As Internet Explorer Wanes, MSN Tries iPad Route For Its Content
MSN UK wants to be a self-contained content brand, and it’s not afraid to use Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) rivals’ devices to do it. Read more »
Microsoft On Target In Fourth Quarter But Windows Sales Still Sliding
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Microsoft’s fourth-quarter earnings came in about where Wall Street had expected, but the decline of its Windows business continued during a… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-20-11
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Macquarie: Fall TV Promotions Lift Homepage Ads
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The three major portals and YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) sold more of the lucrative custom homepage ads in the second half of Q3, according to the l… Read more »
Industry Moves: MSN UK, BBC.com, HuffPo Staff Up On Content; And More
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– MSN UK: Former BBC News interactive head Pete Clifton, who is now MSN UK’s exec producer, is hiring BBC Wales’ social media editor Darren… Read more »
MSN Ties With RenRen In China – Whither Facebook?
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MSN China and RenRen, the Facebook-like Chinese social network, have signed a wide-ranging strategic cooperation pact that will enhance the… Read more »
Industry Moves: MSN.co.uk, Guardian, Abu Dhabi Media Company, CISAC
– MSN.co.uk: The portal’s new channels head is Virgin Media’s online product director Dominic Eames, responsible for a team of 30 writers,… Read more »
As If The Switch From AOL News To HuffPo Isn’t Confusing Enough
*AOL* News, consistently among the top news sites, is making way for The Huffington Post, a victim of the $315 million acquisition of the y… Read more »
Macquarie: AOL’s Display Business Has Put The Worst Behind It
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AOL’s consistent double-digit display declines over the past year have surely tried its investors’ patience, but a report from Macquarie Cap… Read more »
BBC News’ Clifton Replacing Bale As MSN UK Head
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One of the BBC News website’s veteran editors Pete Clifton is joining MSN UK as executive producer, the role formerly occupied by CNN Intern… Read more »
MSN’s Bale Will Run CNN International Digital
CNN has created a new post of VP and GM of CNN International Digital, to which it is appointing MSN’s international programming director Pet… Read more »
IAB Attempts To Bring Some Order To Choice Of Large Display Formats
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s “rising stars” award isn’t meant as solely as a pat on the back to high profile members at its annual c… Read more »
Microsoft Ad Sales Head Everson Departs For Facebook
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Carolyn Everson, who led Microsoft’s global ad sales across Bing, MSN, and Windows Live, is leaving to join Facebook, AllThingsD’s Kara Swis… Read more »
MSN’s Scott Moore Questions ‘Risky Bet’ AOL Made On HuffPo
AOL’s acquisition of Huffington Post makes for a “risky bet,” according to Scott Moore, partner and regional executive producer at Microsoft… Read more »
Microsoft’s Results Easily Beat Expectations
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) posted a 5 percent increase in sales during the most recent quarter, countering predictions that its revenue would st… Read more »
CES: Ballmer On What Microsoft Has Coming Next
Steve Ballmer started off his Consumer Electronics Show keynote Wednesday by running down Microsoft’s product debuts in 2010, including Wind… Read more »
Macquarie: Larger Homepage Ads Gained Momentum In Q4
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If it felt like there were a lot more of those large, homepage takeover display ads in the latter half of Q4, that’s because major sites lik… Read more »
Another Executive Exits Disney Digital: Paul Yanover
It’s over for Paul Yanover at Disney (NYSE: DIS) Online. The chief architect behind the rebuilding of Disney.com is leaving to “pursue new o… Read more »
Video: Spotify’s UK Head On How Sceptics Misjudge Paid Content Businesses
UK country manager Jon Mitchell tells the AOP… “The crucial thing for businesses heading in to a world they’re not particularly familiar with, like News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) heading to paywalls: you’ve got to be flexible. “There’s obviously lots of comment externally on these businesses, going […] Read more »
MSN Rolls Out A Health And Fitness Site With Rodale
