MySpace Introduces New Events, Ticketing Platform

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Mark Hefflinger
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Los Angeles
– News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace online social network has launched a new Events and
ticketing platform.

A new Events tab on the MySpace home page will include
features like a Calendar that integrates a user’s own events, friends’ events,
evens like tour dates from artists they follow, Facebook events, and sponsored
events from advertisers.

The music-related elements of Events will borrow from
its iLike subsidiary, allowing users to see which other users plan to attend
particular concerts.

Unlike previously, artists will be now able to sell concert
tickets directly from their profile pages.

MySpace director of events and
ticketing Marcus Womack told Billboard the Events platform was designed with
event promotion and ticketing equally in mind.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/vibgn
(Billboard)

PubMatic Gets $7.5 Million for Publisher Ad Services

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Mark Hefflinger
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Palo Alto,
Calif. – PubMatic, a provider of online
advertising tools for publishers, announced on Thursday that it has closed a
$7.5 million third round of financing, led by Helion Venture Partners.

Previous
backers Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Nexus Venture Partners also participated.

Palo Alto, Calif.-based PubMatic operates a sell-side ad
platform for premium publishers, used by customers including IAC, The
Huffington Post, eBay and TV Guide.

The company, which has now raised a total
of $18 million since its launch three years ago, will use the new funds to accelerate
the adoption of its recently announced set of new offerings.

 

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

http://www.pubmatic.com

Microsoft Adds Twitter Feed to Main Bing Page

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Mark Hefflinger
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Redmond,
Wash. – Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) on Wednesday
incorporated real-time Twitter data into its main Bing search engine results.
The company had since last fall been providing tweets on a separate, beta page
on Bing, but now real-time results from Twitter will appear on the main Bing
page.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/vhlwr
(Bing blog)

Nokia: Ovi Store Serving 1.6 Million Downloads Per Day

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Mark Hefflinger
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Espoo, Finland – Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) Ovi Store is now
serving up over 1.6 million downloads per day, across mobile applications,
content and ringtones, Mobile Entertainment reports. The average user makes 8.5
downloads per month. The most active countries downloading content from the Ovi
Store include China, Germany, India,
Indonesia, Italy, Russia,
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the U.K.
and Vietnam.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/vhm6x

https://store.ovi.com

Redbox Expands DVD Kiosk Deal With Kum & Go

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Mark Hefflinger
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Oakbrook Terrace,
Ill. – Redbox, a unit of Coinstar (NASD: CSTR)
that operates a network of DVD rental kiosks, announced on Wednesday a deal to
expand distribution into nearly 300 kiosks at Kum & Go convenience stores
nationwide this year.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/vhm2g

http://www.redbox.com

Library of Congress to Archive Entire History of Twitter "Tweets"

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Mark Hefflinger
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Washington
– Acknowledging the growing importance of social media, the Library of Congress
said on Wednesday that it plans to digitally archive every public
"tweet" since the launch of microblogging service Twitter in 2006.

Fittingly, the library announced the news in a Twitter post to its 50,000
followers on the service. Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets a day.

"It boggles my mind to think what we might be able to learn about
ourselves and the world around us from this wealth of data," wrote Matt
Raymond, the library’s director of communications, in a blog post.

"And
I’m certain we’ll learn things that none of us now can even possibly
conceive."

The Library of Congress said that it has been collecting
materials from the web since it began harvesting congressional and presidential
campaign web sites in 2000, and currently holds more than 167 terabytes of Web-based
information.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/vhkgj
(Library of Congress blog)

http://blog.twitter.com/2010/04/tweet-preservation.html

Report: Global 3D TV Market to Be Worth $17 Billion by 2014

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Mark Hefflinger
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London
– The worldwide 3D television business is projected to be worth more than $17
billion by 2014, according to a new report from market research firm Generator
Research.

An expected 3.1 million (1.4%) of the total 225 million TV sets
shipped worldwide this year will support 3D; the market share for 3D sets is
expected to reach over 39% by 2014.

The firm noted that the underlying marginal
cost of implementing 3D is a lot less than it was for HD, and that 3D cinema is
creating a ‘halo’ effect helping drive adoption of 3D television.

The Hollywood studios increased their production of 3D movies
in 2009 by 150%, to a total of 20 films, and over 50 are planned for release in
2010.

 

Related Links:
http://www.generatorresearch.com/productinfo.php?pid=302

MyLikes Raises $630K from Ex-Googlers for Ad Platform

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Mark Hefflinger
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San Francisco
– MyLikes, the San Francisco-based developer of a word-of-mouth advertising
platform, said that it has secured $630,000 in seed funding from 11 ex-Google
employees who were former colleagues of MyLikes founders Bindu Reddy and Arvind
Sundararajan.

Reddy was the former head of product management for Google Apps
and Sundararajan was the former tech lead for Google’s AdSense.

MyLikes
publicly launched in January, and currently boasts a community of more than
60,000 users, as well as more than 170 advertisers.

The company recruits
bloggers, Twitterers and other social media publishers to promote brands and
products they genuinely like, through endorsements written in their own words.
They then earn money with every click.

 

Related Links:
http://www.mylikes.com

Spring Design Begins Shipping $399 Alex eReader

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Mark Hefflinger
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Fremont,
Calif. – Spring Design on Wednesday
began shipping its Alex eReader, an Android-based e-book reader device that
costs $399.

The dual-screen device features Wi-Fi connectivity at launch, and
later this year will add support for 3G and EVDO/CDMA. One screen on the device
is the e-book EPD screen, while the other is an LCD that supports video
playback and Web surfing.

Spring Design said it would soon announce
multi-language versions of Alex for countries speaking Chinese, Spanish,
Russian, Korean and Hebrew.

The company partnered with Grammata to sell the
Alex eReader in Spain
online and in retail stores, starting in July.

Grammata is digitizing books
from Spanish publishers and expects to offer 15,000 to 45,000 Spanish-language
e-books for sale.

 

Related Links:
http://www.grammata.es

http://www.springdesign.com

Twitter Counts 105.7 Million Users; Adding 300K Per Day

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Mark Hefflinger
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San Francisco – Twitter now counts
105,779,710 registered users, and is adding 300,000 new users per day,
TechCrunch reported, citing remarks made by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone at the
company’s Chirp conference in San
Francisco.

Other interesting data shared by Stone
included site traffic — Twitter.com receives 180 million unique visitors per
month, and 75% of this Web traffic comes from outside of Twitter.com.

CEO Evan
Williams also noted that third-party applications are make 3 billion requests a
day through Twitter’s APIs.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/vhids
(TechCrunch)

http://chirp.twitter.com/live.html

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