Reuters Taps Slate’s James Ledbetter As Website Editor
Two months after the Slate Group folded its business news site The Big Money, its former editor-in-chief James Ledbetter is heading to Reute… Read more »
Election Season Inspires Fox News’ Paid iPhone App
The period after Labor Day marks the official start of the political season, so Fox News believes it’s the right time to introduce its first… Read more »
TV Producers Will Oppose BBC iPlayer For UK Travelers
Independent television producers have vowed to block making BBC iPlayer accessible to UK license payers whilst abroad, just hours after BBC… 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 »
This Isn’t FarmVille: Playboy Kicks Off Gaming Label With ‘Poisonville’
Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) is forming a new video game label this year as part of a wider digital strategy to make its brand more mains… Read more »
iVillage Takes Over Display Sales For New Partner QualityHealth
NBC Universal’s iVillage is continuing to build up its wellness offerings, this time with a partnership with QualityHealth. In an interview… Read more »
ITV Names Global Radio’s Pembrooke Online MD
Global Radio’s online and interactive director Robin Pembrooke is leaving to fill the vacant managing director post of ITV.com at the UK’s l… Read more »
Google Hires BBC News Exec To Woo Publishers
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is hiring BBC News’ head of development and rights, Madhav Chinnappa, to its partnerships team for Europe, the Middle Ea… Read more »
Hyperlocal Gets Highbrow In Public TV Online Video Joint Venture
A large part of success is making the right connections early on. That lesson isn’t lost on the start-up Capital New York, a literary and cu… Read more »
Spot Runner To ‘Phase Out’ Malibu Media Buying Platform
Nearly a year after its long-planned launch, web-based TV creative ad agency Spot Runner is phasing out its Malibu Media Platform, paidConte… 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 »
Local Guide Publisher Relaunches With New Strategy (And Name)
DirectoryM, an online directory publisher that had raised more than $20 million in funding but was later sold back to its employees at a big… Read more »
Sean Ryan To Head Games For News Corp. Digital
In April, News Corp acquired social gaming developer Irata Labs but said it would be separate from potentially obvious existing properties l… Read more »
News Corp. Sells Beliefnet To BN Media; Layoffs Begin
Beliefnet, the multi-faith-based news and discussion site, has laid off a “great number” of staffers today in advance of News Corp.’s sale o… Read more »
Vodafone Invests In Testing Startup Perfecto Mobile
Vodafone’s venture capital arm is making a “strategic” investment in Perfecto Mobile, an Israeli startup that lets companies test their mobi… Read more »
Increased Focus On Real-Time Bids, Asia Prompts Rubicon Reorg
The Rubicon Project is doing a mix of hiring and firing as it brings in more automated services to meet clients’ demand for real-time biddin… Read more »
PCUK/Harris Poll: Quarter Of Times Readers Likely To Pay Online
There are plenty of outside guesstimates at how successful The Times and Sunday Times new websites may be when they start charging this mont… Read more »
Travel Site Trazzler Reveals Its Backers: Case, Williams, Dorsey, Others
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Back in December, travel startup Trazzler told us it had raised $750,000 from an “all-star team of angel investors” — but wouldn’t say who… Read more »
MOG Adds Sony Music Artist Sites To Its Ad Network
A big win for online music startup MOG on the heels of its $10 million funding round: The company has now added Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music Enter… Read more »
Newsweek Sale Book: First Bids Due By June 2; Complete Financials
When the Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) announced that Newsweek was for sale, the top-line numbers we pulled out of SEC documents weren’t n… Read more »
ConDems Won’t Repeal UK’s Digital Economy Act
All those angry digital liberties campaigners? They shouldn’t get their hopes up too much about the Digital Economy Act under a new governme… Read more »
T-Mobile USA Shutters Developer Program Amidst App Boom
T-Mobile USA has decided to shut down its nearly two-year-old developer program that allowed applications to be automatically submitted to i… Read more »
Interview: iVillage’s Kahn: From Beauty To Pregnancy, To Mobile And Premium
Since NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) acquired iVillage for $600 million four years ago, the women’s content network has tried a variety of ways to… Read more »
Russia’s Quintura Raises $1 Million For Mobile Visual Search
Russian visual search vendor Quintura says it’s raised $1 million to make in-roads in to mobile search. Quintura CEO Yakov Sadchikov didn’t… Read more »
Tercek Out As OWN Digital Head; Vision Differed From CEO’s Plans
His LinkedIn profile still says president of OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Digital Network but paidContent has learned — and confirmed with the co… Read more »
Another Yahoo Executive Headed To Demand Media?
