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Feb 9, 2012 2:28 PM
After quickly gaining a warm reception and a rapid post-launch investment from BSkyB, the social TV app startup co-founded by ex BBC iPlayer head honcho Anthony Rose is making its first real play at monetisation.
Posted In: Advertising, E-Commerce, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Companies, Apple, iPad
Feb 8, 2012 5:26 PM
Path, a company hoping to build a kinder, gentler social network based on sharing within a limited number of people, has apologized for a contact-finder feature in its software that uploaded users’ entire iPhone address books to its servers and said it has deleted that personal information.
Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Mobile, Social Media, path
Feb 2, 2012 12:14 PM
In a new business-oriented social media site, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) aims to index “the most talked-about news, companies and influencers across the Web.” A better definition might be “what people are doing on Twitter.”
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Social Media, News Sharing, Companies, Facebook, Reuters, Twitter, alex leo, mashable, oprah winfrey, pete cashmore, rupert murdoch
Feb 1, 2012 6:28 PM
Facebook‘s nearly 200-page S-1 filing appears to have crippled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar website with the mass of people going there to take a peek at the social network’s numbers. That traffic may well be matched by the weight of numbers in the filing itself. Here’s a look…
Posted In: Advertising, Mobile, Money, IPO, Social Media, Companies, Facebook
Feb 1, 2012 4:51 PM
It took the whole day, but Facebook finally—as many expected—filed its S-1 with the Securities Exchange Commission for its long-awaited IPO. While guesstimates for how much Facebook would try to raise ranged from $5 billion to $10 billion, in the end, it looks like it is the lower of that…
Posted In: Advertising, Features, Breaking News, Money, IPO, Social Media, Companies, Facebook
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 27, 2012 2:08 PM
The long-awaited Facebook IPO might arrive as soon as next week, according to a new report. When the company does get around to filing the paperwork it will set Facebook on the path toward one of the richest IPOs in tech history.
Posted In: Money, IPO, Social Media, Companies, Facebook
Jan 27, 2012 12:39 PM
It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service—once built and owned by News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) and sold, along with the rest of Fox Mobile, to IT services company Jesta when News Corp. couldn’t make a…
Posted In: Features, Exclusive, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iPad, Hulu, Netflix, News Corp., Fox, Countries, Europe, Germany, bitbop, jesta
Jan 24, 2012 6:33 AM
Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on video”, with a view that even properties that come from a print tradition should be producing more video content than they are today.
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Entertainment, Games, Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Copyright, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, YouTube, Microsoft, xBox, News Corp., Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal, Fox, MySpace, Countries, Europe, Germany, jon miller
Jan 23, 2012 10:44 AM
Some revealing numbers out from the analysts at Rutberg & Co. that point to how big mobile is in terms of tech investments today, and how consumer applications are the source of the most action at the moment.
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, Google
Jan 20, 2012 8:53 AM
This week saw a number of developments at Twitter and Facebook, two of the world’s biggest social networking sites, that are signs of them looking to capitalize more on their already-hefty user bases by creating services that keep them on their sites for longer.
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Features, Tweets, Media & Publishing, Mobile, Money, Social Media, Video, Companies, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Netflix, Twitter, summify, timeline, twitter
Jan 19, 2012 4:11 PM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) missed analyst expectations for earnings per share during the fourth quarter, sending its stock plunging in after-hours trading Thursday. The company had been expected to produce earnings per share of $10.49, but it chalked up just $9.50 in earnings per share excluding special items and also missed…
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Jan 17, 2012 9:47 AM
The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money from those free apps. New research out today predicts that in-app purchases will, in fact, become the most dominant way that app developers will…
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Entertainment, Games, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, Mobile, Money, Research & Metrics, Research, Social Media, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Countries, Europe, UK, boku, ihs screen digest, in-app purchases, paypal, screen digest, zong
Jan 16, 2012 5:27 AM
Russia’s big Mail.ru portal is trying to ape Chinese companies’ microblog boom by launching its own Twitter clone. Futubra launched in beta Monday.
Posted In: Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Countries, Europe, Russia
Jan 9, 2012 7:23 PM
MobiTV, one of the more established mobile TV companies in the market today with deals in place with several major U.S. mobile operators, today revealed a significant deal to grow out its business in Europe: a deal with Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), one of Europe’s biggest operators, to develop a…
Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, France Telecom, Orange, Google, Microsoft, xBox, Samsung, T-Mobile, Countries, Europe, France, Germany, UK, mobitv
Jan 9, 2012 11:18 AM
Hispanics, according to Nielsen, have the second-highest penetration of smartphone usage among U.S. ethnic groups, and today brings news of a news app specifically targeting that demographic: Univision is launching its first news app, “Noticias Univision,” based on the broadcaster’s TV brand and website of the same name. It is…
Posted In: Advertising, Local, Apps, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, Google, Android, News Corp., BSkyB, Twitter, Countries, Latin America, randy falco, univision
Jan 8, 2012 7:57 PM
News Corp-controlled pay-TV firm BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is buying itself a foothold in the looming social TV field by acquiring 10 percent of the startup Zeebox for a sum that is “double-digit millions” in both pounds and dollars.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Video, Companies, News Corp., BSkyB
Jan 5, 2012 4:10 PM
Over the years, the Associated Press has made a profile for itself by syndicating its news across thousands of newspapers both in the U.S. and abroad. Now as newspaper readers move to new platforms like tablets to consume their news content, the AP wants to make sure it is syndicating…
Posted In: Apps, Features, Exclusive, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, AP, Apple, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, Google, Android, flipboard, pulse, zite
Jan 5, 2012 10:31 AM
With it now certain that China’s popular Weibo (microblogging) services – prime among them being Sina’s (NASDAQ:SINA) and Tencent’s (HKG:0700) – will have to implement real-name ID checks in the coming months, it appears that the system will not come cheap.
Posted In: Legal, Regulatory, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Countries, Asia, China
Jan 5, 2012 5:08 AM
When the News Corporation-controlled UK satellite broadcaster Sky launched a free iPad app for its Sky Sports News channel in September 2010, some wondered if it would also start to offer a paid version of the product. Well, it’s taken 15 months, but it’s happened.
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, IPTV, Satellite, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, News Corp., BSkyB, Countries, Europe, UK, sky sports news
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