Social Gaming Firm Zynga Gets Its Big Round; $29M From KPCB; Buys Fbook App
Just when Fortune did a long story on Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers not investing in the Internet and Web 2.0 world anymore, the venerabl… Read more »
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Giga Omni Media Acq-hires Mobile Tech Blog jkOnTheRun
By Rafat Ali
Giga Omni Media, the blog media network founded by Om Malik, has done its first acq-hire: it has bought a mobile technology blog called jkOn… Read more »
Sugar Inc. Taking Back Ad Sales From NBCU But Investment Remains
A bit of disturbance in the ad network force … Sugar Inc. is taking its ad sales back in house after a year in a rev-share agreement that… Read more »
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Mobile Content Bits: AT&T Expands Navigator; Slydial; Catch 21 On Mobile; Versaly On-Demand Video
By Matt Kapko
– *AT&T* Navigator available worldwide: AT&T (NYSE: T) has extended its GPS navigation service outside the U.S. borders to more than 20 cou… Read more »
Industry Moves: Thumbplay Promotes Mitch Rotter To SVP Of Content Acquisition And Strategy
By Matt Kapko
Mitch Rotter has been promoted to senior VP of content acquisition and strategy at Thumbplay, the company announced today. Rotter brings mor… Read more »
Social Networking On Mobile Still Not As Strong As Email And Web In U.K.: Survey
By Matt Kapko
Only 24 percent of Internet users access social networking sites with a mobile phone, according to a new survey (pdf) done in the U.K. last… Read more »
NYT Joins LinkedIn For Targeting Ads And Content
By David Kaplan
NYTimes.com is working with LinkedIn on targeting news stories and ads at their respective readers and members, the two said in a joint anno… Read more »
MyToons Gets Second Round For Online Animation Community
By Joseph Weisenthal
MyToons, a community and distribution platform for online animation, has raised an unspecified second round of funding from Syncom Venture P… Read more »
Berggi Launches ZipClip To Let Users Send Content From Web To Mobile
By Tricia Duryee
Why buy mobile content when you can just rip it off from the Web? This is a pretty good idea that targets the mindset of a teenager, who wan… Read more »
AllVoices, Formerly Masala, Launches New User-Gen News Service
By Joseph Weisenthal
There have been numerous attempts at so-called “citizen journalism” news models.. The most successful model has been, well, blogs in general… Read more »
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Is Twitter On the Cusp Of A Turnaround? Maybe Or Maybe Not…
By Tricia Duryee
For awhile, there was nothing Twitter could do right. Frequent crashes would prompt a slew of angry bloggers to rant about the service in le… Read more »
Slingpage Raises $2.25 Million For Web Content Sharing
By Joseph Weisenthal
Apparently there’s still more money towards different ways to share web content… Slingpage, a service for letting users share webpages the… Read more »
Qik Opens Up Its Mobile Broadcasting Service To The Public
By Tricia Duryee
Foster City, Calif.-based Qik announced today that it’s opening up its mobile-broadcasting service, which lets people stream live from their… Read more »
Chinese Video Site Ku6 Gets A Big Second Round As Well
By Rafat Ali
The slew of big Chinese digital media fundings continue: Ku6, the online video sharing site based in Beijing, has received “tens of million”… Read more »
Social App Developer LivingSocial Gets $5 Million First Round
By Joseph Weisenthal
Who said anything about VCs no longer funding Facebook apps? LivingSocial, a developer of apps that help friends share recommendations for s… Read more »
Facebook Facelift: All In All, Lots More Stuff On The Wall
Now you see it, now you don’t … screenshots and descriptions of the Facebook facelift slated to go live Monday are flying around but the u… Read more »
NBCU Wireless GM On iPhone: ‘We Didn’t Feel That We Had To Be There On Day One’
By Matt Kapko
When it comes to the iPhone, large entertainment companies are sitting on the sidelines. NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) can’t justify investing in… Read more »
Updated: Facebook Sues German Knockoff Site StudiVZ; Will Others Follow?
By Rafat Ali
Updated below: Facebook has finally started taking action against its knockoff sites, and has first sued the one most easily accessible in t… Read more »
Facebook Sues Germany’s StudiVZ For Copycatting; Will Others Follow?
