CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) has promoted Rob Gelick to the position of SVP and GM of CBS Mobile, which fills a gap after Cyriac Roeding, and then his replacement, Jeff Sellinger left the position over the past year. Gelick joined CBS Interactive in 2008 and most recently served as VP…

Ken Sonenclar is a managing director at DeSilva + Phillips, LLC, a New York investment bank specializing in media. This brutal year in M&A is mercifully winding down. The global credit squeeze, deep recession, and shrinking valuations have kept deals in check. But with the economy rebooting and many big…

Now that the Android platform has moved beyond T-Mobile in the U.S., it has started to win the confidence of developers and publishers, who were once primarily building applications for the iPhone. So far, the evidence is only anecdotal, but the path seems logical as more U.S. carriers endorse the…

CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is taking its MaxPreps.com high school sports website mobile. A new version of the site lets visitors submit scores from their phones; users will also be able to access the site’s info on thousands of teams while on the go. In a sign that there’s probably…

I spent some time today with two very different iPhone apps with video at the core. Each wowed the teen server at our local diner, who was intrigued by our ability to keep up with a baseball game on an iPhone (actually two different Phones) and by the chance to…

Earlier this year, *CBS* Sports tested the mobile live video market with a $4.99 iPhone/iTouch app for March Madness, streaming all 63 games of the famed men’s college basketball tourney. It must have gone well, despite being limited to Wi-Fi access. CBS (NYSE: CBS) won’t release download stats but it…

Jeff Sellinger, the SVP of Mobile at CBS (NYSE: CBS), has left the company effective today, and joing his former boss and colleague Cyriac Roeding as a co-founder and Chief Product Officer of his new stealth startup, the one we first reported on earlier this week. Not much is known…

Simon & Schuster, the book publishing company owned by CBS (NYSE: CBS) Corporation, may have to pay as much as $90 million in fines over a Stephen King book promo, according to a new appeals-court ruling. The case stems from a promotional campaign for Stephen King’s horror novel “The Cell”…

The iPhone has been a boon for mobile games developers, but it looks like it’s also the device where media companies developing mobile video offerings want to be. The NYTimes.com’s Bits Blog spoke with Jeremy Allaire, founder and CEO of Brightcove, a technology company that provides tools to media companies…

We’ve heard about indie developers making millions of dollars in revenue from mobile and social media apps, but what about a giant like *CBS*? CBSi has an app for TV.com, not to mention music apps for Last.fm and third-parties like *AOL*—but are users flocking to them? Are advertisers? Our Staci…

When asked point blank about being the only network that’s not on Hulu, CBS (NYSE: CBS) Interactive’s CFO Zander Lurie said the problem was the rival site’s need for exclusivity: “Hulu’s done a great job executing—acquiring compelling content and running ads—but we have a great model that runs on non-exclusive…

Digital music companies play a major role in the evolution of the mobile social market, and we’ve lined up executives from two key industry companies for the EconSM keynote session to discuss this impact. Eric Johnson, president and COO of Wolfgang’s Vault, and Zander Lurie, CFO of CBS (NYSE: CBS)…

Hulu is currently working on a streaming video application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, which is set to launch within the next few months, reports Alley Insider, which quotes anonymous people as saying it will be and it will be “badass.” But more surprising than an insider saying that…

CBS (NYSE: CBS) Mobile has launched a free Harper’s Island application on the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store to promote its new show—Harper’s Island. The show is a murder mystery where not even the cast know what is going to happen the following week, and the app is designed to…

Last.fm is banning all unofficial third-party apps that allow users to stream its content, including those that stream to mobile phones, the CBS-owned online music site posted yesterday in its discussion forum. It’s planning on releasing its own official streaming API, and developers who use it must sign up for…

—BNET Goes Mobile: CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) has launched some mobile offerings for its business-focused website, BNET. It signed Quattro Wireless to create a version of the website for iPhone and iPod touch users, and Handmark to create a Blackberry application. “We’ve had tremendous success with the rollout of mobile…

This isn’t one of those days when I can drop everything just to watch basketball; then again, it isn’t just any basketball day. It’s the first games of the first round of the NCAA Men’s Div.1 Basketball tournament and after all the warm-up writing, it’s time for some play by…

Turns out CBSSports.com isn’t offering all NCAA March Madness On Demand video for free this year. Online video remains completely ad supported but mobile is getting a new twist: a $4.99 iPhone/iTouch app with live streaming video and audio of all 63 games in the 2009 NCAA Division I Men’s…

CBS (NYSE: CBS) seems to see a big market for itself on the iPhone… Days after releasing a TV.com iPhone application two more have been announced. CBS Interactive has launched a GameSpot website specifically for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, offering GameSpot reviews, news, blogs and exclusive video interviews. The…