Industry Moves: Newsweek; LIN TV; MySpace; Spotzer
– Newsweek: The *Washington Post Co*. mag has named Pamela Raley, a former online ad sales exec at Hearst, *Disney* and Revolution Health,… Read more »
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Name Change Didn’t Help: Jellycloud Defunct; $50M In Funding Down The Drain, 36 Staffers Out
By David Kaplan
Adware purveyor turned ad network Jellycloud has had two other aliases during the past eight years, but now you might as well call it dead a… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Verizon Games; RingRing; Brides.com Video; Komen SMS; Telefonica And Facebook
By Tricia Duryee
– *Verizon* adds three *Gameloft* Games: Verizon (NYSE: VZ) said it was adding three games from Gameloft (EPA: GFT) today, including NFL 20… Read more »
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Blog Network Giga Omni Media Raises $4.5 Million Funding
By Rafat Ali
On one hand some blog networks are retrenching a bit, while a few others are expanding, or at least preparing for the long winter ahead: Gig… Read more »
French Storage Data Provider Steek Buys Teen-focused Social Net Amiz.fr
By David Kaplan
French content storage company Steek has bought Paris-based teen social net platform Amiz.fr. Terms weren’t disclosed. Steek works with telc… Read more »
Zimbio Raises $6.8 Million First Round For ‘Wikizines’
Online “wikizine” company Zimbio has raised a $6.8 million first round led by Menlo Ventures, with Draper Richards participating, according… Read more »
CNN’s iReport Under Fire For Fake Jobs Health Report
Friday morning, a number of people jumped on an unverified report that showed up on CNN’s cit j channel iReport.com claiming — erroneously,… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: YouTube Live; Vudu Hi-Def; MySpace-TMZ; TheWB.com Shows
– YouTube hosting first live event: YouTube announced it would host its first live event on Nov. 22 in San Francisco, mixing “elements of a… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: AT&T Online; Rok’s Viral GeeSpark; Flickr On iPhone; YouMail Voicemail
By Tricia Duryee
– *AT&T* launches online store: AT&T (NYSE: T) launched a beta version of its Online Experience Store, which provides cool features such as… Read more »
Friendster Joins Bebo In Allowing Facebook App Compatibility
Making like Bebo, Friendster has announced it now supports both Facebook’s code and OpenSocial, CNET reports. The move effectively enables F… Read more »
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Ad Industry Roundup: Microsoft; MSNBC; Local Ads; Chevrolet
By David Kaplan
– Microsoft’s Seinfeld ads are a viral hit: While two ads featuring the odd couple of Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates were widely panned, onl… Read more »
Skype’s China JV Partner TOM Online Monitoring And Storing Chats
Skype has apologized after a report revealed that TOM Online, majority owners of Skype’s Chinese venture firm TOM-Skype, has been monitoring… Read more »
Obama Launches iPhone App That Helps You Call Friends In Key Battleground States
By Tricia Duryee
The Obama campaign launched an iPod Touch and iPhone application today that encourages people to get involved with just 33 days left until e… Read more »
Nintendo Announces DSi With Cameras, Web Browsing And Music Playback
By Matt Kapko
Nintendo is releasing a new portable gaming console dubbed the DSi that features more multimedia features, but specs that fall well short of… Read more »
Another Social Network Maker, SocialGo Aims To Nobble Ning
With all the buzz over the last few years about social networking, a niche seems to have opened up amongst vendors pitching to let anyone c… Read more »
Signs Of Life For Sling’s Video Portal, Other Services; Sling.com Starts Limited Beta
Nearly two years after Sling Media announced it had a video portal and the Clip+Sling video sharing in development, the services are finally… Read more »
Urban Communications Buys African American Social Net NiggaSpace.com
Baltimore-based Urban Communications has added a third entity to its portfolio, with the acquisition of African American social network Nigg… Read more »
AOL Shutters Blog Hub Hometown, Journals
By David Kaplan
As it indicated in a leaked memo back in July, AOL (NYSE: TWX) announced (via Wired) the closing of its community blogs, Hometown and Journa… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: FoxSports Shows; ‘Heroes’-G4;’ Easy To Assemble’-CBS; Nippon-Amuse
– FoxSports.com streaming Vuguru show; launching poker series: Michael Eisner’s digital studio has found a home for its latest offering, a… Read more »
Widget’s Parellel Economy: Gigya Gets $11 Million Funding
By Rafat Ali
Meanwhile, the widget economy is functioning in a parallel, oblivious universe: Widget distribution firm Gigya has received $11 million in i… Read more »
Almost Half Of All U.S. Cellphone Subscribers Access Entertainment On Their Device: Survey
