MySpace’s Launches Local European Mobile Site
Not sure what value it has, but MySpace has launched a local European mobile site for its users. The new landing page directs visitors to ne… Read more »
Not sure what value it has, but MySpace has launched a local European mobile site for its users. The new landing page directs visitors to ne… Read more »
Burda, the German publishing group, is investing about £2 million ($4 million) in Mydeco.com, the interior-decoration-meets-social-networki… Read more »
GetJar, which distributes free mobile applications to consumers on the Internet and over the phone, said it is branching out its business by… Read more »
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Italian mobile content company Buongiorno released financial results for the first half of the year today, reporting that both revenues and… Read more »
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 »
Mobile social network myGamma’s parent BuzzCity is getting a $10 million funding from South African media group Naspers, with the aim of inv… Read more »
TV viewership didn Read more »
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 (NYSE: S) has integrated a slew of content and location-based services into its upcoming XOHM WiMax wireless broadband network. In th… Read more »
Mobile social network myGamma’s parent BuzzCity is getting a $10 million funding from South African media group Naspers, with the aim of inv… Read more »
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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 »
Cricket Communications and Mexico’s Telcel both announced two separate mobile video services today:
– Cricket is rolling out a flat-rate u… Read more »
– Hollywood classics unavailable for legal download, Blu-ray not coming soon: With the online availability of movies becoming more widespre… Read more »
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 »
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, 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 »
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 »
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 »
Update: We found out the sale price: it is about $10 million, our sources say.
Original post: Lifetime Networks’ digital push continues wit… Read more »
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 »
On July 31, an email landed in my inbox alleging that some venture capitalist insiders from Insight Venture Partners benefited disproportion… Read more »
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 »
More often than not, video on mobile phones is a lackluster experience. MediaFLO has been the most obvious exception to that rule in the Uni… Read more »
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 »
– MySpace’s new look is better for ads (sub. req.): This summer’s MySpace homepage revamp is now more hospitable to brand advertisers, says… Read more »
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, 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 »
– 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 »
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, 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 »
Qik, the popular-among-bloggers mobile video streaming service, has received new funding from Marc Andreessen and his longtime business part… Read more »
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 »
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 (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 (NSDQ: MSFT) has done an undisclosed amount of strategic investment in already-heavily backed online and now mobile HD video tech… Read more »
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 »
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 »
– 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 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 is on a Hollywood PR offensive, and positioning itself as the place where out-of-work and freelance creative professionals: it star… Read more »
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