The Morning Lowdown 09-12-11
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Mobile Lowdown 9-12-11: Google/Oracle, Apple/HTC Patents; Amazon; Adobe
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Amazon is taking one more step to enrich its content offerings; it’s reporte… Read more »
NYTimes.com Launches English-Language India News Blog
With newspaper revenues in a downward spiral in the U.S., it’s easy to forget that there’s one area where daily tabloids and broadsheets are… Read more »
GetGlue Makes It Easier For Marketers To ‘Check In’ With Self-Serve Option
As the number of check-in services proliferate, GetGlue is trying to solidify relationships with networks as it tries to prove the value of… Read more »
Will Docomo’s New LTE Service Fan The Flames In The Apple vs. Samsung Fire?
We may be approaching the point where it’s fair to ask the following question: Where haven’t Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung sued each other… Read more »
Report: Facebook’s Revenue Doubled To $1.6 Billion In First Half Of 2011
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Facebook does not publicly disclose its financial results, but an unidentified source tells Reuters (NYSE: TRI) that the company pulled in $… Read more »
Barclays: Expect A Pullback In Branded Ad Spending
There are two general rules when it comes to advertising spending these days: when times are tough, marketers tend to take money from brand… Read more »
Habbo Hotel’s CEO Checks Out, Disney Exec Takes His Room
Sulake, the Finnish company which operates the Habbo Hotel teen virtual world, is swapping its CEO. Read more »
Bitbop Pulls A Hulu, Goes Abroad With Ad-Free Mobile Video Offer In Germany
Bitbop, the mobile video service once owned by News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and then sold in a whirr of a divestment strategy, looks like it is fi… Read more »
Netflix Starts Latin America Rollout In Brazil; Faces Challenges At Home
As promised, the streaming side of Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has made its way south. The service went live in Brazil today with Netflix Brasil (a… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-02-11
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» As Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Price Change Kicks In, Starz Says It Won’t Renew Deal (paidContent)
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George Bush’s Brother Is ‘Tweeting’ In Chinese On Weibo
George W. Bush’s younger brother Neil has just started microblogging – not on Twitter, nor in English, but on Sina (NSDQ: SINA) Weibo, in Ch… Read more »
YouTube Expands Movie Rentals To Canada
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) is taking its almost obscure movie rental service to Canada, launching today with 1,000 or so films from Hollywood and… Read more »
MSLO Unveils iPad Subscriptions; Video Plans Centered On Advertorials
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) is the latest publisher to offer of a digital subscription plan for the iPad editions of its mag… Read more »
Hulu Japan Launches With Movies, TV From CBS, Sony, Fox & More But No Ads
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Hulu’s first offering outside the U.S. is live: Hulu Japan, a subscription service with “hundreds” of films and thousands of hours of TV. Fo… Read more »
Deezer Streaming Music Service Launching In UK
They may not have produced a band as big as The Beatles, and may bear some responsibility for the musical output of Claude Francois, but the… Read more »
Sony Kisses Qriocity Branding Goodbye, Forms Sony Entertainment Network
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Many consumers were never completely sure of the correct way to pronounce it, and it has had mixed success as a household name synonymous wi… Read more »
Big Money For SMS-Based Social Media: India’s SMS GupShup Takes $10 Million
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With a lot of the focus in the mobile universe on Android, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and what is happening in the smartphone segment, it’s easy to… Read more »
We Love Us Some Mobile Internet In The UK
Numbers out this morning from the Office of National Statistics in the UK give us the most up-to-date picture yet of the growing role mobile… Read more »
Limelight Networks Selling Eyewonder To DG For $66 Million
Two years after Limelight Networks (NSDQ: LLNW) bought interactive ad shop EyeWonder for up to $110 million, the content management company… Read more »
Updated: CNN Snaps Up iPad Magazine Zite In Bid For Scale And Technology
As rumored a week ago, CNN has purchased Zite, the makers of a personalized iPad magazine application that aggregated content around user pr… Read more »
Older Facebook Users Click On Ads, Younger Ones Only ‘Like’
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A good deal of the double-digit growth rates behind display dollars this year and next is due to rising interest in Facebook as an ad medium… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-30-11
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» Sale Ending Soon? Yelp Rethinks Its Daily Deals Service (paidContent)
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The End Of Social Media 1.0
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Follow us on Twitter.
Like us on Facebook.
And soon enough we’ll start seeing +1 or circle us on Google+.
I would like to talk about an… Read more »
Deal Or No Deal? Facebook Shuts Down Daily Deals, But Keeps Check-In Deals?
Another social media service bites the dust. Facebook has today announced that it is shutting down Facebook Deals, a daily deals service tha… Read more »
Why More Marketers Are Paying For Blog Posts, Tweets And Video Mentions
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Word of mouth is one of the best means of marketing a product, but sometimes the process needs a little help to get started. Help in the for… Read more »
Slip-Sliding Away: Max Levchin Leaving Google As Social Priorities Change
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Google’s social reinvention under CEO Larry Page has claimed another victim. Slide founder Max Levchin is leaving the company after Google (… Read more »
UK Government Backs Down On Plan To Shut Twitter And Facebook In Crises
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The government has climbed down on plans to ban suspected rioters from using social networking websites in times of civil unrest. Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-26-11
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» Slate Lays Off Staff. Does Its Model Still Make Sense? (Forbes Mixed Media)
» AOL (NYSE: AOL) Huddles With Top M&A… Read more »
Yandex Buying Twitter ‘Newspaper’ Maker The Tweeted Times
Russia’s leading search engine is making a foray in the nascent market segment of socially-organised news delivery, by buying The Tweeted Ti… Read more »
Pandora’s Kennedy: We Will Gradually Increase Audio Ad Inventory
For the most part, Pandora’s quarterly numbers show a company headed in the right direction, with revenue numbers up substantially along wit… Read more »
Audioboo, SoundCloud Face Off For Partnerships
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The online audio-sharing market’s early darling, AudioBoo, is coming under increasing pressure from well-funded competitor SoundCloud. Read more »
Boku Now Powers Carrier Billing For Nearly All Of France
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Here’s a significant bit of news that advances mobile operators’ master plan to become central players not just in provisioning data network… Read more »
RIM Breaks Social Ground With Its New BBM Music Service
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It’s taken a little while, but it looks like RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) might have finally woken up and smelled the coffee in the social media world a… Read more »
Facebook And Twitter Will Oppose Being Blocked During Riots
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Facebook and Twitter are preparing to face down UK government ministers over calls to ban people from social networks or shut their websites… Read more »
Emphasizing Cloud-based Revenues, Brightcove Files $50 Million IPO
Despite tremendous volatility in world financial markets, online video software provider Brightcove has decided to press ahead with a $50 mi… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-24-11
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» Brightcove has filed a $50 million IPO (SEC)
» Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to Subsidize Subscribers’ TV Device (NYT)
&… 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 »
Corbis Takes A Piece Of User-News Service Demotix
Corbis and the user-contributed photojournalism site Demotix are expanding the syndication deal they struck in March in to an investment.
T… Read more »
Netflix’s Chances After Rate Hike Remain Stronger Than Ever
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All through the past decade, observers in industry and on Wall Street have had a handful of reasons to discount Netflix’s efforts. First, th… Read more »
