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Search Marketer Atrinsic Buys Assets of Kazaa Music Service
New York - Atrinsic, an Internet search marketer and
provider of direct-to-consumer subscription products, announced on Thursday
that it will acquire the assets of file-sharing service...
Playdom Acquires Argentine Game Developer Three Melons
Mountain View,
Calif. - Playdom, a developer of
social games for Facebook and MySpace, said on Wednesday that it has acquired
Argentina-based online game developer Three Melons.
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Meltwater Group Acquires Social Media Monitor BuzzGain
San Francisco
- Meltwater Group, a provider of media monitoring services, announced on Wednesday
that it has acquired BuzzGain, a social media monitoring firm.
While the
companies did...
Free Disney Videos, Now on Roku
Roku Inc. announced Wednesday that hundreds of videos from Disney.com have been added to the streaming platform’s Roku Channel Store, where they are available for free. This Disney channel features animated shorts, clips, a behind-the-scenes section, and a What’s New area that gives previews of what television shows and movies are coming soon.
Award-winning talent Kickstarting 'Robota' game [with videos]
Sixits Studios announced it is entering a partnership with Academy Award winner Doug Chiang and DC Studios, and that their first project will be a mobile game called "Robota: Vengeance."
Walmart announces disc-to-digital movie conversion service [with video]
Movie fans can now legally transfer their DVDs and Blu-ray discs into Vudu cloud-stored digital files, following today's announcement by Walmart and the five major studios. The initiative is set to launch April 16.
ChaCha Lands $7 Million for Mobile Answers Service
Indianapolis,
Ind. - ChaCha, a text
message-based search engine service, announced on Monday that it has raised $7
million in its fifth round of venture capital financing.
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DirecTV Delivers NFL to PS3 and Android
Sony has announced a deal with satellite TV provider DirecTV that lets fans get the premium NFL Sunday Ticket package using a PlayStation 3...
Virgin Mobile and Whooznxt Book Show Using SocMed
Whooznxt has expanded the opportunities it offers member bands, thanks to a partnership with Virgin Mobile USA. Big Bang Presented by Whooznxt is an original weekly series hosted on Virgin Mobile's Facebook lifestyle portal, Virgin Mobile Live, that showcases a chosen band with exclusive content. The bands will also be featured on Virgin Mobile Live 2.0, Virgin Mobile's streaming music station available on all Android devices.
PersonalWeb Melds with Brilliant Digital's Kinetech
Brilliant Digital Entertainment subsidiary Kinetech Inc. and Texas-based startup PersonalWeb Technologies confirmed the recent completion of an asset contribution that provided BDE with majority ownership of PersonalWeb. Kinetech contributed its Truenames patent portfolio to PersonalWeb as part of the transaction, but other business details were not available. The companies said the purpose of the agreement was to combine the technology, software development and intellectual property strengths of both companies.
