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- paidContent Quick Hits 11.6.09
- » Ancestry.com shares jumped five percent on their first day of trading, although they’re down a tad today. [Associated Press]» Yahoo settles a trademark infringement lawsuit with cosmetics giant Mary Kay. [Bloomberg]» Om Malik sorts through the winners and losers in the Skype settlement. [GigaOm]» In a Fox Business...
- External links 2009-11-06
- Twitter Upgrades Its Search Engine
- After months of saying that improvements were coming to its search engine, Twitter has announced a critical upgrade. In a blog post, Twitter says it has started an experiment that will “show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful.” No details on how...
- External links 2009-11-06
- Netflix Wants Half Off Under Release Delay Scenario
- The studios have put the screws to Redbox and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) in order to get them to take new releases at a later date. Redbox has sued all the big studios—but Netflix is taking a different tack. During the company’s most recent earnings call, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings...
- External links 2009-11-06
- Inside Word: In Defense Of Ads In Twitter
- The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies.Blogger: Mark SusterPosition: Partner, GRP PartnersBlog name: Both Sides Of The Table, which features startup adviceBackstory: No one knows what percentage of Tweeters if any would...
- External links 2009-11-06
- DailyCandy's Sheinbaum Gets Funding For His New Startup
- Mandelbrot Project, a stealth startup led by former DailyCandy CEO Pete Sheinbaum has raised $500,000, according to an SEC filing. PEHub says the backer is the Foundry Group, which declined to comment. Sheinbaum oversaw the $125 million sale of DailyCandy to Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Interactive in August 2008; he...
- External links 2009-11-06
- Icahn Cuts Stake In Yahoo; Reiterates He Believes in 'Wisdom' of Partnership With Microsoft
- Entities associated with investor Carl Icahn have sold 12.7 million shares of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) stock—or about 16 percent of their total holdings in the company—in what they are calling a move to “balance” their portfolios. In a filing with the SEC, Icahn’s affiliates say that the sale of...
- External links 2009-08-31
- Vidly Raises $500,000 From Investors, Including Conway, For Video Sharing
- Vidly, a startup that makes it easy for users to share videos on Twitter, has raised $500,000 in a seed round from several investors, including Ron Conway. The service went live under the name TwitVid.io in May. Users either go to the Vidly site, where they log on to...
- External links 2009-08-31
- Sony To Distribute Google Chrome On New Vaio PCs
- Sony (NYSE: SNE) has agreed to put Google’s Chrome browser on new Vaio PCs in the first of what is likely to be several distribution deals that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is counting on to boost the market share of its internet browser. The FT, which first reported on the...
- External links 2009-08-31
- Google Tests Videos In Search Ads
- In a bid to win over entertainment advertising dollars, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is testing out videos in paid search ads. AdAge’s Michael Learmonth reports that Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has purchased the specialized ads to push its ‘Need for Speed’ video game, while film studio Miramax has used them...
- External links 2009-09-01
- Industry Moves: Khosla Ventures Confirms Hiring Of Former Facebook CFO Yu
- Former Facebook CFO Gideon Yu, who left the social network suddenly in March, is joining VC firm Khosla Ventures as a partner. Khosla confirmed Yu’s hiring in announcing that it had raised $1 billion for two new funds, which it said it would use to make “clean energy, efficiency,...
- External links 2009-09-01
- Microsoft Dangles Coins To Sell Bing
- Buy products via Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Get money back. It’s a message that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) keeps on pushing in its bid to boost its share of the search market. A new TV ad for Bing shows gold coins falling from the sky (they could be yours!) to...
- External links 2009-08-31
- Ad Sales Platform iSocket Raises $2 Million
- ISocket, which calls itself “the first commission-free ad platform,” has raised $2 million in a round of seed funding from a group of private investors and venture capital firms, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, SoftTech VC, and Founders Fund Angel. The iSocket ad sales platform is currently in private...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Zumbox Raises $8 Million From Investors Including Eisner For 'Paperless Postal System'
- Zumbox, a startup which is trying to set up a digital alternative to the postal system in the U.S., has raised $8 million in a first round of funding from a series of high-profile private investors, including Michael Eisner, the former CEO of Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Rick...
- External links 2009-08-25
- MyShape Raises $10.5 Million For Personalized Clothes Shopping
- Personalized clothes shopping site myShape has raised at least $10.5 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing. MyShape prompts users to enter their measurements, along with their fashion and fit preferences, and then shows relevant options. Traffic to the site has increased by almost 50 percent over...
- External links 2009-08-28
- Digital Philanthropy Round-Up: Brin Gives To Creative Commons; Omidyar Backs Wikimedia
- No apparent connection, but this week brought news of two major gifts from big names to non-profits in the digital media space. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin, along with his wife Anne Wojcicki, have donated $500,000 to Creative Commons, the non-profit behind the Creative Commons licenses, which make...
- External links 2009-08-28
- ClickEquations Raises $3 Million For Paid Search Platform
- Paid search management platform startup ClickEquations has raised $3 million in a round of funding, according to an SEC filing. The company’s pay per click software is used by advertisers and agencies to manage paid search campaigns. The company was known until April as Commerce 360 and had previously...
- External links 2009-08-28
- Inside Word: Twitter Could Be The Next MySpace (And That's Not A Compliment)
- The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies.Blogger: Cody BrownPosition: Publisher, NYU LocalBlog name: CodyBrown.nameBackstory: Brown is a college student who founded a daily campus news blog at New York University. He’s never...
- External links 2009-08-28
- Music Blog Network MOG Raises $5 Million; Will New Streaming Service Launch?
- Music blog network MOG is set to announce Friday that it has raised $5 million in a round of funding led by Menlo Ventures. Existing investors Simon Equity Partners and Scott Jones also participated. Asked about the company’s plans for the cash, founder David Hyman tells us that it’s...
- External links 2009-08-28
- Real Time Search Engine OneRiot Raises $5.7 Million
- OneRiot has raised $5.7 million in a round of funding, according to an SEC filing—the latest sign that venture capitalists have high hopes for the hot real time search market. OneRiot announced in May that it was now searching pages that people link to on Twitter and those recommended...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Facebook Tests Direct Response Ads
- A new Facebook ad format being tested by Chick-fil-a couples direct response forms with the ads, according to Inside Facebook via SAI. The Chick-fil-a ad looks like a standard Facebook ‘sponsored link’ but also features a teaser to ‘Get a free Chicken Biscuit now.’ See screenshot to the left....
- External links 2009-09-01
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