Reuters Aims ‘Live Stream’ Video Service At News Site Partners
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Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is officially launching an online service offering live video access to breaking and scheduled news events to outside pu… Read more »
Halogen Media Acquires Social Marketer YouCast
For the past for years, there’s been a tug of war between paid media (aka “traditional advertising”) and earned media (“social media marketi… Read more »
Updated: AOL Vet Ruffolo Joining ABC News To Head Digital
In a surprising move, AOL (NYSE: AOL) vet Joe Ruffolo has been picked by Ben Sherwood as the new SVP of ABC (NYSE: DIS) News Digital, paidCo… Read more »
More Changes At Disney Online; Luckett Leaving, Maigret To Lead Innovation
So far the top jobs in the *Disney* Online re-org have gone to Disney (NYSE: DIS) newcomers — Mark Walker to head Disney.com, Brooke Chaffi… Read more »
Don’t Shoot The Messenger: Users Warm Up A Bit To Mobile Marketing
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Mobile operators have largely been cut out of the mobile content ecosystem as it has been developed by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), but there are sti… Read more »
Thumbplay Sells Its Ringtone Business To SendMe Mobile
Looks like game over for Thumbplay as a standalone entity: we have learned that the mobile content company’s last remaining asset — its rin… Read more »
Price Tag For Journalism Online Could Go As High As $45 Million
RR Donnelley execs aren’t talking — neither are Steve Brill and Gordon Crovitz, at least about deal details — but paidContent has learned… Read more »
Confirmed: Spotify Hiring Domino’s Savoca In U.S. Push
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Spotify is due to name independent label Domino Records’ long-time head of digital Steve Savoca as its U.S. content operations head, paidCon… Read more »
Disney Interactive Cuts Staff By Another 2 Percent In Second Layoff Round
In January, Disney (NYSE: DIS) Interactive Media Group quietly laid off around 200 staffers on the video games side following a review by ne… Read more »
Boxee Going Overseas, Launching TV Payments With CBS
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Having raised new venture funding last week, Boxee now plans to expand in to Europe whilst launching the payment platform that will become i… Read more »
NYT Gets Deeper Into The ‘Daily Deals’ Space With TimesLimited
The NYT is preparing to debut its own daily deals service called TimesLimited later this month. While a number of newspaper publishers have… Read more »
Update: Thumbplay Music Sold To Clear Channel; Fate Of Ringtone Ops Unknown
Update: Clear Channel announced that it is the media company buying the cloud-based music subscription service Thumbplay Music — a deal tha… Read more »
Pre-HuffPo Merger Changes At AOL; Eun Leaving, Brod To Be Arianna’s COO
Regulatory approval of AOL’s $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post is still pending but CEO Tim Armstrong already has a new struct… Read more »
Clayman: The Daily’s Free Trial Run Will Continue
News Corp.’s The Daily launched Feb. 2 with a two-week free trial sponsored by Verizon, ostensibly enough time to give potential subscribers… Read more »
Rothenberg Leaves Time Inc., Returns To IAB Following Griffin’s Ouster
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Despite a concerted effort by Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Randall Rothenberg is leaving his new job as chief digital officer to return to his j… Read more »
BBC Online Chief Huggers Leaving For Intel In Cost Cuts
The BBC’s most senior online executive, Erik Huggers, is leaving the corporation for Intel, prompting his Future Media & Technology division… Read more »
Roku Lands Its First Cable Channel
Roku is expected to announce Tuesday an unlikely addition to its programming lineup: WealthTV. This will mark the first time a cable channel… Read more »
Google, Weinstein Co. Strike Film Deal
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Given the pressure Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is under to land premium content deals for YouTube, you would think they would shout from the rooftop… Read more »
With Plans To Double Revenues, Atlantic Switches Gears On Premium iPad App
On the heels of last week’s news that the high brow culture and news publication The Atlantic posted its first profit “in decades” — and th… Read more »
Google Poaches Paramount Executive For Content Role
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has turned to Hollywood to fill out its content team, hiring Malik Ducard, who is currently senior vice president of dig… Read more »
Another Executive Exits Disney Digital: Paul Yanover
It’s over for Paul Yanover at Disney (NYSE: DIS) Online. The chief architect behind the rebuilding of Disney.com is leaving to “pursue new o… Read more »
Kevin Yen, Director Of Partnerships At YouTube, Leaves Google
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) veteran Kevin Yen is leaving the company, he announced via e-mail Friday. He worked at Google for over seven years, mos… Read more »
Bravo Builds Twitter Showcase @BravoTV
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Bravo has launched @BravoTV, a browser-based dashboard offering fans who use Twitter an enhanced environment for discussing the channel’s sh… Read more »
Myhrvold-Connected Firm Sues YouTube, Facebook And LinkedIn Over Patents
An obscure Virginia company, Pragmatus AV, has sued YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and Photobucket.com, claiming the companies infringe three o… Read more »
Martha Stewart Living’s iPad App Will Influence Content For Print
Less than two weeks after Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) released its first iPad app, it has introduced a second one that serve… Read more »
Times’ Digital Director Sandhu Is Leaving News Corp.
