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Is This @EricSchmidt’s Facebook Profile?
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Some people are suggesting that Google CEO Eric Schmidt may have just created a Facebook profile for himself, after signing up for Twitter in early December 2009 and right on the heels of Microsoft founder Bill Gates setting up an account on the wildly popular social networking service.Evidently, we can't be 100% sure that this is his real account at this point - unlike Twitter, there's no 'verif
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Next New Networks Sees 300 Million Views In 2009; Approaches Profitability
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Online television studio Next New Networks is reporting a few milestones today, releasing news that the network has seen over 300 million views across its networks in 2009. The company also claims it doubled revenue from 2008 to 2009 and saw a 70% increase in the number of sponsors.Next New Networks builds internet based “micro television networks” for targeted niche communities. Over the past fe
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Google Plans To Deliver 1Gb/sec Fiber-Optic Broadband Network To More Than 50,000 Homes
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Google is getting into the broadband business. The company plans to deploy its own "experimental" fiber-optic network to at least 50,000 homes, perhaps as many as 500,000. The company writes on its blog:We're planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than
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DailyMotion Secures EMI Video Content In Ad Deal
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Music giant EMI is to deliver its premium music videos onto the platforms run by DailyMotion, the French-based 'European YouTube'. Content will go onto the main site, mobile, iPhone app and the DailyMotion channel on Internet-connected TVs. The deal covers all EMI's labels, and the labels represented by EMI Label Services and EMI's Caroline Distribution unit. Artists featured from April will incl
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AOL Shells Out $200K To Join MIT Media Lab Consortium
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AOL has joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab as a sponsor, which according to the consortium's site, costs around $200,000. The MIT Media Lab is a research community that focuses on the study, development and invention of digital technologies. The sponsorship, which lasts for 3 years, was spearheaded by AOL Ventures, an investment fund launched by AOL in 2009 to nurture ear
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New York Times Sees Rebound In Internet Advertising In Fourth Quarter
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The online advertising recession might be over for the New York Times. The company announced fourth quarter earnings this morning. Total revenues for the quarter were down 11.5 percent to $681 million, but Internet revenues (including About.com) were up 10.3 percent to $102 million. The Internet advertising portion of that was also up 10.6 percent to $90.6 million. Earnings per share were 44
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AOL’s Surphace Goes Self Serve With Private Beta Of S4
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Surphace, previously called Sphere, is an excellent tool for bloggers and other publishers to add related content to their articles and posts. The company, which was acquired by AOL in 2008, has now released S4, a self serve product that gives smaller sites the ability to use Surphace's more advanced features. More than 2 billion articles per month bring in Surphace content, says CEO Josh Guttman
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Encoding.com Raises $1.25 Million For SaaS Video Encoding Platform
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Encoding.com, a startup that provides online video encoding services, has raised $1.25 million in Series A funding. The funding was led by Metamorphic Ventures and included angel investors Patrick Condon, Fred Hamilton, Zelkova Ventures, Dave Morgan, and Allen Morgan. The funds will be used to further sales, marketing, and partnership programs. Launched in September 2008, Encoding.com provide
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YouTube Introduces “Safety Mode” For That Grey Area Content
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YouTube introduced a new option dubbed 'Safety Mode' this morning, essentially giving users a bit more control over what they get to see on the insanely popular video sharing site.The new setting is browser-specific and opt-in, and helps users screen out potentially offensive content that they may prefer not to stumble upon (or have their family members see), even if the content is inherently not
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ST-Ericsson Helps Handset Manufacturers Make Low-Cost Android Smartphones
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ST-Ericsson, a 50/50 joint venture by STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, this morning announced its latest HSDPA platform built on the Linux OS. Dubbed U6715, the platform aims to aid handset manufacturers produce smartphones powered by Android - or other Linux-based operating systems - with a wholesale price of less than €100 ($138). ST-Ericsson says it anticipates manufacturers to launch the firs
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Investment Group Backed By Google, Disney To Buy Into Chinese Bus Media Firm
