird' by comedians after published list
Fox News

Comedians Dana Carvey and David Spade mocked the idea of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax on Sunday after the city published a searchable database of property owners. 'Well, Mamdani's going after billionaires in New…

adweek.com - Trishla Ostwal - ADWEEK Tech Advantage: Publishers Pull Back from Google AI Search, While Creators Push On
ADWEEK Tech Advantage: Publishers Pull Back from Google AI Search, While Creators Push On
ADWEEK

The future of brands gets decided here. Join the industry's top marketers at Brandweek for the ideas, insights, and connections shaping what's next. Get your ticket. ADWEEK Advantage is part of a series where every month, our top editors interpret…

pcgamer.com - Andy Chalk - Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher is holding an investors call at a very unusual time this week
Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher is holding an investors call at a very unusual time this week
PC Gamer

Take-Two Interactive, publisher of Grand Theft Auto 6, will hold its Q1 FY2027 results call on Friday, August 7, and I don't mean to sound alarmist or over-excited but I think something might be happening. Allow me to explain. Part of my job…

bristolpost.co.uk - Alex Seabrook - Transparency row after council ordered to publish fraud report
Transparency row after council ordered to publish fraud report
Bristol Live

Secrecy fears at City Hall have resurfaced as Bristol City Council was ordered to publish a fraud report looking into a company linked to the former deputy mayor. Council legal bosses initially told councillors they could not see the report, before…

rockpapershotgun.com - Mark Warren - EA's Saudi takeover will be 'a real waste' if it turns the publishers into a 'sequel-and-mega-franchise machine', Helldivers 2 studio boss says
EA's Saudi takeover will be 'a real waste' if it turns the publishers into a 'sequel-and-mega-franchise machine', Helldivers 2 studio boss says
Rock Paper Shotgun

Well, it's happened. EA's thumbs up from the European Commission, the $55 billion leveraged buyout by Saudi Arabia, Silver Lake and Jared Kushner-founded investment firm Affinity Partners has gone through. With the publishers now privately owned…

pressgazette.co.uk - Alice Brooker - Live blogging mastery: Tips for publishers from Guardian's Andrew Sparrow
Live blogging mastery: Tips for publishers from Guardian's Andrew Sparrow
Home Page - Press Gazette

Publishers looking to succeed in live blogs need to focus on “intensely newsy” topics and write with personality, according to The Guardian's Andrew Sparrow. The reporter has written a live blog on politics for the publisher since…

uploadvr.com - Mike Johnson - Beyond Frames Selling Off Publishing Rights To Combat Waffle's Games For $1M
Beyond Frames Selling Off Publishing Rights To Combat Waffle's Games For $1M
UploadVR

Combat Waffle Studios' Ghosts of Tabor, Grim, and Silent North will soon have a new publisher as original publisher Beyond Frames is selling the publishing rights to a new company for $1 million. We cannot confirm who the new company is yet, but…

tomshardware.com - Hassam Nasir - Microsoft wants the next-gen Xbox Helix to play every Xbox game ever made as it urges publishers to opt in - New report also claims Xbox 360 games coming to PC soon
Microsoft wants the next-gen Xbox Helix to play every Xbox game ever made as it urges publishers to opt in - New report also claims Xbox 360 games coming to PC soon
Tom's Hardware

A new report from The Verg e suggests Microsoft is working to bring an unprecedented level of backwards compatibility to its upcoming PC-console hybrid, the Xbox Helix. The outlet obtained leaked screenshots of an internal memo allegedly sent to…

dev.to - Skillselion - 92 of today's 100 fastest-growing Claude Code skills come from three publishers
92 of today's 100 fastest-growing Claude Code skills come from three publishers
DEV Community

I pulled the 100 fastest-growing Claude Code skills this morning (August 5 data, ranked by installs added in the last day). 92 of them belong to exactly three publishers. 54 rows are the Lark suite (published under open.feishu.cn and larksuite) 31…

fastcompany.com - Pete Pachal - The next ad market may be built for machines
The next ad market may be built for machines
Fast Company

For publishers who make their money through advertising, it's difficult to see bots as anything other than a threat. They crawl their content, chop it up into machine readable code, and then serve up the information as context in AI summaries…

bangordailynews.com - Kate Kaufman, The Maine Monitor - Prediction market users wager millions on Maine elections
Prediction market users wager millions on Maine elections
Bangor Daily News - Bangor Daily News

On June 10, Tom Hill was at his office in Sydney, Australia, when his phone pinged with a notification: the U.S. Senate Democratic primary race in Maine had been called. Before trading closed, Hill quickly bought stakes on the financial trading…

dev.to - Blueticks - I published ten articles in three days and measured what each platform did to them afterwards
I published ten articles in three days and measured what each platform did to them afterwards
DEV Community

You click publish, the page loads, your article is there. You check the link, it works. You move on. That verification is worth less than it looks. Over three days I published on four platforms and, because two of my articles quietly disappeared, I…

marketwatch.com - Sanyo Industries 1Q Net Y91.00M Vs Net Y93.00M
Sanyo Industries 1Q Net Y91.00M Vs Net Y93.00M
MarketWatch

Sanyo Industries Ltd. (5958.TO) Japan 1st Quarter Ended June 30 GROUP 2026 2025 Revenue Y5.72 bln Y5.81 bln Operating Profit Y90.00 mln Y98.00 mln Pretax Profit Y154.00 mln Y155.00 mln Net Profit Y91.00 mln Y93.00 mln Per share Earnings Y32.64…

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