Reddit Acquires RedditGifts, Takes Mods On As Full-Time Employees

Reddit Acquires RedditGifts, Takes Mods On As Full-Time Employees

One of the things that makes Reddit so well-loved in its space on the social web is its unusually strong, trusting and closely-knit community- maybe a bit like the message boards that used to reign the web before social media […]

AOL Travel Relaunches In UK, Partners With Warner Leisure Hotels

AOL Travel Relaunches In UK, Partners With Warner Leisure Hotels

AOL Travel, a website that focuses on travel news, features and city guides has relaunched in the UK and part of that relaunch includes partnering with Warner Leisure Hotels. The partnership includes a month-long agreement that will utilize AOL’s Project […]

PMC, ION Team Up For ENTV, Entertainment News Across Several Platforms

PMC, ION Team Up For ENTV, Entertainment News Across Several Platforms

Digital Media company PMC has paired off with ION Television for a new initiative in the “Hollywood news” vertical. PMC, headed up by entrepreneur Jay Penske of Nikki Finke’s Deadline.com, will produce short 60-120 second long news segments with ION […]

Specific Media Launches Video Testing Tool For Creative Media

Specific Media Launches Video Testing Tool For Creative Media

Specific Media on Tuesday announced that they are offering a video version of their popular creative campaign testing technology which utilizes eye-tracking to optimize campaigns. The company’s popular creative program uses a 360-strong panel to test variations of creative campaigns […]

Walmart’s Vudu Tops Amazon For Streaming Films, Study Says

Walmart’s Vudu Tops Amazon For Streaming Films, Study Says

Amazon has been edged out by Walmart’s Vudu in movie streaming market share for the first two quarters of 2011, a research report has revealed. IHS Screen Digest reports that Vudu’s market share shot to 5.3% in Q1 and Q2 […]

DirecTV Partners With PlayStation to Stream NFL Games

DirecTV Partners With PlayStation to Stream NFL Games

  DirecTV and Sony are hooking up to deliver streaming NFL content from their “Sunday Ticket” package to subscribers and non-subscribers using web-enabled PlayStation 3 gaming consoles. The initiative is said to be a “test” to determine the marketability of […]

Slate, Spitzer Facing Defamation Lawsuit From Bankers After Controversial Post

Slate, Spitzer Facing Defamation Lawsuit From Bankers After Controversial Post

Former New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer- known for his tough stance and vigorous pursuit of white collar crime on Wall Street when he served as the state’s Attorney General- is facing two massive lawsuits after a column he posted […]

Hyperlocal News Website Helps Police Catch Rapist

Hyperlocal News Website Helps Police Catch Rapist

Hyperlocal news website MyWelshPool.co.uk has helped police catch a suspected rapists thanks to their community outreach to readers. The UK based website recently posted details about the suspect and asked that their 2,100 Facebook fans report any possible suspects to […]

Ten Awesome Subreddits to Which You Should Subscribe

Ten Awesome Subreddits to Which You Should Subscribe

I find inevitably if someone tries Reddit and doesn’t get hooked on it, it’s because they never got the hang of customizing the site with the subreddits most relevant to their interests. For some people. it’s a bit too much […]

Netflix, Telemundo Ink Content Deal

Netflix, Telemundo Ink Content Deal

Spanish-language network Telemundo has announced a deal with Netflix’s streaming service to be evaluated on a year by year basis, according to Telemundo Internacional. In July, Netflix announced that their reach would be expanding into 43 countries in Latin America and […]

Rdio Drops Industry’s First Unlimited Family Plan

Rdio Drops Industry’s First Unlimited Family Plan

Music subscription service Rdio has tossed a bone to subscribers that have more than one user in the same household. The service announced that they’re rolling out a plan not too unlike cell phone family plans, perhaps as a response […]

Maxim Drops iPad App, Reportedly Rebooting

Maxim Drops iPad App, Reportedly Rebooting

Maxim fans that are also iPad users will have to get their fix of scantily clad women soaked in unknown substances and partially covered in sand from some other place for the time being, as the company is yanking their iPad […]

Patrick Kevin Day Named Deputy Editor Of ‘The Hollywood Reporter’

Patrick Kevin Day Named Deputy Editor Of ‘The Hollywood Reporter’

The Hollywood Reporter (THR.com) has announced that Patrick Kevin Day has been named as their new deputy reporter and will report directly to THR.com Editor Joseph Kapsch. Day and Kapsch previously worked together in relaunching the online section of the […]

Demand Media Announces Share Repurchase Program Following Plummeting Stock Prices

Demand Media Announces Share Repurchase Program Following Plummeting Stock Prices

Demand Media on Monday announced that it’s Board of Directors has approved a $25 million share repurchase program which went into effect on August 19, 2011. According to Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt: “This share repurchase program reflects confidence in […]