Yahoo Shutters Social Net Site Mash
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is closing down its one-year-old social networking site, Yahoo Mash. The site, which has been in private beta, will shut… Read more »
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Mobile And Online Olympics Coverage Didn’t Cannibalize TV In Canada: CBC
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Speeddate Gets $6 Million Second Round For… Online Speed Dating
By Joseph Weisenthal
Competition in the online dating industry is starting to heat up… Speeddate has raised a $6 million second round led by Menlo Ventures, re… Read more »
Sprint Integrates Location-Based Services Into Its WiMax Network; Announces Content Partners
By Tricia Duryee
Sprint (NYSE: S) has integrated a slew of content and location-based services into its upcoming XOHM WiMax wireless broadband network. In th… Read more »
Social Net Parent BuzzCity Gets $10 Million For Africa Partnership
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Veoh Wins Copyright Infringement Lawsuit; Viacom-YouTube Next?
By Rafat Ali
Updated below: No, this isn’t the big one, but nonetheless an important precedent: A federal judge in San Jose ruled today that video-sharin… Read more »
Mobile Video Services Launched On Telcel And Cricket Carrier Decks
By Matt Kapko
Cricket Communications and Mexico’s Telcel both announced two separate mobile video services today:
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Broadband Content Bits: Movies Not Online; FX Streams; LG15 Spinoff; PCH
– Hollywood classics unavailable for legal download, Blu-ray not coming soon: With the online availability of movies becoming more widespre… Read more »
Facebook Penetration Still Weak In Asia; Malaysians Overwhelmingly Choose Friendster
By David Kaplan
With ad agencies like WPP Group increasingly focused on Asia, Nicholas Guan, a social media researcher at the ad holding company’s OgilvyOne… Read more »
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Interview: Pelago
By Tricia Duryee
Last week, I caught up with Jeff Holden, the CEO of Pelago, which is developing Whrrl, an application for mobile phones that lets people sha… Read more »
OleOle Acquires Aston Villa Fan Blog, More To Come
OleOle, the social football site where the users author most of the content, has acquired AVFC Blog, the leading Aston Villa journal with 20… Read more »
Golf Social Net Stracka.com Acquires GolfQ.com
By Joseph Weisenthal
Some consolidation in the lower ranks of the online golf world… Stracka.com, which bills itself as “golf’s premier social network” has acq… Read more »
Japanese Social Net Mixi Sees US Markets In Its Future, Eventually
By Joseph Weisenthal
Top US social nets Facebook and MySpace haven’t been able to capture the top spot in Japan, where publicly traded Mixi reigns supreme. Mixi… Read more »
Lifetime Networks Acquires ParentsClick Network For About $10 Million; First Digital Acquisition
Update: We found out the sale price: it is about $10 million, our sources say.
