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Rogers Gives Canadians Their 'TV Everywhere' With New VOD Service
Canadian cable giant Rogers Communications has launched an ad-supported online video service that THR is calling a “Canadianized Hulu.” But we think think it’s ...
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Swedish Music Biz Claims Piracy Victory As Digital Music Sales Increase 80 Percent
Has the tide turned against bedroom P2P file-sharers in the music industry’s epic fight against piracy? The IFPI’s branch in Sweden— the home of illegal file-sharing ...
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Interview: Adconion CEO Says Joost Will Showcase Branded Entertainment
Joost isn’t dead, it’s just getting more advertising.
Adconion ‘s main aim in acquiring the video firm is to offer its web player to brand marketing clients, CEO Tyler ...
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MediaNews, A.H. Belo May Join The 'Block Google' Faction
Other newspaper chains are now jumping on Rupert Murdoch’s ‘Block Google’ bandwagon. Top executives at MediaNews and A.H. Belo ( NYSE: AHC ) ( NYSE: BLC ) tell Bloomberg ...
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More on Playboy's Mag Outsourcing: Profits Aimed By 2011; 25 Layoffs
After we first reported last night about Playboy’s mag outsourcing deal with American Media Inc (but we got it mixed up with the sale talks, which are still ongoing), the company has ...
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Dow Jones' Garage Sale Continues, Sells Online Financial Solutions Unit To IDC
Dow Jones ( NYSE: NWS ) has sold its Online Financial Solutions business to IDC, in the latest of a continued string of divestitures. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close within a ...
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WMG Call: Bronfman Jr Still Disappointed By Video Game Income
Warner Music Group ( NYSE: WMG ) is lining up a new range of music video games partners, as it continues to voice displeasure at terms offered by publishers of smash-hit successes like ...
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Google Teams With TiVo On Audience Ad Viewing Data
Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) TV Ads continues to have a difficult time adding cable network partners to its system, but a new arrangement with DVR provider TiVo ( NSDQ: TIVO ) could at least produce ...
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Joost Finally Acquired, BY Online Ad Network Adconion
So Joost’s been put out of its misery and its assets have been acquired by Santa Monica, CA-based online ad network Adconion Media Group . Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but likely would have been pennies on the dollar, compared to the ...
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WMG Swings To Loss On Severence Charges, Weak Demand; Digital Rises 10 Percent
General music industry woes, along with $14 million in severance costs, pushed Warner Music Group ( NYSE: WMG ) to a net loss in Q3. In the meantime, revenues were barely up 1 percent to $861 ...
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No More Lonely Planets: BBC Blocked From M&A
BBC Worldwide, the BBC’s profit-making commercial wing, is being barred from doing any mergers or acquisitions unless in “exceptional circumstances”, after its £89 million ...
Informa In Talks To Buy Springer Science And Business Media
B2B magazine and data publisher Informa is in preliminary talks to buy German academic publisher Springer Science + Business Media , majority owned by European PE houses Cinven and Candover. ...
Vivendi Snaps Up More Of France's Canal+ As NBCU Price Talks Continue
Vivendi ( EPA: VIV ) may not be able be able to agree a price to offload its 20 percent stake in the NBCU JV—but at home, the French multimedia group has no doubts about plans to grow ...
Time Inc. Close To Magazine JV With Rival Publishers
After weeks of talks and trial balloons, is Time Inc. actually close to signing a deal with other Conde Nast, Hearst and possibly other major publishers to form a digital magazine JV? ...
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Local Shopping Search Engine Milo Gets $4 Million From Mint's Patzer, Others
Milo , a startup betting that Americans will be as likely to use the internet to inform purchases at local stores as to replace them, has raised $4 million from a roster of big name ...
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Playboy's Deal Coming This Week; Magazine To Be Managed by American Media
The Playboy Enterprises ( NYSE: PLA ) deal is about to close, paidContent has learned, and the buyer is Iconix Brand Group , the London-based owner of London Fog, Joe Boxer, Ecko Unltd and ...
