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Agencies Laud Bing's Growth, Prep for Yahoo Transition

Sun, 08/29/2010 - 01:04
Microsoft’s search play now commands about 12 percent or 13 percent of the search market, up from 8 percent or 9 percent a year ago, depending on the source


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Yahoo's Who Knew? Series Sees Streams Soar

Fri, 08/27/2010 - 02:49
According to internal figures, Who Knew—which rolled out its 100th episode today—has generated 38 million streams since debuting on April 14


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NBC to Use Fan Tweets in Emmy Telecast

Thu, 08/26/2010 - 10:58
Prior to and during the Emmy broadcast, viewers will be encouraged to tweet possible on-camera introductions of celebrity presenters


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Fisher Names Spragins to Head Interactive Net

Thu, 08/26/2010 - 09:59
Matt Spragins, a former exec with RealNetworks has joined Fisher Communications as vp and general manager of Fisher Interactive Network, the division created by Fisher in 2006 to bring the company's online assets together in an integrated platform.


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BabyCenter to Launch Mobile App

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 12:49
BabyCenter is kicking off a push into mobile with the launch of My Pregnancy Today, an app built for the iPhone and iTouch.


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Evan Harrison Exits Clear Channel Radio

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 11:39
Clear Channel Radio's digital guru, Evan Harrison, is exiting the company at the end of the year. For the past six years, Harrison, in his position as evp, online music and radio, helped shape the radio giant's digital strategy.


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Analysis: Should Yahoo Buy Into Hulu?

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 11:30
Just as Yahoo weighs Wall Street advice to buy a significant stake in online video site Hulu, SNL Kagan reported the first-ever subscriber decline for the U.S. TV multichannel industry.


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Forecast: Online Ads to Outpace All Other Categories

Tue, 08/24/2010 - 11:05
Online advertising will continue to outpace overall ad spending, growing 14 percent next year to $51.9 billion, according to a new Borrell Associates forecast released Tuesday (Aug. 24). In contrast, the overall ad market is expected to increase less than 5 percent to $238.6 billion.


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Federated Media Acquires TextDigger

Mon, 08/23/2010 - 12:01
Federated Media Publishing (FM) has acquired a semantic and linguistics technology platform from the San Jose, Calif.-based firm TextDigger.


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THR.com Reaches Elite Status

Mon, 08/23/2010 - 11:27
More people got their entertainment-industry news online from The Hollywood Reporter than any of its competitors last month.


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Social Games Gain Wide U.S. Base

Mon, 08/23/2010 - 07:12
One fifth of the U.S. population has played a social game over the past three months, according to a new report issued by industry researcher The NPD Group


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TiVo to Add Broadband Metrics

Mon, 08/23/2010 - 05:07
TiVo will begin reporting next month how much people go to the Web on their TV sets. The new measure will be added to TiVo's StopWatch ratings service, which provides second-by-second viewing estimates of live and time-shifted viewing culled from TiVo's 2.6 million set-top boxes.


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Total Beauty Acquires LimeLife.com

Fri, 08/20/2010 - 12:26
Total Beauty Media Inc., which operates the women's service/consumer product review site TotalBeauty.com, has acquired LimeLife.com, a female-aimed lifestyle and celebrity news site.


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Elle to Launch Customizable iPad App

Fri, 08/20/2010 - 06:01
Hachette Filipacchi Media’s Elle won’t be the first of the big fashion monthlies to come out with its own app for the iPad when it launches with its October issue in mid-September. But given the slim fashion/beauty pickings in the App Store, it stands a good chance of getting a warm welcome from the fashion set.


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iVillage to Launch New User-Gen Content Section

Thu, 08/19/2010 - 12:01
iVillage has always maintained a close relationship with its community—particularly its more vocal and active members.


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Group Takes Exception With Proposed FM Tuner Mandate

Thu, 08/19/2010 - 11:28
As broadcasters and the recording industry attempt to hammer out an agreement to set royalty fees for music played on the radio, one area of compromise—to mandate FM tuners in cell phones—has struck a nerve.


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Facebook Launches 'Places' Mobile App

Thu, 08/19/2010 - 08:40
Facebook on Wednesday (Aug. 18) unveiled Facebook Places, its much anticipated answer to the growing number of location-based services such as foursquare and Gowalla. Like those mobile applications, Facebook Places allows users to alert their friends to their whereabouts.


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Apple Closes Quattro Ad Net

Thu, 08/19/2010 - 05:20
Apple is withdrawing from its ad network business that places ads across multiple mobile platforms in favor of concentrating on its iAd network that works only on Apple devices.


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Bonnier Title, Hearst Launch Tech Efforts

Thu, 08/19/2010 - 04:57
As anyone who’s gone gadget-shopping lately knows, the array of technologies can be daunting. But Popular Science is trying to address that issue.


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Vibrant Sees Tremendous Growth

Thu, 08/19/2010 - 04:53
The in-text ad company Vibrant, which places contextually relevant ads atop content pages which appear only when a user scrolls over specific keywords, is enjoying a banner year.


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