In the lead up to an IPO, “the number one vertical social media company with the largest online global reach in lifestyle” Glam Media is launching a new video advertising platform called GlamSplash, to add the standard 30-second TV ad […]
The nearly two-year-old web series “The Annoying Orange,” which is YouTube’s eighth most subscribed channel, is making the leap to TV. Tubefilter notes that word the show was about to jump to the small screen has been bandied about for […]
It’s finally happened- the much lamented cult hit Arrested Development is returning to the small (and even smaller) screen, with new episodes streaming via Netflix in 2013. Yes, it’s a whole year and change to wait, but fans of the […]
There was a lot of press made the other day about how Steve Jobs had wanted to totally bypass the carriers and build his own wireless network and while that is extremely hard to do these days that doesn’t mean […]
AOL is aware that they are in need of “innovation and a rethinking of its core purpose” and for that reason the company is preparing to revamp the homepage for their European property. According to AOL executives they have been focused […]
Chill.com is attempting to make the TV viewing experience a whole lot more social by allowing Hulu viewers to watch popular shows with one another while chatting about those shows at the same time. The program works by setting a […]
Same-day hotel deals company HotelTonight has announced $9 million in Series B funding. The new capital funding was led Battery Ventures and included participation from Accel Partners and First Round Capital. Since launching in January 2011 HotelTonight has enjoyed more […]
Spotify on Friday announced that they are now a featured partner for Philips Streamium Wireless Hi-Fi component systems (MCi8080 and MCi900). Using the new offering is simple, Streamium customers just need to turn on their Streamium devices and they will […]
One of the two major cable providers yet to add HBO Go to their service is nearing a deal with the network to add access to the app for subscribers. Only Time Warner Cable and Cablevision don’t include HBO Go- […]
Online money sending and receiving service PayPal has launched a new Facebook app to harness the additional opportunities provided by social media. In a blog post, PayPal reports that an impressive 80% of PayPal users have a Facebook account, and […]
While New York, Los Angeles and Washington DC are natural choices for city-specific verticals, the Huffington Post has chosen Detroit as their newest locale to be granted a channel. (Albeit, the others are already covered.) Detroit is nearly symbolic of […]
It’s pretty much standard at this point every major retailer’s Black Friday deals will “leak” online in the days and weeks ahead of retail orgy Black Friday, enabling deal hunters to plan their strategy if they plan on leaving the […]
Nick Denton is a well known name in the blogging world and while he might have more than his fair share of derision tossed his way there is no denying that he is one smart honcho. His network of blogs […]
One would think that because of the way we carry on over the release of every new iPhone or Android slab of plastic that we are seriously in love with our technological marvels of communications. It turns out, according to a bit […]
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