After 35 years in the business of titillating and offending, pornographer Al Goldstein stopped publishing Screw magazine and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, giving him a chance to cut costs,…

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Is the adult domain TLD ready for a comeback? “Although a .xxx extension has not been formally adopted, some companies have begun offering it on their own to interested parties.…

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Playboy Online has swung to profit of $500,000 in Q3, from a year earlier loss of $2.2 million, driven by a 40 percent increase in subscription and e-commerce revenue. Revenues…

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Acacia Research’s patents on streaming have been a huge issue in the online adult industry...trade pubs have written on it extensively, and this article explains the implications clearly. The company…

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What’s up with New Media Age? It is doing a completely biased coverage of the current controversy in the UK mobile content market involving operator Vodafone and the adult content…

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Playboy.com has launched ”PlayboyNet Espanol” (Warning: link leads to adult content), a Spanish language offering of Playboy.com’s current ”PlayboyNet” (Warning: link leads to adult content) premium online service. “Based on…

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Porn site operators have mixed feelings about a long-standing proposal to create a dot-xxx domain exclusively for adult content. But legal pressures may push more publishers to back the idea...Its…

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Global adult entertainment giant Private Media Group has struck its first distribution deals with mass market mobile content providers. The company has formed distribution deals with Wizcom, part of the…

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Acacia Media Technologies, which has been actively pursuing adult content companies for payments against its streaming media patent, may go for the big guns: If Acacia can line up enough…

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Playboy has launched Playboy Video Club Hong Kong to the broadband service customers of Hutchison Global and PowerCom Network Hong Kong. For a monthly subscription fee, subscribers can watch Playboy…

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Had to happen sooner rather than later...Playboy Enterprises has announced a global content deal has been signed to give 3 exclusive, multi-year rights to provide Playboy’s print, online and broadcast…

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Playboy Enterprises has swung into profit, on the strength of its website and television operations. Profits came in at $600,000, compared to a net loss of $9.4 million a year…

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Conspiracy theories are going around the industry following new rules Visa U.S.A. imposed late last year requiring adult content Websites to pay a $750 fee and register intimate financial details…

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If you still had doubts that the adult industry online had become mainstream, read this: the Network for Online Commerce, the telcom trade association in Europe is sponsoring the AdultOnlineEurope.com,…

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Vodafone has become the first UK operator to announce a detailed strategy for mobile adult content...This month it launches a ratings system for content on Vodafone Live!, with adult content…

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Streaming adult services such as pornography will generate just five percent of mobile content revenues in 2008, dispelling the myth that sex will drive wireless takeup, according to Strategy Analytics.…

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Netcollex, one of the UK’s biggest adult entertainment companies, next week launches its first mobile adult video services, and will be targeting readers of ‘lad mags’ such as Loaded. “Netcollex…

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Wireless adult content is making operators salivate all over, and that is putting it mildly. Adult content companies such as Private Media Group, one of the biggest in the world,…

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This according to David Jarvis, director of wireless for Private Media Group, one of the biggest adult media companies (Nasdaq: PRVT), speaking at the Mobile Entertainment Event, today. This applies…

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Acacia Research says it owns five U.S. and 17 international patents covering the transmission and receipt of digital audio and digital video content and is going after smallish adult Internet…

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Private Media Group (Nasdaq: PVRT), one of the largest adult companies (the first adult company to be listed on Nasdaq), has launched adult content and services in the U.S. for…

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3G Network May Carry Adult Video: Britain’s newest mobile phone network, 3, which was soft-launched Monday, is planning to use the technology for what is is worth: the ability to…

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The Great Wall Redux: Though pornography may prove to be the killer content that drives 3G adoption around the globe, it remains to be seen how this is going to…

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Mo’ Smut in Japan - Porn and Prostitution: The Japanese mobile Internet is popular after midnight, showing that people might be skipping the pay-per-view or the newsstand in favor of…

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Adult Cable, Net Provider Cuts Jobs: So it happens to adult companies as well: adult Internet and cable-TV company New Frontier Media, has announced layoffs (about half the people in…

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