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Feb 1, 2012 3:00 AM
The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s another example of that in action: today UK-based video ad platform Videoplaza is announcing a new $12 million round of funding.
Posted In: Advertising, Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Regulatory, EC, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, CBS, Five, HTC, Hulu, Qualcomm, Countries, Europe, France, creandum, innovacom venture capital, northzone ventures, qualcomm ventures, videoplaza
Jan 25, 2012 6:23 AM
The once high-profile technology news website Silicon.com is set to disappear after almost 15 years, as parent company CBS (NYSE: CBS) rolls it into a new UK edition of its flagship IT site TechRepublic.
Posted In: Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive
Jan 23, 2012 6:18 AM
Polar Mobile—the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustrated (NYSE: TWX), Shanghai Daily, Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) and the WSJ—today announced two steps up in its growth: it has picked up an additional $6 million in funding and has launched…
Posted In: Apps, E-Commerce, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, B2B, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, CBS, CBS Interactive, Conde Nast, Future Publishing, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, RIM, BlackBerry, georgian partners, polar mobile
Dec 26, 2011 1:12 PM
FilmOn, the premium-content internet streaming site that met controversy earlier this year over lawsuits involving CBS (NYSE: CBS), CNET, and copyright, is expanding its line up, adding two new sports channels for NCAA Basketball and NCAA Football.
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Games, Sports, Legal, Copyright, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Companies, CBS, CNET, Disney, ESPN, Google, Android, Countries, Europe, UK, Russia, alki david, filmon
Nov 30, 2011 12:31 PM
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration to a wider world of social networks and devices, arguing that sharing is the only thing that can save the music industry and stop piracy.
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Music, Legal, Piracy, Media & Publishing, Radio, Companies, Best Buy, Napster, CBS, CBS Interactive, Last.fm, Facebook, Spotify, Countries, Europe, Sweden, daniel ek
Nov 3, 2011 5:19 PM
According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expected to rise to 1.6 billion by 2014. Today, announcements from streamed entertainment provider Aspiro and the music download service 7digital point—respectively announcing a new white-label distribution deal and…
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Music, Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Companies, Apple, CBS, CBS Interactive, Last.fm, Google, Android, RIM, BlackBerry, Samsung, Spotify, Virgin, Virgin Media, Countries, Europe, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, UK, 7digital, aspiro
Oct 23, 2011 7:41 PM
Biographer Walter Issacson and his subject Steve Jobs got the 60 Minutes treatment Sunday night on the eve of the authorized bio’s official publication by CBS sibling Simon & Schuster (NYSE: CBS). Yes, we’ve been hearing tidbits for days but the two-part Steve Kroft interview with Issacson is worth a…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, CBS, 60 minutes, steve jobs, walter issacson
Oct 6, 2011 5:18 AM
We’ve gathered together a selection of some of the stories and tributes been written for Steve Jobs in the last several weeks—with a particular emphasis on the those made since news of his passing broke on October 5. “Our time’s Da Vinci,” in the words of Spotify’s Daniel Ek. Read…
Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Companies, Apple, CBS, CBS Interactive, Hulu, Sony, Spotify, steve jobs
Sep 1, 2011 7:36 AM
Big news for mobile TV pioneer MobiTV: the company has filed for an IPO worth up to $75 million, as it looks for funds to expand internationally, develop its products and potentially size up acquisitions.
Posted In: Entertainment, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Money, IPO, Companies, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, CBS, Disney, ABC, ESPN, Hulu, NBC Universal, NBC, Netflix, News Corp., Fox, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, charlie nooney, mobitv
Sep 1, 2011 12:25 AM
Hulu’s first offering outside the U.S. is live: Hulu Japan, a subscription service with “hundreds” of films and thousands of hours of TV. For ¥1,480 a month or roughly $18.50, Japanese subscribers can watch across an array of devices just like U.S. subscribers of Hulu Plus with one exception—Hulu Japan…
Posted In: Social Media, Video, Companies, CBS, Disney, ABC, Hulu, NBC Universal, NBC, News Corp., Fox, Time Warner, Warner Bros., Countries, Asia, Japan
Aug 15, 2011 11:27 AM
The challenges and opportunities of online video startup FilmOn continue apace. The internet-based premium video provider FilmOn, fresh from dropping a lawsuit against CNET, has now been re-listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange, trading under the ticker FMX. It delisted from the exchange back in 2009.
