First Look: Last.fm, Zune, Twitter And Facebook On Xbox
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Four months after announcing the features, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) added social networking and music radio functionality to its Xbox 360 cons… Read more »
Video: Quincy Smith On Hulu: The Service Is Freakin’ Badass, But…
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Quincy Smith, the outgoing head of CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), spoke last week at NewTeeVee Live conference in SF, where he spoke about the… Read more »
Five Media Deals I
Mark May is a principal and senior internet and digital media research analyst at Needham & Company, LLC, a full-service growth-company inve… Read more »
Industry Moves Roundup: Twitter; Discovery; CBS Interactive; CBS
– Twitter: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) senior research scientist Utkarsh Srivastava — whose expertise is in building large-scale distributed system… Read more »
CBS Interactive Bets On New, Larger Ad Unit, ‘The Lightbox’
Recent reports have suggested that display advertising is experiencing a tentative comeback, thanks in part to the adoption of larger ad for… Read more »
Leslie Moonves, Quincy Smith And CBS: Three Years, A Couple Of Billion Later
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Quincy Smith came to *CBS* in late 2006 to make deals and make them he did — with just about everyone but Hulu. He had been advising CEO Le… Read more »
Quincy Smith Leaving CBS In January; Signs Multi-Year Deal As Adviser
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It’s official. Deal maker Quincy Smith is leaving as CEO of CBS Interactive after three years to start a boutique consulting/M&A shop with C… Read more »
CBS Interactive Launches Mobile Version Of MaxPreps.com
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is taking its MaxPreps.com high school sports website mobile. A new version of the site lets visitors submit sco… Read more »
More Last.fm Old Timers Jumping From CBS’ Ship
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Several key Last.fmers who have been with the social music site since its early days will follow their founders out the door in the next few… Read more »
Last.fm To Take Over CBS HD Broadcast Stations In Four Markets
While most radio stations are looking for ways to expand their online presence, *CBS Interactive* Music Group is doing the opposite with soc… Read more »
CBSSports And Sports Illustrated Strike Print, Digital Content Deal
The difficult media landscape is encouraging more content companies to start sharing content. Today’s partnership comes from CBSSports.com a… Read more »
CBS Interactive's Smith: Authentication's Not Around The Corner
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The concept of “TV Everywhere” won’t reach critical mass until perhaps 2014, according to some players, and even that date is uncertain, sai… Read more »
Earnings Call: Tweeting CBS: Moonves: Improvement ‘Very Steady, Very Real’
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From my live Twitter coverage (sdkstl) of the CBS (NYSE: CBS) earnings call featuring Chairman Sumner Redstone, CEO Leslie Moonves, outgoing… Read more »
CBSSports.com Floods The Zone With Local NFL Coverage
While many news outlets pull back on sports coverage, CBSSports.com is trying to blitz its way into some local love by embedding a reporter… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Last.fm Vid Ads, Corrie Clips, Masterchef, BBCWW/iTunes
– Last.fm video ads: Remember the new visual music player it unveiled in May? Now it’s picked a company to sell ads in to it. Germany’s Sma… Read more »
Warner Music Still Holding Out On Last.fm, YouTube
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Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) is still proving to be the big online hold-out amongst the four music majors. Seven months after it pulled it… Read more »
Warner Music Still Holding Out On YouTube, Last.fm
Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) is still proving to be the big online hold-out amongst the four music majors. Seven months after it pulled it… Read more »
CBS Pulls Off Cross-Platform Paul McCartney Coup
Finally, some serious synergy … CBS (NYSE: CBS) parlayed Wednesday’s appearance by Paul McCartney on The Late Show with David Letterman in… Read more »
Hulu, TV.com Getting Higher Ad Rates Than Their Network Counterparts
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Networks like A&E, Scripps, and possibly even *CBS* are ready to test whether the much-hyped TV Everywhere concept will serve as a lucrative… Read more »
CBS Interactive’s Smith On Authentication: ’70 Billion Reasons To Make This Work’
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It didn’t take long for *CBS* to issue a statement after Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) announced the upcoming national t… Read more »
