Industry Moves: Channel M; Facebook; NetShelter; Grey Global
– Channel M: Peter Lee has been appointed CTO and chief strategy officer, focusing on building out the company’s digital distribution netwo… Read more »
– Channel M: Peter Lee has been appointed CTO and chief strategy officer, focusing on building out the company’s digital distribution netwo… Read more »
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 »
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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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 »
Despite the fact that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has withdrawn its offer to buy Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), the M&A machinery on all sides is still in f… Read more »
– 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 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 »
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 (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), AOL (NYSE: TWX), Facebook, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and others have banded together to fight a propose… Read more »
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 (NSDQ: RNWK), which has previously professed its supposedly neutral position in the copyright controversy over the popular Face… Read more »
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 »
Could be another blow to newspapers’ classified revenues: CareerBuilder and Facebook are working together to create campaigns for recruiters… Read more »
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 »
(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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
– 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 »
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 »
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 »
Social networks may be all the rage with consumers, but some media operators remain uncertain and downright fearful that syndicating content… Read more »
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 »
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 »
– AppleTV update launches after two week delay: Apple quietly launched its free AppleTV update this week, after having postponed the softwa… Read more »
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 »
Building off the success of its online developer platform, Facebook launched a mobile platform for wireless carriers today, according to IDG… Read more »
Despite the increasing popularity of social networking sites, Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Fox Interactive and others are st… Read more »
[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 »
[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 »
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 »
Irish ministers and development agencies are trying to tempt Facebook to the Emerald Isle, the Irish Times reports, claiming enterprise mini… Read more »
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 plans to release new features giving users more control over their privacy settings and messaging capabilities, according to its “W… Read more »
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 »
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 »
– Panasonic And Google Developing Internet TVs: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd’s Panasonic unit and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will team up… Read more »
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 is ready to counterattack Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) OpenSocial. The site revealed today that its Facebook Platform would be made availa… Read more »
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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