fromegotoeco: All 154 members of the Association of Newspapers in Brazil (ANJ), comprising 90 percent of the country’s newspaper circulation, recently opted out of Google News, claiming the search firm should pay them to re-run their headlines and excerpts. (via Google News faces mass newspaper boycott in Brazil — paidContent) Gerd adds: this seems like pure desperation - they’d be better off to spend their time on developing new business models for a SoLoMo world — and this is happening regardless of what Google will or will not do. Related articles Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s Oct 2 2012 Presentation on SoLoMo (social local mobile) - the future of mobile advertising (IAB NL Mobile Inspiration Summit) PDF (futureof.biz)

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All 154 members of the Association of Newspapers in Brazil (ANJ), comprising 90 percent of the country’s newspaper circulation, recently opted out of Google News, claiming the search firm should pay them to re-run their headlines and excerpts. (via Google News faces mass newspaper boycott in Brazil — paidContent)

Gerd adds: this seems like pure desperation - they’d be better off to spend their time on developing new business models for a SoLoMo world — and this is happening regardless of what Google will or will not do.

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