Cox Media Group Opens Up Local Discount Shopper DealSwarm
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Cox Media Group is the latest media company to turn to offering daily online deals as a way to create an additional revenue stream. The Atla… Read more »
Amazon Buying European Fashion Shopping Club BuyVIP
This week’s rumors were accurate – Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is buying in to the group buying craze, by acquiring European private fashion sales c… Read more »
AOL Exec Shakeup Gives Brody Oversight Of Ads, Content And Commerce
AOL (NYSE: AOL) is shifting the balance a bit in terms of its content, ad and e-commerce divisions by putting Ned Brody, president of paid s… Read more »
Fast-Growing Eventbrite Raises $20 Million More
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Eventbrite, which lets people set up pages to promote their events and also sell tickets, has raised $20 million in its fourth round of fund… Read more »
Shopping Club Privalia Gets Its Big One –
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The group buying craze is gathering some serious venture leverage. Barcelona-based shopping club Privalia says first-half-of-year sales are… Read more »
Petsky Prunier: Media M&A Grew 27 Percent In Q3 — But Dropped Off From Q2
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M&A activity in the marketing, information and digital media/commerce areas rose 27 percent Q3, but fell compared to the second quarter of t… Read more »
Boston Globe To Start Charging For Online Access
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The Boston Globe will join its sister paper The New York Times in charging for access to some online content beginning next year. The newspa… Read more »
Geodelic Finds Both A Partner And An Investor In Verizon
Verizon Wireless continued releasing a barrage of press releases today at its developer conference in Las Vegas. As part of the onslaught, V… Read more »
As Quarter Ends, NYTCo Expects Digital Ad Revs To Rise 14 Percent
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Costs will be up a slight 1 or 2 percent for the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) in Q3 as it prepares to launch its metered paywall for the f… Read more »
Alibaba Has Some More Harsh Words For Yahoo
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The latest harsh words in what appears to be an increasingly rocky relationship between Alibaba.com and its 39 percent owner Yahoo: An Aliba… Read more »
Facebook Credits Gift Cards To Be Sold At Target
Facebook Credits, the virtual currency that Facebook members can use to buy various extras for Facebook apps, will soon be available for pur… Read more »
Justice Department Is Taking A Closer Look At Google’s ITA Purchase
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Google’s proposed $750 million acquisition of travel search technology provider ITA Software isn’t ready for take off quite yet; Google says… Read more »
Scribd Exploring Premium Content Plays; No Plans For A Paywall
Social publishing site Scribd is considering a number of premium products as an additional revenue stream to its ad sales and year-and-a-hal… Read more »
LoveFilm Adds MGM Movie Library; Aims To Be More Than ‘Europe’s Netflix’
LoveFilm, which is often regarded as the “Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) of the Europe,” has struck a major deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios that… Read more »
Alibaba Increases Its U.S. Presence With Second Acquisition In Two Months
China e-commerce site Alibaba has acquired eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) auction management provider Auctiva. This is the Hong Kong company’s second U.S… Read more »
As If Mobile Payments Didn’t Have Enough Problems, What About Regulations?
