MTV Gets Back Into Music Recommendation With ‘Soundtrack’; Rhapsody To Handle Download Sales
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 »
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 »
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, 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 »
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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 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 »
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 »
– Jaman announces distribution deal with Paramount: Jaman.com has just inked a deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment, in which many of… Read more »
Motricity, the mobile infrastructure company that acquired InfoSpace (NSDQ: INSP) Mobile for $135 million in October, has been relatively q… Read more »
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, 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 »
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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 »
– Treo With Windows Mobile On Sprint: The new Treo 800w has launched with Sprint (NYSE: S), marking the first device to be shipped with Win… Read more »
Atomic Moguls, the online sports gamer led by ex-NBA official Brenda Spoonemore, has raised another $1 million from past backer Second Avenu… Read more »
Webjam, a startup that lets any organization set up their own social network (that sounds pretty familiar), has raised a £1 million ($1.9 m… Read more »
While Lehman analyst Anthony DiClemente expects digital media to thoroughly cannibalize major entertainment company’s DVD sales, Disney (NYS… Read more »
Social Gaming Network, a major distributor of games on Facebook and other social networks, has added Bezos Expeditions, Jeff Bezos’ investme… Read more »
German mobile social network Aka-Aki, which uses Bluetooth to do location-aware proximity networking and is also available in English, has r… Read more »
So where exactly are all the game-changing entertainment applications for the iPhone? After skimming through the App store that launched tod… Read more »
With Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) App store launching today, we got in touch with GoTV Network’s CEO Thomas Ellsworth today to discuss his company’s… Read more »
Thumbplay confirmed today it has signed a deal with Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) to add content from artists such as Kid Rock and Missy El… Read more »
Socialmedian, the social news site started by former Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg, has been nurturing its seed round into a sapling for a whil… Read more »
Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel wants some attention for how well the Samsung Instinct is selling, and with a lot of hype and media attention going… Read more »
Apparently the world did need another how-to video site. The latest is Graspr, which has raised a $2.5 million first round from DFJ and vari… Read more »
This one kinda comes out of left field, though in a way it makes perfect sense… NowPublic, the heavily funded citizen journalism startup,… Read more »
– Metrotwin: Next up in branded social networks is Metrotwin, British Airways’ attempt to encourage users to share recommendations for thin… Read more »
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), which helps carriers sell ringtones, ringback tones and full-track music, believes the continuing trend in mobile… Read more »
In a way, Flickr is kind of the unofficial stock photo service of new media, so this makes sense… the Yahoo-owned photo site now has a dea… Read more »
You’re reading it here first… Italian social media entertainment operator Dada has bought a 10 percent stake in the owner of interactive o… Read more »
The FeedRoom, a longtime player in the online video market, has raised another $12 million led by NewSpring Capital, with past backers BEV C… Read more »
Orange is unveiling a WAP platform that aggregates multiple social networks in one service. It displays the most popular functions for the n… Read more »
Demand Media, the Santa Monica-based social media firm, is not in sale talks with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), contrary to rumors.
Yahoo execs Hila… Read more »
Mevio, the early commercial entrant into the podcasting game then known as PodShow, has raised a big, $15 million third round led by Crossli… Read more »
Darryn Lyons, the pink-mohawked founder of the Big Pictures photo agency, has launched a mobile version of his celebrity gossip site MrPapar… Read more »
Helsinki’s Xtract, an agency that gathers social media impact data for advertisers, has closed a Read more »
Another upstart mobile social media platform, Next2Friends, will announce a “multimillion-dollar” first funding round in the next four to si… Read more »
Because the elite can’t be seen networking with the rest of us… Spire.com, a social networking site for folks whose net worth is $250k or… Read more »
Chinese social networking site Xiaonei already has a reputation for basically being a Facebook knock-off. Now it’s copying Facebook’s strate… Read more »
JS-KIT, a provider of widgets and services for blogs, has acquired Haloscan, the old commenting platform, often seen on blogspot-hosted blog… Read more »
Playfish, a developer of games on Facebook, has raised $1 million (£500,000) as part of a larger planned venture round, according to Ventur… Read more »
– Zedge.net launches in U.S.: Zedge, a mobile content company owned by IDT Corporation, said it was going to enter the U.S. market after sa… Read more »
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