By Rafat Ali
Facebook has finally started taking action against its knockoff sites, and has first sued the one most easily accessible in terms of regulat… Read more »
MySpace Mobile Prepares For Makeover
By Tricia Duryee
MySpace is close to redesigning its social-networking mobile site to make it look more like the recent online redesign and more like the iPh… Read more »
Lost In Translation: Japanese Market Not Sold On iPhone Cool Factor
By Tricia Duryee
In Japan, like elsewhere, gadget fans lined up to be some of the first to buy the new iPhone last week. However, after the initial rush, it… Read more »
AT&T Grabs Exclusive 24/7 NBC Olympics Channel For MediaFLO
By Matt Kapko
AT&T (NYSE: T) has used its clout as an Olympics sponsor and official telecommunications provider to the U.S team to nail an exclusive 24/7… Read more »
Leonisis, Case Back SnagFilms, Where Documentaries Meet Widgets; Startup Acquires IndieWIRE
Anyone with a clue about Ted Leonsis’s activities these past few years won’t be too surprised to hear that his latest venture combines docum… Read more »
Zumobi Launches Its Widget User Interface For BlackBerry Devices
By Tricia Duryee
Zumobi, which has created an ad-supported user interface using widgets, said its BlackBerry application is now officially available. In addi… Read more »
Comcast-Owned thePlatform Buys Social Media Apps Firm Chirp Interactive
By Rafat Ali
thePlatform, the broadband and mobile video services provider that is now part of Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), has acquired assets from San Franci… Read more »
Social Bookmarker Snipitron Acquires Bookmarking Tool OnlyWire
By Joseph Weisenthal
Social bookmarking isn’t a space you hear so much about these, at least compared to a couple years ago. It looks like a pair of lesser known… Read more »
BlogHer Gets $5 Million Second Round From Peacock Equity; Partnership With iVillage
By Joseph Weisenthal
BlogHer, the womens ad network, blogging community site and conference organizer, has raised a $5 million second round lead by the Peacock E… Read more »
SendMe Mobile Partners With Warner Music For Mobile Content
By Tricia Duryee
SendMe Mobile, an off-deck provider of ringtones, wallpapers and other mobile content, expects to announce today that it has signed an agree… Read more »
Viadeo Buys ICTnet To Fight Xing On Business Networking
LinkedIn clone Viadeo has acquired Spain’s ICTnet, a business-oriented community site listing 55 such communities. Viadeo’s Spain country ma… Read more »
MTV Gets Back Into Music Recommendation With ‘Soundtrack’; Rhapsody To Handle Download Sales
By David Kaplan
MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA), now better known for creating series like The Hills than bringing the world the next Thriller video, is launching… Read more »
Beer Marketers Still Slow To Pour Dollars Online; InBev A-B Buyout Unlikely To Change That
By David Kaplan
While the story of marketers shifting their ad spend from traditional media to digital media has been fairly constant, not all ad categories… Read more »
Future US Buys News Aggregation Service Ballhype
By Rafat Ali
Future US, the once-parent of Business 2.0 and part of Future plc (LSE: FUTR), the UK based trade media company, has bought out BallHype, a… Read more »
Twitter Buys Micro-Blogging Search Site Summize; Reportedly $15M Cash+Stock
By Tricia Duryee
Twitter announced today that it has officially acquired Summize, according to a post written by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. All five of Su… Read more »
Twitter Buys Micro-Blogging Search Site Summize; Reportedly $15M Cash+Stock
By Tricia Duryee
Twitter announced today that it has officially acquired Summize, according to a post written by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. All five of Su… Read more »
Chatterous Raises Angel Round To Develop Group Chat Across Platforms
By Tricia Duryee
A company called Chatterous has raised less than $500,000 in angel funding to help users create private groups that they can chat with using… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Jaman-Paramount; Lonelygirl15; MySpace-Krofft; TheWB.com
– Jaman announces distribution deal with Paramount: Jaman.com has just inked a deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment, in which many of… Read more »
Interview: Ryan Wuerch, CEO, Motricity: IPO Still An Opportunity; ‘M&A Will Be A Part Of Our Core’
By Tricia Duryee
Motricity, the mobile infrastructure company that acquired InfoSpace (NSDQ: INSP) Mobile for $135 million in October, has been relatively q… Read more »
UGC, Not UGC: It is About the Economics of Context
By Rafat Ali
Spanish ad holding company Havas recently created a digital media R&D division called Havas Media Lab, headed by our London-based friend Uma… Read more »
Shopflick Raises $7 Million For Video-Based Shopping Marketplace
By Joseph Weisenthal
Shopflick, a site where merchants can show off their wares through video, has raised a $7 million first round from Panorama Capital and Venr… Read more »
Social Messaging Apps Firm BigString Buys IM Firm Buddystumble
By Rafat Ali
Two companies I had not heard of before, but I guess they exist: BigString, an OTC-traded provider of social networking messaging apps, has… Read more »
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