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– NBCU launches Saturday Night Live politics minisite: SNL still doesn’t have a real contender for Obama impressions but it does have “SNL… Read more »
– NBCU launches Saturday Night Live politics minisite: SNL still doesn’t have a real contender for Obama impressions but it does have “SNL… Read more »
VentureBeat has done a good analysis of the mobile social networking space, covering (what it thinks are) the 10 largest most significant co… Read more »
– ShoZu: Mobile media and info sharing service ShoZu says it has added eight new destinations, taking its roster up to 36. Users can now up… Read more »
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A couple of new services are sending video to the iPhone, which has been hampered by a narrow choice of supported video formats (Flash being… Read more »
Facebook makes a PR push on the privacy and safety front today, instituting an array of enhanced privacy safeguards and obscenity blockers a… Read more »
With Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) getting its most positive presentation from the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) ads starring comedian John Hodgman as the hap… Read more »
Powerpoint presentation sharer SlideShare has raised a $3 million first-round investment. David Siminoff, a partner with lead investor Venro… Read more »
– Verizon (NYSE: VZ) launches VZ Navigator version 4: Verizon has launched version 4 of VZ Navigator, which lets customers access informati… Read more »
First chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch got defensive about Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), then News Corp COO Peter Chernin hit the stories about Fox… Read more »
Fora.TV, a distributor of online video for a discerning audience, has raised a $4 million first round from Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), William Rando… Read more »
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NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) has finally launched Women@NBCU, its long-anticipated virtual female-targeted content and ad network. Also as expec… Read more »
There’s a rumour doing the rounds that Web18 has invested in social media startup Burrp.com. We’ve confirmed from official Network18 sources… Read more »
A joint-venture deal between Sprint (NYSE: S) and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) that includes investments of $3.2 billion coming from Intel (NSDQ:… Read more »
Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton sparked controversy last month (not least amongst his writers) with a new salary structure that rewards b… Read more »
Goodrec, a recommendation sharing service, has raised $900,000 of a planned $1.05 million first round, reports peHUB. Investors include Soft… Read more »
United Online (NSDQ: UNTD), the owner of a dial-up business, Classmates.com and eventually flower company FTD, announced Q1 revenue of $121.… Read more »
Rearden Commerce, which has been focused on creating a Web-based personal assistant that lets you manage calendars and make travel arrangeme… Read more »
– The Jerry Springer Show has launched some mobile interactivity, with some features also available though a landline. It includes ringtone… Read more »
Blog platform LiveJournal’s new Russian owners are endeavouring to make the site more open by appointing some of their users to their adviso… Read more »
Mister Wong, a social bookmarking start-up based in Germany, has acquired Lifestream.fm, a service that lets users aggregate their web activ… Read more »
Is mobile TV gaining momentum or isn Read more »
Canvera, a Bangalore-based digital photo startup has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a round led by Footprint Ventures, reports V… Read more »
Male-focused online entertainment network CraveOnline and its parent AtomicOnline have been on an acquisition tear lately. The company tells… Read more »
GodTube, one of the fast growing Christian online video sharing and social networking sites, has received a big $30 million funding round fr… Read more »
– Online Catch Up For Channel 4: Channel 4 has rolled out a free seven-day catch-up service on channel4.com, reports NMA.co.uk. The clic… Read more »
Wishpot, a social shopping start-up, has raised a $1 million first round from Monster Venture Partners, along with Italian internet firm H-F… Read more »
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) UK is doing away with its separately priced internet bundles, and instead will now integrate the cost of access to the… Read more »
Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is licensing its video-enabling Flash software for free for mobile devices in an attempt to make the technology as ubiqui… Read more »
Professional social network LinkedIn is getting serious about expanding outside the US to help grow its share of the social net market. In J… Read more »
AT&T (NYSE: T) Wireless will finally launch its much delayed mobile TV broadcasting service next week, and it has made all the necessary mov… Read more »
As we reported first earlier today, social IM firm Meebo has closed its third round of funding, and it came in at a big amount: $25 million.… Read more »
– The Australian Jockey Club has launched a sponsored content service at Randwick racecourse in Sydney. Supported by brands like Thrifty an… Read more »
Mountain View, CA-based Meebo, the popular web-based IM service, has closed its big round of funding, we have learned, and the announcement… Read more »
As expected, the newly relaunched Friends Reunited has dropped its pay wall, hoping that going free will allow it to keep a grip on its memb… Read more »
AOL president Ron Grant, appearing on our EconSM panel, suggested new acquisition Bebo would be used to thread social features throughout AO… Read more »
The final panel at EconSM was the deals panel, which ContentNext Editor and Publisher Rafat Ali described as the “flagship” panel.
Economy… Read more »
Almost the entire ContentNext gang is in the Los Angeles hills at the Skirball Cultural Center for EconSM, an entire day’s worth of panels a… Read more »
AOL’s $850 million purchase of Bebo back in March was one of the big social media deals of the year. In a Q&A with ContentNext co-editor Sta… Read more »
The market for rich media advertising on mobile — in the form of TV, video, games, user-generated content (UGC) and music — will reach $2.… Read more »
Advertisers and media companies have a strange disconnect when it comes to social media. On one hand, they’re heartily embrace the ability t… Read more »
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