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March 18, 2010
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Zynga: The FarmVille creator has hired Steven Chiang as president of the development studios, CEO Marc Pincus announced on his blog this week. Chiang co-founded EA-owned Tiburon Entertainment, the studio best known for the Madden NFL franchise. A longtime EA executive, he was most recently SVP and group GM for EA Sports.
Fairchild Fashion Group: Patrick McCarthy, chairman and editorial director of Condé Nast’s Fairchild Fashion Group and de facto editor of the fashion magazine W is leaving the company at y...
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is moving quickly to fill the void left this week by the surprising departure of sales chief Joanne Bradford by handing her dutiesfor at least the next few monthsto Yahoo Nor...
Palms poor performance was no surprise today since it sent out a warning last month that sales were falling way short of expectations.
But its not the companys weak performance in Q3 that peo...
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February data is live and online Olympics coverage is everywhere! Of the top 15,000 fastest moving websites, domains related to NBC universal (the exclusive owner of media rights to 2010 Winter Olympics coverage), Vancouver, and the Olympics in general dominated the charts. Accounting for tens of millions of visitors, its safe to assume that NBCs [...]
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March 17, 2010
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As major newspaper publishers have seen profits return ad declines slow a bit, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is hoping that the time is right to sell a new product designed to enhance understaffed busine...
After 14 years with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Ash Patel is finally ready to call it quits this week, we have confirmed. Yahoo observers have often speculated about when Patel would depart. He started...
More details are coming in about what Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may have in store for the set-top box. Just a week after the WSJ reported that Google was working with Dish Network on a new Android-ba...
Special offers on many of the popular smartphones in the fourth quarter drove penetration to nearly a third in the U.S., according to The NPD Group, a wireless market research.
The report fou...
The NYTCos local content efforts are getting a quick boost from hyperlocal newswire Fwix. In a sense, the deal with Fwix can buttress the NYTimes.coms New York metro area blogs program, The Loc...
To buy or to build? Thats the question that drove Yahoos decision to buy social sports startup Citizen Sports, which owns a series of sports-related apps on the iPhone and on Facebook, accordin...
March 16, 2010
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The mayor of Sarasota, Fla., went swimming with the sharks today yes, literally in an extreme effort to woo Google and land that sweet fiber network the company plans to dole out to some lucky town. And hes not alone. Cities across the country ...
There’s a battle looming in California over smart meters and energy prices. Google says the state should require its big utilities to give near real-time pricing information to every smart meter-enabled customer by the end of next year. California...
I don’t trust Yelp any more. And thats not a conscious decision. Ive largely ignored the well-publicized allegations of how the ad side manipulated ratings and reviews to drive sales, instead continuing to turn to the site for recommendations on ...
Sequoia Capital partner Mark Kvamme, citing examples from campaigns run on Funny or Die and AdMob, told an audience of marketers at OMMA Global in San Francisco today, If you can harness social media marketing, you dont have to pay for advertising...
If youve been cooking up a great business idea for how to use IT to fight climate change, you need to enter our Green:Net 2010 Launchpad! Were only accepting submissions until 5 p.m. PT on Friday, so make sure you and your colleagues enter soon. Y...
Communications networks are eating up a lot of power and with the proliferation of online video and data-rich mobile applications, such consumption is set to climb even further. According to the Smart 2020 report, information and communication technology services are currently responsible for a full 2 percent of the total carbon footprint; communications networks alone account for a third of that consumption. And the report estimates that given user demand and production, those numbers are going to double ...
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Music subscription services promise unlimited access to enormous libraries of songs, typically on the order of 6-10 million tracks. And while a few superstar artists are famously absent from streaming services as well as Apple’s iTunes -– the Beat...
Googles content comprises between 6 and 10 percent of global Internet traffic, making its internal network one of the top three ISPs in the world, according to Arbor Networks. The maker of deep packet inspection equipment, which runs a survey of i...
After having seen tremendous success with its geo-local app, Where, the Boston-based uLocate Communications today rebranded itself as Where. The company also launched a new web site that allows mobile users to sync information in the app between t...
Qualcomm plans to bid for a chunk of spectrum in Indias upcoming 3G auction, the chipmaker said today. Qualcomm is taking a page out of Googles playbook the search engine giant bid for spectrum in the U.S. but never had any plans to become a netw...
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has spoken to a YouTube team about the National Broadband Plan and tried to respond to questions from Internet users across the country. The answers were, to put it politely, nuanced at best. Regular reader Brent Gl...
The mobile application economy will be worth $17.5 billion by 2012, according to a report released this morning from analyst Chetan Sharma surpassing that of the worldwide market for CDs. But while all eyes here in the West are focused on the iPh...
Less than 0.2 percent of people who use Twitter wind up going to news and media sites from the social-networking site, according to a recent analysis by traffic-measurement firm Hitwise (although Hitwise just looked at traffic coming from the we...
