Although Spotify’s wide-scale integration of its service with Facebook (a service that’s emerging as the big, bad meanie of online privacy) has rubbed many users the wrong way, it’s Pandora that’s on the hot seat when it comes to user […]
Oh, MySpace. After a stunning decline and massive markdown that saw News Corp. selling off the company at an embarrassing loss following a long, slow death, the zombie social network shuffled forward- hinting at competing with iTunes and Spotify as […]
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 […]
Finally some good news for Yahoo after a spate of tales of woe encompassing declining traffic and the high-profile departure of former CEO Carol Bartz last month. The second-banana search engine has inked a fairly large content deal with ABC […]
Does anyone hear a far off tapping noise? Is that… someone driving the final nails in the coffin of exorbitant cable bills? Google’s YouTube is working out the details of a deal to pour $100 million into some deals for […]
Best Buy is getting out of the the digital music business, at least as far as Napster is concerned, selling the property off to music-streaming service Rhapsody in a deal that will wrap up at the end of November. According […]
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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 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 […]
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You know the handling of your product launch was mishandled when Marketwatch suggests the timing and the way it was managed was an intentional mishandling to kill off a segment of your market. Was Netflix’s introduction of Qwikster so bad that […]
While Netflix has had little difficulty gaining steam in the US market- even if it hasn’t been going all too smoothly lately- the company is facing some significant hurdles to similarly entrench itself with customers to the south as it […]
Poor Netflix has gotten an all-around thrashing in recent weeks, both for jacking up rates to much user outcry as well as for their plummeting stock values as a number of subscribers quit in protest due to the rate hike. […]
A new report indicates that Comcast, Verizon and HBO are all on board to begin streaming to XBox consoles starting this “holiday season.” Not a lot of details are specifically known about the expected deals- pricing has not been disclosed, […]
About a week after Facebook and Spotify upgraded their status to in a relationship, user feedback on the integration has settled in- and most of it is pretty snippy. Spotify had a pretty enthusiastic reception in the US when it […]
Hmmm… not sure if incongruent or thinking ahead. Soap operas are typically the domain of the seemingly less tech savvy- grandmas, home health care workers and people who are stuck at the laundromat are normally seen as the dying medium’s […]
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