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)
» Steve Jobs’ Greatest Legacy: Persuading The… Read more »
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 »
Sina Flaunts Its Microblog Growth In Times Square
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Sina’s Weibo microblogging service isn’t even available in English yet – but that hasn’t stopped it reaching 200 million users in two years,… Read more »
One Crazy TouchPad Weekend, Measured In Tweets
About the only thing more remarkable than the flurry of buyers scrambling to get their hands on the last remaining TouchPads over the weeken… Read more »
Fox Mobile Vet Stalbow Joins Rovio As GM, North America
At our paidContent Mobile conference in May, Andrew Stalbow and Peter Vesterbacka paired up to tout the value of a major studio partnering w… Read more »
Avatars Become Authors In Stardoll, The Book
Members of the teen girl dress-up website Stardoll will find their online input going to create a range of books for a second time. Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-22-11
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» Newspapers Edit Down Outlooks (WSJ)
» Murdoch told me to have someone followed: Buttrose (ABC News)
» T… Read more »
Miramax Launching Multi-Title Facebook Movie App In U.S., UK & Turkey
Watching movies on Facebook isn’t new — Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), Paramount and Universal each are trying variations on the theme. But toda… Read more »
Sina: Profit Slumps 60 Percent On Weibo Microblogging Investment
Sina (NSDQ: SINA) may have taken the crown in the Twitter-style, homegrown microblogging race in China, but its leadership has come at a pri… Read more »
Android Soars, But iPhone Users Still Seem To Like Video Better
Android may be the biggest mobile operating system, but do iPhone owners enjoy video more often? Statistics collected by video encoding comp… Read more »
Pot Calling Kettle Black? Mail Rumbled Over Unauthorised Photo Use
An ironic footnote to the story from yesterday that involved the Daily Mail shutting down a proxy site for making unauthorized caches of its… Read more »
Daily Mail Proxy Site IstyOsty Goes Down After Cease And Desist Order
The Daily Mail is more than happy for people to share links to articles from its site — it’s an important part of it maintaining its positi… Read more »
LinkedIn Upgrades Mobile Apps And Web Site With Simpler Design
Now that it’s a public company, it’s probably time to take that mobile thing seriously. LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) has rolled out fresh new mobil… Read more »
Pulse Beats The Drum For International Growth, Signs Up Al Jazeera
Pulse, the news-reading app for iOS and Android devices, has signed up its first international partner, and it’s a biggie: Al Jazeera will b… Read more »
ESPN Scores Aussie Sport Site Footytips For Social Push
A small but significant acquisition for Disney-owned sports network ESPN: it is buying Australian company ExtraCorp Pty. Ltd, owners of the… Read more »
