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Twitter App Maker UberMedia Buys Social News Site Mixx

Jan 24, 2011 4:15 PM

UberMedia, which is behind Twitter clients like Echofon and Twidroyd, has purchased Digg-like news site Mixx. On Mixx, users post interesting stories, photos, or videos and vote and comment on those that others submit; it also lets publishers set up “channels” that aggregate social chatter related to a specific topic…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Community, Nanopublishing, News Sharing, Companies, Google, Android, Twitter, mixx, ubermedia

Gawker’s Denton: Twitter’s Audience ‘Too Elite’; Blogs Look Ludicrous

Sep 27, 2010 11:32 AM

In general, online media needs to turn itself into TV, said Gawker Media head Nick Denton, identified in this week’s New York magazine as the “demon blogger of Fleet Street,” in a Q&A with AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka at the IAB’s Mixx 2010 conference. “It means a screen which is less…

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Posted In: Marketing, Media & Publishing, Online News, Social Media, Events, Companies, Apple, iPhone, mixx, nick denton

How Publishing And Advertising Are Redefining Media

Sep 27, 2010 10:46 AM

It’s Advertising Week in New York and at many of the conferences and workshops the big topic is the blurring of the lines between of advertising and publishing. That has led to a mixture of hope and confusion on the part of companies on both sides of that divide. In…

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Posted In: Advertising, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Events, Companies, Hearst, mixx

Social News Site Mixx Adds $2 Million From Intersouth

Feb 25, 2008 1:19 PM

McLean, VA-based Mixx, a Digg-like social news site, has raised an additional $2 million from past investor Intersouth Partners. In addition to its first raise last October, the company has taken a strategic investment from the LA Times. The funding coincides with the recent launch of several new features, including…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, intersouth partners, la times, mixx

LA Times Invests In Social News Site Mixx

Dec 4, 2007 1:26 PM

Mixx, a social news startup from McLean, VA which announced its first round funding in October, has now added an interesting strategic investor: Los Angeles Times, part of the the hopefully-soon-to-be-private Tribune. Mixx is a bit like Digg, though for non-geeks, and LAT will now integrate the service within its…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Social Media, la times, latimes, mixx

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