Polar Mobile—the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustrated (NYSE: TWX), Shanghai Daily, Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) and the WSJ—today announced two steps up in its growth: it has picked up an additional $6 million in funding and has launched…

Neil Ashe said he wanted a break when he left CBS (NYSE: CBS) last year and he got one. Roughly a year after leaving as the president of CBS Interactive, Ashe is literally back in business. His new gig: president and CEO of Walmart Global eCommerce, responsible for just what…

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration to a wider world of social networks and devices, arguing that sharing is the only thing that can save the music industry and stop piracy.

According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expected to rise to 1.6 billion by 2014. Today, announcements from streamed entertainment provider Aspiro and the music download service 7digital point—respectively announcing a new white-label distribution deal and…

CBS (NYSE: CBS) has taken what Jim Lanzone, president of CBS Interactive, calls “a pragmatic path” in terms of distributing streamed videos of its programming and library. In a conversation with our Staci D. Kramer at paidContent Entertainment ‘11, Lanzone told those who have been waiting to see larger availability…

The Rubicon Project has added three executives—including Jay Sears from ContextWeb, who recently declared the supply-side platform model “dead”—as competition among the major SSPs—PubMatic, AdMeld to name two—heats up as publishers look for ways to help ease their ad sales immersion into real-time bidding.

Being the most popular is not a good enough business model, it seems, when it comes to music mobile apps. Pandora, the music-streaming app, says it is the most-downloaded free music app in both the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store and Android Market in the U.S., but that volume has…

We’ve gathered together a selection of some of the stories and tributes been written for Steve Jobs in the last several weeks—with a particular emphasis on the those made since news of his passing broke on October 5. “Our time’s Da Vinci,” in the words of Spotify’s Daniel Ek. Read…

CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) has hired Marc DeBevoise as SVP and GM of its entertainment division, two months after Anthony Soohoo left that post.

Years after CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) acquired Last.fm, the personalized streaming music service will be added to Radio.com, the broadcaster’s online player. Radio.com, which already hosts AOL’s and Yahoo’s streaming music as part of its 130 stations and was relaunched a year ago, hopes that Last.fm will complement its existing…

Although the agreement between CBS (NYSE: CBS) Corp.‘s Showtime network and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is set to expire this summer, CEO Les Moonves said the two companies are in talks to expand the deal internationally, particularly into Latin America. While Moonves described himself as happy with the current arrangement with…

CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) turned in a pretty strong quarter on both cable and broadcast as it heads into the upfront. The absence of the Super Bowl XLV, which was broadcast on Fox this year, caused revenues to slip just slightly, while the cable division, which houses Showtime Networks and…

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More changes in the executive suite at CBS (NYSE: CBS) Interactive: Anthony Soohoo, senior vp and general manager of entertainment, signaled he was exiting the company in an internal memo circulated Wednesday, as first reported by AllThingsD. His departure came days after Jim Lanzone was installed as president of CBS…

CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is acquiring Clicker, the self-styled “TV Guide” for online video, and is installing Jim Lanzone, Clicker’s co-founder and CEO as its new president, succeeding Neil Ashe. As CEO of CNET Networks, Ashe helped steer the tech media company’s $1.8 billion sale to CBS in June 2008…

In another sign the economics for purely-free music streamers don’t add up, Last.fm says it will now require a monthly subscription for access to its music via mobile and home entertainment devices.

If you’re looking for post-acquisition personnel drama a la MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) or frustration a la Dodgeball-Google (NSDQ: GOOG), don’t read this. Aside from losing control over the timing, so far Neil Ashe’s decision to leave CBS (NYSE: CBS) looks to be as simple as it gets: he sold at…

CBS (NYSE: CBS) started the year with the departure of Quincy Smith as head of digital and will start the next one without Neil Ashe, president of CBS Interactive, paidContent has confirmed.

After more than a year sucking Last.fm’s energies over to America, is CBS (NYSE: CBS) finally letting the music site have a bit of London fun again? CBS Interactive Music Group is appointing Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music exec Matthew Hawn as Last.fm’s vice president of product, based at its office…

IBM is preparing to acquire Netezza, a company that runs analytics for data warehouse appliances, for $1.7 billion. Under the terms of the all-cash deal, IBM will pay Netezza $27 a share, a 9.8 percent premium over Friday’s closing stock price. IBM is buying the company as it looks to…