Jane Friedman's OpenRoad Gets $3 Million Funding For eBooks Venture
OpenRoad Integrated Media, a still-stealth NYC-based eBooks marketing and publishing startup, has raised $3 million in funding, in a round l… Read more »
An Analyst Asks If WiMax Is Toast?
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WiMax has made a name for itself in developing countries, where consumers don’t have a landline alternative, but in the U.S., Terry Norman,… Read more »
Audible Magic Raises Nearly $1.3 Million In Funding
Multimedia content tracking and ID service Audible Magic has raised $1.28 million worth of funding, per an SEC filing. The company is callin… Read more »
Cox Will Use Qualcomm's Brew Platform For Mobile Content
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Cox Communication is moving forward with the roll-out of its own wireless network by announcing today that it will use Qualcomm’s Brew techn… Read more »
Music Startup Slacker CEO Dennis Mudd Out; $70 Million and Counting
Slacker, the heavily funded online music startup founded by former MusicMatch CEO Dennis Mudd, has disposed off of, well, Mudd, reports Vent… Read more »
Twitter To Charge For Premium Accounts Later This Year
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About Twitter’s plans to bring in $140 million in revenue next year … some of it will come from charging users for premium accounts. The a… Read more »
BSkyB Scaling Back Sky.com, Axing Several Sections
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is killing several of its worst-performing Sky.com sections, the satcaster tells NMA. They include…
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Non-Profit Option For Boston Globe Isn't Getting A Lot Of Love
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Platinum Equity, the private equity firm that is still slashing away at costs at the San Diego Union-Tribune, is one of two bidders for the… Read more »
Fourteen Million New Mobile Phone Subscribers In July; Teledensity Is Now 41.08%
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India’s mobile phone companies added 14 million subscribers in July, up from 12 million additions in June, according to data from India’s te… Read more »
Tweets Of The Week: Ex SpinVoxers On… SpinVox
SpinVox alumni and the soon-departed are tweeting from beyond the corporate grave – the voicemail-to-text firm’s vice president of digital m… Read more »
Sly Bailey '08: The Future Is Multi-Platform
For those who missed our October story, the Association of Online Publishers has just published the video of Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) CE… Read more »
How Microsoft + Yahoo Stacks Up In India
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) reached an agreement last month under which Yahoo Search will be replaced by Microsoft’s Bing… Read more »
Indy's Aussie Wing Mulling Paid Content, Member Club Trials This Year
APN News & Media, the Australasian publisher of which Ireland’s Independent News & Media owns 32.2 percent, is joining the crowd by giving t… Read more »
Mihir Bose To Write Weekly Interview For London Evening Standard
By Stephen Brook: Former BBC sports news editor Mihir Bose has taken his first job since leaving the corporation earlier this month, joining… Read more »
More on News Corp's Charging-For-News Consortium Obsession
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News Corp (NYSE: NWS) has hinted at it in bits and pieces over the last six months, but now Dawn’s reporting in LAT that he has been meeting… Read more »
No Rock Left Unturned: FCC Launches Additional Reviews Of The Wireless Industry
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The FCC has announced yet another formal review of the wireless industry that will allow regulators access to examine pretty much any aspect… Read more »
Facebook Adds Some Automatic Twitter Integration
Facebook has steadily been adding Twitter-like features to its site — and now it’s introducing a feature that can automatically cross-post… Read more »
Can Sony's 'DigiDads' Blog Plan Avoid Scrutiny From The Feds?
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Enough of the mommy-bloggers. Sony (NYSE: SNE) Electronics has launched a social media marketing campaign around blogging dads, according to… Read more »
China Mobile Sees Profits Drop; 3G Growth Has Been Slow
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China Mobile’s profit dropped in the second quarter for the first time in a decade, reports Bloomberg.
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Philadelphia Media Holdings Gets New Local Owners If Creditors, Bankruptcy Judge Approve
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com will live to fight another day — and with new owners — if creditors and a bankruptcy… Read more »
Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo Join Coalition Against Google Book Settlement
Can the collective weight of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) help scuttle Google’s book settlement? The t… Read more »
NFL, NBC Will Stream Sunday Night Football Again But No Syndication – Yet
NBC (NYSE: GE) Sports and the NFL have another one-year deal to live stream the network’s coverage of Sunday Night Football on their respect… Read more »
FLO TV Takes Steps To Measure Mobile TV Habits
Qualcomm’s FLO TV has upped the ante for getting viewership results for its mobile broadcast TV service for the benefit of advertisers. Rele… Read more »
Twitter To Add Location Data — A Precursor To Geotargeted Ads?
Expect your tweets to get a little more revealing — and potentially creepy, if you think about it — because Twitter is making it easier fo… Read more »
Zelnick Interested in BusinessWeek; Wasserstein's As Employees Fave?
The bidding for McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) owned BusinessWeek is entering final stages, and bids are due by Sep 15, reports BW’s own Jon Fine.… Read more »
Industry Moves: Mojiva; Mobile Commons; Mobile Streams
– Mojiva: Daniel C. Petri is the newest member of Mojiva’s Board of Directors. He was at Verizon (NYSE: VZ) (and its previous incarnations)… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits 8.20.09
» The Windows Mobile platform has been under attack from critics lately, but here are some reasons why the OS shouldn’t be put ou… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Spotify Android, Orange Social Nets, Exploding iPhones
– Spotify Android: The music streamer has told Android developer Bobcat Zed to stop writing his Droidify app. He explains it’s “due to the… Read more »
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UBC Media Buying Marketer Radio Lynx
After selling off its own traffic news unit in February, radio services group UBC Media is now buying Radio Lynx, a company that makes custo… Read more »
MySpace Memo: Media Link Will Refocus Ad Strategy On 'Day-To-Day Basis'
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MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta’s memo outlining the relationship with ad and marketing consultancy Media Link is out and MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka… Read more »
Did Bankrate Rush Through The Apax Deal? SEC Picking Over Details
The Deal Professor on NYTimes.com raises some great questions on the Bankrate’s sale deal to Apax Partners, after combing through the tender… Read more »
Saber Seven Raises $4 Million For 'Dream'-Based Search Engine
Saber Seven is betting that enough people will want to search for specific info around their dreams — whether it be running a marathon, bac… Read more »
FT.com Profiling IP Numbers To Drive Corporate Subs
FT.com’s subscription sales team is now mining the site’s traffic logs to target companies whose staff visit its free stories most often. Pr… Read more »
Microsoft Doesn't Want Its App Marketplace To Be A Dollar Store
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may have hit 1.5 billion downloads in its App Store, but Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has a different goal in mind for its upco… Read more »
Universal Music Buys International Rights To Sinatra Albums
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Universal Music has purchased the international rights to Frank Sinatra albums from the Sinatra Family and Warner Music, the Financial Times… Read more »
YouTube Tests New Recommendation Systems To Get Visitors To Watch More Clips
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) continues to strike deals to up the amount of professional and long-form content on YouTube, but it’s simultaneously pur… Read more »
