Phorm Raises Yet Another £30 Million, Valuing Itself At £100 Million
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Phorm, the controversial targeted web ads company that fled to Brazil after privacy concerns blocked its domestic UK fortunes, is taking yet… Read more »
Meredith’s Marketing Push Goes Global With Stake In Iris
Meredith Corp. (NYSE: MDP), the publisher of women’s magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle and local TV operator, has… Read more »
Crowdsourced Navigation App Waze Takes $30 Million To Launch In China
Remember the days when GPS satellite navigation apps were one of the most expensive categories of mobile apps? Some still have premium price… Read more »
A&N Merging Its Property Sites With Zoopla To Beat Rightmove
Mail Online operator A&N Media is pulling a bold and unexpected move that has finally placed it ahead of market-leading Rightmove. Read more »
LocalResponse Raises $5 Million For ‘Check-In’ Ads
LocalResponse, the “check-in” ad network formerly known as Buzzd, has raised $5 million to build up its sales team as it tries to attract ag… Read more »
Sainsbury’s Supermarket Buying Media Vault To Launch Digital Content Retail
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J. Sainsbury’s is spending £1 ($1.56) million to buy Global Media Vault, a white-label digital entertainment distribution vendor, to power… Read more »
Mobile App Maker Future Platforms Sells To Vexed Digital Agency
Future Platforms, which made mobile apps for Orange, AA, the BBC and Lastminute.com, is being bought by the Vexed Digital agency of London. Read more »
Is Consolidation In Mobile Ads Overrated? Madvertise Raises $10 Million
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We have seen some evidence of consolidation in mobile advertising, but if anything, there seem to be even more signs of investors looking to… Read more »
RIM, Chasing Its Own iCloud, Buys NewBay For $100 Million
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Here’s an acquisition that has come unexpectedly, but not surprisingly: BlackBerry and PlayBook maker RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has bought New Bay, a… Read more »
Sony Gives A Big “No Comment” On Sony Ericsson Buyout Reports
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has declined to comment on reports that it is considering a bid to buy out Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) from its Sony Ericsson han… Read more »
Update: Nuance’s Swype Buy Could See The Text Input System Go Large
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The other day, when a plane I was on landed in Newark, I noticed the elderly woman sitting next to me pull out a Droid Bionic and start answ… Read more »
Mediabrands Acquires Social Marketer Spring Creek
Interpublic Group’s media agency and digital hub Mediabrands has acquired social marketing agency Spring Creek Group. The deal, terms of whi… Read more »
Three Years Later, Microsoft Attempting Another Bid For Yahoo?
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) shareholders rue the day when merger talks between the company and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) broke down three years ago, but… Read more »
Federated Media Buys Blog Search Tool Lijit Networks
About five months after raising a $10 million fifth round, blog search tools provider Lijit Networks has been sold to blog network Federated… Read more »
Mobile Ad Consolidation Continues: Fetch Media Buys Lucidity Mobile
Some more signs of consolidation in the mobile advertising and marketing space, this time on the agency side: UK-based Fetch Media has bough… Read more »
Intel Looks For Revenue From Location Services, Buys Telmap
Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has made no secret of its interest to be a more central player in the mobile space and now it’s showing us the money, too… Read more »
Report: Amazon Wants To Buy WebOS; That Could Mean Kindle Phones, PCs Too
HP’s WebOS is up in the air and we now have a new player that apparently wants to catch it: Amazon, the upstart etailer that come to dominat… Read more »
Halo Networks Gets £1.6 Million First Round To Offload Mobile Data To WiFi
The high cost of mobile data — not just for consumers but for mobile operators facing huge traffic on their networks with the rise of smart… Read more »
Ad Optimizer Yieldex Raises $10 Million From Hearst, Amazon
Yieldex, which offers services designed to protect publishers’ pricing from the the downward pressure often brought by ad exchanges and ad n… Read more »
China’s ‘Facebook’ RenRen Buys China’s ‘YouTube’ 56.com
A fusion of social and video in China… Renren, the social network which listed on Wall Street this spring, is acquiring the user-uploaded… Read more »
