The Morning Lowdown 08-01-11
» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Launching New iPhone in October, Not September (AllThingsD)
» The New Yorker now has 100,000 iPa… Read more »
» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Launching New iPhone in October, Not September (AllThingsD)
» The New Yorker now has 100,000 iPa… Read more »
AOL (NYSE: AOL) is following last week’s stunning ouster of ad chief Jeff Levick with something that has become as routine as personnel shak… Read more »
Mobile technology is disrupting almost everything on the planet, maybe even to a greater degree than the upheaval caused by development of t… Read more »
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» Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Alibaba reach Alipay agreement (Release)
» Artists’ Family Fails To Recapture Copyrights For… Read more »
Mark Rosenthal is leaving his post as CEO of Current TV just exactly two years after he took the job, paidContent has confirmed from an earl… Read more »
A deal with NBCUniversal (NSDQ: CMCSA) will roughly double the number of movies available for instant streaming by *Amazon* Prime members. T… Read more »
Geoff Cook is the CEO of the social network myYearbook. He also founded EssayEdge and ResumeEdge, both of which he sold to The Thomson Corp.… Read more »
Mike Steib, who as Google’s director for emerging platforms helped create Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV Ads, is leaving the company to become CEO o… Read more »
It has been a lucrative couple of years for companies seeking funding armed with a powerfully simple idea: sharing exactly where you are and… Read more »
Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) turned in plenty of good numbers in the second quarter but one particular increase wasn’t among them: resident… Read more »
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Pixazza is losing its unwieldy name as the company looks to evolve from being a photo ad network that specialized in tagging jpegs and gifs… Read more »
Counting on keeping up with Glee next season through next-day visits to Hulu.com or Fox.com? Count again — unless you subscribe through a v… Read more »
Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) topped Wall Street expectations for its last quarter, sending the company’s shares up as much as two percent af… Read more »
Polaris- and Ron Conway-backed social games maker Lolapps of San Francisco is merging with Hong Kong-based counterpart 6waves, as each plays… Read more »
How many Keratin wraps, photography workshops and Hookah tokes does one person really need? After Groupon and LivingSocial, there are anothe… Read more »
Facebook may be closer to launching its new iPad app after code for the app was spotted in the latest release of its iPhone application. And… Read more »
» Research In Motion to lay off about 2,000 employees, some 10% of global workforce (paidContent; Marketwatch)
» Lett… Read more »
Users who follow The New Yorker magazine through iPad social reader Flipboard will start noticing advertising as part of the mix. The ads, b… Read more »
Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) has picked up a small video-editing company based on Sweden called Jaycut to add to the video-editing prowes… Read more »
– Joost: The P2P online premium video streaming company Joost, founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are no longer involved but it’s… Read more »
The Associated Press will be working with talent agency/marketing firm Madison Avenue Sports and Entertainment to develop content culled fro… Read more »
First LulzSec took over The Sun’s homepage, then it took down the rest of News International’s sites. Now it appears that the hackers are wo… Read more »
We’re twenty years in to this world wide web thing. Today, I myself celebrate twelve years of writing this blog. And yet those of us who lov… Read more »
GetGlue, the media “check-in” app that lets users share what they are watching, listening and reading with their social network, has inked a… Read more »
New York Times (NYSE: NYT) media writer and David Carr, appearing now in theaters via documentary Page One, hit the big time on TV Tuesday n… Read more »
Teen-focused social net myYearbook is being bought by Quepasa, the Spanish and Portuguese community site and social gaming operator, for $10… Read more »
Online movie ticketer Fandango says that 20 percent of its virtual box office this summer was generated by its iPhone, iPad and Android apps… Read more »
» James and Rupert Murdoch Have Lunch At Parliament: A Grilling And Some Pie (paidContent)
» News International ‘Deli… Read more »
Social gamer SupersonicAds has raised a $4.2 million first round as the company looks to continue it international expansion and the growth… Read more »
The next wave of Google+ activity looks set to take off now that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has approved an iPhone application for Google’s new soci… Read more »
Document sharing site Scribd is expanding its mobile publishing efforts with the introduction of Float, a free, Instapaper-like iPhone app t… Read more »
» Murdochs Have A Lot Riding On Tuesday’s Command Performance (paidContent)
» Bye Bye, Borders: Chain Shuttering All… Read more »
“The average consumer subscribes to 3.5 daily deal sites these days. The brand loyalty is not there,” Robert Boniface, COO of iCoupon Online… Read more »
With all the attention on News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) and the hacking scandal, it was bound to happen: the homepage of The Sun newspaper, The Time… Read more »
» Ex-News Corp Exec Rebekah Brooks Arrested By Appointment (paidContent)
» WSJ To News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). Critics: STF… Read more »
Can you get an early Spotify invitation? It all depends on how cool you are, or at least that’s what Klout wants you to think. The site, whi… Read more »
As Google’s stellar Q2 performance showed, the company is capable of beating even the rosiest of expectations and putting doubters to shame.… Read more »
Glam Media, the lifestyle network currently the source of speculation as a likely IPO candidate, will offer sites it works with the option o… Read more »
» Swedish freemium music service Spotify is finally live in the U.S. Invite-only access and subscriptions started this morning. (… Read more »
When the multinational operator France Telecom/Orange announced that it was taking an $80-million, 49-percent stake in the online video site… Read more »
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