Call it Top Design Newspapers. Seven of Tribune Company’s daily metro papers have gone through major redesigns. As the Los Angeles Times overhaul nears completion, Lee Abrams is defending the…

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We’re thrilled to announce several additions to our Future of Business Media speaker lineup: - Sarah Fay, CEO of Aegis Media North America, will be featured in a Spotlight Q&A…

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So the big move from Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) has come, not in the form of a transformative deal as I have been exhorting them to do, but as a…

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Here’s some more evidence of how bad things are… The average price of a display ad was 27 cents in Q3, a nearly 50 percent drop from Q407’s 50 cents,…

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No, PollDaddy was never related to GoDaddy, but now it is part of the WordPress family: Automattic, the parent company of Wordpress platform, has acquired the online polls service PollDaddy,…

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Search tech and service firms continue to pump out “state of the market” reports in advance of this week’s Q308 earnings announcements from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO),…

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EBay moved into the black for Q3 but will it be there this time next year? The e-commerce company reported third-quarter net income of $492 million after charges, or $0.38…

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Wow, we knew Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) was desperate to get rid of the print version of TV Guide, but didn’t know the extent to which it would go to the…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) launched their competing health information storage platforms, Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault, amidst a slew of hype earlier this year, and even tried…

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Probably six months too late, Facebook has finally announced 25 recipients from its $10 million fbFund. The fund was announced a year ago by Facebook, with money from the company,…

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Technorati, still trying to figure out what it is, is now an online ad network: it has bought a small LA-based online ad network AdEngage. Terms of the deal were…

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The UK’s upcoming Hulu equivalent codenamed Kangaroo will offer US TV shows and movies, despite being formed by three British public broadcasters. CEO Ashley Highfield, in a Mipcom panel, revealed…

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Poptub, an entertainment-focused original video series, has been quietly making the rounds on YouTube for the past month, the Hollywood Reporter reports. The series, which is produced by NY-based Embassy…

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More evidence arrives illustrating how the collapse of credit markets around the world is affecting companies’ ability to make deals happen. UK credit checking firm Experian has cancelled the sale…

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In times of financial crisis, one of the few things to benefit is the financial media. And that may go some way to explain why Financial Times publisher Pearson (NYSE:…

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Local events company Eventful has secured $10 million in a third round of funding. Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) Capital, the venture arm of of Spanish telecom Telefonica S.A. led the round,…

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Given the level of distress throughout the newspaper business these days, maybe the industry should consider lobbying Capitol Hill for a bailout of its own? While it’s safe to say…

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Practically every other sentence uttered by Viacom (NYSE: VIA) President/CEO Philippe Dauman in a Q&A at the day two of the Dow Jones/Nielsen Media and Money Conference featured the words…

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GameDuell was launched in 2003 and offers skill games to be played against real opponents for real money. The site has around 20 popular games like Solitaire, Roll 5, Freecell…

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The BBC is encouraging TV and set-top box makers to adopt an open IPTV platform it hopes to develop. At Cannes’ Mipcom conference Wednesday, future media and technology director Erik…

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Online advertising optimization tech firm FatTail has raised $3 million in its first round of funding.  Velocity Interactive Group led the round, and Velocity partner Ross Levinsohn will join FatTail’s…

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A prosaic and clear business pitch from an initially nervous YouTube CEO to international TV execs at Cannes’ Mipcom broadcasting conference: “We want to continue to be your partner ...…

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Joost has been robustly criticized since its 2007 launch, in part for lacking decent content. The man in that firing line, Danny Passman, sympathizes with many of the concerns -…

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TargetSpot, the CBS-funded online streaming media ad targeting firm, has acquired Ronning Lipset Radio, an online radio advertising representation firm, and claims it is the largest online radio advertising network.…

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Veteran media analyst Jack Myers has come in with his ad forecast for this year and next and the good news is, it could be worse. Myers projects online ad…

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