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Romanian Students Social Net Scool.ro Funded From Poland
Scool.ro, a Romanian social network for students and alumni, has received an investment from IIF Group, the Polish VC house that’s also fund… Read more »
Photobucket’s Sale To Fox: How VC Insiders Made Big Personal Returns
By Rafat Ali
On July 31, an email landed in my inbox alleging that some venture capitalist insiders from Insight Venture Partners benefited disproportion… Read more »
Disney Tries Familiar Strategy, Uses ‘Snow White’ To Pitch New Tech; This Time It’s Blu-ray, BD Live
Nothing says try new technology as much as a release of *Disney* classics in that format, and if anything will drive me to Blu-ray it well c… Read more »
Olympics Review: NBC Olympics 2Go On AT&T
By Matt Kapko
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Zune Community Site Zuneboards Sold For $62K
By Joseph Weisenthal
I’ll resist the temptation to make a crack about how at least somebody is making money on the Zune, but… Zuneboards, a community site devo… Read more »
Ad Industry Roundup: MySpace; Microsoft; Google
By David Kaplan
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Dizzywood Gets $1 Million For Kids Virtual Worlds
By Joseph Weisenthal
Kid-oriented virtual worlds continues to be a hot space… Dizzywood, a new virtual worlds startup for kids, has raised $1 million from the… Read more »
BigAdda Launches Mobile App, Wap Site and SMS Features; Mobile Number Ids
By Cerius Shah
BigAdda, Reliance Entertainment’s social networking play, has gone mobile with a mobile app, wap site and SMS features. The Big B(eta) seems… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Obama Texts 2.9 Million; Kinoma Player, Hi5 Mobile; USOpen.org WAP; MailTXT
By Matt Kapko
– 2.9 million text messages sent from Obama campaign: Nielsen Mobile estimates 2.9 million people received a text message from the Obama ca… Read more »
Video Services Provider StudioNow Secures $2 Million In Private Equity
By David Kaplan
StudioNow, a social net and platform for professional video services, has secured $2 million in private equity from existing investors and C… Read more »
Technorati Buys Online Blog Network Blogcritics
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Technorati, the still-trying-to-redefine-itself blog search and now blog ad network, has bought out Blogcritics, one of the oldest online bl… Read more »
Mobile Video Streaming Service Qik Gets Funding From Andreessen
By Rafat Ali
Qik, the popular-among-bloggers mobile video streaming service, has received new funding from Marc Andreessen and his longtime business part… Read more »
Amazon Buys Another Books-Focused Social Site Shelfari
By Rafat Ali
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is buying up another books-focused social network Shelfari, three weeks after it acquired AbeBooks, which holds a 40 per… Read more »
Facebook Users In India Are Last Ones With Scrabulous Access
For now, Facebook users in India are the only ones with access to popular word game Scrabulous through the social network. A few weeks ago,… Read more »
ESPN’s New 15-Year Deal With SEC Includes Live Mobile College Games
ESPN (NYSE: DIS) has the right to simulcast Southeastern Conference (SEC) games on mobile under a new 15-year deal with the powerhouse athle… Read more »
Microsoft Invests in Heavily-Backed HD Online & Mobile Video Service Move Networks
By Rafat Ali
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has done an undisclosed amount of strategic investment in already-heavily backed online and now mobile HD video tech… Read more »
U.S. Elections May Be Second Big Event For Mobile After The Olympics
By Tricia Duryee
Now that the 2008 Summer Olympics have come to a close, the mobile industry is looking for the next big news event that could drive traffic… Read more »
Picateers Gets $6.6 Million For Online Photo Based School Fundraising
By Joseph Weisenthal
We don’t see many fundings in the online photo space anymore, but this one at least has something of a business model… Picateers, which do… Read more »
Newspaper Roundup: Gannett; Sac Bee; Star Tribune
By David Kaplan
– Gannett: Another ugly month from Gannett (NYSE: GCI), which says revenue fell 12.3 percent in July, compared to 2007. Publishing ad revs… Read more »
MediaFLO Replaces NBC News2Go With CNBC And MSNBC; Also Adds Fox News To Lineup
By Matt Kapko
MediaFLO USA beefed up its news programming slate over the weekend with the addition of three new permanent 24/7 cable news channels: CNBC,… Read more »
LinkedIn’s Hollywood PR Offensive: Cashing In On Economy’s Woes
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LinkedIn is on a Hollywood PR offensive, and positioning itself as the place where out-of-work and freelance creative professionals: it star… Read more »
One For Actual Journalism: Barack Obama VP Pick Fails To Arrive First Via SMS And E-mail
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Ad Industry Roundup: WPP; Google; Facebook; ANA; P&G
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– Digital now 25 percent of WPP’s revs: During the first half of ’08, WPP Group’s revenue gained 14.3 percent to $6.1 billion (£3.3 billio… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Verizon-NFL; Model.Live-Bebo; Disney Family.com; Crackle Series; MTV Series
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Our sister site PaidContent.org is reporting that ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media group (MLBAM) are extending th… Read more »
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