Articles By: James Johnson

Yahoo Reportedly Loses Hulu Bidding As Google Hangs On

Yahoo Reportedly Loses Hulu Bidding As Google Hangs On

The bidding process for Hulu is slimming down and reports are now circulating that Yahoo, Inc. has dropped out of the process after placing a big in the vicinity of $1 billion to $2 billion. The Wall Street Journal revealed […]

Rdio Offers 7-Day Trial For Facebook Users

Rdio Offers 7-Day Trial For Facebook Users

Rdio on Friday began rolling out a new Facebook integration that allows users who sign in with their Facebook accounts to receive a free 7-day trial of the company’s desktop web music streaming program. Currently Rdio charges $4.99 for unlimited […]

5th Annual Mashable Awards Announced, 28 Categories Available

5th Annual Mashable Awards Announced, 28 Categories Available

Leading social media reporting website Mashable has officially announced the 5th Annual Mashable Awards, a celebration of the best in social media, tech, business and entertainment. 28 different categories will be awarded at this years awards ceremony and nominations will run from […]

Microsoft Not Ready To Place Yahoo Bid

Microsoft Not Ready To Place Yahoo Bid

Insiders close to Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the company is nowhere near ready to place a bid for Yahoo! Inc. According to those same insiders Microsoft officials are planning to examine Yahoo’s financial information when it circulates later this week, […]

Hyperlocal Publishers Launch Trade Group, Meet In Chicago

Hyperlocal Publishers Launch Trade Group, Meet In Chicago

Hyperlocal publishers now have a trade group of their own. The group, announced at the Block by Block conference in Chicago this weekend aims to help publishers gather around common business goals, while offering services that small publishers may not […]

Hulu Launches Ad Swap, Allows Users To Change Ads In Real-Time

Hulu Launches Ad Swap, Allows Users To Change Ads In Real-Time

Hulu on Tuesday announced a new “Ad Swap” program that allows users to swap out ads they are watching for a new ad if the current offering isn’t something they are interested in. The announcement comes after recent studies have […]

CollegeHumor Team Launches Comedy Site ‘Jest.com’

CollegeHumor Team Launches Comedy Site ‘Jest.com’

CollegeHumor Media on Monday announced the launch of a brand new comedy site called Jest.com. The new offering is a “social comedy site” that features original content created by Jest’s staff of award-winning writers and performers along with funny content […]

Huffington Post Launches Four New Destination Sites Including ‘HuffPost Gay Voices’

Huffington Post Launches Four New Destination Sites Including ‘HuffPost Gay Voices’

  Continuing with their rapid expansion plans the Huffington Post Media Group on Monday announced the launch of four new destination sites. The sites include :Huff/Post50 (www.huffingtonpost.com/50), HuffPost Gay Voices(www.huffingtonpost.com/gay-voices) and HuffPost Weddings(www.huffingtonpost/weddings) and HuffPost High School. HuffPost/50, a site geared towards people […]

Huffington Post Media Group Acquires Online Engagement Platform ‘Localocracy’

Huffington Post Media Group Acquires Online Engagement Platform ‘Localocracy’

The Huffington Post Media Group(“HPMG“) has announced the acquisition of online engagement platform Localocracy. The platform providers users with the capabilities to solve problems in their communities through online engagement. Moving over from the Localocracy team to Huffington Post Media Group are […]

AOL Announces 15 New Original Web Series for Women, Men, Teens and Young Adults [List]

AOL Announces 15 New Original Web Series for Women, Men, Teens and Young Adults [List]

AOL, Inc. on Monday announced 15 new original video programs for their online market which spans multiple audiences and advertising categories. Each of the new programs will be distributed throughout the AOL network including placement on HuffingtonPost created sites. Along with […]

AOL Partners With VivaKi To Push Video Ad Spend Forward

AOL Partners With VivaKi To Push Video Ad Spend Forward

AOL on Monday announced a new partnership with VivaKi, a union they hope will help them push forward their online video advertising platform. VivaKi is viewed as an innovative player in the online video ad spend arena and their research […]

Yahoo and ABC News Team Up To Share Content

Yahoo and ABC News Team Up To Share Content

Yahoo and ABC News on Monday announced a new plan that will allow the two media company’s to share stories and web videos from across their networks. Under the new partnership Yahoo and ABC News will reach more than 100 […]

AOL Spent $130,000 On Lobbying Efforts Last Quarter

AOL Spent $130,000 On Lobbying Efforts Last Quarter

AOL wants to make sure their own agenda is met when it comes to internet regulation, privacy, computer security and other online issues and to reach those goals the company spent $130,000 in lobbying efforts during the last quarter. According […]

Engadget Named CEATEC 2011 News Source

Engadget Named CEATEC 2011 News Source

Tech blog Engadget has been named the “official news source” for Japan’s upcoming CEATEC 2011 conference. CEATEC is the largest electronics exhibition and conference in Japan and Engadget will be responsible for streaming content in both Japanese and English to […]