Trinity Mirror Buying Further In To Digital Marketing Services
UK news publisher Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is continuing to build up its digital marketing business by acquiring Sunderland-based email mar… Read more »
Unruly Raises $25 Million For Social Video Advertising
Already in our headlines today for a hiccup over its Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Chrome campaign, Unruly Media, which makes video campaigns designed… Read more »
I'll Drink To That: Tequila Mobile Picks Up $1.7 Million, 6 Million Gamers
More money for European tech startups: Wroclaw, Poland based mobile games publisher Tequila Mobile has announced a $1.7 round of funding, as… Read more »
SoundCloud Adds $50 Million And Meeker For U.S. Expansion
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Almost a year to the day after it last took funding, audio-hosting service SoundCloud is taking a further round from new investors. Read more »
What's Coming In 2012: Digital Advertising, Up Close And Personal
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This is the fifth in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cov… Read more »
Online Video Sales Growing In China
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Online video is becoming a fast-growing business in China, as well as the west. Read more »
Cotendo Finds $268 Million In Its Christmas Stocking, Courtesy of Akamai
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Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM) has snapped up a content-delivery network focused on improving video distribution to mobile devices. Cotendo received an… Read more »
Rhapsody Now Has One Million Music Subs In The U.S. Next Stop: Europe
It’s taken ten years, and a last leg up by way of an acquisition of a competitor, but Rhapsody says that it has finally reached one million… Read more »
Highlights Of 2011: The Year In Advertising, By The Numbers
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This is the fourth in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we c… Read more »
New Advertising JV In UK: Hi-Media Partners With Weborama
A bit of consolidation in the online advertising world in the UK, and another step to strengthen the ad-exchange business model: Hi-Media, t… Read more »
Apple Buys Israeli Flash Storage Maker In $500 Million Deal
Apple has bought Israel’s Anobit, a maker of flash storage technology, for up to $500 million (£319 million), the Calcalist financial daily… Read more »
Nuance, Vlingo Stop Idle Chitchat And Team Up To Challenge Apple's Siri
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Nuance has acquired Vlingo in a combination of two of the most prominent independent speech companies left, as mobile companies continue to… Read more »
AOL Ponies Up For Appssavvy's $7.1 Million Round As Social Ads Make Friends
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One of the consequences of the growth of social media has been the rise of that category of digital, interactive advertising referred to as… Read more »
Updated: AT&T Kills Bid For T-Mobile, Citing Government Opposition
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AT&T (NYSE: T) formally ended its $39 billion acquisition bid for T-Mobile Monday, bemoaning the strong opposition from the U.S. government… Read more »
New York Times Selling Regional Papers To Halifax Media Group
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The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is selling its 15 regional newspapers to the Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Halifax Media Group, according to repo… Read more »
Cox Media Group Plants $6 Million In Content Farm Skyword
Broadcasting, publishing and marketing group Cox Media Group is putting down some more roots in digital media investments: it has announced… Read more »
News Corp./Time Warner's Prince Alwaleed Invests $300 Million In Twitter
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TW… Read more »
Game On Or Game Over? Zynga Opens Above IPO Price But Then Drops
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The long-awaited IPO of social games giant Zynga has finally arrived, but those hoping for quick, early flips of the stock may end up having… Read more »
Perform Buying Soccerway.com And WatchandTrade Sport Sites
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Digital sports rights company Perform has bought out two online sports firms in deals worth almost £10 ($15.55)m. Read more »
Rovio Still Talking Up A Mickey Mouse IPO, Now In Hong Kong
Is Rovio’s floatation ever going to happen? For some time now, we’ve been reading chatter about an imminent IPO.
The latest date is 2013, t… Read more »
ePub Direct Funded To Supply E-Books To Kindle, iBooks Et Al
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If print book costs major on distributing boxes of dead trees, what price the e-book fulfilment sector? Read more »
Zynga IPO Could Challenge Google's High Score
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Zynga, the social gaming company behind Farmville, Words With Friends and other online games, is preparing to go public on Friday in what co… Read more »
RIM Confirms Down Q3, But Management Assures Us Everything Will Be Fine
Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) continued to struggle during its third fiscal quarter after taking a huge charge earlier in the quarter rela… Read more »
SAY Media Acquires ReadWriteWeb, Hires Dan Frommer As Editor-At-Large
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SAY Media, which in recent months has acquired Remodelista and Dogster and launched Jane Pratt’s xoJane.com, is expanding into the tech spac… Read more »
Digital Content Vet David Eun Joins Samsung To Lead Global Media
Samsung makes TVs, tablets, smartphones, music players, even refrigerators with connected displays. Now it wants to have a bigger say about… Read more »
Outbrain Adds Another $35 Million For European Expansion
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Outbrain, whose content recommendation engine lets publisher sites add related news links, is taking a $35 (£22.6) million fourth funding r… Read more »
Smartphone Penetration Approaching Tipping Point As PC Usage Declines
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Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among… Read more »
Mail Group Selling Teletext In Management Buy-Out
DMGT’s A&N Media is selling a majority stake of Teletext, the once-influential UK TV text service which was unable to profitably move in to… Read more »
Facebook Readying Mobile Ad Push For 2012, Right Around The Expected IPO
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Facebook’s Carolyn Everson was tight-lipped several months ago at paidContent Advertising when the subject of mobile advertising was discuss… Read more »
Pontiflex/Harris Survey: Incentive And Video Ads Turn Off Mobile Users
Mobile ads today make up less than one percent of all money spent on media advertising, and a poll just out from Harris Interactive, commiss… Read more »
Pearson To Sell FTSE Stake For £450 Million
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Pearson (NYSE: PSO) is to sell its 50% stake in the FTSE International group to the London Stock Exchange for £450 million ($700 million) i… Read more »
China's Eight Most Profitable US-Listed Tech Stocks in 2011
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Despite fears of a very bad year for Chinese tech stocks after the fraud at Longtop (formerly NASDAQ: LFT), a new list from China Analyst re… Read more »
Amazon's Apple-Like Growth Is Missing One Element: Rising Profits
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Considering the amount of money Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) shareholders have pocketed in recent years, Amazon deserves its spot next to Apple a… Read more »
Wiley Sees Digital Revenues Up From Last Year, Down From Previous Quarter
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Book publisher John Wiley & Sons’ professional/trade book division made $9 (£5.85) million from e-book sales in the second quarter of fisca… Read more »
New Funding For 'Storytelling' Startups
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Taking a cue from technology incubators, a new project called Public Media Accelerator aims to nurture public service media startups. Read more »
Surprise! Apple Forecasts Raised On Big Demand For iPhone 4S, But Not iPad
HTC and RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) may be cautioning investors about more choppy economic times ahead, but that is not the story, it seems, for all ha… Read more »
Makers Of The SwiftKey Android App Land $2.5 Million In Funding
A mobile wave of touchscreen devices has changed the way we interact with computers, but we still do an awful lot of traditional typing on t… Read more »
HTC Highlights How Fickle The Mobile Market Can Be: That Spells Opportunity
Looking at HTC over the last week or two, it’s almost hard to believe that it is the top-ranking smartphone maker that the analysts claim it… Read more »
The 'Hangover' Part II: Business Publishers Tipped For Slower Growth
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Bernstein Research has cut its growth forecasts for professional publishing companies, saying that the sector will suffer the same post-rece… Read more »
Mecom Sells Norwegian News Unit But Retains Digital Interest
Pan-European newspaper publisher Mecom is selling its Norwegian business Edda Media to rival A-Pressen for €221.8 ($299.67/£190.79) milli… Read more »
