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Microsoft Brings Social Networks?Starting With LinkedIn?To Outlook
With more people turning to social networks to communicate, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is adding a new feature to the next version of Outlook so that users can track the activities of contacts on social networks from within their e-mail inboxes. The feature—called Outlook Social Connector—aggregates social networking updates, a...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook, Social Networking, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, E-Mail, Companies, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-11-19
Mozilla's Revenue Growth Slows; No Firefox OS Coming
Revenue growth at Firefox-owner The Mozilla Foundation is slowing. Chairwoman Mitchell Baker said in her annual “state of Mozilla” letter that the foundation’s revenue—which it generates primarily from its deal to make Google (NSDQ: GOOG) the default search engine on its browser—increased five percent year-over-year. That, however, includes heavy...
Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Operating System, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Operational Accounting, Internet, Software, Finance, Search, Money, Earnings, Technologies / Formats, Browsers, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-11-19
Morgan Freeman-Backed Digiboo Launching Movie Download Kiosks
Maybe letting people download, transport and then play movies using a USB drive will be the ticket to busting Hollywood’s DVD sales slump. That’s the logic behind studio-backed initiatives from DivX, CinemaNow and Widevine, and now, Digiboo, an L.A.-based startup that just got a cash injection from Revelations Entertainment,...
Tags: Movie, Kiosk, Sales Strategy, Pricing, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Marketing Research, Digital Media, Sales, Marketing, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Entertainment, Movies, Technologies / Formats, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-11-19
Google Shows Off Its Chrome OS
[Ongoing] Google (NSDQ: GOOG) isn’t launching its Google Chrome operating system quite yet—but it is ready to talk about it. During an event Thursday, VP of product management Sundar Pichai said the operating system was a “year away” from launch but said the company had “made tons of progress”...
Tags: Google Inc., Operating System, Operating Systems, Software, Technologies / Formats, Browsers, Companies, Google, Microsoft, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-11-19
After A Long Year, Spot Runner Launches Malibu Media Platform
A year after web-based TV creative ad agency Spot Runner started its push into the ad buying side of the business, the company is finally launching the Malibu Media Platform. The sales platform addition is meant to complement Spot Runner’s customizable cable TV commercials, which are mostly aimed at...
Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Malibu, Related Court Dismisses WPP, Advertising, Technologies / Formats, David Kaplan
External links 2009-11-19
IAC's Notional Flaunts TV Ambitions; Unveils Slate
Notional wants to be taken seriously. That might be a little tough ordinarily for a new cross-platform video production company birthed by a website called CollegeHumor but Notional has great genes and, in Barry Diller, a godfather with serious pull. It also has a very real slate with production...
Tags: SLATE, IAC/InterActive Corp., Video, Video Production Company, CollegeHumor, Corporate Communications, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Media & Publishing, TV, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Companies, IAC, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-11-19
Solvate.com Raises $2.3 Million For Virtual Assistant Tools, Services
Solvate.com, a startup that offers pay-as-you-go virtual assistant services, has raised $2.3 million in funding, per an SEC filing. The company did not immediately respond to a request for details on the source of the funding.  The N.Y.-based startup aggregates assistance requests from small business owners and offers them...
Tags: Job, Tool, Exec, Solvate.com, N.Y.-based Startup, Recruitment & Selection, Business Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-08-28
Industry Moves: Microsoft Hires A Former Adobe Flash Evangelist To Pitch Silverlight
Mike Downey has spent the greater part of the last nine years singing the praises of Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash. Now, Downey is singing the praises of Adobe-rival Silverlight. Downey joined Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) earlier this month as a principal evangelist focused on the company’s media player. Until February,...
Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Industry, Evangelist, Microsoft Corp., Mike Downey, Web Technology, Web Site Development, Digital Video, Media Players, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Industry Moves, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Adobe, Microsoft, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-08-18
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...
Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Sony Vaio, PC, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Net Applications, Web Browsers, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Technologies / Formats, Browsers, Companies, Google, Sony, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-08-31
VOIP Startup Ooma Raises $18.6 Million In Fourth Round
VOIP phone service startup Ooma has raised $18.6 million in a fourth round of funding, the company tells us. The round was led by Worldview Partners. Founders Fund, TD Fund, and WI Harper also participated. TechCrunch cited sources in late June as saying that Ooma had raised $14 million...
