Reliance ADA Group, the Indian telecom and media conglomerate, has bought a 70 percent stake in Willow.tv, the Cricket webcasting site based in Sunnyvale, CA. The price was undisclosed, but…

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The Association of National Advertisers, which represents big ticket consumers advertisers such as Procter & Gamble, General Motors, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and others, has sent a letter to the Department…

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Top headlines of the week from our sister sites mocoNews, paidContent:UK, and contentSutra: mocoNews: -- Interview: iFund Manager Matt Murphy Says “The iPhone Is The Place To Be” -- Interview:…

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Lookery, a company which analyzes demographic data on social net users and markets it to ad networks, has raised $2.25 million, Venturebeat reports. It says Lookery has already raised $1…

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Search optimizer Quintura has raised an undisclosed bridge funding from Mangrove Capital Partners as part of a larger round of financing. In a post on its official blog, Moscow-based Quintura…

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Joost, the once-hyped online video startup which was a non-starter with a desktop-only client, is now killing it, Om reports. It will go browser only, and will release a small…

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Did we mention that Billy Bragg is speaking at EconMusic, our London conference examining the digital music business on September 23? Billy has previously taken on MySpace for its policy…

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-- Digital Rights Group: Lee deBoer has been tapped to lead the UK distributor’s new U.S. branch, Variety reports. A 20-year HBO vet, deBoer will now be responsible for acquiring…

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Our latest choice jobs in digital media: -- Warner Bros.: Director, International Marketing -- Etsy: VP of Marketing -- Muze: Sales Director -- Tango Media: Executive Editor -- George Lucas…

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Maybe it was the bad economy. Maybe it’s the back-to-school season or an attempt to generate more interest ahead of Christmas shopping period. In any case, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) hopes…

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TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) may have prevailed in its patent lawsuit against the Dish Network, but investors appeared concerned after a federal judge declined to rule on the DVR company’s request…

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The story of the sale of B2B publisher and Datamonitor owner Informa got longer last night after it rejected a total £3.2 billion ($5.57 billion) bid from a three-way consortium…

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Samsung Electronics is considering buying U.S. PC and mobile memory card maker SanDisk, according to a Korean online report (*Google* translation of the story here), and then later confirmed by…

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-- McClatchy: North Carolina papers The News & Observer of Raleigh, and The Charlotte Observer are asking hundreds of staffers to accept buyouts. The News & Observer hopes at least…

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As far as teasers go, this is a pretty pathetic effort to seems cute, funny and cuddly...but then, come to think of it, an ad which features Jerry Seinfeld has…

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We mentioned an earlier closing of this round, but the amount was lower then: now Tel Aviv-based SemantiNet, a semantic web startup focused on developing tools for better Web browsing,…

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Considering that newspaper ad revenues plummeted a record $3 billion (-16 percent) in the first half of ‘08, perhaps it’s not so bad that they were up only 2.3 percent…

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Dutch business publisher Wolters Kluwer has bought out UpToDate, a Waltham, MA-based online medical information company, for an undisclosed amount, though it is likely in low hundreds of millions. UpToDate,…

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This just got a lot uglier, but expected: Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is now appealing the Federal Communications Commission to block the regulatory agency’s decision to cite and sanction the company…

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The New York Times’ (NYSE: NYT) futurist-in-residence Michael Rogers is leaving the company after two years..he came in to NYT in September 2006, as an R&D consultant with a fancy…

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Nearly nine months after Sean Finnegan left Omnicom as CEO of its in-house interactive shop, OMG Digital, for in-text advertising start-up Vibrant Media, the media buying exec has been named…

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Hyderabad, India-based Pressmart Media, a print-to-digital delivery service for newspaper company, from raising $6 million in its first round of funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and NEA IndoUS Ventures. The…

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National Lampoon’s acquisition binge continues, as the comedy site has bought photo sharing site ZingFu.com. Terms were not disclosed. ZingFu lets users place “funny” scenes and thought-bubbles—or “zings,” as the…

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Online ad net Traffic Marketplace has acquired Livemarkets, a company that lets individuals strike up chat sessions with marketers within banner ads. Terms were not disclosed. The basic proposition behind…

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JP Morgan internet analyst Imran Khan is lowering his online ad spend forecast into next year due to the worsening economy.  Sensing that marketers are becoming more conservative with their…

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