By Matt Kapko
Almost half of all cellphone customers in the U.S. use their mobile devices for entertainment purposes, according to a new survey from mobil… Read more »
Kyte Comes Out Of Beta For Nokia S60
By Matt Kapko
Kyte Mobile Producer has been freed from beta and is now available publicly for multiple Nokia (NYSE: NOK) S60 devices. The application, whi… Read more »
NPR.org Goes Social With The NPR Community
By Joseph Weisenthal
Sure, there’s some cheap jokes to be made here, but why bother: NPR.org is the latest big media site to get a fresh coat of social networkin… Read more »
NTT DoCoMo And Avex Entertainment To Pour Up To $66 Million Into Mobile-Specific Video JV
By Dianne See Morrison
A massive investment into mobile-specific video content. NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) and Japan Read more »
Widget Services Firm Clearspring Acquires Bookmarking Service AddThis
By Rafat Ali
Widget analytics and distribution firm Clearspring has made a small tools acquisition: it has bought AddThis, the bookmarking and content sh… Read more »
Video Site HealthiNation Raises $7.5 Million Second Round, Strikes Syndication Deals
By David Kaplan
Online video network HealthiNation has raised $7.5 million in a second round of funding led by *Intel Capital* and existing backer MK Capita… Read more »
Updated: Nokia To Buy Mobile Communications and Social Net Firm Oz Communications
By Rafat Ali
Update: The company has now officially announced it…the deal is expected to close in Q4, and Oz will become part of Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) Se… Read more »
Interview: Marcus Thornley, Innovation Head, Buongiorno: Facebook ‘Not Certain’ To Dominate Mobile
By Dianne See Morrison
Buongiorno (BIT: BNG) is turning the boat around. The 12-year-old Italian digital content provider, which began as an email newsletter, is Read more »
AOL Brings Back Digital City As (Yet Another) Blog
By David Kaplan
In keeping with AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) blog-a-week rollout that it’s been doing for the past year to revamp its portal site, the Time Warner comp… Read more »
Sassa’s Web Publishing Firm Uber.com Closing Down; Investors Pulled Out
By Rafat Ali
What happened here? Two months ago I met Scott Sassa in our offices when he was all gaga over Uber.com’s chances. In those two months, it tu… Read more »
KDDI Offers Motorola Set-Top Box That Transfers Content To And From A Mobile Phone
By Tricia Duryee
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced a new line of set-tops that allow users to transfer content to and from mobile phones without the need fo… Read more »
Glam Media Readies Male Version; Tries 7 Percent Solution, Cutting Workforce By 14 Jobs
By David Kaplan
Glam Media, the women’s fashion and entertainment ad net, has had a lot of activity lately. It’s now prepping a men’s channel and ad net wit… Read more »
Hollywood.com Redesign To Launch As Early As Tonight
By Matt Kapko
Hollywood.com, the entertainment news and ticketing company, is rolling out a soft launch of its redesigned Web site as early as tonight wit… Read more »
GoTV Networks Developing Personal Online Media Sharing Service; iPhone Apps Coming
By Matt Kapko
GoTV Networks, which produces videos about the music industry and others for both mobile and broadband networks, is getting close to launchi… Read more »
NBCU’s Digital Health Net Strikes Video Deal With Six Distributors; Google TV Ads Signs Up Bloomberg
By David Kaplan
Two fledgling digital projects have struck agreements designed to give them legs:
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Cramster Raises $3 Million For Online Group Study
By Joseph Weisenthal
Apparently startups are still using the -ster suffix… The latest is Cramster, a social exam studying site for students, which has just rai… Read more »
China Mobile Preparing To Sell Stripped Down iPhone
By Tricia Duryee
China Mobile is expected to start selling an Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone, stripped of 3G and Wi-Fi in order to comply with Chinese regulations… Read more »
MySpace Music Launching Tonight: 9 PM PT/12:00 AM ET
By Joseph Weisenthal
Update: As of about midnight on the west coast, the site is live. We’ll have reactions and a full review later this morning, after we’ve ta… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: iPhone Retail; PhotoBucket Mobile; Soap App; Android OS; NuTsie; Transpera
By Tricia Duryee
– Buy iPhones at home and pick them up at the store: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched a new way for people to buy iPhones yesterday, by letting… Read more »
Staying Solo: Digg Raises $29 Million Third Round
By Joseph Weisenthal
It looks like perpetually almost-for-sale social news site Digg is going to stay solo for awhile… The SF-based company has just announced… Read more »
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