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Sky Invests £250m On Internet And Content To Phones
News We have today announced a major investment in Sky New Media Ventures to develop sky.com to enhance the presence of the Sky brand and content in the new media field, with the objective of skysports.com becoming the number one sports portal...
[February 9, 2000, 12:20]
Sky Shares Skyrocket On Online Strategy
News We have today announced a major investment in Sky New Media Ventures to develop sky.com to enhance the presence of the Sky brand and content in the new media field, with the objective of skysports.com becoming the number one sports portal...
[February 10, 2000, 9:00]
Next Windows Media Player Touts Services
News Judging by the most recent test version of the software, which CNET News.com observed in action on Tuesday, Windows Media Player 9 is chock full of new features, some of them like those on competing products.
[August 7, 2002, 8:36]
AOL Co-founder Steps Down
News In April he launched an investment company called Revolution that makes investments in healthcare and media companies as well as resorts and wellness centres. The multibillion-dollar merger between AOL and media conglomerate Time Warner came at the...
[November 1, 2005, 16:15]
Acacia Increasing Patent Arsenal
News In the streaming media business, a letter from Acacia Research usually means one thing: the threat of a patent lawsuit. But it has largely become famous in streaming-media circles for its litigiousness, cutting a swath through the online porn...
[December 17, 2004, 15:45]
US Report: Net Newcomer Zapata In Bizarre Bid For Excite
News People are talking fish-oil company goes to new media. What Zap became is a shell company with a lot of money that now has a focus on new media. Scott Baxter, CEO of magazine publisher, Icon said Zapata's move into media isn't such a sharp left turn.
[May 22, 1998, 10:13]
AOL More Popular Than Telly?
News A new brand study from media research firm the Myers Group found that consumers ranked America Online ahead of all of the major US television networks. In an overcrowded electronic media marketplace, brand equity is a new form of currency," he said.
[November 12, 1999, 9:57]
BT Sells Services To 'new Wave' Companies
News For one customer, Sugar, a new media company that makes Web sites and viral media campaigns (and looks to the uninitiated very much like other such new media companies), BT has arranged technical deals and technology.
[July 11, 2002, 8:48]
Online Advertising Set To Boom In 2003
News After a worse than expected performance this year, the Internet industry is expected to benefit from a surge in online advertising revenue, media buying firm Initiative Media believes. The pace of recovery in the Internet ad market is predicted to...
[December 13, 2002, 12:19]
Movielink: Bring On The Experts
News The venture's grand opening has been waylaid since earlier this year, when it named media industry veteran Jim Ramo to become chief executive. The service, which will sell downloads from a library of new and classic films over the Internet, has...
[July 11, 2002, 8:29]
Hopefuls Seek Slice Of Google's Search-ad Billions
News Clickable chief executive David S Kidder said that part of the growth plan in the next year will be to create a single 'Clickable' interface for other types of web advertising, including social media and display ads.
[July 30, 2008, 8:14]
Compaq Boosts Net Offering With Zip2 Acquisition
News Zip2 works with media companies -- including the New York Times and Knight-Ridder -- to help them develop local content guides. Local city guides have become a new battleground on the Internet, pitting off-line media companies against Internet...
[February 17, 1999, 11:03]
Unrest At BBC Shows Need For Better Outsourcing Management
News The UK government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which needs to approve the deal, announced it would begin its scrutiny in early September. It will use the acquisition as the basis for building a competency in broadcast and media...
[August 23, 2004, 12:10]
Showtime For New Video Compression
News While Microsoft is going its own way, it has incorporated some MPEG-4 technology into its Windows Media video format. Founded in 1998 by Adityo Prakash and Eniko Fodor, Pulsent has raised about $33.5m in two rounds of funding from JP Morgan...
[March 25, 2002, 11:51]
Gartner: Expanding Telcos Heading For Reality Check
News As revenue streams for seasoned services such as broadband and mobile decline, telcos are investing in new markets such as media or IT to compensate. But more than half of new ventures are expected to flop because telcos do not fully understand the...
[January 15, 2007, 14:48]
E-commerce Celebrates Double Figures
News Though the media was quick to credit NetMarket for breaking new ground, recognition from peers in the field is harder to come by. One of Kohn's Swarthmore College classmates purchased the CD with his credit card for $12.48 (£6.78), plus shipping...
[August 17, 2004, 11:00]
WildTangent Wins Sony Cash For Web Games
News WildTangent, whose technology uses Java to access Windows PCs' DirectX graphics capabilities, is betting that a combination of media effects will help it thrive where others have failed. With an investment by Sony, a small Web graphics company has...
[April 9, 2001, 10:44]
Power Line Broadband Boosted By Google
News EnerTech Capital and Liberty Associated, a partnership between Liberty Media and the Berkman family, also contributed to the new financing round. Last year, Current and Cinergy Broadband, a subsidiary of energy company Cinergy, announced that their...
[July 8, 2005, 15:40]
Joy Hails Web As Platform For The Future
News It's a media that has been difficult to integrate with the Web experience. Joy said he believes that the most successful ventures, whether in the technology world or elsewhere, will be those that avoid rigid hierarchies.
[September 30, 2005, 14:05]
Sizing Up Microsoft's Aquantive Deal
News Microsoft had been rumoured to be in talks to buy 24/7 Real Media, too. After Google said it was buying DoubleClick, Yahoo announced it was snapping up online ad exchange company Right Media for $680m.
[May 21, 2007, 9:43]
