Online publisher Populis on Thursday announced that they have acquired Berlin-based Mokono, giving the company control of Germany’s largest blog network and a very capable social media advertising platform. Populis paid 8.2 million euros for the company and through their […]
Yahoo is limping like a wounded animal at the moment and the vultures are swooping overhead, preparing to buy out the company as soon as that option is made available. According to the NYT: Several buyout shops and strategic investors, […]
Three years after the merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio (forming Sirius XM), Sirius XM Radio will be hiking their subscription rates for the first time in the entity’s history. After the 2008 merger- which began in […]
HTML5 is being touted as the future of the web and the Hearst Corporation has taken notice by announcing that they will be re-launching all of their websites with extensive HTML5 use. According to Hearst the first website to receive […]
For most of the life of Web 2.0 the rallying cry has been “Free is the way to go” with the majority of new media going with the tried and true ad supported model of making money. Then slowly we […]
I have been reporting extensively on the “digital first” approach UK news agency Guardian News & Media has decided to take and now it looks like they are attempting to further push out print subscribers by raising prices for their […]
Netflix has lost one million of their 25 million subscribers after the controversial price hike instituted on September 1st, and stock prices for the streaming giant have hit a low for 2011. Following the announcement this summer that prices would […]
In the past, editing a YouTube video after it was published would require a re-upload, causing links to break and interrupting a clip’s popularity. But that is changing with an announcement from the company on their blog that users will […]
I try to be a nice person, improve the lives of those around me and generally not delight in the misfortunes of others, but when the bad guys lose spectacularly, it’s so hard not to feel a bit of shameful […]
Technology publisher Ziff Davis is offering money to tech sites to secretly track their users, Medacity has learned exclusively. The publisher is pitching the “Ziff Davis Tech Co-Op” as “a closed door invitation only club of some of the best […]
Mountain News Corporation, publisher of ski portal OnTheSnow has acquired its main competitor SkiReport.com. OnTheSnow and SkiReport will be merged for the forthcoming winter ski season, delivering a combined audience of 12 million unique visitors a year. The acquisition would […]
UK newspaper The Guardian has joined the ongoing push by the UK press for American page views with the launch of a new US specific site: guardiannews.com. The Guardian’s US Editor in Chief Janine Gibson said that the new page was […]
MOG on Wednesday announced a new free, ad-supported version of their on-demand music service which is being made available through MOG.com at 6:00am PDT on Thursday, September 15. Using the system users can access more than 11 million songs in […]
The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday announced the launch of ‘WSJ Live’ a new offering that brings an increased amount of daily streaming news to the network. The application allows WSJ users to access free video-based content via their iPad, […]
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