In Asia Push, LivingSocial Buys South Korea’s TicketMonster
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Furthering its expansion into the Asian market, LivingSocial is buying TicketMonster, South Korea’s largest daily deals site. Read more »
Some Lee Papers Adopt Metered Model, Even For Print Subscribers
For about the cost of “a trip to Starbucks,” six Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) newspapers in Montana and Wyoming are adopting a metered pay mo… Read more »
Citing Traffic Success, PBS Adds Pre-Roll, Considers UK Offering
U.S. viewers watched more than 145 million videos across all of PBS’s web and mobile platforms, making the non-profit broadcaster the 15th m… Read more »
Foursquare And Groupon Team Up On Daily Deals
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Foursquare is rapidly expanding its partnerships in the daily deal space. Starting today, Foursquare users will find Groupon’s daily and rea… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-29-11
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» Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Alibaba reach Alipay agreement (Release)
» Artists’ Family Fails To Recapture Copyrights For… Read more »
Investors Cold To Latest AOL Re-Shuffle
How long before investors lose patience with AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong? The former Google (NSDQ: GOOG) ad executive assumed control… Read more »
Where The Daily Deal Business Is Headed
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How many Keratin wraps, photography workshops and Hookah tokes does one person really need? After Groupon and LivingSocial, there are anothe… Read more »
@ Deals 3D: Foursquare, Yelp, Shopkick’s New Mobile Initiatives
photo: Tristan Walker
“Showing your phone to redeem a deal sucks,” said Tristan Walker, Foursquare’s director of business development, today at BIA/Kelsey’s Deals… Read more »
Gannett: Focus Is On Growning Digital Business, Not Margins
With Gannett’s digital revenues reliably growing by double digits for the past year, analysts on the company’s Q2 earnings call noted that t… Read more »
Yahoo Helps Boost Digital At Local Gannett Papers; USAT Digital Revs Jump
The growth rate for Gannett’s local newspaper websites’ ad revenues in Q2 have held steady with last year’s results, thanks in part to the s… Read more »
Les Hinton: The News International Years As Rupert’s ‘Consigliere’
Over the past three-and-a-half years, Les Hinton had made a name for himself in the U.S. as something of a turnaround specialist, making goo… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-14-11
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» Swedish freemium music service Spotify is finally live in the U.S. Invite-only access and subscriptions started this morning. (… Read more »
BBC.com Says It’s In The Black, Two Years Ahead Of Schedule
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BBC’s push to make money from its overseas businesses, particularly online, had a good boost this morning, when the international site, BBC.… Read more »
Orange Links Up With Dailymotion For Ads, Seeks The Next Don Draper
When the multinational operator France Telecom/Orange announced that it was taking an $80-million, 49-percent stake in the online video site… Read more »
O2 Wants A Shot At The Local Deals Game With Priority Moments
The crowded world of mobile local offer apps has today sworn in another citizen. O2 Priority Moments, from the Telefonica-owned mobile opera… Read more »
Google Earnings Preview: All Eyes On Mobile, Social, Local (and Larry)
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Wall Street analysts expect Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to deliver solid earnings results Thursday afternoon, but investors who have seen the compan… Read more »
Mochila’s Bekkedahl Jumps To Gilt Groupe; McEvoy Promoted To Revenue Head
Gilt City, the local-focused arm of online luxury discount shopper Gilt Groupe, has hired publishing vet Caroline Bekkedahl from content syn… Read more »
Everyday Health Moves From Online To TV With Syndicated Series
Wellness news and info online network Everyday Health is getting its own TV program during the Saturday morning block following Good Morning… Read more »
Google Shares Take a Hit After Morgan Stanley Downgrade
Is Google (NSDQ: GOOG) finally falling out of favor with Wall Street? While many analysts remain bullish on the web search giant, Morgan Sta… Read more »
Armstrong: Moving 53 Brands Into 20 Provides Better Focus
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AOL’s move to funnel its 53 sites into 20 “super brands” (listed below) is meant to offer a streamlined, more coherent set of content brands… Read more »