There’s plenty of reasons why replacing your wallet with a cellphone is still a ways off, but now there’s an all new one: regulation. Accord… Read more »
Time Inc’s Paid Content Head Monica Ray Moves To Condé Nast
Monica Ray, who had been managing Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.’s paid content strategy, is taking on a new job at Condé Nast. She has been named E… Read more »
Former Yahoo App Engineer Surfaces At IPO Candidate Next Jump
After we learned last week that one of Yahoo’s top mobile app engineers was leaving the company, Sandeep Gupta has surfaced as VP of mobile… Read more »
Barnes & Noble Online Revs Surge; IAC’s Foley Tapped To Head E-Commerce
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Digital gave Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) a big sales boost from the previous quarter, but not enough to reverse revenue declines or prevent i… Read more »
Longtime IAC Executive Foley Leaves; MacDonald New Pronto CEO
John Foley, who most recently was serving as CEO of IAC-owned comparison shopping site Pronto and was also heading up Evite and Gifts.com, i… Read more »
Payment Platform PlaySpan Raises $18 Million From Vodafone, Softbank
Yet another micro-transactions and payment platform has raised a significant wad of money. This time it is PlaySpan, which has received $18… Read more »
New Friendster Owner Plans To Remake Site Around Games
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Friendster, the long-time social networking site, which was purchased by Asian payment company MOL Global late last year, is moving away fro… Read more »
Presentation Sharing Site SlideShare Adds A Paid Option
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SlideShare, the popular presentation sharing site backed by Mark Cuban, among other big names, has launched a paid version, providing it wit… Read more »
NYTCo’s Worcester Telegram & Gazette Turns On Meter
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As expected, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.-owned Worcester Telegram & Gazette has begun to charge non-print subscribers for access some… Read more »
PayPal Plans Micropayment Push
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PayPal is set to launch a new product specifically designed to facilitate micropayments — a move that could set it up as a more attractive… Read more »
The Knot Launches Groupon-Like Program
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Weddings and related lifestyle company The Knot (NSDQ: KNOT) has long relied heavily on e-commerce in addition to revenues from its print an… Read more »
Google To Buy Social Payment Provider Jambool
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is set to make another not-so-small acquisition, this time for virtual currency company Jambool, TechcCrunch reports, ci… Read more »
DailyCandy Launches ‘Style Alerts’ On Android; NYC Gets It First
DailyCandy, the Comcast-owned fashion and entertainment e-newsletter operator, has unveiled its first app effort, a “location-triggered” mes… Read more »
Playboy Slims Loss, Revs Drop 10 Percent
Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) posted slightly better-than-expected results in Q2, as company watchers continued to wonder about Playboy fo… Read more »
What The New York Times’ Meter Page Could Look Like
The New York Times, which is set to put up an online paywall early next year, is now surveying readers to determine how they would react whe… Read more »
Sample Sales Site Zulily Gets $6 Million More
More venture capital activity in the red-hot private sales market: Zulily, the mom-focused sample sales site, which we profiled in December,… Read more »
WeShop Raises $4.25 Million Round; Marries Targeting And User Control
WeShop is the latest social shopper to hit the scene, having just closed a $4.25 million first round, paidContent has learned. But the start… Read more »
Payfone Raises $11 Million From BlackBerry Fund, Ex-Apple Exec
Payfone is going public today with its plans for developing a mobile alternative to Visa and MasterCard, fueled by an infusion of $11 millio… Read more »
GlobalPost Adjusts Its Membership Model
GlobalPost, the international news startup which has tried to establish “elite paid memberships” as a significant revenue stream — with onl… Read more »
Three U.S. Carriers Team Up On Developing Credit Card Competitor
There’s no shortage of hype in the mobile payments space, where everyone from online leaders like PayPal to a host of well-funded startups,… Read more »
Chandra Out As CEO Of Hearst’s Kaboodle; Anne Zehren Named As Replacement
Manish Chandra, the founder and CEO of social shopping site Kaboodle, is leaving the company and is being succeeded by Anne Zehren. The chan… Read more »
Simon & Schuster Look To ‘Enhanced’ E-Books Beyond Apps
Scribner and Simon & Schuster Digital began selling an “enhanced e-book” of Rick Perlstein’s best-selling doorstop, Nixonland, in the Apple… Read more »
MSLO Online Revs Rise 12 Percent
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Online revenues for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) benefited from the ad recovery in Q2, a period in which the company ramped u… Read more »
And The Percentage Of People Who Would Pay To Use Twitter Is …
… Zero. Yes, zero, according to a study by the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California Annenberg School For… Read more »
ThisNext Adds On To Third Round, Brings In Federated Media For Ads
Social shopping site ThisNext has raised some additional funding to the $1.2 million round from February, and says it will begin working wit… Read more »
