Revision3 Adds Mark Cuban As A Backer
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Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner, has invested an undisclosed amount in Revision3. Cuban is a serial investor; he’s backed Superfeedr,… Read more »
Dish Network Buys Bankrupt Satellite Company DBSD
Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) (Nasdaq: DISH) will acquire 100 percent of the equity of DBSD North America, a hybrid satellite and terrestrial… Read more »
Citigroup Buys And Refinances EMI, Digs In For Future
EMI Group’s holding company Maltby Investments Ltd, after defaulting on its loans, has called in PwC as administrators, who have in turn sol… Read more »
Comcast, Time Warner Expand TV Everywhere
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It’s been approximately 18 months since Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) first talked up TV Everywhere, but their authentic… Read more »
So Much For Apple’s Flirtation With Openness
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Today, the *New York Times* is reporting that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is changing its policy for allowing apps to deliver content that was paid f… Read more »
News Corp. Adds John McKinley As CTO
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On the eve of The Daily’s launch, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) is emphasizing the importance of news products and technology across the company by… Read more »
Seesmic Raises $4 Million With Help From New Collaborator, Salesforce.com
Twitter client Seesmic has raised a $4 million third round from customer relationship manager Salesforce.com and an unidentified company man… Read more »
Mobile Data Roundup: AdMob Stats; Microsoft/Yahoo; Social-Net VoIP
– AdMob: Some updates from Google’s AdMob advertising network…the site now sees more than 2 billion ad requests per day, a four-fold incr… Read more »
BBC Digital Media Project Delayed For Two Years By Siemens Contract Tear-Up
The BBC’s Digital Media Initiative, an ambitious corporation-wide scheme to record, edit and store AV digitally, has been delayed by 21 mont… Read more »
Voddler Picks Up Another $8 Million In Funding For VOD, Led By Nokia
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be rethinking how it delivers mobile music — shuttering its Ovi Unlimited music service — but it is not giving up on… Read more »
Nielsen: Android, Apple And RIM Are In A Three-Way Tie In The U.S.
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Some stats released today on smartphones that, for a change, don’t concern the number of devices shipped: Nielsen says 31 percent of U.S. co… Read more »
UK Checks Whether Its Site Blocking Piracy Measures Can Really Work
UK media regulator Ofcom has been asked by culture secretary Jeremy Hunt to review one part of anti-piracy law in the country’s Digital Econ… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 02-01-11
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» Facebook’s ad rates were up in 2010, but click-throughs were actually down versus the year before. A Webtrends report looked at… Read more »
Bad News For The Digital Newsstand: Apple Rejects Sony Reader App
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Here’s one that will have the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) watchers puzzling for the next day: Apple has reportedly rejected Sony’s Reader app from it… Read more »
Print’s Not Dead: DMGT’s Building A New Press Plant
DMGT’s consumer division, which publishes the Daily Mail, joins the likes of Guardian News & Media in investing in a new print plant. Here’s… Read more »
Readability Intros Subscriptions To Pay Publishers For Focused Readers
Readability, a browser plugin that strips away web clutter to make focused reading easier, is growing and changing tack, by introducing a su… Read more »
Google And Twitter Step In To Let Egyptians Tweet By Voice
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Twitter have launched a service to allow people in Egypt to send Twitter messages by leaving a voicemail on a specif… Read more »
Our Tweets From 01.31.2011
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Facebook Could Turn Netflix Into $400 Stock, Says Jim Cramer
What does Facebook have to do with Netflix? (NSDQ: NFLX) Everything, according to CNBC’s Mad Money anchor Jim Cramer (see video below), who… Read more »
Lionel Barber: The FT’s Five-Point Plan For Exploiting The Brand
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Financial Times Editor Lionel Barber covered a wide swath of ground in the nearly 5,000 words of his Hugh Cudlipp Lecture. Much is what you… Read more »
Our Tweets From 01.31.2011
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The paidContent 50: The Most Successful Digital Media Companies In The U.S.
There’s no doubt that people are spending increasing amounts of time with digital media (the web and mobile devices) and decreasing a… Read more »
Tablets: Apple Loses 20 Percent Market Share To Android In Just One Quarter
Someone at Samsung must have been a little red-faced today, when the mobile giant got called on how it reported its figures for the Galaxy T… Read more »
Facebook May Push A Third-Party Commenting System
Facebook is reportedly about to launch a commenting system that third-party sites will be able to adopt, in a move that may tie it even clos… Read more »
Dentsu Buys Digital Shop Firstborn
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Japanese ad giant Dentsu, which has been trying to find digital agencies to acquire for over the past year, has finally found a follow-up to… Read more »
Ex-Newsday Editor Mancini Joins HollywoodLife.com
Tina Brown isn’t the only one hiring traditional news vets. Bonnie Fuller is adding some editorial and strategic firepower to HollywoodLife.… Read more »
Piracy Nearly A Quarter Of Global Internet Traffic, Says Study
Internet piracy is as big as…everyone already probably assumed it was. But just in the case the Motion Picture Association of America hasn… Read more »
FCC Wants Verizon’s Net Neutrality Suit Moved Out Of D.C. Court
Verizon and the FCC are battling over whether the telecom company’s lawsuit challenging net neutrality rules should be heard in the Washingt… Read more »
‘Modern Family’ Overexposed Online? ABC Exec Disagrees
When Turner Broadcasting CEO Phil Kent suggested earlier this month that the syndication-market value of the ABC (NYSE: DIS) comedy Modern F… Read more »
