Two years after it was off-loaded by AOL, Bebo’s founding Birches and fellow current shareholders sue the social network’s current owner, alleging financial mismanagement and more. Read more »
After suspending shares last week, Europe’s largest plastic-box video games retailer, Game Group, called in administrators to run the compan… Read more »
Last week, I lambasted Virgin Media for taking two years to launch its iPad TV guide for its TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set-top box.
I have since le… Read more »
The BBC is developing a radical scheme under which UK viewers would pay to download new and old BBC TV shows from a service it hopes will co… Read more »
NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Sports sold $25 million in digital advertising for the 2008 Beijing Olympics — and has more than doubled the amount for t… Read more »
As it lays off another 75 staff and faces questions over CEO Sly Bailey’s salary, Trinity Mirror’s Mirror Group Newspapers is relaunching it… Read more »
It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service — on… Read more »
Wenner Media is filling the chief digital officer position that Michael Bloom left in November, after just six months on the job: David Kang… Read more »
Over the years, the Associated Press has made a profile for itself by syndicating its news across thousands of newspapers both in the U.S. a… Read more »
Nearly a year after content syndicator Mochila raised several million dollars in a fifth funding round, the company appears to be winding do… Read more »
Rolling Stone magazine will release an iPad app companion this week for its The Beatles: The Ultimate Album-by-Album Guide book this week, a… Read more »
The New York Times is ready to start extending sales of its “all access” digital subscriptions across tablets and smartphones to companies a… Read more »
The latest installment of the Twilight movies, Breaking Dawn, enjoyed one of the top-grossing opening weekends of all time (for some inexpli… Read more »
Spotify is ready to launch in Belgium, Austria and Switzerland, possibly as early as this week, paidContent understands. Read more »
So a changing of the guard at mobile ad company 4INFO, which announced a funding round of $14 million just last month: Zaw Thet, the company… Read more »
Digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media is getting into e-singles with a new program, “Short Shots,” which will publish short-form fict… Read more »
Teenagers who founded their own start-ups could find themselves featured in titles from Backlit, a new young adult e-book publisher based in… Read more »
After years of employing an ad-hoc community-driven approach to mobile, one of the world’s biggest Web sites is going mobile in a much more… Read more »
AOL (NYSE: AOL) is bringing back former ad sales development head Janet Balis to lead sales strategy, marketing and partnerships for the com… Read more »
Book and magazine publisher Rodale is looking to some of its most popular magazines for content as it introduces e-originals this week. Firs… Read more »
News International has finally decided against introducing usage fees for The Sun’s website and is performing a restructure to place more em… Read more »
Cella Irvine, the digital advertising veteran who was ousted as CEO of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.’s About Group, will now be running… Read more »
Welsh-language broadcaster S4C must make significant corporate changes to turn around an online record that is weak, crude and years behind… Read more »
ITV (LSE: ITV) is making 10 dedicated online news producers redundant from regional newsrooms around the UK, as it tries to instill digital… Read more »
Judges this year have shot down two unorthodox tactics used by the entertainment industry to collect money from file-sharers. But that hasn’… Read more »
Lonely Planet has created a separate technology startup in San Francisco to develop next-generation social mobile travel guides together wit… Read more »
A couple of months after being jettisoned in an executive restructure, former AOL (NYSE: AOL) global advertising president Jeff Levick has s… Read more »
Now is kill-or-cure time for troubled UK TV-VOD service SeeSaw, which has not received promised investment.
Platform controller John Keelin… Read more »
Watching movies on Facebook isn’t new — Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), Paramount and Universal each are trying variations on the theme. But toda… Read more »
The value of 2D barcodes by print magazines looking to connect with reader’s mobile phone activity is getting a big test of with Glamour’s l… Read more »
I have seen the future of TV and it is called “Zeebox”. The next project from Anthony Rose, the technologist who built KaZaA and BBC iPlayer… Read more »
AOL’s post-HuffPost content restructuring is coming to Europe. It is closing its main music and sports sites in the UK – AOL Music and FanHo… Read more »
With the use of real-time bidding and “data management platforms” becoming more mainstream among advertisers, veteran behavioral targeter Al… Read more »
Tim Hanlon, the widely respected media buying agency vet who joined Interpublic Group’s Mediabrands last fall, is stepping down from his rol… Read more »
Jay Penske’s Mail.com Media Corp is simplifying things a bit by rebranding as PMC and promoting Chief Revenue Officer Aly Racer to the role… Read more »
A day after AOL (NYSE: AOL) held a gala presentation for analysts in New York’s Soho, execs are now descending on France for the week-long C… Read more »
Spotify’s global head of business development, Faisal Galaria, has left the music startup, which is now creeping closer to breaking out of E… Read more »
Bill Crandall is leaving his post as AOL’s VP of Branded Experiences to return to his previous company, Wenner Media, as head of digital con… Read more »
Steven Schwartz, who became Wenner Media’s first chief digital officer about 2-and-a-half years ago, is leaving the Rolling Stone publisher… Read more »
After three years in the position — and three straight quarters of decline, Cella Irvine is no longer CEO of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT)… Read more »
