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Local newspapers may actually have an easier time charging for content than national and international news brands like the New York Times (NYSE: NYT). And whats the biggest threat to paid music? Well, probably not piracy. These were among the assertions by panelists on paidContent2010s The Truth About Subscriptions, who included Steve Brill, co-founder of Journalism Online, David Hyman, CEO of MOG, and Jeff Price, president and publisher of The Sporting News. Price also offered some details on his new subs...
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Tremor Media: Mark Pinney has been promoted to COO from CFO. He joined Tremor Media two years ago, having come from AOLs Platform-A (NYSE: AOL). Earlier, he was CFO and chief privacy officer for Tacoda, also an AOL property.
TVGuide.com: Christy Tanner has been appointed GM, responsible for the companys strategy and day-to-day leadership. She previously was SVP of marketing and editor-in-chief for TVGuide.com. Prior to joining the company, Tanner was director of business development and marketing for Newsw...
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Motricity increased revenues, narrowed its losses and even generated cash in 2009, according to new documents filed today as part of the companys IPO ambitions.
When the company first filed paperwork in January, it reported results for the first nine months of the year. Today, in an updated registration statement filed with the SEC, Motricity reported complete results for 2009 that put the companys performance into a more positive light.
Still, the c...
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Plancast, a startup which offers an easy way for people to share their plans, has raised $800,000 from SoftTechVC, True Ventures, Founders Fund Angel, Zelkova Ventures, as well as a number of angel investors. On Plancast, users post what they plan on doing later; users can track each others accounts and also indicate publicly that they too plan on attending the same event.
Co-founder Mark Hendrickson tells us that the sitewhich launched in Novemberboast...
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No need to duck out of work early, now you can watch March Madness games live over your iPhone, and for the first timeanywhere over AT&Ts 3G network.
The application, which is expected to be available Monday on iTunes, will cost $9.99twice as much as last years version that was limited wi-fi networks. Rob Gelick, the SVP and GM of CBS (NYSE: CBS) Mobile, expects the demand to be there for live streaming video: Last year, we were the first to do a live sporting event with the March Madness app, and since the...
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Apples iPad made its TV advertising debut at the Oscars just now. Heres the clip (via Engadget and Alley Insider):
Disney (NYSE: DIS) says it has reached an agreement in principle with Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) that recognizes the fair value of ABC7 with deal points that we expect to finalize with Cablevision. Translation: Cablevision subs are watching the Oscars after all. The agreementwhich Cablevision didnt even mention in its terse statementcame more than 19 hours after Disney shut off the signal to WABC for some 3.1 million New York-area subs.
WABC explained: Given this movement, we’re pleased to announce that ABC7...
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New investment bank Code Advisors has picked up some senior banking expertise with the hiring of Chris Scarborough, an 11-year vet of Credit Suisse with significant Silicon Valley tech-media experience. Scarborough doesnt have a formal titlethe next-gen firm co-founded by for CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) CEO Quincy Smith, Fred Davis and Michael Marquez is playing down titles for the most partbut Smith tells me he will assemble the analyst-associate team. Scarborough also will be working with clients on busin...
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has bought up photo-editing site Picnikthe latest in its string of acquisitions. In a blog post, Picnik says that nothing will change immediately, although the online software now has more potential than ever before. One obvious result could be that Google could add Picniks photo editing features to Picasa.
More to come.
Thumbplay has hired an exec away from Apples iPhone ranks to bulk up its team as it attempts to transform the ringtone company to a full-track music download service for the phone and PC.
Pablo Calamera, who oversaw the launch of Apples MobileMe cloud services, will serve as the companys CTO starting March 8. The Thumbplay subscription music service, which claims to have more than 8 million tracks licensed from the four major record labels and thousand...
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You can now edit all your account settings and newsletter-subscription details in one place on the site. Click here to see the options. If you signed up for a newsletter but never created an account on the site, you can register nowwith the same email address as your newsletter subscriptionand take advantage of the new features.
And later this week, youll be able to sign up for breaking-news email alertsthats on top of the topic-based email alerts that are already available.
If Sports Illustrated (NYSE: TWX) wasnt already serious about getting into online video, these numbers probably would have management scrambling: SI.com has served more than 70 million video streams connected to the 2010 edition of the iconic swimsuit issue, roughly double last years total. A site revamp launching this afternoon (not live yet) moves ad-supported video into SI.coms mainstream, with plans to post 15 or so clips daily in a front-page player and across the Time Warner sports site.
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An all-hands staff meeting has been called for 9:30 a.m. at Publishers Weekly, one of the remaining U.S. Reed Business Information titles the company has said it plans to divest. RBI plans to keep only Variety among its U.S. ad-supported titles. Its possible that this mornings meeting is to announce a buyer but given RBIs inability to sell the trade weekly on its own or with other titles far, it well could be to announce the closing of the venerable publishing trade weekly. The meeting does not include staf...
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Funny how the parallel universe works: the same magazine publishers who were touting digital last year because, well, print sucked, are now going to spend about $90 million talking about how print rules as the economy shows signs of an uptick. Five of the leading publishersTime Inc. (NYSE: TWX) Hearst, Condé Nast, Wenner Media and Meredith (NYSE: MDP)have banded together for this power of print campaign, reminiscent of a similar campaign by newspaper publishers a few years ago, when the world was slightly r...
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In the hopes of another platform gold rush, today comes word that theres already an AppFund for developers looking to make applications for the iPad and other tablets. The New York City-based AppFund doesnt have quite the resume of the Kleiner Perkins-backed and Apple-supported iFund, but its jumping in at a time when tablets are top of mind. The multimillion dollar fund will be led by CNET, E! Online, IFILM and Fox Broadcasting Company co-founder Kevin Wendle and Music Nation, Original Signal and Fabric Gr...
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