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Business Definition for: AP
- accounts payable
Wiktionary Definition for: AP
- #Associated Press
- #Advanced Placement
- # finance automatic payment
- #Apples CH (Swiss commune)
- #Apará (Andorran commune)
- #Ãrouesa (Andorran commune)
- #Apalesarsoiär (Andorran commune)
- #Awyer (RS) Awyer
- #Amapá (Brazilian state)
Additional Resources
- Dissecting The AP & Murdoch Speeches Against Those Internet News Thieves
- Associated Press president Tom Curley and News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch both made speeches yesterday in China that are being widely reported as an attack on Google. Having read through the actual speeches, I was surprised they weren't as bad as I thought they'd be. Below, I've highlighted key portions...
- News items 2009-10-09
- Artist Shepard Fairey Admits Image Citation Error?But Presses On With Fair Use Claim Against AP
- Late on Friday, the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey, the artist who appropriated an AP photo for his iconic campaign image of President Barack Obama, are continuing their legal battle. A statement released by the AP said that Fairey, through his lawyers, admitted incorrectly citing the photo he used...
- External links 2009-10-17
- Someone, Quick, Place the AP on Suicide Watch
- This really has to be seen to be believed. For whatever reason, the Associated Press's official form for collecting fees ranging from $12.50 to $100 if you want to republish as a link more than four words from any of its headlines had eluded my view until this evening, even...
- Blog posts 2009-08-02
- AP's Top News Stories for August 3rd, in Four Words Or Less [Updated]
- As you may have noticed, we here at BNET Media are all over the Associated Press' plan to charge bloggers for using more than four words in a headline that links to one of its stories. So, as I'm a poor blogger who can't afford to be part of the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- AP's Tom Curley: 'We Are Not Going To Work With Everybody'
- Two of the most vocal proponents for changing the way news and information are distributed took their message to the World Media Summit in Beijing today. We posted the full text earlier of News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s take on the “Philistines” of news (his own tribe...
- External links 2009-10-09
- AP's Copyright Lawsuit: Legitimate or Frivolous?
- Yesterday's news that the Associated Press is suing Moreover Technologies (a news aggregator service that was acquired by Verisign for $30 million in 2005) seems to have been met with general eye-rolling from the 'sphere. I particularly enjoyed Rich Ord's perspective in "AP Suing Moreover Like It's...
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- The AP's Latest Flabbergasting Idea
- At first, I'd hoped this was a parody of a news story, not an actual news story, but the Associated Press is not known for self-parody, so here goes. "The Associated Press is considering whether to sell news stories to some online customers exclusively for a certain...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- The AP Starts Feeling the Industry's Pain
- At the epicenter of the troubled U.S. media industry sits the venerable Associated Press, a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio, and television stations. Its members both contribute stories that are circulted over the AP news wire, and publish original articles written by AP's own staffers. In addition, many...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- AP Shows Up ~ a Decade Late for the Portal Party
- Over the past two weeks we've covered the controversy that the hoary old Associated Press itself may be partly responsibility for killing off the print newspapers that own it; followed closely by the angry threat from the AP to hold Internet search, portal and aggregation companies accountable for allegedly stealing...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Tribune Goes On A Diet?No AP News For One Week
- The Tribune Company’s chain of newspapers will try to see if they can do without the Associated Press news feed next week, as the bankrupt publisher tries to find ways it can manage costs, The Chicago Tribune reported via mathewi. The Tribune’s trial separation from the AP starts next...
- External links 2009-11-03
- AP Struggles to Survive Crisis Killing its Members
- Ten days ago, we reported on the first cracks appearing the most famous news cooperative in the U.S., the Associated Press. There's more bad news for A.P. today, but first, let's consider the critical role it plays in news dissemination. Although AP was built around the newspaper...
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- The AP, Publishers, Battle an Imaginary Army of Pirates
- The deeper we get into this media recession, the more aggressive industry execs are getting in capturing new sources of revenue, or at launching attempts to recapture revenues they think they have lost. That is perhaps the most benign interpretation of the AP’s recent announcement that it...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Panicky AP Lashes Out at The Internet
- It didn't take long -- just three days -- after a well-reasoned argument proposing that the Associated Press is partly to blame for destroying the newspaper business for the AP to react. Today, management at the news service said it will demand that the major search engines, content aggregators and...
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- AP's Biz Model is Just a Four-letter Word
- Okay, let's admit it. Here at Bnet, we are working ourselves up into a collective fit over the AP's ridiculous charge into the wilderness, trying to track down those elusive content thieves who are allegedly republishing the news cooperative's articles without paying for the right to do so. ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- AP Hopes to Put the Squeeze on Google, etc.
- This has been a rough year for the Associated Press, and lately, the 163-year-old news cooperative has been feeling its age. Its execs have lashed out at the "Internet" as the source of all evil in its battle to survive the historical transition to the new world of interactive, networked,...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- AP: We Have Good News, Too
- After my post earlier today about the Tribune Co.'s decision to go "AP Free" next week, a journalist friend emailed me, "Oh man, if AP were ever to fail ...I fear the worst is yet to come ..." Later on, the AP's Director of Media Relations, Paul...
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- AP Acknowledges Threat From CNN's Wire Service; But Challenger Still 'Needs Improvement'
- As CNN prepares to go head-to-head with the Associated Press when it launches its new wire service, the cable news outfit will have to prove to newspaper editors that it can transfer its cable TV credibility to breaking print news. A long piece in the NYT takes a look...
- External links 2008-12-01
- Is AP to Blame for Killing Newspapers?
- There's a new party getting blamed for the death of newspapers -- the good-old Association Press. The line of reasoning goes like this: By allowing Yahoo, MSN, Google and others access to its news wire, the non-profit news cooperative is undermining the very companies that own it. ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- Top AP Business/Tech Stories for August 4th (in 4 Words or Less)
- Here at Bnet Media yesterday, Cathy Taylor posted a "Top Ten AP News Stories" piece to illustrate just how absurd the wire service's new policy limiting free use of its content to four words at a time is in reality. She got a boilerplate response from the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- AP Stylebook Now Available As An iPhone App?For $28.99
- The Associated Press Stylebook is pretty much a required fixture on journalists’ desks, but with today’s release of the reference work as an app for the iPhone and iPod touch, it just got a lot easier to carry around. However, the $28.99 price tag for the app is a...
- External links 2009-09-28
