Archives: 2011 August 25
RIM unveils new cloud-based music service (Reuters)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
(Reuters) – Canadian Research In Motion Ltd. will unveil a new cloud-based social music sharing service called Music BBM, companies are beginning to focus on entertainment delivered over the Internet that integrates social networking features. Research in Motion, the maker of BlackBerry phones, has said that the music selected by Universal Music Group, Sony Music [...]
SK Telecom says no plan to bid for Hulu (Reuters)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea's largest mobile operator SK Telecom, said on Thursday that it had no plans to offer the U.S. online video site Hulu. Said "We are aware that Hulu is for sale, but we do not plan to attend the auction," an SK Telecom spokeswoman. The operators have had as to the [...]
Amazon brings new local deals site to more cities (AP)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
SAN FRANCISCO – Amazon.com Inc. is expanding its new local website offers in New York and other parts of the country, hoping to delight consumers flock to discount their offer because they have taken Groupon market leader. With the additions, the amazon LocalService be operational in 30 locations in 10 states, all in about three [...]
Hulu seen drawing bids from Yahoo, others: sources (Reuters)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The deadline for submissions in the first auction for Hulu extended Wednesday until the end of the week to give interested parties more time to investigate reports of online video financial site, according to people familiar with the situation. Yahoo, Google Inc., DirecTV and Amazon.com were among those preparing to submit [...]
StubHub Launches Mobile Ticketing System With San Francisco Giants (Mashable)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
Participate in a Giants game? Go to print tickets at home and use a mobile ticket StubHub for entrance into place. The new service owned by eBay, StubHub ticket marketplace to update their applications to iPhone and Android supports mobile ticketing on Thursday. MLB San Francisco Giants is the first organization to work with StubHub. [...]
HOW TO: Space Out Your Tweets Without Being Online All Day (Mashable)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
The Spark of Genius series brings a unique function of start-ups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark .. If you want to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see details here Name: Buffer [More from Mashable: iPhone app provides continuous video playlists from YouTube] Quick Pitch: Buffer will help you build a tweet [...]
Wave of 40,000 tweets followed East Coast earthquake (Reuters)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Only a minute after the magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck Tuesday in Virginia and shook much of the east coast, an online copy of 40,000 tweets frames online. Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Center has an additional 15,000 "likes" on Facebook before the advance of Hurricane Irene. Social networks are becoming increasingly important to [...]
Google to pay $500 million over online drug ads (Reuters)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
One of the activities of Internet search engine Google Inc. is displayed on a computer in Encinitas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Google Inc. has agreed to pay $ 500 million to settle a criminal probe into the accepted advertising for Canadian online pharmacies selling drugs in the United States, said the U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday. [...]
WGA signs internet news writer-producer contract (Reuters)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – The Writers Guild of America West, has signed its first contract for the Web newsroom. The contract includes Internet writer and producer working on the CBS studios in Los Angeles, the guild announced Wednesday. The writer and producers voted unanimously to be represented by the WGAW late July 2009. In the [...]
False ad suit can proceed versus Groupon: attorney (Reuters)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
An online coupon sent via e-mail from Groupon is depicted on the screen of a laptop in Los Angeles Oakland, California (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has said that parties to a lawsuit can proceed against misleading advertising Groupon online coupon distributor, according to a lawyer who has attended a court hearing on Wednesday. A [...]
