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Interview: Jeff Bradley, SVP, AT&T: Enterprise Not An iPhone-BlackBerry War - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 01 Jul 2008 04:38 PM PST

Most of the iPhone hype is concentrated around the consumer opportunity—how many ravenous fans will line up on July 11 to purchase the new iPhone 3G—but a potentially larger opportunity…

Interview: People.com’s Golin, Hauser: Being More Aggressive By Being Soft; Games Channel Introduced - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 02 Jul 2008 03:14 PM PST

Celebrity-oriented news sites have grown substantially over the past year—*comScore* says the category’s traffic has grown 31 percent from May 2007 to May 2008. So while the space has been…

More Additions to MocoNews: Matt Joining To Increase our Entertainment Coverage - 4 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 30 Jun 2008 10:39 PM PST

We are very pleased to introduce you to our newest hire, Matt Kapko, who joins us today as our Senior Entertainment Reporter for MocoNews, based here in Los Angeles (actually,…

Comcast and Others Invest In WiMax Startup Cartiza - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 05 Jul 2008 11:00 AM PST

Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Interactive Capital, the venture arm of Comcast, has invested an undisclosed amount in a seed round of Cartiza Networks, a Boston-based stealth WiMax startup...the seed round was…

Merrill In Talks To Dispose Off Bloomberg Stake - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 05 Jul 2008 10:48 AM PST

As has been rumored fro a few weeks now, Merrill Lynch is in negotiations to sell its 20 percent stake in Bloomberg, as the cash-strapped investment firm is loking for…

EMI and Infospace Reach Settlement on Ringtone Royalties Lawsuit - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 04 Jul 2008 11:54 AM PST

EMI, in the midst of its own management reorg, has settled its ringtone royalties lawsuit with Infospace, though the terms were not disclosed. It did disclose the settlement in an…

Ask.com Completes Lexico Acquisition, Bags Dictionary.com Et Al - 3 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 Jul 2008 07:56 AM PST

Losing its independence on Independence Day, Lexico is now part of the Ask.com family, as IAC’s (NSDQ: IACI) portal completes its purported $100 million cash acquisition of the Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com…

Industry Moves: Arts Alliance’s Valkin Is Endemol’s New Digital Head - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 Jul 2008 02:31 AM PST

Adam Valkin, a partner in Arts Alliance and an online media veteran, is leaving the VC house after nine years to join Endemol as its global head of digital media…

Gannett Buying Out Rest Of ShopLocal From Tribune and McClatchy - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Jul 2008 05:32 PM PST

Gannett (NYSE: GCI), which has a big budget to do digital M&As, is buying out the rest of local sales info site ShopLocal, from the other partners Tribune and McClatchy…

Industry Moves: Verisign CEO Roper Resigns; Bidzos Is Interim Head - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Jul 2008 05:27 PM PST

Verisign, which has pared down the company over the last year, has seen another CEO change: William Roper, who had been president and CEO for a bit more than a…

Industry Moves: Verisign CEO Roper Resigns; Bidzos Is Interim Head - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Jul 2008 05:09 PM PST

Verisign, which has pared down the company over the last year, has seen another CEO change: William Roper, who had been president and CEO for a bit more than a…

The Death of Newspaper…Analysts - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Jul 2008 11:11 AM PST

An interesting story by Robert MacMillan on the slow death of, well, newspaper industry stock analysts, amidst the doom and gloom scenario of the industry they are covering. And why…

Weather Channel Sale Could Be Announced Soon - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Jul 2008 10:50 AM PST

The Weather Channel sale announcement could come in the next couple of days, as the consortium of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), Blackstone Group LP and Bain Capital close the deal…

Gaming Site GameDuell Scores $17.45 Million For Expansion - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 Jul 2008 06:59 AM PST

Berlin- and San Francisco-based online casual gaming platform GameDuell has received an €11 million ($17.45 million) second-round investment from Wellington Partners with the cash due to be used for international…

NTT DoCoMo To Invest In Overseas Content Providers And Carriers; “Not Giving Up” On iPhone - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 03 Jul 2008 05:56 AM PST

NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM), Japan’s dominant carrier will look overseas into investing in content companies and carriers as the country’s maturing market proves increasingly difficult to wring revenues from. It…

Nokia Strikes Ovi Deal With Telenor - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 03 Jul 2008 03:43 AM PST

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced today it has signed on Norwegian carrier Telenor to its internet services platform Ovi. In the deal, Telenor will give its customers in Norway, Sweden, Denmark…

MySpace Mobile Goes To Russia With MTS Partnership - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 Jul 2008 03:29 AM PST

Russia’s largest mobile telco, MTS, has inked a deal to be the exclusive carrier of MySpace in the country and some of its former republics. The localized MySpace Russia will…

T-Mobile Hikes Text Price To 20 Cents Each - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 03 Jul 2008 03:15 AM PST

T-Mobile USA has raised the price of sending text messages from $0.15 to $0.20, the last of the country’s four big carriers to do so. The 33 percent price hike…

Japanese Mobile Content Providers Agree To Abide By Safety Regulations; Rating Scheme - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 03 Jul 2008 02:46 AM PST

Japanese mobile content providers have banded together to create a set of safety guidelines to protect minors, following the June killing spree that left seven dead by a young man…

Viacom-YouTube Case: Google Doesn’t Have To Reveal Innermost Secrets - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 Jul 2008 01:50 AM PST

Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) $1 billion YouTube copyright suit may have gone quiet in recent months, but it picked up again on Tuesday when Google (NSDQ: GOOG) was handed two partial…

Hearst Business Media And IDG Buy Chinese Tech Site EE365 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 02 Jul 2008 04:29 PM PST

Hearst Business Media, the B2B media arm of Hearst, has jointly bought out a Chinese electronics infomation site EE365.cn, along with its local publishing partner Publishing House of Electronic Industry…

LA Times Cuts 250 Jobs; 150 Cuts in Editorial Include Online - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 02 Jul 2008 03:14 PM PST

The most troubled big newspaper in U.S. is cutting off 250 jobs, including an unprecedented 150 positions in editorial, to bring its expenses down in line with declining revenues.The Los…

Industry Moves: Skype; AOL; NBCU - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 02 Jul 2008 09:50 AM PST

-- Skype: Skype has tapped former Motorola exec Scott Durchslag as its COO, a new post reporting to recently appointed president Josh Silverman. Durchslag brings 20 years of experience from…

Broadband Content Bits: Whedon’s Web Series; HDNet’s Concert Series; PopTok Launch; Bayreuth Opera - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 02 Jul 2008 09:10 AM PST

-- Joss Whedon to launch vanishing web series: The Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Angel mastermind is set to release his writers’ strike-inspired web series, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, but…

Atrinsic Acquires Assets of Ringtone.com For $6.25 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 02 Jul 2008 08:31 AM PST

Atrinsic, the mobile and online applications and content company known as New Motion (OTCBB: NWMO), has bought out the assets of Ringtone.com, a mobile content download site...more importantly, the company…