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Feb 1, 2012 3:00 AM
The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s another example of that in action: today UK-based video ad platform Videoplaza is announcing a new $12 million round of funding.
Posted In: Advertising, Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Regulatory, EC, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, CBS, Five, HTC, Hulu, Qualcomm, Countries, Europe, France, creandum, innovacom venture capital, northzone ventures, qualcomm ventures, videoplaza
Jan 25, 2012 6:23 AM
The once high-profile technology news website Silicon.com is set to disappear after almost 15 years, as parent company CBS (NYSE: CBS) rolls it into a new UK edition of its flagship IT site TechRepublic.
Posted In: Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive
Jan 23, 2012 6:18 AM
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…
Posted In: Apps, E-Commerce, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, B2B, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, CBS, CBS Interactive, Conde Nast, Future Publishing, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, RIM, BlackBerry, georgian partners, polar mobile
Jan 16, 2012 6:55 PM
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…
Posted In: E-Commerce, Companies, Amazon, CBS, CBS Interactive, CNET, livingsocial, neil ashe
Jan 12, 2012 3:42 PM
A range of on-demand viewing options—and some new platforms to watch that content on—has traditional television watching on the run, right? Well, not quite. The average number of hours Americans spend every week sitting on the couch watching terrestrial, cable and satellite television continues to rise, according to a new…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Companies, CBS, Disney, ABC, NBC Universal, NBC, News Corp., Fox, Time Warner, Turner
Dec 26, 2011 1:12 PM
FilmOn, the premium-content internet streaming site that met controversy earlier this year over lawsuits involving CBS (NYSE: CBS), CNET, and copyright, is expanding its line up, adding two new sports channels for NCAA Basketball and NCAA Football.
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Games, Sports, Legal, Copyright, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Companies, CBS, CNET, Disney, ESPN, Google, Android, Countries, Europe, UK, Russia, alki david, filmon
Dec 14, 2011 9:00 AM
Hyperlocal content network Examiner.com is partnering with CBS (NYSE: CBS) Local Digital Media to provide exclusive content for CBS’s locally targeted properties in 25 cities.
Posted In: Advertising, Local, Media & Publishing, Online News, Companies, CBS, cbs local digital media, clarity digital, examiner.com
Nov 30, 2011 12:31 PM
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.
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Music, Legal, Piracy, Media & Publishing, Radio, Companies, Best Buy, Napster, CBS, CBS Interactive, Last.fm, Facebook, Spotify, Countries, Europe, Sweden, daniel ek
Nov 3, 2011 5:19 PM
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…
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Music, Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Companies, Apple, CBS, CBS Interactive, Last.fm, Google, Android, RIM, BlackBerry, Samsung, Spotify, Virgin, Virgin Media, Countries, Europe, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, UK, 7digital, aspiro
Nov 3, 2011 1:41 PM
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…
Posted In: Advertising, Entertainment, Marketing, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Search, Social Media, Video, Technologies / Formats, Syndication, Events, ContentNext Events, paidContent Entertainment, Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive, Google, YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, jim lanzone, staci kramer
Oct 28, 2011 3:45 PM
Gossip Girl is headed to Hulu Plus. On the heels of a past-season, library deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) that could be worth as much as $1 billion (if absolutely everything goes right), Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) and CBS (NYSE: CBS) will put current season episodes from the CW on…
Posted In: Entertainment, Movies, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Social Media, Video, Companies, CBS, Disney, ABC, Hulu, NBC Universal, NBC, Netflix, News Corp., Fox, Sony, Time Warner, Warner Bros., Countries, Asia, Japan, cw, hulu plus
Oct 25, 2011 12:32 PM
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.
Posted In: Advertising, Industry Moves, Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive, NBC Universal
Oct 24, 2011 8:34 AM
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:» Does Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook Also Want To Destroy Android? (paidContent) » Steve Jobs To Biographer: ‘I’m Going To Destroy Android’ (paidContent) » WikiLeaks suspends publishing to fight financial blockade (The Guardian) » We Now Return You to…
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Features, The Morning Lowdown, Gadgets, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, TV, VOD, Social Media, Companies, Apple, iPhone, CBS, Gannett, Google, Android, News Corp., Tribune, Countries, Europe, UK
Oct 23, 2011 7:41 PM
Biographer Walter Issacson and his subject Steve Jobs got the 60 Minutes treatment Sunday night on the eve of the authorized bio’s official publication by CBS sibling Simon & Schuster (NYSE: CBS). Yes, we’ve been hearing tidbits for days but the two-part Steve Kroft interview with Issacson is worth a…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, CBS, 60 minutes, steve jobs, walter issacson
Oct 13, 2011 10:55 AM
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has locked in a full slate of teen angst from now through the 2014-15 season. The four-year pact covers full past seasons of current CW hits like Gossip Girland The Vampire Diaries plus any future shows that debut by then. It’s not an exclusive for the programs—CW…
Posted In: Entertainment, Movies, DVD, Social Media, Video, Companies, Amazon, CBS, Hulu, NBC Universal, CNBC, Netflix, Time Warner, Warner Bros., , cw, gossip girl, one tree hill, the vampire diaries
Oct 11, 2011 5:23 AM
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…
Posted In: Advertising, Local, Apps, Entertainment, Music, Legal, Copyright, Media & Publishing, Radio, Mobile, Search, Companies, Apple, iPad, CBS, CBS Interactive, Last.fm, Google, Android, Spotify, pandora
Oct 6, 2011 5:18 AM
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…
Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Companies, Apple, CBS, CBS Interactive, Hulu, Sony, Spotify, steve jobs
Sep 1, 2011 8:18 AM
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:» Hulu Japan Launches WIth Movies, TV From CBS (NYSE: CBS), Sony (NYSE: SNE), Fox (NSDQ: NWS) & More But No Ads (paidContent) » Streaming Or Not, Apple’s iTunes Match Seems To Offer Advantages Of Both (paidContent) » What The Justice…
Posted In: Advertising, Entertainment, Movies, Music, Features, The Morning Lowdown, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, TV, Companies, Apple, iPad, iTunes, AT&T, CBS, Facebook, Hulu, NBC Universal, NBC, Sony, Tribune, Countries, Asia, Japan
Sep 1, 2011 7:36 AM
Big news for mobile TV pioneer MobiTV: the company has filed for an IPO worth up to $75 million, as it looks for funds to expand internationally, develop its products and potentially size up acquisitions.
Posted In: Entertainment, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Money, IPO, Companies, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, CBS, Disney, ABC, ESPN, Hulu, NBC Universal, NBC, Netflix, News Corp., Fox, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, charlie nooney, mobitv
Sep 1, 2011 12:25 AM
Hulu’s first offering outside the U.S. is live: Hulu Japan, a subscription service with “hundreds” of films and thousands of hours of TV. For ¥1,480 a month or roughly $18.50, Japanese subscribers can watch across an array of devices just like U.S. subscribers of Hulu Plus with one exception—Hulu Japan…
Posted In: Social Media, Video, Companies, CBS, Disney, ABC, Hulu, NBC Universal, NBC, News Corp., Fox, Time Warner, Warner Bros., Countries, Asia, Japan
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