Erika Nardini, the VP of brand packaging at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), announced her resignation today, sources tell us. At Yahoo, Nardini reported… Read more »
EveryBlock Partners With SeeClickFix To Add Local Complaints To Its Feeds
EveryBlock — the MSNBC Interactive-owned hyperlocal aggregator — is bulking up its site with data from SeeClickFix, a startup that lets an… Read more »
TheWrap Raises $2 Million in Second Round, From Maveron, Others
TheWrap.com, the Hollywood business focused blog started by former NYT Hollywood correspondent Sharon Waxman, has closed a $2 million secon… Read more »
Updated: Right Media’s Bill Wise Leaving Yahoo
Bill Wise is leaving Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), paidContent has learned and the company has confirmed. Wise, who was president of Right Media when… Read more »
Updated: IAC, DJ Shutting Down Personal Finance JV FiLife Following Dramatic Traffic Decline
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IAC (NSDQ: IACI) and Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) are shutting down FiLife today, paidContent has learned and IAC has confirmed. We reported last m… Read more »
T-Mobile USA’s CMO Denny Marie Post Steps Down
T-Mobile USA’s Chief Marketing Officer Denny Marie Post has resigned from the Bellevue, Wash.-based company to start her own consultancy out… Read more »
HuffPo Launching New Verticals, Expanding Into Food And Arts
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The Huffington Post is continuing to broaden its horizons beyond news and political opinion with two new verticals this month. The first, la… Read more »
QuadrantOne CEO Andy Ellenthal Resigning; Peer39 Possible Destination
Andy Ellenthal is leaving as CEO of quadrantONE, the national online newspaper ad alliance, paidContent has learned. Ellenthal, who was trav… Read more »
PeopleJam Founder Matt Edelman Named CEO of Social Shopper ThisNext
Fresh from a new round of funding and a high-profile acquisition, shopping recommendation and related lifestyles site ThisNext has tapped Pe… Read more »
NBA Heads Into Playoffs With Free ‘Coffee Table’ iPad App
Some sports publishers see the iPad as a chance to start charging for apps or perhaps up the fees. Not so for the National Basketball Associ… Read more »
First Look: New Times Pay-For Websites
Here is a sneak preview of the upcoming new The Times and Sunday Times websites, which will relaunch in May and will be paid-only from June.… Read more »
Updated: Android’s Secret Sauce? Google’s Advertising Rev-Share Deals With Carriers
photo: Tricia Duryee
UPDATE: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) provided a statement today, saying that it is sharing advertising revenues with carrier and handset partners, bu… Read more »
Local Blog Network Gothamist Being Bought by Cablevision’s Rainbow Media
Gothamist, the local city blog network that is best known for its New York City edition, is being acquired by Cablevision-owned Rainbow Medi… Read more »
Is FiLife Running On Borrowed Time?
Less than two months after talking up the turnaround at Dow Jones-IAC (NSDQ: IACI) personal finance JV FiLife, paidContent has learned the s… Read more »
TMZ Courts Bigger Advertisers With New, Softer-News Website
Celebrity gossip site TMZ has quietly unveiled a gentler fashion-oriented offshoot called Too Fab. Although TMZ maintains high traffic — Fe… Read more »
