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Hitwise is acquired
Experian Group announced today it had bought online metrics provider Hitwise for $240 million in cash. Hitwise has done an exemplary job of packaging and marketing analytics by hooking them onto relevant happenings on the web. Share/E-mail ...
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AT&T; U verse shows signs of life
[ uversephoto.jpg]AT&T has started offering their U-verse (video) users ability to remotely schedule program recordings, over the mobile and the web, according to a company press release. Typically, our response to this would have been like any TiVo user - yawn! But then we say this little nugget of information: Overall, AT&T U-verse TV has grown rapidly since January, with approximately 18,000 U-verse television and Internet subscribers currently in service ...
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What if Redstone ‘Googled’ Murdoch?
(Editor’s Note: The following piece was co-authored with Scott Karp, editor of Publishing2.com) One by one, the big media companies and the Internet giants have started to ante up for the big poker game over the future of the video content business. Google started it all with its acquisition of YouTube. Then GE’s NBC-Universal and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp responded by joining forces to create “NewCo,” which Comcast, the country’s largest cable company, also just joined ...
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VA Tech Tragedy Response Reveals Force of Web
It’s been impossible not to spend hours following links to all the publicly accessible sources of information about the Virginia Tech shootings over the last couple days. Facebook and MySpace pages, LiveJournals, and Flickr give us back story and the unfiltered play-by-play. Social web tools are a way of life for young people. And amidst ad hoc discussions on Fark, Digg, and many blogs, Facebook in particular emerged as a hub for transmission of information. “Social network” doesn’t begin to describe it ...
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Twitter Leaves the Nest
A little South by Southwest love, a lot of mainstream press ink, and some overloaded servers have convinced Obvious to turn Twitter, its little hotshot web and SMS service, into its own company. Evan Williams’ Obvious Corp. said this week that it’s spinning off the tool into its own firm. The time has come for Twitter to make that leap. We’re happy to announce that Twitter is graduating from the home of Obvious and becoming its own company—appropriately named, Twitter, Inc ...