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Google Brings AdSense To The Desktop For The First Time Via Google Earth
Yet another Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) property is getting ads. The company confirms to us that it has introduced “some ads” to Google Earth. The addition comes as Google has added ...
Gaming Roundup: PPV On The Wii; EA's Facebook 'Hell'
— Wii Gets PPV in Japan : Nintendo has partnered with 12 media companies to launch pay-per-view streaming service on the Wii. The content includes episodes of Sesame Street , among ...
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Twitter's Stone: No Sale But IPO, Alternatives Are Possible
Twitter’s generous investors—the latest round was $100 million—may be pleased to hear that “2010 is really going to be the revenue year” for the high-profile ...
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Vogue Turns To Obama's Online Fundraiser For Revenue Drive
It’s been seven months since Tom Florio, publishing director for Vogue , asked if it would be possible to take the online ad strategy that helped propel candidate Barack Obama to the ...
ZoomInfo Spin-Off Bizo Raises $6 Million
Bizo , the business-to-business ad targeting platform spun off from ZoomInfo a year-and-a-half ago, has raised $6 million in a round of funding, according to an SEC filing . The ...
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Mobile TV Tech Firm Telegent Files For Potential $250 Million IPO
Telegent Systems , a mobile TV receiver developer, has filed for an IPO—potentially worth $250 million—per an SEC filing . The company is backed by over $50 million in funding ...
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ZoomInfo Spin Off Bizo Raises $6 Million
Bizo , the business to business ad targeting platform spun off from ZoomInfo a year-and-a-half ago, has raised $6 million in a round of funding, according to an SEC filing . The ...
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B-To-B Search Site Zubican Purchased By Inuvo
Business-to-business community site Zubican has been purchased by performance-based online marketer Inuvo . Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, although Inuvo says it will pay a ...
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paidContent Quick Hits 11.23.09
» Although CNN’s grasp on the American cable news market has slipped, execs claim its worldwide audience makes it tops overall. [ Crains NY ]
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LinkedIn Opens Up To Developers
LinkedIn wants a bigger developer community to build up around its social network. The company is announcing that third-party developers will now be able to integrate the professional ...
Zynga Launches Standalone Game Site, Sheds Light On Virtual Goods Business
Seemingly unfazed by a looming class-action lawsuit triggered by allegations of misleading ads, social gamer Zynga has launched FarmVille.com , its first standalone game site. ...
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Google Buys Display Ad Startup Teracent
Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) just announced it has purchased display ad startup Teracent. More to come .
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WinBuyer Raises $6.9 Million For Online Retail App
WinBuyer , an Israeli startup which makes a comparative pricing app for online retailers, has raised $6.9 million in a first round of funding. The round was led by Pitango Venture Capital. ...
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Fair Do's? A Million Spotify Streams Earned Gaga $167
How much money do artists really make from Spotify? According to Swedish paper Expressen , 2009’s standout breakthrough artist Lady Gaga and her songwriter Redone made just SEK1150 ...
AOL's New Image: Animated Edition
Late Sunday evening, AOL ( NYSE: TWX ) released a static tease of its new branding identity but without any context. Here’s the animated version, music and all.
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Big News Bucks Unlikely From Bing? Journalism Could Be The Loser
The reports say Microsoft is offering to pay newspaper publishers for indexing their stories, if Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) is blocked from doing the same.
But how real are the talks? One source familiar with discussions advised us caution ...
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MSNBC.com Taking Over @BreakingNews Twitter Feed; Signs On As BNO News' First Client
Well, it isn’t exactly the acquisition I was hoping for , but close, and probably for the better: BNO News , of the popular @BreakingNews Twitter feed and the BNO iPhone app, is ...
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Seeking Influence And Recognition, Bloomberg Looks To Ad Agencies For Help
Even before Bloomberg agreed to buy BusinessWeek , the company wanted to be known for more than just operating financial news terminals—and was looking for an ad agency or agencies to ...