Tags: Round, Ooma, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Retail, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-09-01
In Gmail Outage, 'Gone Google' Hashtag Gets Co-opted
As part of its new campaign to promote Google Apps Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has been encouraging users to Tweet on the benefits of ‘going Google’ under the hashtag ‘Gone Google.’ But with Gmail officially down the hashtag has taken on a new meaning, as a number of users have...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Google Gmail, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Cloud Computing, E-mail Providers, Manufacturing, Internet, Technologies / Formats, E-Mail, Companies, Google, Microsoft, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-09-01
Industry Moves: Twitter Adds FeedBurner's Costolo As COO: Report
Looks like Twitter is adding some real-time experience. TechCrunch reports, citing unidentified sources, that Dick Costolo, cofounder and former CEO of FeedBurner, is headed to the startup as COO. Costolo’s no newcomer to Twitter: he was among the early investors in Twitter back in 2007. He went to Google...
Tags: Google Inc., Feedburner, Twitter Inc., Industry, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tools & Techniques, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Management, Business Operations, Industry Moves, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, RSS, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-09-02
Nokia Opens Up Maps To Developers; Adjusts M&A Strategy And Addresses U.S. Market Concerns
On the final day of Nokia’s own Nokia (NYSE: NOK) World event in Stuttgart, Germany, the handset maker announced it was making its maps available to developers so that they could integrate directions into their applications and mobile internet services. Nokia executives also answered journalists’ questions about the company’s...
Tags: U.S., Developer, Nokia Corp., M&A, API, Mergers & Acquisitions, Team Management, Investment, Finance, Management, Mobile, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, GPS Navigation/Maps, Companies, Nokia, Countries, Tricia Duryee
External links 2009-09-03
Asus Set To Enter E-Reader Market; Can It Win Based On Price?
Add Asus to the list of consumer electronic companies set to enter to the e-reader market. By the end of the year, the company plans to unveil as many as two e-readers, a spokeswoman tells the Times of London. The devices will have two side-by-side screens so that users...
Tags: E-reader, ASUS, Gadgets, Media & Publishing, Books, eReaders, Technologies / Formats, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-09-07
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...
Tags: Paid Search, ClickEquations, Search, Advertising, Technologies / Formats, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-08-28
Time Warner Cable Tries Its Own Version Of TV Everywhere
Some more details on Time Warner Cable’s TV Everywhere push, announced this morning, but calling it a trial still lets the cable operator avoid the hard questions like when it will be more than a gimmick available to a relative handful of subscribers, whether programmers will let their shows...
Tags: NYSE Euronext, Time Warner Cable Inc., Video, Cable, Corporate Communications, Network Technology, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Home Entertainment, Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Companies, NBC Universal, Time Warner, Turner, Viacom, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-08-27
Lifetime's Digital Strategy For Project Runway Includes Streaming On Demand For First Time
A first for Project Runway as it finally starts a new life with season six on Lifetime Thursday night: full episodes of the show will stream on demand at MyLifetime.com after they premiere on cable, paidContent has learned. The show was on NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker’s list of...
Tags: Strategy, Video, Episode, Lifetime Digital, Suratt, Games, Corporate Communications, Video On Demand (VoD), Personal Technology, Marketing, Home Entertainment, Entertainment, Gaming, Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Companies, NBC Universal, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-08-19
Danoo Rebrands As Reach Media Group To Push Out-of-Home Video Ads
In-store video network Danoo has relaunched as Reach Media Group RMG, an out-of-home digital media network that targets consumers at retail, on airplanes and in fitness clubs. Danoo acquired rival outdoor digital ad network IdeaCast to scale out in July; the combined companies now reach 15,000 screens with content...
Tags: Advertisement, Network, Media, Health Care, Danoo, Reach Media Group, Networking, Advertising, Local, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-08-19
Twitter To Add Location Data?A Precursor To Geotargeted Ads?
Expect your tweets to get a little more revealing—and potentially creepy, if you think about it—because Twitter is making it easier for users to add real location data to every status update they post. It will be an opt-in feature, of course, and the company says users’ location data...
Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Twitter Inc., Advertising, Local, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-08-20
NFL, NBC Will Stream Sunday Night Football Again But No Syndication - Yet
NBC Sports and the NFL have another one-year deal to live stream the network’s coverage of Sunday Night Football on their respective sites, NBCSports.com and NFL.com. The digital package, which is technically separate from the two-year extension for broadcast rights announced Wednesday, kicks off on a Thursday, Sept.10, with...
Tags: Advertising, Broadband, Companies, Corporate Communications, Entertainment, Finance, Games, Marketing, Microsoft, NBC Universal, NBC Universal Inc., NFL, Operational Accounting, Perkins Miller, Personal Technology, Sports, Staci D. Kramer, Technologies / Formats
External links 2009-08-20
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