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A consortium of investors led by The Walt Disney Company is currently engaged in advanced talks to invest in Bus Online, China's leading in-bus digital media and advertising company, sources tell Reuters.The deal, which would provide Disney with a new platform to promote Mickey Mouse in China, is oddly said to involve Google, which is a minority investor in the consortium according to the news ag
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Former EA, Yahoo Marketing Vet Mitali Pattnaik Appointed GM Of PlayFirst
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We haven't heard much from PlayFirst since we covered the San Francisco-based casual gaming startup's last funding round back in December 2007, but that doesn't mean things aren't moving for the venture-backed company.Earlier this year, the startup inked a major deal with Big Fish Games and today it has announced that social game industry executive Mitali Pattnaik has joined PlayFirst as General
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New Tweetdeck Puts Twitter On Crack – Adds YouTube and Flickr
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There remains an ongoing desktop Twitter application war. Traditionally Tweetdeck and Seesmic have been at loggerheads for the lion share, although Tweetdeck has remained in the lead so far. Increasingly it appears that Seesmic is heading towards trying to be a much more mainstream application, for anyone on any platform, from celebs to your non-tech friends. But for power Twitter users, Tweetdec
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The Filter Reboots As Recommendation Engine For Hire, Ex-Googler Doug Merrill Joins Board
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Almost two years ago The Filter, a startup backed by Peter Gabriel, launched to bring better music and movie recommendations to consumers. The site got lost in the abundance of more popular music and movie sites out there, so about a year ago CEO David Maher Roberts decided to shift gears and start licensing his recommendation engine to other businesses.It was the right move. Today, the Filter
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Monday Morning Marketing Quarterback: Which Superbowl Ads Scored On The Web?
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With the Super Bowl yesterday came the time-honored Super Bowl commercials, each costing $2.5 million for a 30-second spot. Even Google got in on the game with its first ever spot receiving rave reviews (although the commercial wasn't new). But which commercials went beyond TV to score on the Web? Reprise Media released a report that ranks Super Bowl advertisers based on the level of integratio
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Social Music Player TuneWiki Raises $7M From Motorola Ventures, Others
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Social music player TuneWiki has raised an undisclosed amount of additional funding in a Series B round led by Motorola Ventures and joined by Intellect Capital Ventures, HillsVen Capital, Novel TMT and prior investor Benchmark Israel.TuneWiki says it will use the investment to expand its product offerings for mobile platforms and the Web. The company will continue to focus on the use of song lyr
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Oracle Buys AmberPoint To Boost Application Management And Performance Offerings
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On the heels of the EU's approval of Oracle's $7.4 billion deal to acquire Sun Microsystems, the tech giant has opened up the purse strings to acquire application management software provider AmberPoint. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and the acquisition is expected to close in the first half of this year. AmberPoint's software helps organizations diagnose and resolve issues in application
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Vitamin D Video Surveillance System Sheds Beta Tag, Announces Pricing
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Vitamin D Video has officially gone out of beta and is now available in 1.0. The basic, single camera version of the software is available now for free while a two camera version costs $49 and unlimited cameras costs $199. The software watches a web-based camera - including many popular models from Linksys and D-Link - and records motion as it it happens, even alerting you when humans step into t
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Loopt Partners With Mobile Spinach To Offer Location-Based Deals
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Loopt continues to ramp up its focus on location-based deals. The pioneer of the mobile social network is launching a new app called LooptCard, which lets mobile consumers tap into offers, coupons and discounts by checking-in to spots. Today, Loopt is partnering with deals site Mobile Spinach to offer users deals and coupons for local merchants via the Loopt App. The deals are part advertising pa
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Poland’s ‘Facebook’ Is Up For Grabs In A Central European Roll-Up
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It looks like some major consolidation is about to go down in the Central European Internet market, and in particular Poland.According to local newspaper reports, the largest Internet group in the region, Naspers/MIH Group, is conducting due diligence of assets belonging to DST (Digital Sky Technology)-owned holding Forticom, including the "Facebook-of-Poland" Nasza-Klasa.pl which has 23 million
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