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Content optimization platform RAMP gobbles up $15 million
Twitter is stepping up its ties with the entertainment industry by eying some high-profile media executives for spots on its board of directors.
Newsblur, a social newsreader that helps you find relevant news and features in the mass of digital content, has released its iPad app.
The first users of Minit, an iPhone app to record and screen short videos, may have found themselves revealing intimate life stories to Noa Tishby, a supermodel, actress, and technology entrepreneur.
While it only invests in films with budgets of under $5 million, Chenal Media took $7 million to develop, coproduce, and distribute them.
Amazon and NBC have been getting down to business, and the fruits of their labors are more instant video offerings for Amazon Prime customers.
The online music service MOG has sold its ad network to huge media holding company Townsend Media for an undisclosed amount. The music service itself was bought by Beats Electronics just last month.
New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been reportedly attempting to recruit Twitter VP Katie Jacobs Stanton to boost the company's media products.
AwesomenessTV is so awesome that they snagged $3.5 million in a first round of investment.
What does their awesomeness consist of? Creating original video content for teens and tweens. It is like regular TV, but on the Internet. Which makes …
Facebook Stories launched yesterday and my reaction was a kind of "meh." But today I think I completely missed the point. In the fresh light of a new dawn, I think it's nothing less than the future of news.
Yahoo has just launched the newest version of IntoNow, its TV companion app, and it’s bringing a boatload of new features to tablet and smartphone devices.
IntoNow is the media-centric company’s television sidekick “experience.” It brings avid TV fans a …
The Echo System, a company that helps brands measure the impact of their social-network initiatives, released its Echo Rank results for June today. The results show that online retailers with solid “social” customer engagement strategies vastly outperform laggards.
In fact, …
The debate over native apps versus mobile web rages on: which is better, which is more accessible, which is more customer-friendly.
VEVO just provided its answer by giving 50 million music lovers in the U.S. and Canada access to the …
A bill created by all four parties in the Russian parliament would censor the internet in Russia, creating a unified blacklist to block access to websites containing “banned pornography, drug ads and promoting suicide or extremist ideas.”
The bill, which …
HootSuite, the service that 79 of the world’s Fortune 100 companies use to manage their social media presence, just added apps for Instagram, SlideShare, Edocr, and Zuum in its App Directory.
The company provides a unified interface where social media …
InSites Consulting, a market research firm with feet on both sides of the Atlantic, just released its six-country social-in-the-enterprise report. And it includes some surprising results, including a key difference between American and European companies.
The most obvious result of …
Roku’s product chief, Tom Markworth, sat down with VentureBeat at South By Southwest to show off the company’s latest, as-yet-unreleased bit of hardware: the streaming stick.
These teeny, weeny gadgets will connect smart TVs to a plethora of over-the-top content, …
Fashion and style media company StyleCaster is just a few days away from launching a redesigned site that’s heavily influenced by social media darling Pinterest and blogging service Tumblr.
StyleCaster’s main website, Stylecaster.com, and its social channels offer news and …
There wasn’t much explanation given yesterday when TechCrunch editor-in-chief Erick Schonfeld stepped down. But a scoop from PaidContent this afternoon reveals why AOL might have been looking to shake things up. Traffic has fallen almost 35% since founder Mike Arrington …
