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Jun 6, 2008 5:05 AM
Why did Movable Type maker Six Apart sell blog community LiveJournal in December, just three years after buying it? At the World Association of Newspapers congress in Gothenburg, the company’s EMEA VP Olivier Creiche told me: “We already had three product lines of our own ... it’s just not sustainable…
Posted In: Social Media, Weblogs, Companies, Sup, Countries, Europe, Russia, olivier creiche, six apart, sweden, world association of newspapers
May 5, 2008 2:46 PM
Blog platform LiveJournal‘s new Russian owners are endeavouring to make the site more open by appointing some of their users to their advisory board. LiveJournal admits it stepped in it in March when it deleted some basic accounts, provoking a user backlash. It announced that no account created after March…
Posted In: Social Media, Companies, Sup, Countries, Europe, Russia, livejournal
Apr 18, 2008 3:29 AM
Veteran blog host LiveJournal has joined the wave of social media sites trying to win larger audiences by opening a formal developer effort. Launched last night, LJ Labs will usher in APIs and support for Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) OpenSocial application platform and, I’m told, includes some of the first products…
Posted In: Social Media, Weblogs, Companies, Sup, Countries, Europe, Russia, livejournal
Apr 15, 2008 5:06 AM
The king is gone, long live… whom exactly? BBC future media and technology director Ashley Highfield’s move to Project Kangaroo opens up perhaps the most powerful position in UK digital media, controlling a £400 million budget and attracting 18.1 million monthly visitors to the UK’s number-five website. So who are…
Apr 1, 2008 2:54 AM
ITV (LSE: ITV) broadband MD Annelies Van Den Belt is leaving the broadcaster after 14 months to head Russian online media company Sup, which bought blog platform LiveJournal in December. Via Guardian: “I’m leaving on a high but this is a match made in heaven in terms of my experience.…
Posted In: Social Media, Companies, ITV, Sup, Countries, Europe, Russia
Dec 2, 2007 10:11 PM
From our sister site paidContent.org: LiveJournal, the pioneering online journal-writing/blogging service which was bought by MovableType parent company SixApart almost three years ago, is now being sold off to Russian online media company SUP. The terms were not disclosed. SUP, which already been running LiveJournal in Russia as part of…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Weblogs, Companies, Sup, Countries, Europe, Russia
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