Industry Moves: Adfonic; Taptu
– Adfonic: The mobile ad marketer made one U.S.-based and two UK-based appointments: Jim McNamara has signed on as head of new business dev… Read more »
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Universal Music Promotes Rob Wells To Head Global Digital Business
With digital becoming a bigger part of Universal Music Group’s revenues in all parts of the world, the company is promoting Rob Wells to pre… Read more »
ABCes: Independent.co.uk Scores Biggest Monthly Rise
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Independent.co.uk enjoyed the biggest month-on-month rise in average daily browsers among national newspaper websites in September, while gu… Read more »
BlackBerry Fund Consolidates; Plans Silicon Valley Office And New Fund
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The BlackBerry Partners Fund today is restructuring the way it operates in order to focus exclusively on mobile investments. In addition, it… Read more »
Hey, Spotify Sceptics – International Is Hard To Do
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Naysayers continue expressing suspicion Spotify will launch in the U.S.. But Spotify’s not alone in discovering the challenge of an overseas… Read more »
Global Entertainment Industry Consortium Launches Content Registry EIDR
A broad consortium of entertainment-industry firms has banded together to create universal IDs for content assets ranging from full-length m… Read more »
Virgin Media Revenue Rises As It Rolls Out Super Fast Broadband
Virgin Media’s revenue increased 6.4% year on year in the third quarter to £978m, as it announced it would roll out superfast 100Mb broadba… Read more »
MySpace Second Act Recasts Entertainment In Starring Role
Forgive yourself if you forget about your friends on the new version of MySpace: entertainment is your new BFF on News Corp.’s update of the… Read more »
Google To Give $5 Million To Journalism Non-Profits; $3 Million Outside US
In its latest move to extend an olive branch to the news industry, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is donating $5 million to non-profits dedicated to de… Read more »
NHL Video No Longer Only On Verizon: ‘He Shoots, He Scores’ On The iPad
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Deals for exclusive mobile video rights to Verizon Wireless and Bell Mobility made sense for the National Hockey League in 2007. Now they ar… Read more »
Facebook Global Sales VP Murphy Leaving
High-profile Facebook ad executive Mike Murphy is leaving the company, AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher reports. Murphy, who had been at Facebook s… Read more »
Nielsen: 362,000 Monthly Users For Times And Sunday Times Paywall Content
News International’s silence on subscriber numbers for Times and Sunday Times online content continues, three and a half months after the pa… Read more »
Symbian Foundation’s Fate Up In The Air?
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The Symbian Foundation has a rough road ahead of it, and without support from many handset-makers beyond Nokia (NYSE: NOK), it may face be f… Read more »
Pearson Digital: FT Passes 180,000 Digital Subs; Penguin Offsets Print Drop
Digital subscriptions are up more than 50 percent for the Financial Times so far this year, passing the 180,000 mark. The numbers are includ… Read more »
Mail.ru Files For An $876 Million IPO
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As expected, Facebook and Groupon backer Mail.ru, has filed to go public on the London Stock Exchange. There had been talk that the company,… Read more »
Guardian Media Group Fills CFO Gap With GroupM Finance Exec Singer
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Guardian Media Group, our parent company, has hired GroupM financial exec Darren Singer to fill its CFO gap. The position has been open sinc… Read more »
Murdoch Wakes Up From Dream Of Leading News Industry’s Digital Aggregation
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The news industry is not yet ready to introduce digital charging on News Corp.’s terms, nor on its turf.
The publisher may be right in the… Read more »
Mobile Entertainment Trade Mag Shuts Print Edition
It’s testament to the times that many in the industry didn’t even know Mobile Entertainment at Mobile-Ent.biz published a print zine.
