AOL Inc.’s Pictela Enterprise, a technology platform for the design, delivery and management of premium format online ad units, has gone live in public beta.

Digital Broadcasting Group (DBG) and Mindshare Entertainment have collaborated on a program that will be streamed Sunday afternoon before the 84th Academy Awards.

Banyan Productions has released "On the Map," a new show designed for social viewing that changes according to viewer interaction. It was created for viewing on Facebook using 7Echo’s platform.

Aegis Group, a London-based media and digital communications group, announced on Wednesday it has signed agreement to acquire Roundarch, a digital agency with offices in Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York, for an initial consideration of $125 million.

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) has co-led a new $6 million round of funding for Compass Labs, the Silicon Valley-based developer of a social media advertising platform.

Universal Pictures, Illumination Entertainment and the Nature Conservancy have banded together on an environmental action campaign that’s just one part of the digital marketing efforts for "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax," the 3D animated movie which opens March 2.

Bill Maher’s comedy special on Yahoo will be held Feb. 23, live and for free. Appropriately, his show that evening is at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, which is about 12 miles from Yahoo’s Sunnyvale headquarters.

Opera Software announced today that it has acquired demand-side mobile advertising platforms Mobile Theory Inc. and 4th Screen Advertising Ltd. Further details of the transactions were not disclosed.

Fox Digital Entertainment will debut "Wolfpack of Reseda," a new original unscripted series, on Thursday via a customized environment on Myspace.