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October 7th, 2008 |
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Kevin Maney writes: A little more than a year ago, I was at Joost's New York headquarters listening to CEO Mike Volpi talk about a big project at Joost to get live broadcasts of mass-market events like college basketball games to work. Sending high-quality stored and forwarded video around the [...]
The rapid growth in search, as an Internet activity and as a medium for advertising, has fueled Google Inc.'s evolution to a company with a market capitalization of nearly $130 billion. So it was surprising to see a press release from Nielsen Online last week claiming that the number of [...]
AdWeek |
October 5th, 2008 |
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NEW YORK Bloomberg TV has struck its first major online video deal, making content available on AOL Money & Finance. The deal between the Time Warner unit and the financial net comes amid increased interest in business news.[...]
Portfolio |
October 2nd, 2008 |
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Andrea Chalupa writes: Silicon Valley is seeing pink. Hit by turmoil in the financial markets, general economic decline, and slowing sales, the tech sector is expected to follow Wall Street with its own mass layoffs.Rumors abound that AT&T, Yahoo, and Ebay will together release tens of thousands of workers into [...]
Here are some more numbers to confirm what you already know: At least through Q3, the deal market is getting ugly. The latest numbers from Jordan Edmiston Group pegs total M&A; volume through the end of September at $26.6 billion, a nearly 70 percent decline from $87.5 billion a year [...]
Portfolio |
October 2nd, 2008 |
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--Continued budget cuts at AOL are pushing unhappy bloggers for their TVSquad blog to build a competing blog called CliqueClack. [TechCrunch]--CBS's answer to Hulu? The Social Viewing Room where viewers can log on, watch a show happening in real time, and interact online with other viewers.[TechCrunch]--Nokia's C.E.O. talks Google and [...]
As it indicated in a leaked memo back in July, AOL (NYSE: TWX) announced (via Wired) the closing of its community blogs, Hometown and Journal. The two will disappear completely by the end of the month. The reasoning behind the shuttering of Journal and Hometown was due to AOL's need [...]
AOL Television is launching a new web series supported by digital ad business , which will provide display advertising and content-targeted links on the site, MediaPost. The series, called , will[...]
MediaPost |
October 1st, 2008 |
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AOL Television today is expected to launch a new free on-demand Web series named "Outside the Box." In it, cast members from television's most popular programs interview one another using fan-submitted questions. It will be supported by AOL's digital ad business, Platform-A, which will be expected to identify opportunities for [...]
Just in time for the financial market's wild ups and downs this week, Bloomberg Television is making a tentative step toward syndicating its videos outside of its own website in a deal with AOL (NYSE: TWX). The business news network will run about 20 videos a day on the AOL [...]
This email is making the rounds from the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences to Hollywood's name talent criticizing the U.S. Post Office for this stamp issued September 18th. I've X'ed out the names: From: "XXX"
To: Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:23:26 -0700 Subject: Re: Postal [...]
Portfolio |
September 30th, 2008 |
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--The stock meltdown hit tech the hardest. Is there a spending freeze for Apple and other tech products ahead?[NYT]--On top of launching a new application for the iPhone last night, Facebook also unveiled a new homepage and has gone Hallmark with the tagline: "Facebook helps you connect and share with [...]
Seeking Alpha |
September 29th, 2008 |
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We know that Time Warner (TWX) [12.90 -1.31 (-9.22%) ] cnbc_quoteComponent_init_getData("twx","WSODQ_COMPONENT_TWX_ID0E6CAC15839609","WSODQ","true","ID0E6CAC15839609","off","false"); is going to want to sell its AOL internet services division. Just last month TWX's CEO Jeff Bewkes said the company had taken care of the basic logistics to split off AOL's dial up business from the [...]
Portfolio |
September 29th, 2008 |
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--AOL's C.E.O. Randy Falco, sources say, feels stuck in limbo and is antsy for AOL to be sold already. That first buyer could be Yahoo, followed by Microsoft to then snatch up Yahoo, according to Matt Marshall of Venturebeat. [AllThingsDigital]--Max Levchin, founder of online photo-sharing site Slide, married longtime girlfriend [...]
Posting Job Title Account Executive - Publisher Services (6060-003) TimeWarner Division AOL Brand Third Screen Media Location United States - Maryland - Baltimore Requisition #[...]
Senior Manager, AOL Sales Development, Client-side Role Work with the AOL Media Networks Sales team to build best-in-class online marketing solutions on behalf of key[...]
Posting Job Title Design Intern TimeWarner Division AOL Brand Advertising.com Location United States - Maryland - Baltimore Requisition # 92569BR Position Type Intern Posting Job[...]
FL-Tampa, Histotechnologist for Mohs lab, experienced preferred, full time or part time, salary + benefits, send resume to clearwaterjob@aol.com or fax to 727-683-986[...]