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11 March 2008
Media Week Mike Shields
By Media Week
Next New Networks will begin distributing over 2,000 episodes of its shows via AOL Video. Niche video content distributor Next New Networks has inked its first deal with a major portal, as the startup firm plans to begin distributing over 2,000 episodes of a host of its shows via AOL Video. The company, which launched roughly a year ago with plan..
11 March 2008
VentureWire
By VentureWire
AdJug Ltd., an online-advertising marketplace where advertisers and publishers can buy and sell ads directly, has received a strategic investment from Tomorrow Focus AG, one of Germany's leading digital sales and content companies. As a part of the deal, Tomorrow Focus will provide access to a portion of its advertising inventory - initially 100 m..
10 March 2008
Mad.co.uk Arif Durrani
By Arif Durrani
German media company Tomorrow Focus AG has acquired a stake in digital advertising network AdJug that will enable it to enter the growing marketplace of international online advertising. As a part of the deal, Tomorrow Focus AG will provide access to a portion of its advertising inventory (initially 100 million ad impressions) via AdJug and hopes t..
10 March 2008
Guardian.co.uk Mark Sweney
By Mark Sweney
ITV is to make its TV shows available via Bebo in a deal that aims to tap into the young internet generation increasingly attracted to social networking websites. The deal is a milestone for ITV, which has the ambitious aim of growing digital revenues to £150m a year by 2010, as it is the first time it has agreed to provide full-length progr..
06 March 2008
TechCrunch
By Mike Butcher
Social lending site Zopa is to launch in Japan, following its expansion to the US and Italy from its UK base. The site, three years old today, brings on board a new Japanese team in the form of chairman Takeshi Yoneda and CEO Tatsuya Kuboi, both experienced in Internet financial services.
Zopa has attracted over £18 million of funding, includ..
06 March 2008
VentureWire
By Ty McMahan
Livebookings Ltd., a European online restaurant reservations and marketing network, has secured a $12.9 million round led by Balderton Capital. Chief Executive Niklas Eklund said the company will use the money to continue European expansion and to look to bring the service to the U.S. Livebookings has acquired nearly 17,000 restaurants and more th..
04 March 2008
Guardian.co.uk
By Jemima Kiss
UK-based digital music store 7digital has secured the first deal to exclusively sell Warner Music's full catalogue in the rights-free format across Europe. From today, customers in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Spain can download tracks from Warner artists in MP3 format that can be played across any device. Apple's iTunes store, which domin..
04 March 2008
7Digital.com and Warner Music International
By Warner Music International
7digital.com is the first major European download store to offer Warner Music catalogue in an unencrypted format.More than 80% of 7digital.com’s 3.5million track catalogue is now MP3. London, 4th March, 2008: Warner Music International (WMI), a division of Warner Music Group (WMG) and 7digital.com, a leading digital media delivery company, t..
02 March 2008
Irish Independent
By John Reynolds
Dublin firm Globoforce helps firms appreciate their workforces and reap the benefits, writes John Reynolds IF the economic downturn keeps on biting, many of the world's biggest companies will need help to keep up morale among their workforces and reward them for their achievements. And when they do, 36- year-old Eric Mosely, chief executive of Du..
28 February 2008
Marketing Week
By Marketing Week
LoveFilm combines usable design with clever recommendations - a near perfect online service. Its DVD rental website contains lots of examples of usable design which other sites could learn from. When introducing a totally new concept, as LoveFilm did, it's important to explain it upfront and clearly to new site visitors. LoveFilm does the right t..
27 February 2008
The Independent Tim Walker
By Tim Walker
Zopa Where do you want to go today? The future's bright. I'm lovin' it. These are the mantras with which our brands have mesmerised us. Microsoft and McDonald's aren't just consumer products – they're lifestyle choices. But all that is about to change. Or so says Robert Jones, director of brand consultancy Wolff Olins. He and his colleagues ..
26 February 2008
CNNMoney.com
By CNN Money
Sun Microsystems' $1 billion purchase of database company MySQL was more than just a hefty price tag for an open-source software company. Analysts call it a fresh sign of the business model's growing clout and maturation. The acquisition, announced last month, would be the biggest ever of any open-source software company, says the 451 Group, a rese..
24 February 2008
The Independent on Sunday
By Lauren Mills
Julia Reynolds becomes rather quiet: 'I would love to be the chief executive of a public company. It would have been beyond my wildest dreams when I was sitting at my school in Essex. But the dream may yet come true. For Reynolds has become head of Figleaves.com, the online lingerie specialist retailer that sells sexy and not-so sexy underwear to m..
19 February 2008
International Herald Tribune, France
By Oliver Horton
It has taken time but the Internet has come of age as a vehicle for selling fashion. 'It was new; now it's not so new,' said Federico Marchetti, founder and chief executive of the multibrand fashion e-commerce site Yoox. 'It is a little bit more mature. We have learned a lot in the last eight years.' According to the latest Nielsen Global Online S..
17 February 2008
SiliconRepublic.com
By Marie Boran
Irish mobile media technology firm NewBay has confirmed it has signed a contract worth several million euros with global mobile operator T-Mobile to provide the company with technology to power its European social media service MyFaves. NewBay, which is currently one of the many Irish mobile companies attending the Mobile World Congress in Barcelo..
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