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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
So it isn't just in U.S., but some frentic blog media activity in UK as well: --- Datamonitor founder Mike Danson, who bought half of left-leaning current affairs mag New Statesman in April, has invested a five-figure sum to buy a majority of unofficial Labour party blog LabourHome . More details here -- MessyMedia, an attempt by former Yahoo European news director to set up a Gawker-style UK blog...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Julia Boorstin submits: News Corp's (NWS) President and COO Peter Chernin took the hot seat, talking about competition and the 'MySpace effect." Fortune's media correspondent Richard Siklos interviewed Chernin in front of attendees of the Fortune Brainstorm: Tech Conference. In an event crammed with Chernin's competition -- other media and tech execs -- Chernin says the competitive set is "much less...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Users seeking celebrity news and content want something more, something deeper that they can socialize around, Tyler Goldman , CEO of Buzznet, said on a panel on blogs and social media moderated by our founder and editor, Rafat Ali . Goldman, Mike Dodge , SVP/GM, AtomicOnline; Mattias Miksche , co-founder & CEO, Stardoll; and R.J. Williams , founder, producer & CEO, YoungHollywood talked about how...
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The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | yesterday
As of yesterday’s close, WMG shares are up 34 percent year-to-date while the stock of every other company in its peer group is down. CBS shares are down 37 percent, for instance. Time Warner stock is off 12 percent, while Disney is down almost 6 percent through yesterday’s close and Google’s shares are off 31 percent this year. News Corp., which owns The Post, is off 32 percent. WMG stock, which closed...
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Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Guardian Former WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive publisher Caroline Little has joined Guardian News & Media in the role of special adviser for its expansion in the United States. She'll also join the board of ContentNext, the US-based digital business news publisher that owns PaidContent.org, which was acquired by GNM earlier this month.
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Entrepreneur Media , the Irvine, CA-based parent of Entrepreneur magazine, has been hitting last minute snags in its deal to be sold to Austin Ventures, NYP's Keith Kelly is reporting . Earlier last month, we reported that it was being bought by AV (the majority) and another private equity firm for close to $200 million. That other PE firm is Boston-based Castanea Partners. Now NYP says the two PE...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday
In conjunction with our EconCeleb conference later today, we present the Econoclast10 , a top 10 list of the most influential and innovative online celebrities. Whether they're blogging, investing, entertaining or, well, updating their MySpace profiles, these celebs are finding new ways to reach and interact with their fans. Check out the fancier, illustrated version here . Our Econoclast10 is below....
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
MOLI's Home Page, Original Content, and Video Comedy Series Win Stevie,
Hermes Creative, and Videographer Awards
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- MOLI, a next-generation
social media/social commerce community where members have greater control
over their privacy, announced today that it has received five awards: a
Stevie for its home page, two Hermes Creativity awards for original
content,...
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Tools of Change for Publishing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Media orgs that focus on content containers rather than content consumers will be stymied by "reverse publishing" and other bad habits.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
BEIJING, July 23 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- VisionChina Media Inc. (Nasdaq:
VISN), one of China's largest mass transportation mobile television
advertising networks, today announced that it has signed an exclusive
contract with Shanghai Shentong Metro Asset Operation and Management
Corporation, the asset management arm of Shanghai Metro, to act as the
exclusive advertising agent for two of Shanghai's 11...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Could the impending advertising recession actually spread to online ? Though many in web ads and publishing confidently predict a continuing "big flood of money coming out of traditional media" (that's FT.com's MD, speaking to me last month ), French online advertising and publishing group Hi-Media says there is, in fact, an "online advertising market slowdown". It noted a slowdown in its own ad sales,...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday
-- Glam Media : Glam picks up another big-name company exec—Michael Adair, most recently head of sales finance for Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) North America, joins as VP of corporate development and finance. In the position, a new one for Glam, Adair will be responsible for the evaluation and execution of the company's strategic investments, corporate development and corporate finance; Glam is playing it...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gigaomni Media, the blog media network founded by Om Malik, has done its first acq-hire: it has bought a mobile technolgy blog called jkOnTheRun , a blog about mobile gadgets, including mobile phones and cloud client computers. The two writers/founder will come on, and this will be the sixth blog in the GigaOM Network.
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Velocity Interactive hires Jorge Espinel, most recently leader of AOL's corporate strategy, mergers, and acquisitions work.