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Microsoft’s MSN, which has launched a series of very successful sites with major magazine publishers over the last two years, is now partner… Read more »
Homepage Ads: Bigger Might Actually Be Better; MSN Lags Portal Rivals
For the past few months, AOL (NYSE: AOL), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) have turned to huge takeover ads as a way to attract p… Read more »
eMusic Launches New Site With Tiered MP3 Pricing
eMusic launched its new website today, which includes 250,000 new songs from Universal, new hits from Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music and Warner Musi… Read more »
Hey, Spotify Sceptics – International Is Hard To Do
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Naysayers continue expressing suspicion Spotify will launch in the U.S.. But Spotify’s not alone in discovering the challenge of an overseas… Read more »
Dossett Latest Ex-Yahoo To Join IPO-Bound Demand Media
The adventurous Jeff Dossett is changing paths again. The new gig: SVP for content partnerships at IPO-bound Demand Media, where he is repor… Read more »
Microsoft And BermanBraun Launch Another Wonderwall Spin-Off
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and BermanBraun have jointly developed another spin-off of Wonderwall, the hit celebrity site they launched a year-an… Read more »
Warner Bros. Hires Transpera’s Ballard To Lead Digital Games
Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) has hired mobile gaming veteran Greg Ballard to lead its digital games business, as the company continues to double… Read more »
Updated: MSN UK Ditching Music Downloads Service For Zune Marketplace Links
As we expected, MSN UK is killing off its short-lived MSN Music pay-for music replacement, in favour of Zune Marketplace, which is becoming… Read more »
Spotify Gains Another Premium Option – Sonos Wireless Players
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Spotify has given itself one more, small reason why people might subscribe to Spotify Premium – a hook in to Sonos’ wireless music systems a… Read more »
This Isn’t FarmVille: Playboy Kicks Off Gaming Label With ‘Poisonville’
Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) is forming a new video game label this year as part of a wider digital strategy to make its brand more mains… Read more »
Spotify’s Brown Is COO At Academic Network Mendeley
Paul Brown, who is leaving as partnerships SVP at Spotify, is becoming chief operating officer for Mendeley, a start-up often described as a… Read more »
BermanBraun, Starcom Enter Branded Entertainment Deal Worth $100 Million
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Publicis Groupe media shop Starcom MediaVest Group has racked up a lot of digital deals over the past few year, but the agreement it has str… Read more »
Microsoft Hires Former AOL CTO Cahall To Oversee MSN
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is shuffling the top management of its MSN portal, six months after rolling out a major redesign of the site. The com… Read more »
Spotify SVP Brown Leaving For New Startup This Week
Spotify’s partnerships SVP Paul Brown is leaving after 18 months with the music startup, saying his exit’s on good terms. Read more »
Playboy’s iPad App: Same Price As Newsstand, But No Digital Gatefold
One of the old jokes people used to make about buying Playboy magazine was that they “just read it for the articles.” Well, when someone buy… Read more »
Playboy Slims Loss, Revs Drop 10 Percent
Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) posted slightly better-than-expected results in Q2, as company watchers continued to wonder about Playboy fo… Read more »
MSN Adds Localized Deals From Gannett’s ShopLocal
Microsoft’s MSN, which introduced new ‘Local Edition’ pages as part of its big homepage overhaul earlier this year, is now adding localized… Read more »
In Unlimited-Music Race, Rdio Beats Spotify To U.S. Launch
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Despite trying for over a year, Spotify has been beaten to U.S. launch by Rdio, the comparable online music start-up backed by Atomico Ventu… Read more »
Microsoft’s Ballmer Stands Up For His Company’s Consumer Business
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer is taking the stage at Microsoft’s analyst day to talk about the company’s consumer businesses, say… Read more »
Playdom’s Pleasants And Disney’s Wadsworth On The Deal
So, why did Disney (NYSE: DIS) decide to buy Playdom? Disney Interactive Media Group President Steve Wadsworth told paidContent in a joint i… Read more »
Disney Buys Playdom For Up To $763.2 Million
Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) is making a big move into social games, with the purchase of fast-growing social game developer Playdom for up to $7… Read more »
