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EU Parliament Warns Against ISP Monitoring In Music Piracy Fight - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Apr 2008 02:48 AM PST

This could put the cat amongst the pigeons. European Parliament members have voted in favour of outlawing the kind of ISP disconnection policy the French government introduced to fight illegal…

Intel Capital Invests $12 Million In Shanghai Media Group; Establishing Online TV Platform - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Apr 2008 04:08 AM PST

Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital, which earlier this week launched a new $500 million China-focused fund, will invest $12 million into a unit of Shanghai Media Group for the establishment of…

Israeli Search Marketer Kenshoo Raises Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Apr 2008 10:48 PM PST

Kenshoo, an Israeli search engine marketer, has raised an unspecified second round from VC firm Arts Alliance. The investment follows closely on the heals of its first round, from Sequoia,…

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Microsoft On Google-Yahoo Tie-Up: Google To Have 90 Percent Of Ad Market; Market Less Competitive - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Apr 2008 01:45 PM PST

Microsoft has weighed in on this evening’s announcement, claiming that the agreement gives Google (NSDQ: GOOG) 90 percent of the online ad market, and thus makes the market “far less…

Lagardere Buys UK Entertainment News & Community Site DigitalSpy - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 09 Apr 2008 12:28 PM PST

DigitalSpy, one of my favorite UK TV and entertainment news sites, has been bought by Hachette Filipacchi U.K., part of the French media giant Lagardere. The financial details were not…

Industry Moves: Economist CEO Leaving, Replaced By Ex Online Boss - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Apr 2008 11:37 AM PST

The Economist Group CEO Helen Alexander is leaving the publisher after 23 years to become an adviser to private equity house Bain Capital. Her replacement, from July 15, will be…

BBC Brings iPlayer To Wii; ISP Grumbles As Traffic Grows To 17.2 Million Streams, Downloads In March - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Apr 2008 05:33 AM PST

The BBC is launching a version of its iPlayer TV catch-up for Nintendo’s Wii console, the broadcaster announced with the game maker at MipTV. The service will be offered as…

BBC America Assembles Ad Sales Team For First Cross-Platform Deals - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 08 Apr 2008 02:54 PM PST

BBC Worldwide is expanding its North American ad sales operations, allowing for selling ads across BBC.com and its related cable channels for the first time, the commercial arm of UK’s…

Sellaband Scores $5 Million For Fan-Funded Music Community - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Apr 2008 11:58 AM PST

Fan-funded musician site Sellaband has scored $5 million funding from Prime Technology Ventures to embark on a US roll-out. CEO Johan Vosmeijer of the Amsterdam-based outfit, which lets visitors buy…

Industry Moves: Shanda; Be Jane; Telemundo; EA; Morgan Stanley; LANG; Hachette; Thirteen/WNET - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 08 Apr 2008 11:45 AM PST

-- Shanda Interactive (NSDQ: SNDA) Entertainment: Qunzhao Tan, co-founder of Shanda, has been promoted to president and will continue in his role as CTO. Most recently, he was EVP and…

Google Et Al Must Try Harder On Privacy, EU Says - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Apr 2008 03:24 AM PST

Europe’s Article 29 Working Party on data privacy, which advises the European Commission executive, has concluded search engines should reduce the time for which they store users’ records to six…

Ad Industry Roundup: Google ‘Slap’; IAB; Conference Board; NYT-AfterCollege; ComScore - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 07 Apr 2008 07:27 PM PST

-- The ‘Google Slap’: positive or negative?: The debate over Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) changes to its AdWords program continued to go back and forth last week. Bernstein Research analyst Jeffrey…

Disney Interactive Studios Buys Chinese Gaming Studio Gamestar - 0 Comments
Posted By Pearl Research - Mon 07 Apr 2008 12:14 PM PST

Disney Interactive Studios, the gaming arm of Disney (NYSE: DIS), is buying Gamestar, a Chinese independent video game software developer with locations in Shanghai and Wuhan. Gamestar has been in…

Record Labels Seek $9 Million From Baidu, $7.5 Million From Sohu For Piracy Charges - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 07 Apr 2008 07:00 AM PST

Now that the Beijing Intermediate People’s Court has accepted the copyright infringement suits brought by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents the major record labels, the amounts…

ITV Sells Arsenal Broadband Stake To Club Co-Owner For $45.32 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Apr 2008 02:20 AM PST

UK commercial TV operator ITV (LSE: ITV) has now sold its 50 percent stake in Arsenal Broadband Ltd, which runs the London soccer club’s online interests, to US sports mogul…

Interactive Agency Special Ops Media Sold To European Firm LBI For Up To $45M - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 06 Apr 2008 11:00 PM PST

New York City-based interactive marketing and design agency Special Ops Media (SOM) has been sold to European digital agency holding firm LBI. Over 2007 Special Ops realized gross billings of…

Joost Denies: No “Major Retrenchement”, Or “Sole U.S. Focus” - 5 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 06 Apr 2008 12:36 PM PST

Joost, the online video service which has had more than its share of troubles since its founding, had another story this weekend to contend with, this time a sketchily-sourced story…

Korea Telecom And Softbank Launch $40 Million Fund Aimed At IPTV Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 04 Apr 2008 05:09 AM PST

South Korea’s dominant fixed-line and broadband operator Korea Telecom and Japanese telecom and internet group Softbank have partnered together to launch a $40 million investment fund aimed at delivering internet…

Our London Event: Exploding Video: Measuring & Monetising: Watch The Full Video Now - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 Apr 2008 10:59 AM PST

A couple of weeks ago, our London breakfast summit Exploding Video: Measuring & Monetising TV In The Multiplatform Marketplace, sponsored by Teletrax, brought 70 online video and broadcast execs out…

Blinkx Launches Yet Another Online TV Service - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 02 Apr 2008 03:23 AM PST

After Joost, Babelgum, iPlayer, Livestation, Vuze et al comes yet another online TV platform. Web video search index Blinkx is branching farther out into distribution by launching its own version…

IOC Exec Warns China Against Internet Censorship During Olympics - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 01 Apr 2008 07:47 PM PST

With the Beijing Olympics roughly four months away, Kevan Gosper, vice chairman of the IOC coordinating commission, is warning organizers that the internet must be open during the games and…

AOL Sells Its Last Call Center To Aegis - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 01 Apr 2008 08:18 AM PST

So it has finally happened: AOL (NYSE: TWX) has sold its call center operations in India to Aegis BPO Services, a part of the Essar Group, reports ET. The acquisition…

ITV’s Van Den Belt Leaving To Head New LiveJournal Owner Sup - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 01 Apr 2008 01:22 AM PST

ITV (LSE: ITV) broadband MD Annelies Van Den Belt is leaving the UK commercial TV leader after 14 months to head Russian online media company Sup, which bought blog platform…

Danish ISP TDC Bundles Free Unlimited Music With Broadband, Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 31 Mar 2008 07:44 AM PST

TDC, the former Danish state telco, just started a press conference to unveil a new offering giving broadband and mobile customers unlimited free music - for no extra cost. Though…

Greenspan’s BroadWebAsia Gets MLB Rights In China - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 31 Mar 2008 05:30 AM PST

Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) has a new Chinese web outlet, launched in conjunction with last week’s regular season opening series in Tokyo. MLBAM has licensed online rights to…