Industry Moves: Channel M; Facebook; NetShelter; Grey Global
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Google Execs ‘Divided’ On Yahoo Search Deal; AOL Talks Continue Without Urgency: Report
By Joseph Weisenthal
Where have all Yahoo’s Plan Bs gone? In the days before Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) withdrew its bid for the company, it put out word that it was… Read more »
Coming Soon To The Endangered Species List: Online Ad Sales Teams?
By David Kaplan
The self-serve ads option has been all the rage for search ads the last few years. Increasingly, now, do-it-yourself is becoming similarly p… Read more »
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Gates Says Microsoft Will Go Own Way; Obligatory Facebook Call Happened
By Rafat Ali
As Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) tries to recover from the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) bid, and even as everyone understands this will not be the end of the… Read more »
Who Will Microsoft Buy Now With the $50 Billion Change Left? AOL? Facebook?
By Rafat Ali
Despite the fact that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has withdrawn its offer to buy Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), the M&A machinery on all sides is still in f… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: C4 Catch Up; Gurgle Books; Cheapflights; Virgin Radio TV; ITV Social Support
By Dianne See Morrison
– Online Catch Up For Channel 4: Channel 4 has rolled out a free seven-day catch-up service on channel4.com, reports NMA.co.uk. The clic… Read more »
Orange Offering Free Access To Facebook And MySpace To Drive Usage Of Orange World Portal
By Dianne See Morrison
Orange is dangling free access to Facebook and MySpace to its pre-pay users in hopes of driving up usage at its Orange World portal, reports… Read more »
Social App Incubator Buddy Media Raises $6.5 Million Second Round
By Joseph Weisenthal
Buddy Media, a developer of social networking apps, has raised a $6.5 million second round from Softbank, European Founders Fund, Greycroft… Read more »
Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Others Unite To Fight NYS Ad Targeting Bill; FTC Ending Comments On Regs
By David Kaplan
Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), AOL (NYSE: TWX), Facebook, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and others have banded together to fight a propose… Read more »
Facebook On Verge Of Settling ConnectU Lawsuit: Report
By Joseph Weisenthal
Facebook is close to settling a lingering legal nuisance over its origin, reports Brad Stone at Bits. The company was sued by the founders o… Read more »
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RealNetworks Doesn’t Buy Scrabulous; Launches Own Version Instead
By Rafat Ali
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), which has previously professed its supposedly neutral position in the copyright controversy over the popular Face… Read more »
Flixster Raises $5 Million Of Planned $8 Million Second Round; No Sale
By Joseph Weisenthal
So Flixster finally decided not to sell (or, that no one was willing to pay its blue-sky valuation hopes): the movie-based social service th… Read more »
Facebook And CareerBuilder Collaborate On Targeted Ads – With Users’ Permission, Of Course
By David Kaplan
Could be another blow to newspapers’ classified revenues: CareerBuilder and Facebook are working together to create campaigns for recruiters… Read more »
Updated: Facebook Investor Li Ka-Shing Upping Stake To $120 Million: Report
By Joseph Weisenthal
Hong Kong mogul and Facebook investor Li Ka-Shing has reportedly increased his investment in the social networking site from $60 million to… Read more »
@ SxSW: Keynote: Mark Zuckerberg: More To Facebook Than Valuation, Microsoft
By Joseph Weisenthal
(Update: The video of the session is here online, on Austin-American’s website.) Take a wild guess why that’s a picture of a screen broadcas… Read more »
SuperPoke, FunWall Seek UK Ads For Social Widgets
Look out, pokers! Just in time for “Facebook fatigue”, Slide – perhaps more commonly known for its slideshow widget – is about to put Britis… Read more »
Facebook Continues Music Biz Outreach; Moves Appear To Mirror MySpace: Report
By David Kaplan
We reported on this first in October, Facebook has been setting up meetings with music industry executives as the social net tries to find t… Read more »
Industry Moves: Facebook Hires Google Ad Exec Sheryl Sandberg As COO; Fills #2 Gap
By Joseph Weisenthal
Facebook is set to announce the hire of Sheryl Sandberg, VP of vice president, Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, as its new COO,… Read more »
Round-Up: VideoJug/MySpace; Glasgow Hyperlocal; Facebook Deutsche
– VideoJug: I’m not sure when starting a MySpace profile qualified as a “deal”, but that’s what Telegraph.co.uk and Media Week say Canary… Read more »
Will RealNetworks End Up Buying Scrabulous?
