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 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 […]
With the recent launch of Amazon’s Kindle Fire, magazine publishers seem to have finally embraced the digital future of periodicals and aren’t afraid to declare their love. On a panel at the American Magazine Conference earlier this week in New […]
Say what you want about the increase in popularity of streaming video content (if you’re a naysayer and hate the newfangled equipment, or the quality, or the selection), there are some places where the advent of the services brings the […]
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 […]
Colorado-based advertising and analytics company Lijit has been acquired by Federated Media, the companies announced in a press release earlier today. Terms of the sale were not disclosed, but both companies are said to be “thrilled” with the purchase details. […]
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 […]
While traditional media has seen slumping sales and cuts in nearly every area, digital media and related industries boomed in the third quarter. According to Direct Marketing News, mergers and acquisitions in marketing, media, technology and services industries were up 9% […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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