Portals

Turmoil At Yahoo7 With Exec Shuffle - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 10 Oct 2007 05:56 PM PST

Yahoo7, the JV between Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Australian broadcaster Channel 7, is in a bit of an upheaval following falling visitor numbers and not enough ad growth. AustralianIT was…

Broadband Content Bits: WaBo VOD; Apple; Yahoo OMG; NBC; Bravo; Rocketboom; Univision - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 11 Jun 2007 09:37 PM PST

-- Warner Bros. has expanded its VOD day and date trial...meaning releasing movies on VOD and DVD on the same day. It will begin the trial nationally July 10 with…

Interview, Part 2: Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive: The JV, IP, What’s Next - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 12 Apr 2007 02:10 PM PST

Continued from Part 1 Why not join the NBCU-News Corp. JV?: CBS is in discussions to have content distributed through the JV as a non-exclusive partner but shied away from…

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CBS To Announce Deals With AOL, MSN, Joost; In Talks With NBC U-News Corp: Report - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 12 Apr 2007 05:42 AM PST

CBS could announce as early as today deals to distribute its TV shows and other video programming via MSN, AOL and Joost, WSJ reports. CBS would be the first major…

For 2007, Portals Are Back, Pageviews Are Dead: Report - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 13 Mar 2007 07:34 AM PST

In 2006, portals experienced a rebirth, with ad spending for that segment leaping to 24 percent from 13 percent, according to figures contained in Avenue A/Razorfish’s 2007 Digital Outlook Report.…

Publicis Hopes New Web Portals Will Enhance Interactive Image - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 22 Jan 2007 06:47 AM PST

Publicis Groupe, the Paris-based ad agency holding company, plans to launch its own web portals and develop its agencies’ online content capabilities, the FT reports. As it prepares to complete…

Boxxet Launch Offers Users To Create Their Own ‘Best-Of-The-Web’ Hub - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 16 Jan 2007 10:32 AM PST

A busy day for start-up Boxxet with the launch of the latest entry in the online info organizer/community/automated portal space and the announcement of a $900,000 first round from Ascend…

Internet Portals Fighting For Relevance - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 04 Jan 2007 08:30 AM PST

Internet portals are fighting to avoid going the way of ISP portals, with some people arguing that more and more people are customizing their homepage and using search to get…

Possible Me-Too Video JV May Have Lost Viacom; Then Again, It’s All Conjecture For Now - 3 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 19 Dec 2006 10:28 PM PST

The most definitive aspect we can report about the possibility of a major rival to YouTube-Google is this: nothing is definite. Not the participants, not the shape and especially not…

Chinese Portal Shanda Divesting $99.1 Million Stake in Sina - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 06 Nov 2006 10:20 PM PST

Chinese online gaming and interactive entertainment firm Shanda is divesting about $99.1 million worth of stake in the other Chinese online portal firm Sina....it is selling about 3.7 million shares…

Consumer Groups Ask FTC To Investigate Online Ad Practices - 1 Comment
Posted By Jonathan Berr - Thu 02 Nov 2006 09:01 AM PST

Two consumer groups are asking the FTC to investigate the online advertising practices of Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and others, claiming they violate user privacy. In a 50-page complaint, the Center…

Yahoo Bid For AOL Rumors Start To Swirl - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 30 Oct 2006 08:13 AM PST

Not sure what to make of this report from Fortune that Yahoo has approached Time Warner to once again explore the notion of acquiring AOL. It’s framed as picking up…

TW’s Parsons: Financial Discipline Rules; No Obvious ROI For YouTube - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Mon 23 Oct 2006 07:02 AM PST

Jane Martinson chats with Time Warner chairman and CEO Dick Parson ... among the bits of interest: TW did look at acquiring YouTube, MySpace or About.com but balked at the…

OPA Says Its Research Show Visitors To Branded Site More Active Than Portals - 0 Comments
Posted By Jonathan Berr - Sun 22 Oct 2006 06:37 PM PST

The Online Publishers Association has released a white paper arguing that people who visit branded sites with original content are more active consumers that users of Yahoo and other large…

Demand For Ad Inventory Outstrips Supply At Major Portals - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 16 Nov 2005 05:12 AM PST

Nothing new about this in one sense ... ad inventory has been at a premium for months and is among the top drivers of the push for more video with…

Google, AOL Expand Video Options - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 26 Oct 2005 06:12 AM PST

Yahoo has the Hollywood connections but Google Video gets a boost of publicity and content today from a deal with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation to showcase…

Portals Take On Look And Feel Of Networks In Pusuit Of Ad Dollars - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 15 Jun 2005 07:07 PM PST

AOL, MSN, Google, Yahoo “are beginning to act, look and feel like networks in everything they do.” As USA Today’s Jefferson Graham writes, they want be programmers (and not the…

Analyst: Internet Group Tops In April - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 02 May 2005 02:06 PM PST

Merrill Lynch analyst Lauren Rich Fine surveys the April media stock landscape and finds the internet group leading the pack. Newspapers were down 4.1 percent for the month and 9.2…

Tom Online Set To Acquire, Well, Someone - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 28 Jul 2004 07:08 PM PST

Tom Online, a latecomer in the crowded but potentially explosive Chinese Internet market, says it plans to announce an acquisition in the coming weeks...it has been looking to buy companies…

Danger Under Sina’s Stock - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 07 Apr 2004 10:05 AM PST

Look under the hood of some of the Chinese portals, and things may not be as pretty....an analysis of Sina.com’s 10-K annual report…

China’s Web Portals Open a Door to Risk - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 07 Mar 2004 10:04 AM PST

Shares of three Chinese Internet portals have soared recently, but some financial analysts warn that Chinese stocks are likely to fall sharply. “There is a certain exuberance” about the Chinese…

Chinese Internet Portal Tom Online files $160 million IPO - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 13 Feb 2004 02:02 PM PST

Chinese Internet portal company Tom Online has registered for an initial IPO offering of up to $160 million, according to a filing Friday with the SEC. Tom Online plans to…

About.com to Be Redesigned & Re-Categorized as Enthusiast - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 05 Feb 2004 03:02 AM PST

Do what you have to to lift it out of irrelevancy…

Sohu Posts Strong Profits, Sees Healthy Q1 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 03 Feb 2004 02:02 AM PST

Chinese Internet media firm Sohu.com posted a sixfold jump in quarterly profit on sales of online advertising and mobile text message services, but revenues were at the low end of…

Portals Have Designs on Desktop Search - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 12 Jan 2004 03:02 AM PST

Net titans Microsoft, Yahoo and EarthLink are all considering broadening their lucrative search businesses by providing access to online searches through a “taskbar” displayed to the side or at the…