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Why we are buying paidContent
gigaom.com
First the news: Yes, the rumors are true. We are indeed buying the assets of ContentNext Media from Guardian News & Media Limited. And no, we are not disclosing the terms of the deal, except that we are buying the entire group of properties — paidContent.org, mocoNews.net, contentSutra and paidContent:UK...
Flipboard CEO: We’ll soon have more downloads in China than the US
thenextweb.com
Flipboard CEO Mick McCue has revealed that its number of downloads in China will “easily surpass” those in the US in the near future, as its move to create a Chinese operations begins to reap rewards. The company launched a Chinese service last December, which included a dedicated editorial team before adding iPhone...
Tumblr’s editorial hires lead to “Storyboard,” a hub to feature creative users
thenextweb.com
Back in early February, word got out that Tumblr had hired an editorial team to surface noteworthy content from the network. Now, Tumblr has announced the results of this initiative, which takes the form of Storyboard, a hub for in-depth conversations with Tumblr’s creative community. We had known that Tumblr’s editorial team...
GigaOm Buys PaidContent (Like Peter Kafka Said)
allthingsd.com
GigaOm finally fessed up and said that it had bought another tech and media news site PaidContent, as AllThingsD.com media ninja Peter Kafka had reported earlier this week it would. The price is reportedly low, according to sources, and we’ll find out for you since GigaOm or the former...
Smule launches AutoRap for iOS and Android, Engadget's editors drop some mad beats (video)
www.engadget.com
Sure, we're often mistaken for some of hip-hop's illest emcees in our day-to-day lives, but the sad truth is that Engadget's editorial team could use a little help with our flow. Thankfully, technology has come to the rescue, yet again -- this time in the form of AutoRap, the...
Tape.tv Raises $6.2 million To Begin An International Roll-Out
techcrunch.com
tape.tv has been around for a while – since July 2008 to be exact. It operates like a mix between an online version of MTV and Pandora. Just like the latter service, on Tape.tv users can skip, like or dislike the videos as they play, so the service starts to...
Asana launches premium workspaces, setting its sights on being the most important business tool next to email
thenextweb.com
We’re a company of Asana users. While not perfect, it’s about as close as we’ve come to finding a fast, versatile, real time project management tool that works for our team across the board – from our managing editors, through to our developers and designers. Last week I was offered...
Asana launches premium workspaces, setting its sights on being the most important business tool next to email
SMX East Agenda Launched! Join Us Oct. 2-4 in NYC - Register Today, Save $400
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Attend SMX East and get expert insights and real-world-proven tactics that yield results instantly. The multi-track agenda, developed by the editorial team of Search Engine Land, includes over 50 sessions on SEO, PPC, local/mobile search, social media marketing and more. Register today and save... Please visit Search Engine Land for...
Meet Our New Editors: Ted Greenwald and Fredric Paul
www.readwriteweb.com
Since ReadWriteWeb was acquired by SAY Media in December, we've been busy beefing up our editorial and writing team. Today I'm pleased to welcome Fredric Paul and Ted Greenwald to our growing team. Fred as our Business Editor, Ted as a Senior Editor. The two will be based in SAY...
Search Engine Land’s SMX West Starts Next Week! Register Now!
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Learn powerful & profitable SEM tactics from over 130+ expert speakers. Join us in San Jose, February 28 to March 1 for Search Marketing Expo SMX West! Programmed by the Search Engine Land editorial team, the multi-track agenda covers leading-edge tactics for SEO, PPC, mobile search and... Please visit...
Meet our new NYC startup reporter
gigaom.com
I’m very pleased to introduce a new member of our editorial team, Ki Mae Heussner. Ki Mae will be writing about New York startups, with a particular focus on e-commerce and advertising technology. With the former, she’ll be covering innovations like subscription commerce, flash sales and social shopping. With the...
Did you know you could sell your private company stock?
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This sponsored post is produced by Sharepost. Many people have pre-IPO stock, but don’t know they can sell it before their company goes public. Depending upon the restrictions in the stock agreement, employees can often sell their stock. Companies like SharesPost Financial Corporation are helping sellers sell their shares and...
AllThingsD Is Launching a Timeline of Tech on Facebook -- and We Need Your Help
allthingsd.com
Click here to: go to our new Timeline or share your top tech on Facebook There aren’t too many techie happenings that are greeted with grumpy ire as when Facebook makes an interface change. So when the social networking site rolled out Timeline to brand pages a few weeks back,...
BuzzFeed Surpasses 30 Million Users And Is On Track To Triple 2011 Revenue
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Jonah Peretti recently sent an email to BuzzFeed employees titled The Top 7 Reasons BuzzFeed Is Killing It. One of its investors, Chris Dixon, republished it with permission on his blog. According to Peretti's email, BuzzFeed surpassed 30 million users last month, up from 20 million in April. The growth...
Tape.tv, a Pandora for video, targets British launch
gigaom.com
With news of its long-delayed German launch, it’s worth remembering that Spotify isn’t just a music player these days — it’s a platform. And one interesting app that appeared there on Tuesday was from Tape.tv, a service that aims to fill the gap left by the old MTV. Tape.tv is...
