NBC Universal Sued for $1 Million Over Women.com Domain Sale

By
Mark Hefflinger
-
0

New York
– NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) has been sued by an online marketing and publishing firm that
says the company reneged on a $1 million deal to sell it the domain names
Women.com and Women.net, TechCrunch reported.

Manhattan Beach, Calif.-based DONE
Ventures alleges breach of contract, stating in its suit that NBC Universal
head Jeff Zucker personally terminated the deal three days after terms were
agreed upon.

DONE is asking a court to compel NBC Universal to turn over the
domain names.

NBC Universal had no comment on the matter for TechCrunch.

 

Related Links:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/04/nbc-done-lawsuit/

Reports: At Least Four Suitors Interested in Newsweek

By
Mark Hefflinger
-
0

Washington
– Nearly a month after announcing that it would put Newsweek up for sale, The
Washington Post now appears to have at least four potential buyers for the
magazine. Reuters reported that both Newsmax Media and Thane Ritchie, the CEO
of Ritchie Capital Management, have submitted bids, while The New York Times
reported that OpenGate Capital and Sidney Harman, the founder of Harman
International Industries, have expressed their interest.

Thomson Reuters, which
had been rumored to be a potential suitor, said that it did not formally submit
a bid.

The deadline to submit preliminary bids for the magazine expired
Wednesday at 5 p.m.

The Post in early May retained Allen & Company to help
find potential buyers for the publication, which has seen mounting red ink over
the past three years.

Newsweek was launched in 1933, and purchased by The Post
in 1961.

 

Related Links:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idCAN0324027320100603?rpc=44

http://snipurl.com/x35cb
(N.Y. Times)

http://www.newsweek.com

Social Networking Now Fastest-Growing Mobile Sector

By
Mark Hefflinger
-
0

Reston, Va. – Social networking now ranks as the
fastest-growing mobile content category, according to a new report from Internet
audience measurement firm comScore.

In April, 14.5 million people accessed a
social networking app from their mobile devices, up 240% from the prior year.

That topped the growth of apps for news (124%), sports information (113%), bank
accounts (113%) and weather (111%).

"Social networking is by far the
fastest-growing mobile activity right now," said Mark Donovan, comScore’s
senior vice president of mobile.

"With 20% of mobile users now accessing
social networking sites via their phone, we expect to see both application and
browser usage continuing to drive future consumption of social media."

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/x355z

Mobile Marketing Firm Velti Acquires Media Cannon

By
Mark Hefflinger
-
1

San Francisco,
Calif. – Velti, a U.K.-based
developer of mobile marketing and advertising technology, said on Thursday that
it has acquired Media Cannon, a developer of mobile advertising tools and
technology.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Velti, which plans
to integrate San Francisco-based Media Cannon’s management team and staff into
its San Francisco office, said that the
acquisition gives it a complimentary technology platform, as well as several
key U.S.
customers.

"Together with our acquisition of Ad Infuse last year, this
deal illustrates the strength of our commitment to the U.S. market," said Velti CEO
Alex Moukas.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/x351n
(PDF)

http://www.velti.com

http://www.mediacannon.com

Report: China Blocks Foursquare Over Tiananmen Check-ins

By
Mark Hefflinger
-
0

San Francisco – China has blocked the Foursquare mobile location-based
service, purportedly due to users "checking in" to Tiananmen
Square to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the student protest massacre,
CNET News.com reports.

"There were a lot of people checking into Tiananmen Square and posting tips/protest messages to the
venue," Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai told CNET.

Last year,
sites including Flickr, Twitter, Blogger and WordPress faced crackdowns by the
Chinese government in connection with the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen
Square.

 

Related Links:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20006814-36.html

http://www.foursquare.com

Report: Comedy Overtakes News As Most Popular Web Video

By
Mark Hefflinger
-
3

Washington
– Comedy has replaced news as the most popular form of online video, according
to a new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Some 69% of
adult Internet users — or 52% of all U.S. adults — have used the
Internet to watch or download video.

Comedy videos rose in viewership from 31%
of the audience in 2007 to 50% today, leading all categories.

Educational video
viewership now stands at 38%, compared with movies and TV shows (32%) and
political videos (30%).

The report also notes and 14% of adult Internet users
now say they have uploaded a video to the Internet, up from 8% in 2007.

Some
31% of uploaders say they "always" place restrictions on who can view
their videos, while 50% say they "never" restrict access and the
other 19% fall in the middle.

 

Related Links:
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/State-of-Online-Video.aspx

http://snipurl.com/x33yj
(AFP)

SoGeo Gets $1.2 Million for Context-Aware Mobile Platform

By
Mark Hefflinger
-
0

Amsterdam
– SoGeo, the developer of a "context-aware" platform for mobile and
the Web, announced on Friday that it has raised about $1.2 million in funding,
from investor BlueBubbleLab.

Amsterdam-based SoGeo is developing a service that
will let mobile users explore places around them, providing access to
event-related content and suggestions based on contextual factors such as
location, time and past preferences.

The company said the funding will allow
for further product development and marketing of its service.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/x335a

http://www.sogeocompany.com

OpenBitTorrent Back Online After Booting From Swedish ISP

By
Mark Hefflinger
-
0

Los Angeles – OpenBitTorrent,
the largest tracker service for the BitTorrent file-sharing network, is back
online with a Spain-based hosting company, following a court ruling in Sweden forcing
its prior ISP, Portlane, to take the service offline, TorrentFreak reported. The
report notes that shortly after the site came back online, "some 20
million peers spread over 200,000 torrents were already connected to the
tracker."


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/x1tcw
(TorrentFreak)

Nokia Debuts Bike-Powered Mobile Phone Charger

By
Mark Hefflinger
-
0

Espoo, Finland – Nokia (NYSE: NOK) on Thursday
introduced a new bicycle-powered mobile phone charger, which will cost about
$18 when it hits the market by year’s end. "To begin charging, a cyclist
needs to travel around six kilometers per hour (four miles per hour), and while
charging times will vary depending on battery model, a 10-minute journey at 10
kilometers per hour (six miles per hour) produces around 28 minutes of talk
time or 37 hours of standby time. The faster you ride, the more battery life
you generate," the company said.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/x1umd

Fox Pursuing File-Sharing Sites Over Copy of Movie Script

By
Mark Hefflinger
-
0

Los Angeles
– News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) 20th Century Fox film studio has sent takedown notices to a
number of BitTorrent file-sharing site administrators, demanding they remove
links to download copies of the script for "Water For Elephants," which
recently began shooting, TorrentFreak reported. Fox and other studios routinely
demand that such sites remove copies of finished films being traded, but the
report notes that this appears to be one of the first instances of a studio
going after a copy of a script.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/x1u3s
(TorrentFreak)

1...1,2831,2841,285...1,456Page 1,284 of 1,456