Penske Media Corporation, the company behind Deadline.com and other leading online web sources has filed a lawsuit against Premetheus Global Media LLC which operates The Hollywood Reporter. The company is citing copyright infringement and intellectual property thef in the case […]
Cablevision, the company behind iO Digital Cable, and Turner Broadcasting’s TV Everywhere have brokered a deal that will bring programming from TBS, TNT, CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and truTV to subscribers iPads, iPods and iPhones. Cablevision recently released an app […]
Yahoo’s board of directors will attempt to take focus off their firing of CEO Carol Bartz by releasing a slew of new products over the coming months, a move meant to turn the company around while removing themselves from a […]
Massive online retailer Amazon and publisher Hearst are getting hot and heavy with a wide-ranging expansion of their business relationship, announced in a press release today. The “multi-faceted consumer marketing, e-commerce and content relationship” has implications for both of the […]
As Netflix settles in to serve 43 new countries- the result of an expansion into Latin America– the company says it expects the venture to be profitable, but not for a good while. Netflix is also expected to conquer Europe […]
The uber-fast, trends-based news cycle has claimed another victim- to a degree- as an online web show’s partnership with major network CBS was severed after the property was a bit too quick to jump on a bit of spurious news […]
Yahoo is rumored to be considering selling Right Media, the ad marketplace it acquired for $680 million in 2007. According to a report at Business Insider, the sale may occur as “[It] doesn’t seem Yahoo wants to be a tech […]
Social media news reporting website Mashable on Tuesday announced the creation of a new site section Mashable Entertainment, an offering sponsored by Samsung Mobile. According to Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore: “We’ve spent the last year growing our coverage of […]
Content company Demand Media has announced a “major extension” of the integrated community platform Pluck, called Pluck 5. In a press release, the content company boasts upgraded Pluck features that promise “number of new and improved capabilities that enable brands […]
Immediate kudos to Jezebel for their characterization of Mario Lavandeira, also known as Perez Hilton, as a “noted penis scribbler.” Perez- who, as the feminist and makeup blog points out is well-known for his short and snarky posts of celebrities […]
Just days after Carol Bartz left Yahoo one of the company’s largest shareholders Daniel Loeb is demanded that the company overhaul it’s board because the directors have made “serious misjudgments” which have “destroyed value” for shareholders. Loeb is the CEO […]
With all this talk that old media is dying and new media is taking over Flipboard CEO Mike McCue chimed in this week, telling visitors at the TechCrunch Distrupt conference that he believes new media and much more of the […]
Although the Financial Times pulled its core broadsheet app from Apple’s iTunes store last month amid concerns about user data and Apple’s generous 30% cut from sales of the app, it has bounced back with a more targeted iPad strategy this week. […]
Just when we thought the TechCrunch/ AOL fiasco couldn’t get any more bizarre, Arianna Huffington has come out and (seriously) claimed that the whole saga had nothing to do with personalities, but everything to do with the principle. Huffington’s target […]
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