After I participated in a rousing SXSW panel about content recommendations, Emmanuel Marchal, general manager of London-based LikeCube approached me in the hall to tell me about his company. I thought it was pretty cool, so I captured a video interview with him right there.
LikeCube was co-founded by a semantic web technologist and an anthropologist four years ago, and funded by the UKs National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts. It combines metadata, user activity and personalization to help c...
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If I were to describe the attributes of a smartphone platform to you, could you guess which platform it is? Lets try it and see. Heres your first clue: Applications for it can only be installed through one specific app store. Since everyone has an...
March 14, 2010
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Nielsens latest bid to stay ahead of the audience measurement competition involves striking an alliance with behavioral targeter eXalate. The companies tell the WSJ that eXelate has agreed to p...
The latest report on online news economics from Pews Project for Excellence in Journalism is one of those studies that will bolster just about any view people have about paying for news online....
Heavily-funded mobile broadcast software firm Roundbox is buying the technology and IP of Jacked, a startup which provides a web-based dashboard that aggregates info related to a live TV broadc...
March 11, 2010
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Mark Cuban and Avner Ronen met in person for the first time just before their Pay TV vs. Internet debate here at South by Southwest Interactiveabout 20 minutes before their session was interrupted by a fire alarm. But they argue like a married couple thats been together for 20 years, complete with sharp barbs. Thats because the debate isnt new: they started that drill online a year ago and neither has budged as best I can tellif anything, their attitudes are more entrenched. HD Net founder Cuban believes in...
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) COO Tim Cook was handed a $5 million bonus just for taking over Steve Jobs responsibilities during the six-months the CEO was on medical leave that ended in June, according t...
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) was selling pre-orders for the iPad at a rate of about 25,000 an hour this morning, according to a Forbes piece. The methodology is very unscientific; its based on difference...
Why Marc Andreessens idea that mainstream media companies should abandon their traditional businesses in favor of new media is just plain nutty. [Reflections of a Newsosaur]
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has improved the way it measures the global device market, including coming up with a better way to calculate the number of unlicensed and counterfeit products being sold in t...
Battery Ventures has closed a new $750 million, giving it nearly $4 billion under managementand providing another sign for soothsayers looking for proof of recovery in venture capital action. T...
China has now reiterated its position in its stand-off with Google (NSDQ: GOOG)and it looks like all that remains is for Google to finally make its move. China says it wont let Google operate a...
While the NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) struggled under the weight of economic pressures and debt last year, top execs personally did pretty well, even as the company reduced its newsroom by 100 staffers. ...
ABC News Digital execs are currently putting together a formal paywall strategy with expectations of having some concrete ideas for ways to charge consumers by the summer, said Paul Slavin, the...
Sonos, which sells a digital music system that can be used to play music throughout a home, has raised $25 million in a third round of funding from Index Ventures. The funding was first reporte...
The first victim of the free navigation wars: Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is shutting down Wayfinder, the Swedish mapmaker it purchased for $30 million in late 2008.
It was the carriers goal to use ...
Print publishers cant wait for iPad to hit the streets next month, perhaps so they can once again start producing info in a similar-looking format to their core products of yesteryear.
NYTs fl...
Another e-reader company is finding it more difficult than expected to deliver devices. Pre-order customers for the Plastic Logic Que proReader are getting an e-mail from CEO Richard Archuleta ...
Hearst has about 70 apps under its LMK banner in the iTunes App Store right now and it just plans to keep adding more and more. Most of the LMK apps sell for about $1.99, while a handful cost $...
On Monday morning, I helped Beet.tv executive producer Andy Plesser host his latest roundtable discussion on the future of online video, at The Guardians Kings Place HQ.
In this video, Andy he...
Twitter client HootSuite, which recently raised $1.9 million in funding, has now made an acquisition, buying up Android app developer Swift App. HootSuite says that Swift App was behind the dev...
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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Its long been known that Nokias had a hard time selling its popular devices in the U.S.
But its latest smartphones coming have a series of enhancements that it hopes will make it more competit...
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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Early adopters take note: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is taking pre-orders for the iPad at 5:30 a.m. Pacific on Friday.
Last week, Apple announced that March 12 was the magical day for per-orders, but...
A big name addition to WolframAlphas executive team. Barak Berkowitz, who headed blogging firm Six Apart until he left two-and-a-half years ago, is joining the search startup as managing direct...
Looking for real-time data of its own, the FCC (yes, the regulatory body in Washington, D.C.) has released a mobile app for iPhone and Android. Dont worry, the feds arent interested in listenin...
March 10, 2010
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At the powerhouse Abu Dhabi Media Summit here at Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, two of the biggest third-party search deals are being negotiated behind the scenes, we have learned. It just so happens...
Heres why Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is launching a completely new smartphone OS later this year. The latest smartphone platform market share figures, courtesy of comScore:
In Rob Glasers first public appearance since stepping down as CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), he implored that it is incumbent upon companies to work together in order for the wireless sector...