Hipstamatic Makes an iPad Magazine Out of User Photos
allthingsd.com
Hipstamatic today is releasing a free app called Snap that will house a monthly photography magazine with pictures from Hipstamatic users and other artists and print from a Hipstamatic editorial team. Snap elaborates on the Hipstamatic aesthetic, with interviews with subjects like musicians and tattoo artists accompanied by pictures notated...
PlayHaven Highlighting LTV maximization at Mobile Gaming USA
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This sponsored post is produced by Max Rollinger, Director of Mobile Gaming USA. As the mobile gaming industry becomes increasingly more competitive, maximizing the amount of time that audiences spend on your games is crucial in order to achieve engagement and monetization goals. That’s why we sat down with Ryan Hoover,...
LOGIN Conference is ready for Silicon Valley this September
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This sponsored post is produced by LOGIN Conference. LOGIN Conference is the conference for developers, professionals, executives, venture capitalists, and designers in the online game industry, including Facebook game development, MMOG development, Xbox Live and PlayStation Network development, iPhone/iPad development, Android development, and digital distribution. This annual conference will be hosted...
Plug and Play EXPO Showcases New Tech Startups
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This sponsored post is produced by Plug and Play Tech Center. On June 7th, 30 new tech startups, 75 VCs and a crowd of 500 attendees will descend on Plug and Play Tech Center’s main campus in Sunnyvale for the annual Summer EXPO. This year’s event will feature a special...
Raising a seed round? Apply to the Founder Showcase by Friday 6/29
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This sponsored is produced by The Founder Showcase. Are you an early-stage startup looking for funding or exposure? Then apply to the Founder Showcase, Silicon Valley’s leading seed-stage pitch competition. This competition is 100% free: previous presenters have raised over $40 million without ever being required to pay a dime....
The next wave of social at Glimpse: the social discovery conference
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This sponsored post is produced by Glimpse. People. Products. Places. Three p’s you can discover using your social networks. Want to know how to uncover new ways to live, learn, share, decide and buy? Find out by attending Glimpse, the first conference focusing on social discovery on June 6 in...
Dow Jones’ SmartMoney magazine goes online-only
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SmartMoney, the Wall Street Journal’s twenty-year-old personal finance magazine, is ceasing print production and going online-only. Twenty-five print staffers are losing their jobs (though they’re “eligible to re-apply for open positions”) and the digital editorial team is expanding to 15 people. The September issue will be SmartMoney’s last print issue. Staff...
Score your free pass to Business Insider’s Mobile Advertising Conference!
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This sponsored post is produced by Business Insider. Hey VentureBeat readers: want to hear about the future of mobile advertising from Google, Nielsen, ESPN, Bravo, 1800Flowers, Flurry, and the IAB? Come to Business Insider’s “Mobile Advertising Conference,” where publishers, advertisers and technologists convene to discuss the latest practices, consumer behavior...
100 Words or Less: Microsoft Launches msnNOW Social News Portal for Info Snackers
siliconfilter.com
When was the last time you used an old-school Internet portal like Yahoo's homepage or MSN? Chances are, it's been a while. Now that more and more of us are getting our news from a wide variety of sources, the Internet portals that were once important in the 90s have...
The 20 Best iOS And Android Apps Of 2012 (So Far)
techcrunch.com
Editor’s note: Brad Spirrison is the Managing Editor of mobile app discovery services Appolicious, AndroidApps.com (which includes the Appolicious Android App) and AppVee. This is his third year of writing a semi-annual TechCrunch post on top mobile apps. Halfway into 2012, there are now more than 1.2 million mobile applications...
We’re hiring a Product Manger
gigaom.com
You read GigaOM ever day. You’re an experienced, media-savvy Product Manager. And you’re not only bursting with ideas about how to build the next generation of GigaOM, but you’ve got the experience and skills to help our team do it. We want to hear from you. As Product Manager for...
The open internet - who's had the most impact?
www.guardian.co.uk
We've chosen a list of 20 people who have influenced the open internet. But who are we missing? Leave your nominations in a comment before we put it to a voteThe Guardian's Open 20 was compiled by asking a simple question – who are the people, in your view, who've...
Instagram Now Notifies You When Facebook Friends Join
www.fastcompany.com
News updates all day from Fast Company.As members of our editorial team noticed today, the Instagram app now notifies you when Facebook and Twitter friends join the service. This hookup could swiftly kick up activity, and by extension, user numbers, on the photo sharing service with its estimated 50 million users....
GigaOM buying ContentNext Media, will pick up paidContent, mocoNews, and other sites
venturebeat.com
Technology blog GigaOM has agreed to purchase ContentNext Media, which owns paidContent, mocoNews, and several other websites with odd capitalization choices, the company announced today. The move will help GigaOM increase its presence in New York City and Europe. The combined group of GigaOM and ContentNext will represent “more...
Tumblr Is Now Hiring Writers To Cover Tumblr
www.businessinsider.com
Tumblr has hired Chris Mohney, a senior VP for content at Blackbook, and Jessica Bennett, a senior writer and editor at Newsweek/The Daily Beast, to cover... well, Tumblr. As we reported, Tumblr had plans to hire an editorial team to cover its content, and the New York Times' Brian...
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