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DMW Daily, August 14, 2008

Top Stories
o Former Viacom and Nextel Execs To Join Yahoo Board
o Facebook’s Beacon Problems Continue With New Class-Action Lawsuit
o NetFlix Suffers Major Delivery Problems To 2.8 Million Subscribers
o Report: Glitches Affect 2-3 percent of iPhone 3G Traffic
o Cox Enterprises To Sell Austin American-Statesman, Regional Newspapers
o EA Reaches Deal with Endemol for Deal or No Deal Mobile Game
o Teen and Tween Virtual World Stardoll Hits 20 Million Users
Briefly Noted
o Paula Wagner Steps Down From United Artists Studio
o EA Signs Partnership Deals With Epic Games, Grasshopper Manufacture
o Indie Game Developer Grosses $825K In Sales First Week on Xbox 360 Store
o Phillips Buys Remaining 76% of Teletrax
 Top Stories
o Former Viacom and Nextel Execs To Join Yahoo Board 
Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo will add the former chief executive of Viacom, Frank Biondi Jr., and the former chief executive of Nextel Partners, John Chapple, to its board of directors from a list of nine possible new board members submitted by billionaire investor Carl Icahn. [more..]
o Facebook’s Beacon Problems Continue With New Class-Action Lawsuit 
Palo Alto, CA. - Facebook's controversial and now revamped Beacon service has led to another class action lawsuit against the company and other sites for their participation in the program. [more..]
o NetFlix Suffers Major Delivery Problems To 2.8 Million Subscribers 
San Francisco - Netflix acknowledged in a statement on Thursday that major technical problems over the past three days have severely limited the number of DVDs it could send out. About a third of the company's 8.4 million subscribers are currently waiting for DVDs held up by the problems. [more..]
o Report: Glitches Affect 2-3 percent of iPhone 3G Traffic 
Cupertino, CA. - Dropped calls and choppy Web surfing is affecting 2-3 percent of Apple's latest smartphone iPhone 3G, according to BusinessWeek.com. Their unnamed sources say the glitches are related to a chip inside Apple's popular cell phone. [more..]
o Cox Enterprises To Sell Austin American-Statesman, Regional Newspapers 
Atlanta -- Cox Enterprises, the large Atlanta-based media company, announced on Wednesday that it plans to sell the Austin American-Statesman newspaper, its affiliated operations including Austin360.com, and all of Cox's stand-alone community newspapers in North Carolina, Colorado and Texas. [more..]
o EA Reaches Deal with Endemol for Deal or No Deal Mobile Game 
London -- Electronic Arts Inc. today announced it has reached a deal with UK production company Endemol to develop a mobile game based on its television property, Deal or No Deal. [more..]
o Teen and Tween Virtual World Stardoll Hits 20 Million Users 
Stockholm, Sweden – Stardoll, a teen and tween social-networking and doll dress-up community, announced on Thursday that it has reached 20 million registered members. [more..]
 Briefly Noted
o Paula Wagner Steps Down From United Artists Studio 
Los Angeles - Paula Wagner is stepping down from her post as co-owner and CEO at United Artists, in effect leaving her long-term direct business relationship with Tom Cruise. [more..]
o EA Signs Partnership Deals With Epic Games, Grasshopper Manufacture 
Redwood City, Calif. - Gaming Giant Electronic Arts (EA) has signed two new partnership deals with independent games companies, including Gears of War publisher, Epic Games and the Japanese firm Grasshopper Manufacture. [more..]
o Indie Game Developer Grosses $825K In Sales First Week on Xbox 360 Store 
Seattle, WA. - Jonathan Blow, developer of the game Braid, estimates that it has sold 55,000 copies for the Xbox 360. At $15 per game, that’s $825,000 in first week gross sales, according to the blog Silicon Alley Insider (SAI). [more..]
o Phillips Buys Remaining 76% of Teletrax 
London, U. K. - Teletrax, a British TV and online video monitoring and analytics firm, is being completely acquired by Philips, which previously owned 24% of the company. [more..]