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Over 2 billion hours of video watch by Netflix subscribers

Over 2 billion hours of video watch by Netflix subscribers

Netflix has been having a real hard time of late but as a customer of Netflix Canada I have to say that I have been very happy with my decision to become a subscriber and if the numbers are any […]

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Starts 2012 With Motivational Memo To Employees, Highlights Company Successes

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Starts 2012 With Motivational Memo To Employees, Highlights Company Successes

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong wants his employees to know that the company accomplished a lot in 2011 and will accomplish even more in 2012 and that’s why he sent off a 2,000-word motivational memo to his thousands of staffers on […]

Spotify Year In Review: Most Popular Music Streaming Tracks By Country

Spotify Year In Review: Most Popular Music Streaming Tracks By Country

2011 was an amazing year for Spotify, they launched with major label support in various countries including the United States, they integrated with Facebook for social music sharing purposes and they surpassed 2.5 million paying subscribers. Now as a big […]

Singapore Press Holdings Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Yahoo

Singapore Press Holdings Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Yahoo

Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) on Wednesday filed a copyright infringement against Yahoo! claiming that the company plagiarized the company’s various publications. SPH, owners of the Singapore Straits Times and various other publications filed their suit to fight a counterclaim filed […]

HuffPo Cries Uncle in NYT ‘Parentlode’ Spat

HuffPo Cries Uncle in NYT ‘Parentlode’ Spat

The Huffington Post has publicly- and passive-aggressively- ceded the name for its new parenting channel, announcing to readers that it never really wanted the “Parentlode” moniker for its new vertical in the people-with-kids arena. In case you missed it, HuffPo […]

Web Users Still Use Search Engines To Find Popular Portals

Web Users Still Use Search Engines To Find Popular Portals

With the internet an integrated part of many people’s lives it might surprise some of our readers to learn that search engines are still the preferred choice of navigation for many online users. A recent study conducted by Experian Hitwise […]

SOPA Support Withdrawn By GoDaddy After Mass Customer Exodus

SOPA Support Withdrawn By GoDaddy After Mass Customer Exodus

GoDaddy on Friday announced their withdrawal of support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The announcement comes after thousands of customers began abandoning the company for its support of the program. One of those customers was Ben Huh who’s I […]

Louis CK’s Experiment Clocks $1M in Sales, Comic Donates $280K to Charity

Louis CK’s Experiment Clocks $1M in Sales, Comic Donates $280K to Charity

So, Louis CK’s experiment– self-producing, distributing and selling a successful comedy special without the use of services like iTunes- seems to be a rollicking success. The latest update on the comic’s figures (and very humbly astonished reaction to such) comes […]

AOL Responds To Starboard Value Shake-Up, Moves Forward With Business As Planned

AOL Responds To Starboard Value Shake-Up, Moves Forward With Business As Planned

Activist investment fund Starboard Value has purchased a 4.5 percent stake in AOL Inc. and have requested a meeting with company CEO Tim Armstrong to discuss what they consider to be strategic failings. In their letter the company calls AOL […]

Yahoo Extends Facebook Stories Sharing, Hopes To Engage Longer With Readers

Yahoo Extends Facebook Stories Sharing, Hopes To Engage Longer With Readers

Yahoo on Wednesday announced the expansion of their Yahoo stories sharing feature via the Facebook social network. Originally launched for the company’s news section the sharing feature will now be included in 26 parts of Yahoo’s site including entertainment news section […]

Yahoo Minority Stake Bid Could Soon Arrive From Microsoft Consortium

Yahoo Minority Stake Bid Could Soon Arrive From Microsoft Consortium

Microsoft and their consortium of partners will soon enter their bid for a minority stake in Yahoo according to sources close to the deal. The Microsoft consortium is said to include some of the biggest names in the tech investment […]

Sarah Gavin Steps Down At AOL Europe

Sarah Gavin Steps Down At AOL Europe

AOL Europe is losing its vice president of marketing and communications as Sarah Gavin steps down from her role as the company looks to cut certain roles and consolidate others. Gavin has been with the company for almost six years, moving […]

Only six media companies control 90% of the content [Infographic]

Only six media companies control 90% of the content [Infographic]

As someone who consumes a lot of content on a daily basis even some of the information in this infographic came as a surprise to me; but the fact is that only six giant media companies control just about everything […]

Examiner.com, CBS Local Digital Media Hook Up

Examiner.com, CBS Local Digital Media Hook Up

National content network Examiner.com, a series of sites with verticals in a vast range of markets and regions, is teaming up with CBS Local Digital Media to produce lifestyle content for the latter. Examiner sites are part of Clarity Digital Media, […]