Sunday, November 22, 2009
Meet the New AOL Logo: “Aol.” (Plus the Press Release)
The new AOL will differ than the old one in several ways: New boss, smaller headcount, different owners. So, of course, it also gets a new–but awfully familiar–logo.
Here’s a First: Man Arrested for Not Using Twitter
Police charge a record company executive who didn’t use the messaging service to break up a near-riot of teenage girls at a Long Island mall.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Vevo, Big Music’s Hulu, Launches Dec. 8
Vevo, the music industry’s attempt to create a Hulu-like site for its music videos, will formally launch Dec. 8. The site, which is co-owned by Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, Sony’s music label and Abu Dhabi Media, will host a New York kick-off event that day.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
NBC Grabs a High-Profile Blogger to Boost Its Local Site: Eater Co-Founder Ben Leventhal
News for the foodie/NY blog scene: Ben Leventhal, co-founder of the influential Eater blog, is headed to GE’s NBC Universal, where he’ll oversee “lifestyle content” for NBC’s growing local Web unit.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Dear FTC: Is This the Kind of Thing You Want Me to Disclose?
A marketer offers to pay me per post. I don’t know whether to be flattered or offended.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Exclusive: MySpace Gets a New Sales Boss–MTV Vet Nada Stirratt (Plus, an Internal Memo, Of Course!)
Employees at News Corp.’s MySpace have been waiting to find out who their new ad sales boss will be. And, here she is: Nada Stirratt, who until today was running digital sales for Viacom’s MTV Networks.
Stirratt has her work cut out for her. The struggling social networking site, HQed in Beverly Hills, has been trying to reboot its image, spur innovation in its product and, most of all, pull itself out of a too-long slump, even as longtime rival, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook, has seen explosive growth.
The AP Tries a “Truthiness” Approach: “We’re Not Talking to Google” Means “We’re Talking to Google”
Associated Press CEO Tom Curley told a group of journalists this week that his company isn’t talking to Google about renewing its licensing deal. But they have been talking for months and talked again this week.
The Secret of Chad Hurley and Steve Chen’s Famous “Two Kings” Video. Revealed!
Three years after the Google deal, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley explains some of the cryptic language in the clip that defined the Web 2.0 era. Also, he’d like you to know his site is generating more than a billion views a day.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Twitter Down, Again, Just Like the Old Days
Twitter’s status site said this yesterday: “We’re currently diagnosing the causes of an unplanned site outage that happened a few minutes ago. We are recovering from this issue now and apologize for the interruption in service.”
Look Who’s Selling Warner Music’s Videos on YouTube: Veoh’s Sales Team
Last month, Warner Music Group won the right to sell ads on its YouTube videos. Next step: Getting someone to sell ads on its YouTube videos, since the music label doesn’t have its own sales team. The plan: Hand those duties over to someone who’s already doing it for Veoh and other video outfits.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
The New Yorker Takes on Hollywood Power Blogger Nikki Finke
Yet more–a lot of ink–on Nikki Finke, Hollywood’s best-read and most feared blogger.
What does Finke think? “Amusing.” Meanwhile, what about Finke’s plans to hire a New York correspondent?
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tablet Schmablet: How About a Mud PC?
The new Wondertablet the guys at Gizmodo showed off last night looks cool. But you can’t actually touch one right now unless you know someone very connected at Microsoft. But you know what you can touch? Today? A PC you control by shoving your hands in a box full of mud. All you have to do is get yourself to Gizmodo’s awesome gadget gallery in New York during the next few days.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Yahoo’s Bartz: Microsoft Deal Was “Very Clever”
More from the post-Q&A Q&A: Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz says major investors like Gordon Crawford support her, and that she’s in the market for medium-sized M&A. Here’s what she had to say.
Monday, September 21, 2009
AOL: More Org Chart Shuffles Coming; So Are Ad Dollars. But Mum on Microsoft.
CEO Tim Armstrong says he’s still overhauling the Internet company in advance of its spinoff from Time Warner, but he has hopeful noises to make about ad sales. He has nothing, however, to say about chats with Microsoft.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Gentlemen, Start Your Engines: Time for Another Round of Cable Deals?
Did a federal court just give underemployed M&A guys a boost? Could be: The United States Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., has overturned a longstanding cap on cable-system ownership.
If the decision holds up, it could well start another round of dealmaking similar to the one we saw at the beginning of this decade in which the industry consolidated to about half a dozen major players.
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