Posts Tagged with ‘AOL’

Just who are Google, AOL and Yahoo! chasing in China anyway? Let's take a look at China's top search engine Baidu.com and see who is making all the ad dollars in China right now.
It seems like every day I have the opportunity to report on either a Google blunder in the international market, or some move by AOL or Yahoo! towards capturing a market somewhere. Baidu just reported their first quarter revenue of 35.6 million dollars, up over 100 percent [...]

Good old AOL just launched a Web portal in India that combines IM, email and local content from Bollywood and other media. AOL has set its sights on the ad revenue being gobbled up by competitors Yahoo! and MSN and India's local companies. The online ad market in India is only a fraction of the $3 billion dollar total advertising market there but is growing at a geometric rate.
According to AOL's President Ron Grant, AOL will pay close attention to customers and [...]

Time Warner’s AOL is poised to announce production deals for new Web programming today. The new partnership will include deals with Mark Burnett (survivor), Dreamworks Animation, Madison Road, Telepictures and others. According to the story via Reuters/Yahoo! the deals will feature games based on “Shrek”, trivia games from Burnett’s “Gold Rush” and a link with the Ellen Degeneres Show allowing users to share their personal stories.
AOL CEO Randy Falco is expected to update their subscription based access to an advertising [...]

The scoop of the last few days has been the Google acquisition of DoubleClick for a reported $3.1 billion. This acquisition gives Google access to DoubleClick's advertising software and their relative position with Web publishers and ad constituents.
DoubleClick works ad displays for sites like MySpace and AOL. The most significant aspect of this deal, beyond the $3 billion price tag, is the fact that Google and Microsoft have been in a duel for online ad revenue and Google is slamming Microsoft so [...]

Next New Networks is a new startup by former MTV and Nickelodeon executives Herb Scannell and Fred Seibert. The cable TV innovators are getting back together to start a series of video web sites that they have dubbed “micro-networks”. The topics of these networks are to be niche topics like fashion, comic books, car racing and cartoons.
According to a story by Brad Stone of the NYT, the company will announce that it has received $8 million in seed capital, partly [...]

Pando and Musicrypt partner for an unbeatable solution to secure media transfer. Musicrypt Inc. and Pando Networks, Inc., announced that they have entered into a licensing agreement expanding their relationship. Musicrypt proved they could integrate Pando's unique technology with their own Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) to provide the fastest, most secure delivery of large digital content like TV commercials, music videos and audio files over the Internet.
Incorporating Pando Networks' innovative peer-to-peer architecture within DMDS will provide the fastest, most secure full [...]

With the popularity of Web 2.0 comes an issue with multiple registrations for its adoptees; interactive sites require log-ins, and you'll soon find your list of log-ins requires a better memory than an elephant, as well as feel like you've given your email address to every person in the world. Stepping in to assist is the OpenID project, which allows you to create a single point of registry for any sites adopting its use, with the ability to create [...]

24-7PressRelease - February 16, 2007 - On Valentine's day bigmouthmedia and Global Media finally integrated the two companies for a match made in …Well made in the UK, which I suppose is heaven to my pals on those beautiful Islands. So now Global is part of bigmouthmedia and all their UK and USA clients will now be under the bigmouthmedia banner.
Global Media is one of the premier web marketing companies that have been focused on Continental Europe and Asia. Bigmouthmedia [...]

Today I have seen the new Google's special Valentine's Day logo on TechCrunch - I am sure someone in the company will have a really bad Valentine's day (and not because of being lonely but because of the logo). I think that Valentine's Day must really be a Web 2.0 holiday with so many companies engaged in it - even important enough for Google to use a special logo (definitely created in a hurry but still). I also hope you [...]