March 9, 2010
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Googles proposed (and now delayed) acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob appears to be drawing even more regulatory scrutiny from the FTC. Bloomberg cites sources who say that regulators now w...
Googles proposed acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob appears to be drawing even more regulatory scrutiny from the FTC. Bloomberg cites sources who say that regulators now want sworn declarat...
News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) may shed the ailing Fox Mobile Group, including the Jamba and Jamster brands, to focus on digital properties, like MySpace, reports The Financial Times.
A sale would no...
Why CNN considers Facebook to be more of a threat than other broadcast media orgs. [Mashable]
MySpace (NYSE: NWS) loses chief architects and a development manager to Gravity, a s...
Two smallbut noteworthyacquisitions for Thing Labs, the company behind Facebook and Twitter web client Brizzly: Thing Labs has purchased Wikirank, a tool that let users visualize and compare th...
In an appearance this morning at a Seattle breakfast event, former FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, who is now a partner at Patton Boggs, was careful not to poke any jabs at the current administratio...
One of the favorite sports of most media conferences these days involves trotting out Wired editor Chris Andersons freemium ideawhich is predicated on balancing free online and paid premium con...
Eyeblaster, which filed for an IPO in October 2008 only to withdraw it three months later citing market conditions, is trying to go public again. The company notified the SEC today it hopes to ...
Google (NSDQ: GOOG)which has spent much of the last year talking about how it is making more money off of YouTubeis now beginning to monetize YouTubes mobile site. In a blog post, the company s...
In another bit of EMI news, less vital to the companys future than todays latest change at the top, OK Go and Capitol Records have parted ways after nine years through mutual agreement. OK Go ...
This is the TV ad Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) hopes will give its search engine a fighting chance against Google.
Made by WPPs JWT, the Bing and Decide campaign will run for three months on UK commercial TV and web.
Microsofts press release: The ads...
[In progress] Its the Bloomberg BusinessWeek Media Summit now, but the two-day conference is still at the McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) Building. CNN President Jon Klein led off in a Q&A with Blo...
The biggest frenemies together: Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) & Maurice Levy of Publicis, one of the largest ad holding companies:
Well have the full video of Schmidts speech and Q&A from here, later this afternoon. Meanwhile...
By Jane Martinson: Jonathan Miller, head of digital media at News Corporation (NYSE: NWS), said today that dual revenue streams are likely to co-exist as media organisations try ways of making ...
In 2008, Terra Firma hired the guy who ran the company which makes Cillit Bang and Air Wick to turn EMI Music around. But now the record label finds itself seeking a reported £100 million to a...
MySpace (NYSE: NWS) pulled up the curtain a little this week, letting in some light on a makeover still very much in progress and marking a debut of sorts for Co-Presidents Mike Jones and Jason...
Like many other developers, uLocate works closely with ad networks to monetize WHERE, its free mobile app that is available on a number of carrier networks and Android, iPhone and Palm (NSDQ: P...
Barring a last-minute fix or change of strategy, at midnight Tuesday Hulu.com will switch from a co-host for online video of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report to a referral...
Nine months since relaunching its search engine, Bings market share continues to inch up. Its now at 11.5 percent, up from 8 percent prior to its remake, according to the latest comScore (NSDQ:...
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Did you know that Google Maps most-requested feature addition is biking directions, in large part due to a vocal 50,000-signature-strong group of Bike There petitioners? I wouldnt have guessed it! The petitioners wish is being granted tonight, wit...
Google Apps is moving closer to being an integrated corporate dashboard with the announcement tonight of Google Apps Marketplace at a developer event at its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The company will give vendors multiple hooks into it...
It goes without saying Google has gigantic ambitions. We hear a lot about its various products but it is hard to contextualize those efforts. A new video from Australian weekly news show Hungry Beast, is a graphical representation of Googles grand...
The Comedy Central-Hulu announcement last week made me recall my New Year’s resolution, one that I wanted to share publicly, and encourage you to embrace as well. It is simple in its concept, but epic in scope. It involves eliminating something f...
March 8, 2010
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David Dorn doesnt flinch when the C wordcheesycomes up during an interview about Rhino Entertainment. He embraces it, talking about the two extremes of the Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) catalo...
The search for revenue by deconstructing the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) into its most valuable pieces for various platforms continues. Up next: the New York Times Book Review for e-reader. NYT ...
Variety followed up Sundays Academy Awards with a different batch of envelopes, handing out pink slips to eight editorial staffersincluding chief film critic Todd McCarthy and theater critic Da...
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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Gadget sites have been abuzz with all things Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as the companys stock hits yet another record high today, and gears up for iPad pre-orders at the end of the week. Weve rounded u...
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In three weeks, the wireless industry will convene in Las Vegas for CTIA Wireless 2010, taking place March 22nd through March 25th. Traditionally, our show is one of the largest in the industry with tens of thousands of attendees, over 400,000 square feet of exhibits and international participation from over 100 countries. The [...]
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