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 »
Chinese Social Site RenRen Swings To Small Profit On Nasdaq
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In its second disclosure to the Nasdaq since floating there in May, Chinese social network RenRen says that it swung to a Q2 net income of $… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-12-11
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» If the current events of the world are scary for all of us, they’re particularly horrifying for news publishers. (Ken Doctor/Ni… Read more »
Social Media’s Mob: Disconnected From Riots’ Reality?
The moment David Cameron uttered those troublesome words, “social media”, during Thursday’s emergency Commons debate on England’s riots, it… Read more »
Red Herring Of The Day: Social Media Are Like A Train Station
The starring role of social media services like Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger in the recent riots in England has been much-debated: today… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-11-11
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» AOL (NYSE: AOL) Buying Back $250 Million Of Its Stock (paidContent)
» News Corp Claims No Hacking Financial Impact,… Read more »
UK Government Wants Police Empowered To ‘Close’ Twitter, BBM
The UK’s Home Secretary will meet media and social media companies regarding blocking access during emergency situations, in the wake of Eng… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-11-11: Riots/BBM; Android/Adobe; Sprint; OpenFeint
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– BlackBerry/London riots: As Prime Minister David Cameron considers whether social med… Read more »
Tencent Sees China Internet Growth Slowing
The operator of China’s biggest instant messaging service says its growth has slowed due to “increased scale and reduced growth rate in the… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-10-11
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» Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Shakes Off Apple’s Shackles With Its Kindle Cloud Reader App (paidContent)
» Angry Birds Spread… Read more »
Baidu Shuts Its Microblog Service, Handing Victory To Sina
Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) is closing its microblogging platform, in what is a victory for Chinese portal Sina (NSDQ: SINA) in the Twitter rival sta… Read more »
Demand Media Buys IndieClick, RSS Graffiti; Expands Google Ad Deal
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In addition to releasing its Q2 earnings today, content aggregator Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) has made two acquisitions: it’s bought a long-ru… Read more »
Facebook Unveils Distinct Mobile Messaging App For Group Chats, Texts
As it has rolled out a series of improvements to its messaging features, Facebook has been trying to encourage its users to think of its net… Read more »
What I Learned Mapping The London Riots
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“Wouldn’t it be interesting”, I thought, “if I did a little map of where the riots are?” So, at 6 o’clock or so last night, I started to put… Read more »
Cablevision Loses More Video Subs; Adds iPhone, Touch Apps
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Like its MSO rivals, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) saw more subscribers disappear, though it thinks it has a plan to retain the customers don’t le… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-09-11
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» Why the Web’s New TV-Style Ratings Might Not Mean More Ad Buys (AdAge)
» The Onion’s CTO: Our paywall experiment i… Read more »
As Riots Spread In London, RIM Will ‘Assist Police’. PS3 Also Playing Role?
As the sun goes down on London, the riots that started in the north of the city a few days ago in response to a shooting have spread to a nu… Read more »
The Role Of BlackBerry In London’s Street Riots
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In October 1985, on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham where the death of Cynthia Jarrett sparked riots that culminated in the brutal m… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-08-11
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» News Corp.’s Soft Power in the U.S. (David Carr/NYT)
» 20% of the UK online population use iPlayer. Here’s how the… Read more »
NYTimes.com Opens Research Project Beta620 To The Public
The NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) is rolling out a “new features” site beta620 to the public in a bid to solicit more involvement on the site’s fe… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-05-11
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» Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Fires Back At Microsoft’s Patent Offer: ‘We Didn’t Fall For It’ (paidContent)
» With Negativity… Read more »
Theory: Only Ultra-Competitive Americans Care About ‘Check-Ins’
From location, to TV viewing, to beer drinking, a growing number of social connectivity services are trying to drive real-world behaviours b… Read more »
Klout Adds Foursquare And YouTube; Coming Soon: Google+ And Facebook Pages
Klout score is not yet an easily recognizable metric compared to, say, one’s number of Twitter followers or Facebook friends. But the compan… Read more »
Meltwater Buys Ice Rocket For Pro Social Monitoring
The news monitoring service Meltwater is branching out in to social media monitoring, after its core business of crawling professional news… Read more »
Will Businesses Really Use Foursquare’s New Self-Serve Check-In?
I will warn you on this one. I have tried to be a location-based services user but I lose interest real quickly. My erratic check-ins at res… Read more »
Verizon Ordered To Pay $115M In Damages After Patent Loss
Certain smartphone companies may want to take note of this one: using patents aggressively can produce pushback from unexpected places. Veri… Read more »
Comcast’s Burke: NBCU Content ‘More Valuable’ Thanks To Retrans, Online
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Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has had some success with NBCUniversal programming since it took control early this year — taking credit for greenlig… Read more »
Comcast Loses Video Subs But Revs Rise For Cable, NBCU
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Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) was unable to escape cable industry trends of basic video subscriber losses, though it did have some success in adding… Read more »
Time Warner Film Dollars Rise On Video Game Hits; Mags Gain A Bit
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Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) saw profits and revenues boosted by movie sequels, but did even better thanks to video games tied to film franchises… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-03-11
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» Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) circulation chief calculates, by platform, the news people will pay for (Poynter/Rick Edmonds)
»&nb… Read more »
Mobile Developers Ponder Impact Of Google+, iCloud In New Survey
The big news among mobile developers during the second quarter was the Web; or rather, how new Web services from mobile titans Apple (NSDQ:… Read more »
CBS Moonves: More Digital Streaming Deals Suggest More Gains In Q3
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CBS (NYSE: CBS) CEO Les Moonves began the call by touting the international expansion of its streaming video deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX),… Read more »
CBS’ Digital Streaming Helps Boost Entertainment Revenue
CBS’ entertainment revenues were up 10 percent in Q2, with much of the credit going to an April licensing deal for streaming video with Netf… Read more »
Facebook Buys Digital Book Publisher Push Pop Press
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Push Pop Press, the company that published Al Gore’s interactive app “Our Choice” earlier this year, now has a bigger claim to fame: It is F… Read more »
Spanfeller Media Group Raises $6 Million Second Round
Spanfeller Media Group, which runs foodie site The Daily Meal has secured a $6 million second round funding led by VantagePoint Capital Part… Read more »
Interview: Microsoft’s ‘Not Walking Away From Search’
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is brushing off last week’s Breakingviews suggestion it should sell Bing, which lost $2.6 billion last year.
Bing di… Read more »
Glamour Looks To Mobile And Social For September Print Promotion
The value of 2D barcodes by print magazines looking to connect with reader’s mobile phone activity is getting a big test of with Glamour’s l… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-2-11: Microsoft/Nokia, Skype iPad, Android Security
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Here’s a look at some of the top stories in mobile today: Read more »
Citing Traffic Success, PBS Adds Pre-Roll, Considers UK Offering
U.S. viewers watched more than 145 million videos across all of PBS’s web and mobile platforms, making the non-profit broadcaster the 15th m… Read more »
Zynga Earns Double Platform Score From Words With Friends On Facebook
Zynga has been trying to broaden its gaming strategy over the past year, trying to bring as many of its Facebook-oriented social games over… Read more »
