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NewsMail.com Media Corp. Debuts HollywoodLife.comAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on November 17, 2009 - 12:24pm.
New York
- Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC) on Tuesday announced the launch of
HollywoodLife.com, a new female-focused celebrity and entertainment news
website headed by former US Weekly editor Bonnie Fuller. The site's content
will additionally be distributed by iVillage and AOL Popeater. MMC also operates
Movieline.com, which is run by the former editorial team at Defamer, and
Deadline.com, which features veteran entertainment journalist Nikki Finke.
Is Murdoch Making A Smart Business Move By Blocking Google's News Index?Authored by Jay Baage on November 16, 2009 - 11:52am.
Discovery Launches Online News ServiceAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on November 9, 2009 - 11:48am.
Silver Spring, Md.
- Cable TV programmer Discovery Communications said on Monday that it has
launched a dedicated website for its Discovery News service at
DiscoveryNews.com. The company also has launched a Discovery News App for the
iPhone and iPod touch. Discovery News produces breaking news, in-depth coverage
and analysis of developments in technology, space and earth sciences.
Financial Services Firm Motley Fool Raises $25 MillionAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on November 2, 2009 - 8:12am.
Chantilly,
Va. - The Motley Fool, a
multimedia financial services and news publishing company, has received a $25
million investment from BIA Digital Partners and Patriot Capital II.
tags: Deals | VC | News | Publishing | BIA Digital Partners | The Motley Fool | Patriot Capital II |
Politico to Launch Site Covering Local D.C. NewsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 28, 2009 - 11:52am.
Washington - Political news
blog Politico plans to launch a new site that will cover local news in Washington, D.C.,
The New Republic reported. The new Metro site, which will compete with the
Washington Post, will be headed up by former Washingtonpost.com editor Jim
Brady.
1Cast Debuts Video News Clip Service; Integrates with BoxeeAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 21, 2009 - 10:48am.
Kirkland,
Wash. - Personalized video service
1Cast on Wednesday commercially launched its platform, which pushes customized
video news clips to users based on their interests. The company said that it
pushed more than 3.2 million video clips monthly to its beta users, from
partners including the BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox, Reuters and Dow Jones. 1Cast
also announced a deal with Boxee, to extend its service to the TV media center
platform.
Web TV Industry News Site Tubefilter Acquires Tilzy.TVAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 19, 2009 - 7:23am.
Los Angeles
- Tubefilter, a news and information site covering the Web TV industry, announced
on Monday that it will acquire Tilzy.TV, a Web TV entertainment reviews, news
and events business website.
Redlasso Re-launches Web Video News Clipping ServiceAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 15, 2009 - 11:03am.
Philadelphia - Redlasso, a Web-based video news clipping
service for bloggers, on Thursday announced is re-launch, after signing new license
agreements with Fox, Meredith Broadcasting, Journal Broadcasting Local
Television, Gray Television, and Barrington Broadcasting. The service had gone
offline last year after being sued by NBC and Fox News for copyright
infringement.
CNET Wireless Coverage Maps Debut in Eight CitiesAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 6, 2009 - 9:14am.
San Francisco
- Technology media company CNET, a unit of CBS (NYSE: CBS), said on Tuesday that it has
launched a beta test of the first-ever independent wireless service coverage
map in eight cities.
NPR Gets $3 Million to Launch Local Online Journalism VentureAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 2, 2009 - 6:46am.
Washington
- National Public Radio (NPR) announced on Friday that it will launch a new
online local journalism venture, funded with $3 million from the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting and the Knight Foundation.
CNN Releases $1.99 Interactive News App for iPhoneAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 29, 2009 - 8:49am.
Atlanta
- Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) CNN on Tuesday released a new interactive news application for
Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iPhone. The $1.99 application includes a live video stream, and "showcases
news of the day through text, video and photos. It also features live breaking
news video, push notification, localization and personalization tools,
user-generated content capture and upload functionality through iReport."
