Farewell, Yahoo Apps, We Hardly Knew Ye: Deals, News Plus Eight Others Gone
Looks like new CEO Scott Thompson is wasting little time starting to get Yahoo’s house in order: just a few weeks into the new CEO’s tenure,… Read more »
Looks like new CEO Scott Thompson is wasting little time starting to get Yahoo’s house in order: just a few weeks into the new CEO’s tenure,… Read more »
UK TV video news producer ITN is unifying its online ad sales platform as it expands into a burgeoning number of online destinations. Read more »
In the world of search advertising, mobile phones and tablets continue to outpace performance of search ads on PCs, although they still repr… Read more »
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) faced a pretty big whack of upheavals in 2011 — not least of which was the none-too-quiet departure of their outspoken f… Read more »
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 »
Following on from its acquisition of mobile software developer SPB at the end of November, Yandex is making one more move to increase its ub… Read more »
The portal trio alliance between AOL (NYSE: AOL), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) that was being explored in September is now… Read more »
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 »
The continuing migration of audiences and ad dollars to digital has helped serve as a balm against growing economic fears that have resulted… Read more »
A year after AOL (NYSE: AOL) first began promoting its “premium” Project Devil ads to much hype and fanfare, the company has succeeded in si… Read more »
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Given the way Facebook and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) have been taking an ever larger share of display ad spending, it looks as if AOL (NYSE: AOL),… Read more »
AOL (NYSE: AOL) may be having a tough time attracting marketers to its vaunted Project Devil ads, which promise a larger canvas and greater… Read more »
Barring some explosive revelation, Carol Bartz is out as CEO of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) because she couldn’t show any way up. During the Q2 earni… Read more »
Although display advertising growth is as strong as ever, efforts to draw more advertisers to lucrative homepage ads fell flat in Q2 compare… Read more »
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) started rolling out homepage takeover ads this past weekend for Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as t… Read more »
Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) launches an SDK for one of its other operating system projects, Qt; Googl… Read more »
» In AT&T (NYSE: T) & T-Mobile Merger, Everybody Loses (GigaOm) [And check out more of paidContent's coverage here and here]
This week, news about non-native app stores was a bit like a proverbial bus: you wait for ages, and then two announcements come along at onc… Read more »
Nokia’s results yesterday showed how important China is to the handset maker. While market share in already-challenging markets like the U.S… Read more »
Two of AOL’s new content partners, The Sporting News and Everyday Health, are both counting on the portal to deliver major traffic numbers i… Read more »
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 »
» How relevant are portals these days? Well, comScore data AOL (NYSE: AOL) is still a top-five site, though vertical blog network… Read more »
The entertainment industry spent the most on mobile advertising in the third quarter, according to Millennial Media, which reported the top… Read more »
San Jose, Calif.-based PlayPhone was one of the early entrants to the cellphone industry, riding high on selling ringtones and other mobile… Read more »
RealNetworks’ GameHouse games unit, which has said it wants to improve its position in social games, is buying up social game developer Back… Read more »
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The Associated Press and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) finally came to terms on a new deal this w… Read more »
Finnish-based Dazzboard is moving to Sunnyvale, Calif. where it will be closer to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and work closely on solving one of the… Read more »
Here we go again. Another major content creator is threatening to sue internet companies after years of having them nip at its heels by repu… Read more »
After hours of tom-tom beating, it’s official — News Corp President and COO Peter Chernin will leave on June 30, when his current contract… Read more »
The economics crisis has been good to both financial portals, like Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Finance and AOL (NYSE: TWX), while also benefiting nic… Read more »
Yahoo7, the JV between Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Australian broadcaster Channel 7, is in a bit of an upheaval following falling visitor numbers… Read more »
– Warner Bros. has expanded its VOD day and date trial…meaning releasing movies on VOD and DVD on the same day. It will begin the trial n… Read more »
Continued from Part 1
Why not join the NBCU-News Corp. JV?: CBS is in discussions to have content distributed through the JV as a non-exclus… Read more »
CBS could announce as early as today deals to distribute its TV shows and other video programming via MSN, AOL and Joost, WSJ reports. CBS w… Read more »
In 2006, portals experienced a rebirth, with ad spending for that segment leaping to 24 percent from 13 percent, according to figures contai… Read more »
Publicis Groupe, the Paris-based ad agency holding company, plans to launch its own web portals and develop its agencies’ online content cap… Read more »
A busy day for start-up Boxxet with the launch of the latest entry in the online info organizer/community/automated portal space and the ann… Read more »
Internet portals are fighting to avoid going the way of ISP portals, with some people arguing that more and more people are customizing thei… Read more »
The most definitive aspect we can report about the possibility of a major rival to YouTube-Google is this: nothing is definite. Not the part… Read more »
Chinese online gaming and interactive entertainment firm Shanda is divesting about $99.1 million worth of stake in the other Chinese online… Read more »
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