IMImobile Buys In To Mobile Broadcasting By Acquiring App Maker Skinkers
Skinkers, the veteran Microsoft-funded maker of desktop alert apps and, latterly, mobile apps, is being bought by Indian mobile infrastructu… Read more »
TechMediaNetwork Raises $33 Million For Acquisitions
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Tech and science publisher TechMediaNetwork has raised $33 million in a second round as it looks to add its content roster with a series of… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-26-11
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» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks (NYT)
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Mobile Interactive Group Buys Digital Jigsaw, Seeks More Cross-Platform Biz
Some more consolidation in the digital marketing space, with one of the UK’s bigger mobile specialists, Mobile Interactive Group, showing th… Read more »
Mediabank Merges With Donovan; Combined Company Called ‘MediaOcean’
Both Donovan Data Systems and MediaBank have been working to expand the methods of online media buying and selling to traditional media thro… Read more »
Love It Or Hate It, Business Insider Raises $7 Million Round
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Financial and media news online site network Business Insider has raised $7 million for what founder and editor Henry Blodget says will be a… Read more »
Twitter Now Accepts Political Ads; Acquires Julpan
As the 2012 campaign for the White House starts heating up, Twitter says it will start accepting political advertising. Starting today, cand… Read more »
Adchemy Gets Microsoft Backing; Krux Funding Expands Ties To IDG
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With audience buying becoming the primary focus on online ad spending, analytics is likely to remain a hot funding area for some time. And t… Read more »
Japan’s E-commerce Giant Rakuten Buying Play.com For £25 Million
It’s not all about online content distribution, you know?
Play.com, the UK site that sells games, movies, music and more on ye olde plastic… Read more »
Glam CEO Samir Arora: No Plans To Force Ning Advertising Rev Share
Why buy Ning? Aside from the obvious aspects — more scale and better stats for a possible IPO, an expanded ad network, subscription revenue… Read more »
Andreessen’s Ning Finds Its Exit; Acquired By Glam Media
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Co-founded by Marc Andreessen, Ning, once among the highest-profile social network startups, gave up on its grandest plans a while ago and d… Read more »
Top10.com Scores $3.5 Million For Its Website Of Lists
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How much does it cost to make a website full of other people’s lists? $3.5 million, if you are Top10.com. Read more »
Africa’s Umuntu Gets $1 Million To Build Web And Mobile Portals
Of all the markets, Africa is perhaps talked about least in a digital media context. Now Umuntu Media, which operates the iNamibia and iZamb… Read more »
Update: Google Buys Groupon Clone And Launches Wallet In Quest For Commerce
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) at the moment gets the vast majority of its revenues from its huge advertising business, but today we saw two examples o… Read more »
Mobile Ad Network InMobi Takes Huge $200 Million Investment From Softbank
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Very big news today for the mobile advertising world, and a major boost for the mobile ad network InMobi: the company has just announced tha… Read more »
Excite Europe Owner Buys A Blog Network To Chase Content Heft
Dublin- and Rome-based blog network and Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) lookalike Populis is buying its second blog network of the year. Read more »
MyVideoRights Takes Money And Changes Name For Global Device Assault
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The online video rights exploitation company helmed by former The Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie’s son has raised £2.75 million to fund develo… Read more »
Wal-Mart Buys Ad Targeter OneRiot
WalMart may be better known for its great savings for shoppers, but it’s also becoming known for its acquisitions of online advertising comp… Read more »
SeeSaw Crunch Time: Execs Leave Amid Restructure As Channel 5 Disappears
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Now is kill-or-cure time for troubled UK TV-VOD service SeeSaw, which has not received promised investment.
Platform controller John Keelin… Read more »
Penthouse Owner Swaps New Stock For Asian Daily Deals Site
What do you get when you cross Groupon with a porn site? FriendFinder Networks is about to find out.
The Penthouse publisher and adult soci… Read more »
