Tumblr: 108M blogs and 51 billion posts are worth more than $1.1B

May 18, 2013 9:59 AM John Koetsier

Tumblr, which famously hates advertising and only started trying to make money after five years in existence, is in a bit of a pickle, as its $125 million in funding is running out, giving the service only a few-month window in which to raise a new round or find a sugar daddy.

Yahoo holding N.Y. event to reveal ‘something special’

May 17, 2013 1:38 PM Meghan Kelly

Meghan Kelly

Yahoo is holding a New York event this Monday for a mystery announcement.

Skyword takes off with $6.7M for content marketing

May 17, 2013 11:36 AM Rebecca Grant

Rebecca Grant

Skyword has announced closing $6.7 million in growth financing for its content marketing solutions. This Boston-based startup provides agencies, brands, media, and retail customers with a platform to publish content and tools to distribute it effectively.

Amazon taking Madden NFL 25: Annivesary Edition preorders — bundled with NFL Sunday Ticket

May 17, 2013 11:35 AM Jeffrey Grubb

Jeffrey Grubb

EA's $100 special edition of Madden can save you a ton on DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket football package.

These ads helped Google win ‘Advertiser of the Year’ status

May 17, 2013 11:29 AM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

In 2012, Google made more than $50 billion, almost entirely via plain, boring little text ads. So it's more than a tad ironic that Google has won the Clio advertiser of the year award for 2013 for creativity and excellence in ... old-fashioned video ads.

Stitcher radio comes to your dashboard with new ‘Car Mode’ feature

May 17, 2013 10:00 AM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

Stitcher Radio is rolling out a new feature on its iOS app today that makes it much easier to use the streaming service while driving in a vehicle -- which is exactly where radio belongs.

Smell-o-vision at last! Domino’s releasing DVDs that smell like pizza

May 17, 2013 7:53 AM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

Pizza and a movie go together like love and marriage, a horse and carriage, right? So Domino's Brazil has hit on a genius marketing campaign: DVDs that smell like pizza.

Yahoo newsfeed’s latest ingredient: Embedded tweets

May 16, 2013 2:15 PM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

For the second time in the last month, Yahoo is making some changes to its newsfeed that will presumably attempt to boost interest and improve the overall experience of reading the news.

Microsoft burns Google in leaked, and maybe too real video

May 16, 2013 12:07 PM Meghan Kelly

Meghan Kelly

A "don't get Scroogled" Microsoft video leaked out to the world today mimicking Google's most recent Chrome advertisement.

Time Warner Cable could buy a piece of Hulu’s pie, report says

May 16, 2013 7:37 AM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

Media company Time Warner could be weighing a deal to buy a stake in streaming video service Hulu.

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Big media is helping social curation startup Mass Relevance grow like gangbusters

May 16, 2013 6:32 AM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

Editor's Pick Over the last few years media companies and brands have turned to Mass Relevance's social curating platform for plenty of projects, and now the startup said it's hitting some big milestones.

SimulTV launches a single-screen ‘second screen’ experience

May 15, 2013 8:21 PM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

Who needs a second screen when you can use one screen to watch, share, and see what others are saying about life television entertainment? Today SimulTV launched a new online TV-viewing app that integrates social, eliminating the need for two screens.

Google to Microsoft: kill your YouTube app ‘immediately’

May 15, 2013 5:59 PM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

Google has asked Microsoft to remove its homebrew YouTube app from the Windows Store immediately, and requested that it delete the app from Windows Phone users who have already downloaded it.

YouTube opens livestreaming for most channels

May 15, 2013 1:39 PM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

YouTube will now let channel owners do it live... streaming, that is.

Google’s latest Nexus phone is an unlocked Samsung Galaxy S4 with pure Android

May 15, 2013 10:21 AM Ricardo Bilton

Ricardo Bilton

Google is kicking the Samsung out of the Samsung Galaxy S IV with its own custom version of the device.

Google announces its Spotify competitor, Google Play Music ‘All Access’ — ‘radio without rules’

May 15, 2013 9:57 AM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

After months of speculation and rumors, Google finally announced its own streaming music service called Google Music All Access today at its annual Google I/O developer conference.

Apple is a price-fixing ringmaster, U.S. says; Apple says that’s ‘absurd’

May 15, 2013 7:32 AM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

"Apple has not 'conspired' with anyone, was not aware of any alleged 'conspiracy' by others, and never fixed prices," the company stated in a reply to the suit.

Automated video editing app Magisto launches one of Google’s first ‘native’ Chrome apps

May 15, 2013 7:16 AM Sean Ludwig

Sean Ludwig

Just ahead of Google I/O, "magic" movie editing application Magisto has announced it is one of the first apps to launch on Google Chrome’s packaged app platform.