In Latest AOL Shakeup, Brod To Focus On Patch With Mapquest Thrown In; Memo
A few months after being named COO of the Huffington Post Media Group (NYSE: AOL), Jon Brod’s responsibilities are being narrowed to focus o… Read more »
Gothamist Begins Experiment In Long-Form — And Well-Paying — Journalism
Who says no one wants to read long-form articles on the web? The flagship of local news and culture blog network Gothamist hopes to torpedo… Read more »
CityGrid Tries To Spur Developers To Feature Local Businesses In Apps
The promise of mobile advertising is resting more and more on local targeting efforts, but the practice is not necessarily as easy as it sou… Read more »
Study: Within Four Years, 70 Percent Of All Mobile Ads Will Be Local
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U.S. mobile ad spend is expected to balloon to $4 billion in 2015, up from just $790 million last year, according to the latest projections… Read more »
Citing Weak Economy, Gannett Turns To Job Cuts, Furloughs
With the economy looking a bit weaker than it was at the start of the year, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) has returned to layoffs at its 80 U.S. commu… Read more »
Armstrong: ‘Certain’ Patch Outlets Will Be Profitable By End Of This Year
During a Q&A break from the presentations at AOL’s Analyst Day, CEO Tim Armstrong and several other executives took a range of questions abo… Read more »
Fwix Rolls Out Geo-Context Tool; ‘LatLong’ Is The New Keyword
Hyperlocal tech company Fwix has rolled out a tool for publishers to use to tie ads closer to local content. The beta test has begun with ex… Read more »
Zynga’s Next Mobile Step: Crossing The Border With ‘CityVille Hometown’
It was only two weeks ago that Zynga gave us a peek at its new push into social mobile gaming, with its new release of the hangman-inspired,… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-10-11
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» Huffpo Tops NY Times in Traffic, But With a Huge Asterisk (Mixed Media)
» A Federal Study Finds That Local Reportin… Read more »
FCC Report Cites Lack Of Local News, But Has No Ideas To Fill The Gap
The FCC has produced a 478-page report on the state of the media in the digital age, and-no surprise-the report has found a big gap in watch… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-6-11: Apple WWDC Spoofs; Carrier App Billing; Foursquare
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: hours before we start to hear the real news, some spoofed speculations on what we might s… Read more »
New E-Commerce Site Hive Strikes Unusual Partnership With Indie Bookstores
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Do you love your independent bookstore so much that you’d order a book online and then drive to the store to pick it up? Hive, a new website… Read more »
Groupon CEO To Potential Investors: At Times Will Be A ‘Bumpy Ride’
Andrew Mason has no problems being viewed as a quirky guy. Indeed, he thrives on it, as exhibited by his insistence that his grimacing Illin… Read more »
Updated: Groupon Files For $750 Million IPO
Deals startup Groupon is going public. The Chicago-based company, which opted for independence rather than be acquired by Google (NSDQ: GOOG… Read more »
Main Street Connect’s Most Ambitious Launch Yet
Hyperlocal network Main Street Connect has rolled out 32 community-based news sites in its biggest launch to date. The areas covered by the… Read more »
Online Ad Spend Continued To Surge In Q1; Google Overtakes Yahoo In Display
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Following last year’s dramatic comeback in online ad spending, the industry was expecting things to cool down this year. So far, that hasn’t… Read more »
Microsoft’s WP7 Mango: “You Can’t Have Too Many Features These Days”
Windows Phone 7 has not made a much of a dent yet in the worldwide smartphone market — it has less than a four percent share worldwide, acc… Read more »
Lead Gen Provider Yodle Buys Local SEO Specialist ProfitFuel
Local online marketing firm Yodle acquired ProfitFuel, a company that provides search engine optimization services to small businesses. The… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-23-11
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» Sony (NYSE: SNE) to report $3.2 billion loss as it struggles with production disruptions, hacker attack (AP)
» 30,0… Read more »
Hyperlocal Network Main Street Connect Buys CentralMassNews
Main Street Connect, which owns 10 hyperlocal news sites in Connecticut, is expanding its portfolio significantly: The company has just pick… Read more »