Roku Plugs Content Store Into Its Set top Box
Roku is cracking open access to its Internet set-top device to third-party content providers—adding 10 partners to its “Channel Store” this week—as the company takes a ...
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EMI Finds Music Sales Actually Growing, Despite Terra's Troubles
Terra Firma may have written off 90 percent of its investment in the label after Citigroup refused to ignore about half the debt it provided for the deal, but - slowly, slowly - EMI Group ...
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BookRenter Raises $6 Million In First Round
Another big, albeit much more down to earth bet on the online book rental market from VCs. Online book rental service BookRenter is announcing it has brought in $6 million in a first round, ...
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Change In Counting Newspapers' Digital Subs Masks Actual Circ Woes
Although the latest newspaper circ numbers showed continued declines, changes to the way the Audit Bureau of Circulations counts electronic subscribers have obscured just how many readers ...
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Armstrong On AOL's New Branding And 'Very, Very, Very Inexpensive' Campaign
The glimpse AOL ( NYSE: TWX ) offered late Sunday night of its new branding campaign looked more like icons for AIM, not a branding campaign for a company on the verge of reinvention. ...
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Nielsen Biz Selling Print, Online But Not Until December; Lachlan Murdoch Considering Investing
No sale yet for Nielsen Business Media (NBM) but most of it is about two weeks away from being acquired by a consortium led by James Finkelstein’s News Communications, paidContent has learned ...
Jason Goldberg Leaving Xing After A Year; New Startup & Investments
Jason Goldberg, the chief product officer of Xing, the European biz social network that Burda just bought a big stake in, is leaving the company with this deal, about 12 months after his ...
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AOL's New Branding Trades Iconic Running Man For Goldfish
AOL ( NYSE: TWX ) just released its new branding look—one consistent typography showing “Aol” with different “reveals” from various artists. The new identifty fully debuts when AOL rings the bell to open the New York ...
Industry Moves Round-Up: Meredith 360°; Atlantic Media; Viewpoints Network; Tribal Fusion
— Atlantic Media : Former U.S. editor of Reuters.com Adam Pasick will be heading up the new digital media brand from The Atlantic publishing group, launching in “early 2010.” Along with being U.S. editor, Pasick was also the bureau ...
How Berlin In 1989 Is Like The Media Business In 2009
The fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago this month taught me firsthand why revolution is simultaneously impossible as well as inevitable. In 1986, I sat with other students from around the globe just blocks from the wall and debated whether it ...
Microsoft In Talks To Get News Publishers To Pull Content From Google
The next battle in the search wars could be over access to news content. The FT reports that Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT )—which has made increasing the market share of its Bing search ...
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Jason Goldberg Leaving Xing After A Year; New Startup & Investments
Jason Goldberg, the chief product officer of Xing, the European biz social network that Burda just bought a big stake in, is leaving the company with this deal, about 12 months after his ...
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ESPN.com's Bill Simmons Gets A Twitter Time Out, Sort Of
Part of the joy of following Bill Simmons on Twitter is the feeling that he doesn’t hold back—that, plus not only he can be snarky as all get out when the occasion demands, his ...
Finally, MySpace Music Licenses "Fifth Label" Merlin; Reins in Fiercest Critic
MySpace Music has now finalized a global licensing deal with the labels represented by Merlin , according to details tipped Friday to Digital Music News. Both companies confirmed the ...
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Nielsen Biz Selling Print, Online But Not Until December; Lachlan Murdoch Considering Investing
No sale yet for Nielsen Business Media (NBM) but most of it is about two weeks away from being acquired by a consortium led by James Finkelstein’s News Communications, paidContent has learned ...
Why Sony's Planned Music Store Won't Start Out As A Serious iTunes Challenger
Sony keeps flip-flopping over adding music downloads to the PlayStation Network (PSN). After scrapping plans to add a music store to the gaming network—complete with the ability for ...
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