DIGITAL MEDIA
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His team of engineers and developers could create the globe's next key innovation
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The three creators of Sound Alliance are disrupting their much larger competitors, and showing them how to make a buck online
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The digital deal-maker connecting start-ups with the industry giants and bringing in capital from overseas
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The ideas woman at the ABC whose digital media projects often lead the industry
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Yahoo!7's man at the top is on the acquisition hunt to keep the organisation's content offerings up to user expectations
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He's leading the organisation that gets the most dollars from digital media, Google
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In isolation they can back individual projects. As a community, they can promote an entire industry.
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News' paywall architect has the attention of the competition. Can he make the audience pay?
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He’s been so effective in his role at Foxtel that Rupert Murdoch just appointed him head of News.
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He's connecting Australians to super high-speed broadband, whether they want it or not
Creating and distributing information is easier than ever, as is participating in communities online. But such ease-of-use comes down to a small and select group of people with control over, or at least a say, in the distribution platforms that Australia's online users rely so heavily upon. These are the developers, producers, entrepreneurs and leaders tweaking at the ways in which the masses manage their online communities and consume information.
Begins publishing 7 November 2011.
20 (or so) powerful people in Digital Media
Who are the people determining how we work, play and interact online? Next week, we start counting down the Top 10 Most Powerful People in Digital Media. Here, Angela Priestley presents the short list.
Conroy and Quigley’s year of NBN progress
Communications minister Stephen Conroy and NBN Co boss Mike Quigley will head into 2012 with a considerable amount of satisfaction, given that 2011 has undoubtedly been a year of progress for the NBN.
Google's Irish Solution to dodging tax
On top of the enormous power it has over our daily lives, Google now seems to have acquired the power to dodge tax.
Google’s halls of power: why the really influential wear thongs
A typical hall of power was once dominated by suits, harbour views, boardrooms and a hierarchical system of who gets what office. But then Larry Page had to invent Google and change all of that.
Groupon's quiet billionaires
By now you've probably heard about the freshly minted billionaire Andrew Mason and his company Groupon, which floated on the New York Stock Exchange last week. Behind the scenes, Mason has been backed by two entrepreneurs.
Halt the Digital Media list! Kim Williams is up
Rupert Murdoch has appointed one of our Top 10 as John Hartigan’s replacement.
How to come up with a powerful idea
The ABC's digital media influence relies on good ideas. ABC Innovation's head of strategy, Abigail Thomas, explains how her team develops the early concepts for mobile and iPad apps and even video games.
Kim Williams gets a break in final week at Foxtel
Incoming News boss Kim Williams, as well as the man replacing him at Foxtel, Richard Freudenstein, have both been granted some help for settling into their new gigs from the competition watchdog of all places.
Meet incoming News Ltd boss Kim Williams
Kim Williams has been so good at running Foxtel that Rupert Murdoch has given him the most powerful media job in the country, News Ltd CEO.
Record profits for SEEK
Jobs website SEEK, set up by brothers Andrew and Paul Basset, has posted record first-half profits of $60.6 million.
The Digital Media Top 10
These are the creators of the future who are taking us kicking and screaming into the depths of the 21st century – whether or not we want to be there.
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One assumes the PM's not texted Rebekah Brooks his commiserations with lol this time around.