Posted In: Legal, Money, IPO, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, CBS, CNET, Countries, Europe, UK, filmon
Jul 27, 2011 9:35 AM
CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) are expanding their relationship with a new deal that goes both north and south of the U.S. border—and illustrates how idiosyncratic some of these licensing moves can be thanks to existing deals, rights limitations and strategy. The two-year agreement is nearly all about…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Cable & Telecom, Companies, CBS, Netflix, Countries, Latin America, Canada
Jul 8, 2011 8:08 PM
Update: So now the mystery has been solved. Some time late today, the ownerships of the domain names thesunonsunday.co.uk and sunonsunday.co.uk flipped to News International, having originally be registered to unnamed parties. The domain thesunonsunday.com and sunonsunday.com are still registered to unnamed parties. In a meeting with News of the…
Posted In: Companies, BBC, CBS, Microsoft, Bing, News Corp., BSkyB, News International, Countries, Europe, UK, notw
Jun 9, 2011 8:00 AM
Years after CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) acquired Last.fm, the personalized streaming music service will be added to Radio.com, the broadcaster’s online player. Radio.com, which already hosts AOL’s and Yahoo’s streaming music as part of its 130 stations and was relaunched a year ago, hopes that Last.fm will complement its existing…
Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Radio, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive, Last.fm
May 4, 2011 6:35 PM
FilmOn quickly got in trouble once it started broadcasting the programming of U.S. TV networks over the internet. As he began losing his court case, FilmOn founder Alki David created a bizarre video rant accusing CBS (NYSE: CBS) of “manipulating the minds of the youth” and distributing illegal software through…
Posted In: Legal, Copyright, Companies, CBS, CNET, alki david, filmon, limewire
May 1, 2011 6:33 PM
The numbers are coming in on just how many people tuned in to watch the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton. While some are highly skeptical that the event pulled in the 2 billion viewers that the UK government predicted, the event—especially if you count not just the live,…
Posted In: Entertainment, Features, Tweets, Legal, Regulatory, EC, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, BBC, CBS, Disney, ABC, Facebook, Google, Android, YouTube, Microsoft, MSNBC, NBC Universal, NBC, Telegraph, Twitter, Yahoo, Countries, Europe, UK, akamai, kate middleton, prince william, royal wedding
Mar 9, 2011 6:24 AM
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile. Today, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) preloads 7digital on the PlayBook; Nokia’s still happy with Symbian; Foursquare gets an update; and a new iPad “social magazine” launches to compete with Flipboard: Zite.
Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Social Media, Events, SXSW, Companies, Apple, iPad, CBS, CBS Interactive, Last.fm, Google, Android, Microsoft, Nokia, RIM, BlackBerry, Twitter, 7digital, foursquare, playbook, symbian, zite
Feb 7, 2011 8:40 AM
In another sign the economics for purely-free music streamers don’t add up, Last.fm says it will now require a monthly subscription for access to its music via mobile and home entertainment devices.
Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive, Last.fm
Jan 14, 2011 8:00 AM
Alki David—the eccentric billionaire founder of FilmOn.com and now enemy of the major television networks—has cranked out yet another wacky home video. In the jumpy, oddly edited movie, David says he’s gathering names because he intends to file a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit against CBS (NYSE: CBS) on behalf of…
Posted In: Legal, Copyright, Companies, CBS, filmon, limewire
Nov 22, 2010 11:27 AM
After more than a year sucking Last.fm’s energies over to America, is CBS (NYSE: CBS) finally letting the music site have a bit of London fun again? CBS Interactive Music Group is appointing Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music exec Matthew Hawn as Last.fm’s vice president of product, based at its office…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive, Last.fm
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