Europeans Want Their Online TV
Europeans like their TV viewing as much as Americans and nearly half are watching television on the Internet, according to a study from Motorola. The days of waiting until primetime to watch favorite shows are going by the wayside as users are taking control of their viewing. The European study, which surveyed 2,500 broadband users [...]
Oddball YouTube Awards Announced Far, Wide
The winners of the first ever YouTube Video Awards have been announced, and ninjas and treadmill-hopping pop stars, among others, ruled the day. Almost as interesting is the amount of attention the awards have gotten in the mainstream media. MSNBC, ABC, and FOX. Newsday, the Chicago Sun Times, and the New York Times. Even sources [...]
Yahoo Unveils Major Mobile Initiative
Yahoo’s not screwing around with the mobile market. Judging from the string press releases coming out of Sunnyvale, they mean business. The company launched a major initiative today across 19 countries, called Mobile Publisher Services, to better enable content providers to distribute and monetize their wares. And of course, Yahoo gets a nice chunk of [...]
Yahoo, Eurosport To Create New “Powerhouse”
According to Yahoo and Eurosport, a new agreement between the companies will create “Europe’s leading online sports news and community sport site.” This Great and Magnificent Thing (which lacks a name at present) should come into existence in May, and rollout will initially be limited to the UK, Germany, and Italy. Don’t be turned off [...]
Yahoo Europe Revises Minimum Bid Pricing
It may be a cliche, but it remains true: There’s no such thing as a bad sale. And one search engine company just initiated a heck of a sale – more like a permanent price cut, actually – on its minimum bid prices. Americans may want to get out their currency calculators, though, because these [...]
Wikio Receives $5.3 Million In Funding
Wikio, which is basically a European version of Digg (more on that later), just received a considerable amount of funding to continue its growth. Reports indicate that Lightspeed Venture Partners and Gemini Israel Funds have endowed the company with $5.3 million. In terms of what the company does, Pierre Chappaz, Wikio’s chairman, posted a relevant [...]
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