“For now, as you are already seeing, we are placing a focus on image and video as the great instrument of mass communication. This medium is, and will be, more and more American, given that it is in America where our growth is strongest and our expansion is most promising.”

The investigative outfit is using the annotation tool to collection information on more than 700 ships that either saw combat in Vietnam or whose activities may have exposed it to Agent Orange.

La Presse publisher Guy Crevier said he hasn’t seen a business model that works on mobile. “We didn’t want to compete with these people, that’s why we have the tablet product. Maybe they will grab 50 or 60 percent of the market, but we want to be the best one of the 40 percent that’s left.”

The messaging company’s inability to raise funds at a higher valuation than a year ago may be a sign investors have grown more cautious about the company’s prospects.

“We are going to take things down that are unsafe, that are hate speech, that are harassment. It’s not a legal obligation, it’s an obligation to the ecosystem of the site.”

“The move will likely be welcomed by publishers who are looking to assess whether a Facebook user, for example, is worth more than someone arriving in via a Google search result. There are plenty of tools out there, like Chartbeat or Google Analytics, that publishers can use to get a sense of where their traffic is coming from, but the new Taboola tool should, in principle, make it easier to assess the relative value of each of those types of referrals.”

The Star Touch tablet edition, introduced five months ago, “has been downloaded 200,000 times and has 65,000 weekly and 26,000 daily users, who typically spend more than 22 minutes a day on it.” The publisher “expects the venture to break even in 2017.”

“In the main, people turn them off.”

“I think if we’re successful in our mission, we’ll do things that don’t work, that people don’t respond to or that fall flat, which is a weird way of saying that success is failure,” said editor Sasha Koren.

“Last year, the revenue we got from print readers actually went up.”