Times Newspapers’ digital director is leaving the company, after having relaunched the News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) titles as paid digital products… Read more »
Penske’s MMC Hires Digital Ad Vet Alyson Racer
Jay Penske’s Mail.com Media Corp, which has been buying up a storm this past year, is now making some big hires. Digital advertising vet Aly… Read more »
e5 Global Media Is Now Prometheus Global Media
It’s been 10 months since a consortium of investors formed e5 Global Media and bought Nielsen Read more »
NYT Replaces Editors’ Choice iPad App With Full Version — Free For Now
You expected more from The New York Times on the iPad? You’re getting it — and eventually, you’ll have to pay to get all of it. The NYTCo (… Read more »
Unable To Find A Better Exit, Qualcomm Cancels Consumer-Direct FLO TV
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(Update: Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) has now confirmed our report that is canceling FLO TV)
Qualcomm is shutting down its struggling direct-to-co… Read more »
Microsoft’s Secret Acquisition Spree
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A weekly look at a story that is defining the news.
Several reports that circulated this week claimed that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) had made… Read more »
FT’s Tilt Is A Pure-Play Digital News Site About Emerging Markets
The Financial Times is creating a separate, spin-off website covering emerging global markets.
We first reported about FT Tilt in July, whe… Read more »
Mirror Group Digital Chief Leaving To Head New Perform Business
The digital content director of Trinity Mirror’s national-level Mirror Group news group will leave in January to spearhead a new business di… Read more »
Pandora’s Ad Network Jumps From PC, Phone To TV, BluRay Players
After launching its own ad platform for the iPad this past summer, streaming radio player Pandora is making its ad system more at home. Late… Read more »
Glam To Step Up M&A Activity; MSFT’s Roston Tapped To Run Acquisitions
When it comes to doing acquisitions, blog network Glam Media hasn’t exactly shied away from using the $50 million mezzanine round it raised… Read more »
ESPN’s Newest Premium Apps Are For Insiders Only
While other publishers brag about surpassing single-copy sales on the iPad or look for ways to manage subscriptions outside of iTunes, ESPN… Read more »
News Corp Calls On Sun Online Editor For iPad Project
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Pete Picton, long-time editor of the Sun Online website in the UK, is leaving London to join parent News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) in New York.
Sun… Read more »
Looking For More Content, Ad Partners, iVillage Promotes Curbishley
The media personnel shifts keep on coming… iVillage is promoting John Curbishley from VP of strategy to SVP of Business Development, the N… Read more »
NBCU Digital Dealmaker Jessica Schell Shifting To Film At Universal
After nearly five years, Jessica Schell is leaving her post as SVP of NBC Universal’s digital strategy and business development to take on a… Read more »
U.S. News Partners With Loud3r On Content Aggregation Channels
U.S. News Media Group, the parent of monthly mag U.S. News and World Report, is working with content aggregator Loud3r on a series of real-t… Read more »
