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Jingle Networks raises USD7.5m
Jingle Networks, which operates  free call directory services such as Free411, has raised USD7.5m in a fourth round of funding from undisclosed investors. The company has previously raised more than USD74m, from Goldman Sachs, Hearst IDG Ventures, Liberty Associated Partners and Comcast Interactive Capital. ...
Tags: Comcast Interactive Capital, Directory Service, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Hearst Ventures, Jingle Networks, Liberty Partners, Marie Laigneau, Software
Articles 2009-01-28

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Hearst Ups Mobile Head Sophia Stuart To International Digital Mag Post
Sophia Stuart is being promoted from her role as head of Hearst’s mobile unit to executive director, digital for Hearst Magazines International. She’ll start her new job just after the new year. Stuart’s added responsibilities comes at time when magazines have been putting more emphasis on mobile offerings. For...
Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Mobile, Hearst Corp., Sophia Stuart, Stuart, David Kaplan
External links 2009-12-15
HEARST BELATEDLY ENTERS CUSTOM PUBLISHING ARENA: HOME DECOR-THEME `HUSH' PROMOTES CALIFORNIA CLOSETS.
After watching rivals ring up additional revenue from custom publishing ventures, Hearst Magazines is joining the fray. After watching rivals ring up additional revenue from custom publishing ventures, Hearst Magazines is joining the fray.
Tags: Hearst Corp.
Research articles 1999-06-07
After Hulu, Vevo and "Pulu," What Next? Some "Ideas"
As the Hulu Complex spreads to the wider reaches of our content industry, it would be interesting to figure out what could come next. Some have already been launched Vevo, others announced (”Pulu”, the Time Inc-Conde-Nast-Hearst-News-Corp-Meredith mag/publishing JV) and others are in the still-in-the-works stage (news industry consortium led...
Tags: Consortium, Industry, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-12-09
Latino Cable Network Si TV Raises $8.7 Million Funding
Latino-centric cable and online network Si TV has raised $8.75 million in funding, according to an SEC filing, with plans to raise nearly $6 million more. The network raised roughly $60 million in funding from big backers like EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Columbia Capital and Rho...
Tags: Network, Hearst Corp., MTV, Latino Cable Network Si TV, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Entertainment, Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Tameka Kee, Time Warner Inc.
External links 2009-08-07
Fwix Aggregates Local News, Compensates Bloggers, Filling a Void
In the ongoing debate over the future of the media business, especially when it comes to news, the extremes tend to dominate, and not just ideologically. "The future is hyper-local." "The future is global." "Algorithms can do it all." (Google News.)...
Tags: Google Inc., Journalist, Advertisement, Extremes, Blogger, Fwix, Blogging, Internet, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-12-04
Playing the International Field.(Playboy TV International)
Playboy TV International recently turned a year old, but already the young upstart is looking to expand across the globe, as well as break into primetime Playboy TV International was born on September 1, 1999, as a joint venture between the Cisneros...
Tags: FISHER, programming
Research articles 2000-10-01
The NewsMarket Raises $4.3 Million For Expansion, Medialink Buy
The NewsMarket—which sells video distribution services to enterprises that want to reach out to media outlets—has raised $4.3 million in a round of funding, which it is using in part to fund its recent purchase of Medialink. CEO Jim Lonergan tells us that the balance will be used to...
Tags: Round, Video, NewsMarket, Corporate Communications, Sales Strategy, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-10-08
WideOrbit Receives New Funding from Khosla Ventures, Greycroft Partners and Hearst Corporation
Company Adds New Executives--Chief Marketing Officer Steve Sommer and Senior Vice President of Engineering Igor Tsyganskiy
Tags: Company, Hearst Corp.
Research articles 2008-02-28
Camelot Ventures Sells RealAge to Hearst Magazines
Previously Privately Held Consumer-Health Media Company One of Camelot's Early Investments
Tags: Hearst Corp.
Research articles 2007-10-16
PROTRADE Secures $10 Million in Funding
SAN MATEO, Calif. -- PROTRADE: --Radar Ventures Partners Kevin Compton, Doug Mackenzie Are Lead Investors --Additional Funding from Will Hearst and Major Sports Figures Troy Aikman, Jeff Moorad, Bill Walsh and Brent Jones Completes Round --Company Also Announces the Appointment of Brent Jones to the Board of...
Tags: athlete, FINANCE, Investment, investor, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Manufacturing
Research articles 2005-11-10
Replay Networks, Inc. Announces $8 Million Investment With Venture Firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as Lead Investor
PALO ALTO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 29, 1999-- Vulcan Ventures and Tribune Company Are Part of Group Backing Personal TV; William R. Hearst III Joins Replay Networks Board of Directors Replay Networks, Inc., the company that guarantees people will never miss their favorite television shows when using its ReplayTVTM...
Tags: Hearst Corp., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Replay Networks, ReplayTV, Tribune Co., TVs
Research articles 1999-03-29
Addenda and Corrections
Scripps Networks' Fine Living network will be launched to about 500,000 digital subscribers of Time Warner Cable in New York.... Cox Communications and Comcast Corp. led a $21 million venture investment in MetaTV. New investors include Hearst Interactive Media, Atrium Venture Partners, Liberate Technologies, Redpoint Ventures and Rosewood Venture Group...
Tags: Cable, E.W. Scripps Co., FINANCE, MetaTV, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Research articles 2002-09-23
Media Roundup: Cuts at NPR, People.com Thriving, and More
NPR announces cuts -- National Public Radio will cut 64 employees, or seven percent of its work force. Many of those cut will come from cancelled shows Day to Day and News and Notes.  NPR also noted that corporate sponsorships are also down, thus increasing the company's projected operating deficit...
Tags: Newsweek, Media, NPR, Tumblr, Steven Swartz, Blogging, Internet, Sean Blanda
Blog posts 2008-12-11
Lifetime Digital, King.com Tie Up For Games Deal
Women's cable programmer Lifetime Networks knows its audience and that audience likes casual gaming, which explains the latest news from the new home of Project Runway: UK-based King.com will be the exclusive provider of co-branded skill games for MyLifetime.com. King.com claims to be the world's largest provider of skill...
Tags: Women, Gender And Diversity, Games, Human Resources, Personal Technology, Entertainment, Gaming, Companies, Disney, ABC, Hearst, Staci D. Kramer, comScore Inc.
External links 2009-08-04
WideOrbit Raises $10 Million in Expansion Funding, Led by Mayfield Fund
WideOrbit Grows to Serve 1,200 TV Stations and Networks; Announces New Board Members SAN FRANCISCO -- WideOrbit, the leader in Revenue Management systems for the Global Media industry, has received $10 million in growth financing. The series was led by Mayfield Fund, of Menlo Park, California. Other investors include...
Tags: Mayfield Fund
Research articles 2008-10-28
Condé Nast to close four titles
Condé Nast, the 100-year-old publisher of magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, will shut four titles in a cost-cutting move amid one of publishing's worst advertising declines. Gourmet, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, and Cookie will cease publication as the company focuses on titles "with the greatest...
Tags: title, Magazine, McKinsey & Co.
News items 2009-10-05
Heyzap Tries Making Plain-Old Casual Games More 'Social'
“Social” continues to be the game industry’s buzzword. Big companies like EA have bought their way into social gaming, Microsoft just added a slew of new social features to Xbox LIVE, and of course, there are all the social game company fundings. Now Heyzap wants in on the buzz,...
Tags: Casual Game, Game Company, Games, Personal Technology, Advertising, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Entertainment, Gaming, Social Media, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-12-01
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