YouTube Adds Affiliate Links To Its Videos; Amazon and iTunes Downloads
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Apple Threatens To Shut Down iTunes Store (Really) If Forced To Pay Higher Rates
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iTunes Store Under Attack Over Consumer Rights In Norway
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iTunes’ New Genius Engine: A Threat To Filters?
Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) addition of a music recommendation engine to iTunes this week will have brought a nervous gulp from those already in th… Read more »
Twitter Rules Out Premium Rate Service In UK
By Dianne See Morrison
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NBCU-iTunes: Interview: JB Perrette, President, NBCU Digital Distribution: ‘A Lot Of Upside’
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NBCU Back On iTunes; Return Announced At Today’s Apple Event
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@ Apple Event: Refreshed iPod Product Line, iPhone Software 2,1 Update, iTunes 8
By Matt Kapko
Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) Steve Jobs took the stage in San Francisco this morning with a blaring quote overhead that read: “reports of my death a… Read more »
Russian Search Ads Provider Quintura Gets Bridge Funding
By David Kaplan
Search optimizer Quintura has raised an undisclosed bridge funding from Mangrove Capital Partners as part of a larger round of financing. I… Read more »
Russia’s EZTalk Gets $4 Million Funding For Callback App
Russian mobile call-back service EZtalk has received 100 million rubles ($4 million) of investment from VTB Venture Fund. Owned by Simbiotel… Read more »
iPhoneski Comes To Russia: MegaFone, Vimpelcom Sign Up; MTS Next?
In perhaps the lowest-key announcement of a new iPhone territory yet, Russian telco MegaFon this morning said merely: “MegaFon today announc… Read more »
Russian Search Firm Yandex Delays IPO Till Next Year
By Rafat Ali
Yandex, the big Russian search engine, has delayed its much-anticipated IPO until next year, according to local reports. Earlier this year r… Read more »
Mail.ru Buys Third Of Russian Date Site Mamba
Mail.ru – Russia’s leading email provider and one of the top web portals – has bought 30 percent of online dating site Mamba, one of the top… Read more »
Music Labels Rethink iTunes, Again; Same Old Gripe of Album vs Singles
By Rafat Ali
This has become the equivalent of first snowfall stories that local TV news stations do every year: this gripe against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iT… Read more »
Apple’s iTunes Subscription Service Rumors Crop Up Again; $129 a Year?
By Rafat Ali
Like clockwork, the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes subscription music service rumors are cropping up, again, and three Apple sites — MacRumors,… Read more »
Why All The Interest In Russia? Try 10x Online Ad Growth In Next Decade
By Joseph Weisenthal
We’ve definitely noticed increased interest in the Russian internet market, marked notably by Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) acquisition of a context… Read more »
Russia’s Online Ad Sector Grew 73 Percent In Last Year
Need another indicator on how Russia’s internet scene is booming? Well, in their online advertising market there was 73 percent bigger in th… Read more »
Arsenal Oligarch Usmanov Looks For Yandex Investment
Arsenal football club majority owner Alisher Usmanov is reportedly trying to add to his online investments by buying between 10 and 20 perc… Read more »
WPP’s Wunderman Takes Majority Stake In Russian Digital Shop Alite
By David Kaplan
WPP Group continues its steady pace of digital purchases in growing markets today by taking a majority stake in Russian interactive agency A… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Blinkx TV Guide, VOD Regulation, Sky On iTunes
– Blinkx: Yet another product launch from the video search index – today it debuted a TV listings guide. Blinkx Remote merely links to prog… Read more »
Russian Investors Take Control Of Mail.ru, IPO May Be Off?
Russian internet investment fund Digital Sky Technologies has upped its stake in top-two portal and email host Mail.ru to 50.55 percent by b… Read more »
Interview: Andrew Paulson, CEO, Sup: Russia’s Web Revolution, Making LiveJournal Pay
The first most people heard of Sup was when the upstart Moscow internet investment vehicle bought LiveJournal from SixApart in December (oh,… Read more »
Russian AllHockey.ru Portal Sells To Sports Publisher Gameland
Russian publisher GameLand is buying hockey portal AllHockey.ru from its founders for between $400,000 and $500,000, Russian business daily… Read more »
Google Buys Russian Contextual Ad Firm From Rambler For $140 Million
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Mobile Content Bits: Nokia-Telenor; MySpace-MTS; Orange Zap
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Investment Firm Ru-Net Takes Majority Stake In Russian Advertiser IConText
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Ru-Net, the Russian internet investment firm, has acquired a 51 percent stake in IConText, a Russian contextual ad firm, reports Vedomosti (… Read more »
Starbucks Continues Entertainment Pullback; Dropping Most CDs From Stores
Guess I owe Howard Schultz a thank you for helping me cut back on CD purchases … Starbucks is dramatically reducing the number of CDs carr… Read more »
Russia’s Kommersant Buys Half Of LiveJournal Owner, Gives It Gazeta.ru
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Russia’s Yandex Opens Silicon Valley Lab, Led By Yahoo Search Chief
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Vish Makhijani, the SVP and GM of Search at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is joining Yandex, the number-one Russian search site, as the CEO of Yandex L… Read more »
Apple Says It Sold 5 Billion Songs; Could Movies Become A $100M Business?
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) announced today that it has sold a total of about 5 billion songs, up from the 4 billion mark it announced in Jan this ye… Read more »
Russia’s Yandex Buys Traffic Info Service SMIlink
Russia’s largest search site, Yandex, has finalised a deal to buy the national road traffic information service SMIlink for an undisclosed a… Read more »
Fortcom Takes 70 Percent Stake In Polish Social Net Nasca-Klasa
By Joseph Weisenthal
Forticom, an Estonian company that runs major Lithuanian social net One.lT, has acquired a 70 percent stake in Russian Nasca-Klasa, for $90… Read more »
Fortcom Takes 70 Percent Stake In Polish Social Net Nasza-Klasa
By Joseph Weisenthal
Forticom, an Estonian company that runs major Lithuanian social net One.lT, has acquired a 70 percent stake in Russian Nasza-Klasa, for $90… Read more »
Sling Plans To Sell iPhone Player Via iTunes Store
TV placeshifting operator Sling Media plans to sell an iPhone version of its Sling Player through the iTunes Store after its alpha version h… Read more »
Video Interview: Olivier Creiche, VP, Six Apart: Selling To Sup And The End Of Hype
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Aegis Buys Digital Marketing Group In Fast-Growing Russia
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Apple Launches UK And Canada iTunes Movie Store
Putting an end to the guesswork of the iTunes movie store launch date, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has begun offering titles for sale or rent to its… Read more »
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