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- Facebook, Zynga Face Class-Action Suit Over Offer-Based Ads
- Offer-based ads seemed to be the secret to monetizing social games—and social network users, in general—that standard banner ads couldn’t provide. But amid ongoing accusations that the ads actually “scammed” users into paying for things they didn’t want and giving up their personal info, comes the inevitable: a class-action...
- External links 2009-11-20
- AT&T And T-Mobile Voicemail Systems Are Not Secure
- AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile USA have been banned from saying their voicemail systems are secure after agreeing to a settlement in a Los Angeles county court, PC World reports. "Cellphones purchased by undercover investigators were easily hacked into, enabling the voicemail to be changed at will," the Los...
- External links 2008-12-12
- Philadelphia Media Holdings Gets New Local Owners If Creditors, Bankruptcy Judge Approve
- The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com will live to fight another day—and with new owners—if creditors and a bankruptcy judge approve a plan filed late Thursday by publisher Philadelphia Media Holdings, LLC. Under the plan, a local group led by home building exec and PMH Chairman Bruce Toll...
- External links 2009-08-21
- Can Sony's 'DigiDads' Blog Plan Avoid Scrutiny From The Feds?
- Enough of the mommy-bloggers. Sony (NYSE: SNE) Electronics has launched a social media marketing campaign around blogging dads, according to AdAge. Dubbed the DigiDad Project, the dads, which include marketing execs like Clickable’s Max Kalehoff and New Marketing Labs’ Chris Brogan, will get various gadgets and devices on loan...
- External links 2009-08-21
- SEC Watch: News Corp.'s Murdochs Take Pay Hit, Ailes Gets A Raise
- Peter Chernin barely edged out Rupert Murdoch in 2008 as the highest-paid News Corp (NYSE: NWS). exec but Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes handily beat them all in fiscal 2009 with total compensation of $23.7 million. That’s more than double the $10.9 million Ailes made in 2007...
- External links 2009-08-23
- DRM Provider Intertrust's Patent Push Sparks Added Concerns Among Rivals
- DRM provider Intertrust has had a tough enough time making inroads into the U.S. market with its promises to guard content providers’ content from piracy. On top of the marketing issues—aside from the resentment DRM provokes from consumers, many digital device manufacturers are reluctant to spend additional capital on...
- External links 2009-08-26
- Earnings: TiVo Q2 Loss Edges Slightly Higher; Fires Lawsuit At AT&T and Verizon
- TiVo’s net income loss was slightly higher in Q2, widening to $2.93 million ($0.03 per share) from $2.91 last year. Revenues also dipped, falling to $57.3 million from $65.2 million in Q208. Not great news by any stretch, but the DVR company did beat analysts estimates who expected a...
- External links 2009-08-26
- Tribune Bondholders Demand Court Examine Zell's Buyout For Possible Fraud
- Tribune bondholders are accusing Chairman and CEO Sam Zell of fraud in his $8.2 billion deal to take the company private as part of their efforts to halt a bankruptcy plan unfavorable to them. While the filing isn’t likely to succeed, as the WSJ notes, the bondholders could succeed...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Delaware Ad Firm Sues JTW, WPP Over Bing Product Placement Campaign
- Denizen, a small Delaware ad firm, is suing JWT and its parent WPP over the idea to use product placement to promote Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) search engine, Bing, AdAge reports. The suit grows out of an alliance that Denizen says tried to strike with WPP in 2002 to share...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Google News' Italian Problem
- Newspapers complaining about Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News? Not new. But in Italy, they’ve actually managed to spur the government into investigating whether the company has abused its dominant position on the internet. The Italian Competition Authority searched the company’s offices in Milan this morning, according to several news reports.The...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Comcast Wins Appeal Against FCC's Cable Ownership Cap
- A federal appellate court smacked the Bush-era FCC with a ruling overturning the 30 percent cap on cable ownership and possibly opening the doors to even more cable consolidation. It’s the second time that the DC court has ruled the FCC failed to justify the rule, established to keep...
- External links 2009-08-28
- EC Media Commissioner Backs Google Books Plan
- Given all the controversy, legal action and anti-trust scrutiny surrounding Google’s plans to digitise millions of books, the search giant has been given some welcome backing from European Commissioner Viviane Redding. The outspoken French politician and former journalist, responsible for Europe’s digital media policies, said in a Q&A document...
- External links 2009-08-28
- James Murdoch In Edinburgh: 'Analogue Attitudes In A Digital Age'
- Twenty years after his father Rupert Murdoch delivered the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, chip-off-the-old-block James Murdoch took the stage tonight to lambaste the BBC, decry Ofcom and call for an end to what he calls the “creationist” approach to managing media—the end of “analogue attitudes...
- External links 2009-08-28
- Redbox Tries For Trifecta, Sues Warner Bros. Too
- Maybe Redbox’s lawyers get a bonus when they hit a certain number of lawsuits but this is getting to be a bit much. Yes, like Chris Albrecht at NewTeeVee, we knew this was coming: Redbox couldn’t sue Universal and Fox over their new vending machine windows, then ignore Warner...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Yahoo, DivX Settle Lawsuit Over Toolbar Distribution Deal
- Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and digital video technology firm DivX (NSDQ: DIVX) have settled a ten month old lawsuit over an advertising deal between the two companies. DivX initially sued Yahoo in September, saying that Yahoo had backtracked on a two-year deal, under which it paid DivX so that customers...
- External links 2009-08-19
- AOL Sues Advertise.com, Citing Likelihood Of Confusion With Advertising.com And Ad.com
- Advertising.com, Ad.com, and Advertise.com. Because AOL (NYSE: TWX) says it has extensively used and promoted the first two trademarks, it is claiming control over the third, and therefore suing search and display platform Advertise.com for trademark infringement. In a lawsuit, AOL claims that Advertise.com is “virtually identical and confusingly...
- External links 2009-08-19
- FCC Cancels Meeting And Leaves Wireless Broadband Plan Up In The Air
- The FCC canceled its meeting on Thursday, which was expected to hear the fate of a controversial plan to auction off spectrum that would provide free nationwide Internet. Late last week, a pair of high-ranking lawmakers asked FCC Chair Kevin Martin to put aside the AWS-3 auction proposal to...
- External links 2008-12-15
- Google Quietly Tries Brokering Deals With ISPs To Get Priority Access
- Congress has failed to pass legislation regarding so-called "Net Neutrality," and now the issue is again top of mind as Internet providers seeking preferential treatment; network operators considering a tiered approach, and once-staunch defenders beginning to soften their stance on the matter. This time, it appears Google (NSDQ: GOOG),...
- External links 2008-12-15
- Bad Joke: National Lampoon Execs Hit With Fraud Charges
- It probably won't rise to the level of the Bernie Madoff scandal, but it's not a joke either. The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against National Lampoon CEO Daniel Laikin and several other execs in a Philadelphia civil court. The execs are accused of manipulating the entertainment...
- External links 2008-12-15
- Yahoo Updates Privacy Controls On Search, Pageviews
- Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), perhaps hoping to get the focus off its finances and CEO search, will reduce the amount of time it holds on to user data to three months from just over a year. After that period, Yahoo will "anonymize" user log data within 90 days with limited...
- External links 2008-12-17
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