Following our analysis of Social Media Deals, we’ve pleased to announce our first Online Advertising Deals Report, charting activity in venture capital and mergers & acquisitions from Q107 to Q208.…

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Registration is officially open for our third annual CTIA MocoMixer, on Sep 9 in SF. As our regular readers and attendees know well, our mixers fill up fast, so book…

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Reliance ADA, the scary-big Indian telecom/media/energy giant which is already making strides in Hollywood through its Dreamworks deal, has been looking for mobile content deals in U.S. for some time…

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The cauldron for the 2008 Olympics is still burning in Beijing and NBC has the next two locked in already but ESPN’s (NYSE: DIS) John Skipper is thinking ahead—and making…

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After only five months since going live, Hulu has reached 105 million streams in July, according to numbers released by Nielsen’s VideoCensus. The NBC Universal-News Corp (NYSE: NWS). joint venture’s…

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Shares of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). have had a rough year, just like most of their peers, but key executives did well. According to its definitive proxy statement filed this…

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Record labels have to keep experimenting on new ways to market their products. Case in point: Capitol/EMI says it is partnering with newspaper publisher Gannett (NYSE: GCI) to offer free…

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Internet news vet Jonathan Dube is rejoining ABCNews.com as VP, responsible for strategic planning, business strategy, editorial content and production; he was a national producer for the site in 1999.…

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Strategy Analytics has done a nice and simple comparison of revenues from a selected group of online media/Internet companies in Q208 (what it calls its “Digital Media Index"), and shows…

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Local newspapers may be struggling to latch on the to rise of local online media, but a report from the Online Publishers Association suggests that they at least have a…

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National Lampoon has made several digital investments over the past several months, with most geared towards male users (CollegeHangover.com, Drunk University, RivalFish). Now it’s looking to reach more females—though still…

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Lotame, which targets ads to users within social networks, has raised a $13 million second round. The round was led by Emergence Capital Partners, along with previous backers Battery Ventures…

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Attitudes towards FiOS, Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) next-gen internet and video platform, are constantly changing, as investors alternate between dismay and optimism over the prospects of the $23 billion gambit. Saul…

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One of the founding senior executives is leaving TMZ, the celebrity site owned by Time Warner: Alan Citron, the longtime GM of TMZ, is leaving to join pop-culture focused social…

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-- Glam Media: The company has hired Yukihiro Yamamura as CEO of its new subsidiary Glam Media Japan KK and VP of Glam Media. No stranger to the CEO position,…

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Diane Mermigas has a blistering column about Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) failures in digital media, and takes them to task for lacking the strategic mindset for the transformation. Selling non-core…

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ZocDoc, a startup that bills itself as “OpenTable for healthcare”, has raised a $3 million first round led by Khosla Ventures. The NYC-based company allows patients to book appointments online…

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This is funny, if only in a non-funny way: Perhaps Clear Channel (NYSE: CCU) Radio is concerned about Sam Zell poaching more of the company’s executives to run interactive at…

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Chinese advertising and media firm Xinhua Financial Media (NSDQ: XFML) reported Q2 revenue of $48.9 million, up 69 percent over $29 million in the year-ago quarter. Adjusted net income grew…

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Some potentially sad news today for music fans who like their music free, but don’t want to risk the recording industry’s wrath. In a candid interview with the Washington Post,…

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Oversee.net, a heavily-funded domain-focused firm, has laid off 10 percent of its staff, the company confirmed to socalTech. The LA-based company raised a huge, $150 million round back in January…

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The National Basketball Association hopes to start live streaming in-market games this season—a no-brainer for some and a major headache for others. The NBA, which takes pride in trying to…

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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is giving its Rivals.com draft sports site responsibility for programming content for collegiate and prep sports, Sports Business Journal (sub. req.) reports. Up to this point, coverage…

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When newspaper companies released their quarterly earnings for the past two years, the news tended to follow this arc: circ, print ad revenues tended to be down, while online kept…

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Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) ad deal with Google should help it monetize certain queries better, but analysts have wondered whether Yahoo risks hollowing out its own ad business, as buyers view…

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