Ad Industry Roundup: NBCU; eMarketer; UK Ad Spend; Facebook; comScore
– NBCU claims $10 million in Olympic ad sales: But that’s for TV and digital combined, as NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) reps declined to provide… Read more »
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Fox International Buys Made-For-Mobile Program ‘The Cell’ For First Push Into Online Programming
By Matt Kapko
The Cell — no, not the J. Lo flick — but a made-for mobile show, produced by Endemol, has been purchased by Fox International Channels as… Read more »
Updated: Twitter Stops SMS To UK, Blame The Isle Of Man
Twitter says it’s stopped sending out tweets via SMS in the UK, claiming the popularity of the service has made the cost too prohibitive (bu… Read more »
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Can Olympics Boost Mobile TV In China?
By Dianne See Morrison
The current quality of mobile TV may not be quite up to snuff in China, but that may not matter to those Chinese consumers hoping to tune in… Read more »
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Still waiting for an MLB IPO? Better hope Bob Bowman starts practicing his moves as a shortstop. Asked if a public offering is in the offing… Read more »
Olympics Search Review: Google And Yahoo Get Gold; AOL Grabs Silver; Live Places Last With Bronze
By Tricia Duryee
The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing are supposed to be one of the biggest digital events of all time with tons of content being available fo… Read more »
NBCU’s Cross-Platform Olympics: ‘Stunned’ By Mobile Adoption; But Will Users Return After The Games?
By David Kaplan
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) execs claimed to have been “stunned” by the level of mobile adoption by users turning to their mobile phones to che… Read more »
Aiming At BtoB, NYTimes.com Rolls Out Business, Tech Sub-sections; Handful Of Hires
By David Kaplan
NYTimes.com has been quietly rolling out a series of sub-sections this month, in hopes of attracting more B-to-B advertisers. By mid-Septemb… Read more »
Hands-On Mobile Sheds European Business; Merges With Connect 2 Media As Minority Shareholder
By Matt Kapko
MocoNews has learned that mobile games developer Hands-On Mobile is shedding its European game business six years after acquiring the compan… Read more »
Google Shuts Feedburner Ad Net; Publishers Offered AdSense For Feeds Instead: Report
By David Kaplan
RSS distributor FeedBurner has shut down its FeedBurner Ad Network, according to a report on Search Roundtable. Calls to Feedburner and Goog… Read more »
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Siano Mobile Silicon Raises Third Round Of $17.5 Million
By Dianne See Morrison
Mobile TV chipmaker Siano Mobile Silicon has raised a third round of funding for $17.5 million for a total of $52 million. Draper Fisher Jur… Read more »
10-Q Watch: Jupitermedia-MediaBistro; Scripps Interactive; Lee Enterprises, Classmates.com
By Joseph Weisenthal
– Jupitermedia: In its 10-Q, the stock photo and online media company, says its MediaBistro unit did revenue of $2.3 million in the latest… Read more »
Yahoo Launches Fire Eagle To Manage Location-Based Information
By Tricia Duryee
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) said today its finally taking Fire Eagle out of beta and opening it up to the public. The service helps manage location i… Read more »
Why All The Interest In Russia? Try 10x Online Ad Growth In Next Decade
By Joseph Weisenthal
We’ve definitely noticed increased interest in the Russian internet market, marked notably by Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) acquisition of a context… Read more »
Why All The Interest In Russia? Try 10x Online Ad Growth In Next Decade
By Joseph Weisenthal
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Kwiry Lets Users Add Items Directly To Netflix And Amazon Via Text
By Tricia Duryee
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Mobile Content Bits: Zed-Koch, Nappy Boy Digital; Handango Sells EA Games; ICO Broadcasts Cartoons
By Matt Kapko
– Zed strikes distribution deals: Mobile entertainment company Zed has struck two exclusive distribution deals, one with rapper T-Pain Read more »
Blog Searcher Lijit Gets $7.1 Million Third Round; Plans Ad Net
By Joseph Weisenthal
Lijit, a popular service that lets blogs add search functionality, has raised a $7.1 million third round led by Foundry Group. Past backers… Read more »
LiveJournal Steps Into India With Flash-Fiction Contest
By Cerius Shah
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Mobile Content Bits: Airport Kiosks; Verizon’s Visual; Nokia’s Email Beta; Metacafe Goes Mobile
By Tricia Duryee
– Best Buy launches airport kiosks: Best Buy said today it will install 12 vending machines in U.S. airports as part of a pilot project. Th… Read more »
VendAsta Raises C$3 Million For Homeowners Social Networking
By Joseph Weisenthal
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Former AOL Exec Dvorkin Starts News Aggregator Backed By Forbes, Velocity
By David Kaplan
Lewis Dvorkin, the former SVP of *AOL* News and Sports, tells paidContent that he has received undisclosed, early-stage funding for a news a… Read more »
Updated: MTV Mobile Picks Thumbplay To Manage Mobile Content Storefront; Drops Motricity
By Matt Kapko
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Broadband Content Bits: Whedon’s Sing-Along; Hulu HD; Bebo Series; ‘Scary City’; ‘Tropic Thunder’
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5.2B Mobile Subscribers By 2011, 1.7B On Mobile Web And 2.1B Mobile Purchases By 2013: Reports
By Matt Kapko
A trio of new research reports detail the dramatic and swift rise of mobile in terms of subscription growth, mobile web usage and mobile pay… Read more »
Did Facebook Try to Buy German Clone StudiVZ? All Stock Offer
By Rafat Ali
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Xpanity Raises $1.5 Million For Co-Browsing
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Chinese Video Portal Video Portal LeTV Gets $7.7 Million Funding
By Rafat Ali
The funding for Chinese online video sites just keep on coming: Beijing-based online video portal LeTV.com has received a first round invest… Read more »
Video Chatter TokBox Raises $10 Million Second Round
By Joseph Weisenthal
TokBox, the provider of a simple video chatting service, has raised a $10 million second round led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participat… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: AT&T Team USA Soundtrack; MediaFLO NASCAR; T-Mobile 3G; VH1′s Scandalist
By Matt Kapko
– AT&T (NYSE: T) brings recording artists together to record Team USA soundtrack for Olympics: Here Read more »
Stealthy 750 Industries Gets $1 Million First Round
By Joseph Weisenthal
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Eye-Fi Raises $11 Million In Second Round Of Funding
By Matt Kapko
Eye-Fi, a company out of Mountain View, Calif. has raised $11 million in a second round of funding. Translink Capital and LMS Capital led th… Read more »
Chinese Internet Holding Firm Koolanoo Gets $25 Million Funding
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Earnings: United Online Revs Fall 7 Percent; But People Keep Joining Pay Social Net Classmates
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Classmates, the subscription-based social net that United Online (NSDQ: UNTD) failed to take public continues to add subscribers… Paying a… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Treemo On T-Mobile; go2 Adds Traffic; Millennial Video Ads; Glu, N-Gage Games
By Tricia Duryee
– Treemo added to T-Mobile deck: Treemo, a Seattle-based mobile social network, announced today that it has been added to the T-Mobile deck… Read more »
Education.com Gets $9.75 Million Second Round
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Education.com, an education info site for parents, has raised a $9.75 million second round led by California Technology Ventures, along with… Read more »
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WePlay Gets $8.6 Million Second Round For Youth Sports; Investors Include LeBron James, Jeter
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Friendster Closes $20 Million Round; Focuses On Asia Now; New CEO
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