By Rafat Ali
I had the exact same thought that Om had after I read the NYT piece last night AND when RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) PR sent out a note about… Read more »
@ MPA: Facebook’s Van Natta On The Lessons Of Beacon; No Hints On Future Plans
By David Kaplan
In his MPA Q&A with Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick, Owen Van Natta didn’t offer any further hints about his future plans when he leaves his pos… Read more »
@ FT Digital Media Conference: Media Owners Reduced To Organ Donors?
By Dianne See Morrison
Social networks may be all the rage with consumers, but some media operators remain uncertain and downright fearful that syndicating content… Read more »
Facebook Audience Falls Five Percent: A Blip Or An Exodus?
After growing its UK audience for 17 straight months, Facebook’s British unique visitor count fell five percent from December to January, Ni… Read more »
Facebook’s Owen Van Natta To Leave
By Rafat Ali
Owen Van Natta, the chief revenue officer of Facebook who by some accounts was demoted from his earlier position of COO, is leaving the comp… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: AppleTV; MSNBC.com; Mars-Facebook; HarperCollins; Tiscali; Dennis
– AppleTV update launches after two week delay: Apple quietly launched its free AppleTV update this week, after having postponed the softwa… Read more »
Marketing Services Provider Lookery Raises $900K Seed Round
Lookery, a marketing solutions provider for social networking sites, has raised a seed fund of $900,000 led by Charles River Ventures, Reed… Read more »
Facebook’s New Mobile Platform Launches With Vodafone In Germany And U.K.
By Tricia Duryee
Building off the success of its online developer platform, Facebook launched a mobile platform for wireless carriers today, according to IDG… Read more »
Slow-Going For Social Net Ad Revenues; Will MSFT+YHOO Spur It?
By David Kaplan
Despite the increasing popularity of social networking sites, Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Fox Interactive and others are st… Read more »
Nokia And Facebook Working On Mobile Deal; Could Involve Investment
By David Kaplan
[by David Kaplan and Rafat Ali] Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Facebook are working on porting the social network on to Nokia handsets in a major way… Read more »
Nokia And Facebook Working On Mobile Deal; Could Involve Investment
By David Kaplan
[by David Kaplan and Rafat Ali] Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Facebook are working on porting the social network on to Nokia handsets in a major way… Read more »
@ CMO Leadership Forum: YouTube, Facebook Offer Social Media 101 For CMOs
By David Kaplan
As he began an afternoon panel discussion on social media at Argyle’s CMO Leadership Forum in New York, Doug Weaver, president of digital ad… Read more »
Ireland Sends Facebook Friend Request; Will Zuckerberg Accept?
Irish ministers and development agencies are trying to tempt Facebook to the Emerald Isle, the Irish Times reports, claiming enterprise mini… Read more »
Facebook Gets Investment From German Online Entrepreneurs Samwer Brothers; Between $10M-$15M
By Rafat Ali
Updated below: Facebook is continuing to raise money, though this one seems to be a relatively smaller amount and mainly strategic for Europ… Read more »
Facebook To Add More Privacy Controls, Mass Messaging; Zuckerberg On '60 Minutes'
Facebook plans to release new features giving users more control over their privacy settings and messaging capabilities, according to its “W… Read more »
CondeNet Reworks Flip.com As Social Net App Starting With Facebook; Site Will Remain
By David Kaplan
CondeNet is remaking its teen-focused community site Flip.com into an app that will live on other social nets. The first to get the new Flip… Read more »
Buddy Media Acquires Facebook Apps From ChipIn
By Joseph Weisenthal
NYC-based Buddy Media, an incubator of sorts for Facebook apps, has acquired apps from ChipIn. The deal’s size was unannounced, although Inc… Read more »
CES Wire: Panasonic And Google; AOL; TiVo; Sony
– Panasonic And Google Developing Internet TVs: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd’s Panasonic unit and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will team up… Read more »
Facebook Settles Text-Messaging Lawsuit; Says It Will Enact Better Controls
By Carlo Longino
Facebook has settled the lawsuit an Indiana woman filed against it a few months ago, reports the AP. The woman alleged that she’d received a… Read more »
Facebook Counters OpenSocial; Bebo Playing Both Sides
By Joseph Weisenthal
Facebook is ready to counterattack Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) OpenSocial. The site revealed today that its Facebook Platform would be made availa… Read more »
Ad Agencies Show Willingness To Forgive Facebook’s Beacon Missteps
By David Kaplan
The concern over Facebook’s Beacon ad system appears to be waning quickly into a non-factor among media buyers, Mediaweek reports. Not only… Read more »
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