So ne… Read more »
BBC Closing Its Backstage Developer Network
BBC Backstage is to close in December, the corporation confirmed today. The five-year-old platform for independent developers has been in a… Read more »
Google’s Indian Music Service Not Quite A Prelude To A Subscription Offer
Rumours persist that Google’s upcoming music play will be a $25-a-month locker offering streamed access to owned tracks including via Androi… Read more »
UBM Sees Online Sales Grow, Print Shrink
PR Newswire and TechWeb owner United Business Media (LSE: UBM), led by CEO David Levin, reported “solid performance in an improving environm… Read more »
On Cusp Of Web TV Revolution, Sky Soft-Launches A Conventional VOD Service
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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) will finally enable its true, pull-VOD service, Sky Anytime+, for its TV subscribers on Tuesday, allowing customers to cal… Read more »
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Murdoch: Would Serve The Powerful If Bloggers, Bloviators Replace Journalists
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News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch gave his first UK speech in decades Thursday, delivering the inaugural Margaret Thatch… Read more »
Vodafone Sees Healthy Mobile Data Income, But Devalues Indian Business
Smartphone handsets fueled the money Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) makes from internet data to £4 billion ( billion) during its 2009/10 fiscal year… Read more »
Funny Or Die Shutting UK Site
Original web video comedy site Funny Or Die is closing its UK operation, which launched nearly two years ago, citing financial struggles.
H… Read more »
Quantcast Taps Ex-Yahoo Macauley To Plot European Expansion
As Quantcast has rapidly built up its U.S. operations with a string of major media partnerships with companies like MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA)… Read more »
First Look: How The UK Times’ New Paid Website Will Look
London-based The Times’ Times Online is set to divide in two, perhaps next week, before going behind the first of Rupert Murdoch’s big consu… Read more »
With 75 Million Users, Shazam’s Well On Its Way To An IPO
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One by one, the mobile song identifier just keeps hitting its targets – now it ranks as one of the most successful mobile content companies… Read more »
BBC.co.uk Budget Rises Slightly On Property Cost Increases
BBC.co.uk’s baseline budget has risen by half a million pounds, from £133.8 million per year to £134.3 million per year, reflecting a hous… Read more »
Yell Income Down 11.5 Percent After Last Year’s Classifieds Slump
Yell Group says its full 2009/10 financial year beat expectations – but the Yell.com and Yellow Pages publisher is still in that classic con… Read more »
Group Collab Service Huddle Raises $10.2 Million For U.S. Drive
London-based Huddle, a software-as-a-service team web collaboration tool, says it’s raised million in VC funds to try making an entry to th… Read more »
Playboy Talking To Iconix About Possible Sale
Playboy (NYSE: PLA) is in discussions with Iconix Brand Group to sell itself, Bloomberg News reports, citing unnamed sources. The report is… Read more »
Dow Jones Sells Stake In Stoxx For $309 Million
Dow Jones has unloaded its stake in European index provider Stoxx — in what is likely the first of several divestitures for the company und… Read more »
Video Of The Year: Arianna Huffington And Mathias Dopfner At The Monaco Media Forum
Earlier today at the Monaco Media Forum, there was a great debate about the future of news media. I would nominate it as the discussion an… Read more »
Vivendi Profits Rise On Acti-Blizz Games Success: Call Of Duty ‘Biggest Entertainment Launch Ever’
Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 grossed more than $300 million in sales in its first 24 hours just in the US and the UK, making… Read more »
Bebo Cuts UK Jobs And Freezes Web TV Commissioning
By Mark Sweney and Mercedes Bunz: Bebo is cutting jobs at its UK operation and freezing commissions from its web TV production arm, which ha… Read more »
Research: Readers Favour News Micropayments — But They’ll Only Pay Pennies
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Sure, some readers will pay for online news content via single-article micropayments, but only if the price tag is very low. That’s accordin… Read more »
Spotify’s US Launch Now Delayed To 2010, More Hopeful On China
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American music fans will have to wait a little longer to try out much talked-about music streaming service Spotify. As Rafat tweeted last ni… Read more »