CBS News Taps GlobalPost to Provide Foreign NewsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 28, 2009 - 9:16am.
New York
- CBS News (NYSE: CBS) has forged a partnership with GlobalPost to provide international
news from 70 correspondents in 50 countries, The New York Times reported. Boston-based
GlobalPost was founded by New England Cable News network creator Philip Balboni
and Boston Globe foreign correspondent Charles Sennott, and averages about
400,000 unique monthly users. "Having a broadcast network partner was a
high priority for us, and to be associated with CBS News is a great validation
of what we are trying to build," Balboni told The Times. "We hope to
become an important source of international news for Americans, and this
partnership is a big step in that direction."
YellowBrix Acquires News Syndicator Screaming MediaAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 24, 2009 - 7:43am.
Alexandria,
Va. - YellowBrix, a provider of
targeted industry news and business information services, said on Thursday that
it has acquired New York-based Screaming Media, which provides syndicated news
to Internet and wireless services, from owner Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: NWS).
tags: Deals | Acquisitions | News | News Corp. | Publishing | Dow Jones | YellowBrix | Screaming Media |
Getty Images Invests $4 Million in Daylife PartnershipAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 16, 2009 - 8:18am.
New York
- Daylife, a provider of news content aggregation services, has disclosed that
Getty Images was the investor who pumped $4 million into the company back in
June.
Fwix Lands Funding for Local Newswire ServiceAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 31, 2009 - 7:04am.
San Francisco
- Fwix, a local news aggregation service that combines stories from local
outlets with validated user-contributed stories, announced on Monday that it
has raised an undisclosed sum of first round funding, from BlueRun Ventures.
Italy Launches Antitrust Probe of Google NewsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 27, 2009 - 9:37am.
Mountain View, Calif. - Italian antitrust regulators on Thursday searched
one of Google's (NASD: GOOG) offices in Italy,
investigating allegations that Google forces news publishers there to join
Google News or else lose search engine placement entirely, The New York Times
reported.
Salon Lays Off 20% of Editorial StaffAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 18, 2009 - 11:47am.
San Francisco
- Online magazine Salon.com has laid off six of its editorial staff -- or about
20% of its total team -- including three editors, a writer, photo editor and
producer, Gawker.com reported. "We are moving away from a very traditional
magazine production model and becoming more of a true Web publication, with a
more direct publishing system" that will launch in the fall, Salon CEO
Richard Gingras told Gawker. "We think this direction makes us a stronger
company, and puts us in a good position to not just weather the economic storm
but emerge much stronger than ever."
Facebook Integrates News Blog The Huffington PostAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 17, 2009 - 3:04pm.
Palo Alto,
Calif. - Facebook has partnered
with liberal blog The Huffington Post to integrate usage of the two sites via
Facebook Connect. HuffPost Social News allows Facebook users to see their
friends' activity on Huffington Post, and vice versa.
MSNBC Acquires Hyperlocal News Service EveryBlockAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 17, 2009 - 10:06am.
Chicago
- MSNBC, the cable channel joint venture between Microsoft and NBC Universal, announced
that it has acquired EveryBlock, an online hyperlocal news publishing service.
Meckler Sells Off Internet.com Trade Pubs for $18 MillionAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 10, 2009 - 7:51am.
 New York
- WebMediaBrands (NASD: WEBM), the online media company run by publishing industry veteran Alan Meckler,
announced on Monday that it is selling its Internet.com family of technology
trade publications to marketing firm QuinStreet for about $18 million. "We
believe that this transaction will be beneficial to WebMediaBrands and its
stockholders as it will significantly improve our balance sheet and at the same
time allow us to focus on growing BtoB communities in the non-tech space,"
said Meckler.
tags: Deals | Acquisitions | News | Publishing | WebMediaBrands | Internet.com | Alan Meckler | QuinStreet |
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