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RadioOne Mulling Selling Off CommunityConnect's Asian and Hispanic Sites
Urban media company Radio One reported its Q208 earnings today, and reported a widening loss of $11.7 million amidst weaker radio advertising market, and increased investment in its online efforts. Net revenue was approximately $83.4 million, an increase of 1 percent from the year-ago quarter. Its online revenues for...
Tags: Corporate Law, Internet, Operational Accounting, Investment, Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Earnings, Acquisition, Media Company, Revenue, Rafat Ali, Money, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Business Operations
News items 2008-08-06
Chinese Internet Holding Firm Koolanoo Gets $25 Million Funding
Chinese online media holding firm Koolanoo Group has received a biggish $25 million in its third round of funding, even as it announced a planned IPO on the Hong Kong market in March this year. An undisclosed investor-- "an international investment group"-- led the round, and was joined by...
Tags: China, Koolanoo Group, Social Networking, IPO, Venture Capital, Investment, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Rafat Ali
News items 2008-08-06
News Filtering Site SkyGrid Gets $11 Million Funding
News filtering and aggregation site SkyGrid, based in Sunnyvale, CA, has raised a relatively big $11 million second round of funding. The round was led by RRE Ventures, with previous investor BlackRock also participating, along with a "prestigious group of investors from both Wall Street and Silicon Valley," the...
Tags: Investor, Financial Accounting, Finance, Rafat Ali, Information, Biz & Fin, VC+M&A, Venture Capital
News items 2008-08-06
ContentNext Founder Rafat Ali: Turning a Blog into a Business
Wouldn't it be great to do what you love and call it work? Rafat Ali turned an "online resume" of his thoughts into ContentNext, an online media network spanning four websites, three continents and 22 employees. Now he's figuring out how to find good people, manage sales, and shift work...
Tags: Online Media, Business, Blog, Paid Content, Rafat Ali, Internet, Small Business, Communications, PR, Content Next
Videos 2007-09-04
Zuckerberg, Huffington and Mossberg on Vanity Fair 100 List
The Vanity Fair 100 list is out, and the usual litany of powerhouses and powerbrokers..the magazine calls is "The Vanity Fair Top 100 Leaders of Information Age", so in that spirit, some new names, including Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook; Arianna Huffington, founder of HuffPo; Matt Drudge, founder of...
Tags: Founder, Rafat Ali
News items 2008-09-03
Fashion Industry Info Service Stylesight Gets $16 Million Funding
New York City-based fashion online information service Sytlesight has received a big $16 million round of funding, from Fidelity Ventures, the VC arm of mutual fund Fidelity Investments. This is the company's first round of funding...founded in 2003, it provides a subscription-based service with trend forecasting and product development...
Tags: Image Search, Fidelity Investments, Industry, Product Development, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Rafat Ali, Entertainment, Information, Biz & Fin, VC+M&A, Venture Capital
News items 2008-09-03
Wolters Buys Medical Info and Community Site UpToDate
Dutch business publisher Wolters Kluwer has bought out UpToDate, a Waltham, MA-based online medical information company, for an undisclosed amount, though it is likely in low hundreds of millions. UpToDate, founded in 1992, runs a service in which doctors and other medical professionals write articles summarizing the latest thinking...
Tags: Wolters, Rafat Ali, Countries, UK & Europe, Media, Health Content, VC+M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions
News items 2008-09-04
CDN Highwinds Gets More Funding For Europe Expansion
Winter Park, FL-based Highwinds, a provider of CDN services which recently raised a big $55 million round, has raised more money, this time for a European expansion. The new funding is from European Founders Fund, though the amount was not disclosed. The previous big round was led by General...
Tags: Round, Founder, CDN Highwinds, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Rafat Ali, Broadband, Countries, UK & Europe, VC+M&A, Venture Capital
News items 2008-09-03
Browsing Companion Tool SemantiNet Gets $3.4 Million Funding
We mentioned an earlier closing of this round, but the amount was lower then: now Tel Aviv-based SemantiNet, a semantic web startup focused on developing tools for better Web browsing, has raised $3.4 million in its first round of funding. The company's product hasn't launched yet but promises on...
Tags: Round, Plug-in, Tool, Semantic Web, Productivity, Internet, Rafat Ali, VC+M&A, Venture Capital
News items 2008-09-04
Twistbox Buying European Mobile Content Firm AMV Holding
Twistbox, the mobile entertainment firm which is owned by OTC-traded Mandalay Media, is in the process of buying out European mobile content firm AMV Holding. For now, this is an LOI stage, and may not necessarily go through. AMV, founded in 2004, has brands such as Bling, Phonebar and...
