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Yahoo's $1 billion acquisition of Tumblr wasn't an overpay by any stretch. Read more »

Yahoo needs an open platform to build its future on. Whether Tumblr will turn out to be the right platform, and whether its long-term potential is worth $1.1 billion now are obviously important questions. But I don't think they're what drove the deal. Read more »

By taking an equity stake in the Vevo, Google would create a liquidity event that ultimately could help Universal divest its stake at a respectable valuation, while buying some goodwill for itself in the process. Read more »

Now we can all just wait a couple years until the company -- seeing what Amazon and others are doing with their currencies -- tries to relaunch a new virtual currency effort. Read more »

Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) Television Consumer Freedom Act bill, which would give consumers the option to buy channels on an a la carte basis instead of in tiers, got its first airing before the Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday but it didn't find a lot of takers. Read more »

In other words, people are watching lots of Netflix and YouTube. Read more »

A report issued Monday by a special commission appointed to recommend changes to French media laws and regulations proposes dismantling Hadopi, the agency created in 2009 to enforce France's graduated-response system for policing online piracy. Read more »

Mark Coker, the CEO of Smashwords, is one of the best resources around to understanding pricing and market dynamics in the ebook market, in part because he is the 100 percent owner of the self-publishing platform, Smashwords. And while Smashwords doesn’t have nearly have the volume that Amazon, B&N or Apple do, it is popular [...] Read more »

f Microsoft is really going to be a player in the tablet market, whether as a hardware maker or simply as an OS provider, it needs a store. Read more »

GigaOM Research is teaming up with the Digital Enterprise Research Institute at NUI Galway and the European Commission to better understand the potential European opportunity, and to identify potential bottlenecks to growth that EC policies might address. We're kicking off the project with a workshop in Brussels on June 14. Read more »