Tags: Entertainment, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Rafat Ali, Countries, Europe, Money, VC M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions
News items 2008-08-25
LinkedIn's Hollywood PR Offensive: Cashing In On Economy's Woes
LinkedIn is on a Hollywood PR offensive, and positioning itself as the place where out-of-work and freelance creative professionals: it started with LinkedIn Strike Survival Guide (ahead of the then-anticipated SAG strike), as "an ideal way to learn how to tap the greatest asset of your professional life: your...
Tags: LinkedIn, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing Research, Marketing, Rafat Ali, Entertainment, Social Media
News items 2008-08-25
Fox's Simulcasting Shows For College Audience; And the Point Is?
Fox is touting a new streaming arrangement it is launching: it will stream the premiere of two of its anticipated shows "Fringe" and season opener of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" online at the same time as they are broadcast on TV..but in a twist, this is only for...
Tags: College Student, Fox, Public Relations, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Rafat Ali, Companies, News Corp., Fox Interactive
News items 2008-08-25
Technorati Buys Online Magazine Blogcritics
Technorati, the still-trying-to-redefine-itself blog search and now blog ad network, has bought out Blogcritics, one of the oldest online blog magazines. The site publishes contributions from bloggers on everything from music reviews to articles on politics and technology..it was part of the Technorati ad network since June. by Rafat...
Tags: Ezine, Technorati, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Rafat Ali, Social Media, Nanopublishing, VC+M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions
News items 2008-08-26
Chinese Trade Site Zero2IPO Raises $60 Million
Zero2IPO, an online financial info services provider on the China VC and PE markets, has raised a big $60 million round from a total of 46 different investors, according to SEC filing, picked up by PEHub. The company started as an online database of VC and M&A deals in...
Tags: Site, Corporate Communications, Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Investment, Marketing, Finance, Financing Startups, Rafat Ali, Countries, Asia, China, VC+M&A
News items 2008-08-27
Arianna: Read My Lips: Not For Sale
She said it...in a short interview with Portfolio.com at Denver convention. by Rafat Ali
Tags: Convention, Denver, Rafat Ali
News items 2008-08-27
Democratic Convention Video: Everywhere Online, But HD Awesomeness on Official Site
Yes, I know..we don't need more coverage of the Democratic convention which started this evening, but I have to point out the live video feeds online. Every major site and TV network is live streaming it online in full, including MSNBC.com, ABCnews.com on Yahoo News, CNN.com, CBSnews.com, FoxNews.com and...
Tags: Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Rafat Ali, Broadband
News items 2008-08-26
Russian Search Firm Yandex Delays IPO Till Next Year
Yandex, the big Russian search engine, has delayed its much-anticipated IPO until next year, according to local reports. Earlier this year reports came out that Yandex was planning a US IPO and will seek to raise $1.5-$2 billion, at a total valuation of $5 billion. For 2007 Yandex's revenue...
Tags: Yandex, IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Rafat Ali, Money, Technologies/Formats, Search
News items 2008-09-01
Back-to-Work Discount Ticket Sale: EconMusic: Sept. 23, London; Confirmed Speakers
As a bit of compensation for the end of summer, we're offering tickets to EconMusic at a special back-to-work 20 percent discount for this week only. We've got a great lineup for the half-day conference, which will take place Sept. 23 at London's Natural History Museum—and we're still not...
Tags: Managing Director, VP, London, Business Development, Music, CEO, Strategic Planning, E-mail, Strategy, Management, Online Communications, Rafat Ali
News items 2008-09-02
And Yes, Rupert Would Really Like To Own New York Times. Really.
The professional contrarian Michael Wolff is coming out with his Murdoch biography "The Man Who Owns the News" early next year, and Vanity Fair runs some excerpts ahead of the launch. Among other juicy bits, as if you needed more proof, Murdoch really, really wants to own the New...
Tags: New York Times Co., Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Rafat Ali, Companies, News Corp., NYT, Media, Newspapers
News items 2008-09-02
What's That About Free Newspapers As Saviors? Oh Yeah, Ad Slump?
After debate over the last few years over free and freely distributed metro newspapers and how they represented the future of the industry comes the news that the bubble might be bursting there too. Metro International, the world's largest free-newspaper company, is considering closing or selling off its U.S....
Tags: Newspaper, Advertisement, Productivity, Rafat Ali, Media, Newspapers
News items 2008-09-02
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