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AP - Erin O’Brien and her friends are do-it-yourself investors.
CNET - If you’re still hanging on to your first-generation iPod Nano, and you’ve noticed it has a tendency to smoke too much, Apple is willing to replace the unit.
AP - The International Olympic Committee is trying to stop downloads of video of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony that are being spread on The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing Web site.
AP - The Wall Street Journal launched a wireless application for BlackBerry smart phones Tuesday as news organizations look for opportunities to tap an emerging market for mobile advertising.
NewsFactor - After lots of complaints about iPhone 3G connection issues, Apple released a firmware update Monday with hopes it would fix the issues. But early reports suggest it didn’t work as planned.
Reuters - Rock stars may have to rein in their
taste for loud music after a fan overheard U2 frontman Bono
listening to tracks from the group’s forthcoming album and
recorded them before posting the songs on the Internet.
Macworld.com - Noble Master Games on Tuesday announced a new Web site called the Java Game Tome. It focuses on highlighting games that have been written in the Java programming language.
AP - U.S. consumers have been buying significantly fewer cell phones but paying higher prices for them, according to a research firm.
AP - U.S. consumers have been buying significantly fewer cell phones but paying higher prices for them, according to a research firm.
Reuters - German politicians called for tougher
privacy laws on Tuesday after officials revealed personal and
financial information on millions of Germans was readily
available for cash on the Internet.
AP - A research firm says U.S. consumers bought significantly fewer cell phones in the second quarter.
Reuters - A man described by prosecutors as a
terrorism “Mr Fix-it” who recruited young people to al Qaeda’s
ideology over the Internet, was jailed for 12 years on Tuesday
while one of his accomplices received a 10 year term.
AFP - Japan on Tuesday warned users of Apple iPod nanos of a potential fire risk after two new instances in which the popular portable music players overheated.
AP - Japan is investigating a possible battery defect in the popular iPod Nano music player after reports that two overheated in Tokyo, scorching nearby paper and a woven straw mat, a government official said Tuesday.
CNET - Add the University of Michigan’s annual American Customer Satisfaction Index for the e-business sector to the list of surveys that show Google is doing really, really well.
AP - Japan will start an aggressive push to market abroad its mobile technology, especially the nation’s popular “wallet phone,” a government official said Tuesday.
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Reuters - Wireless operator Softbank Corp (9984.T)
said on Tuesday it would offer mobile phones from Casio
Computer Co (6952.T) by the end of the year, broadening a
handset lineup that already includes Apple Inc’s
iPhone.
Following our analysis of Social Media Deals, we’ve pleased to announce our first Online Advertising Deals Report, charting activity in venture capital and mergers & acquisitions from Q107 to Q208. This sector continues to drive online content, reaching annual revenues of 0-800 billion.
The report breaks down these investments and acquisitions into major categories and contains industry analysis from:
– A future trends piece by Lauren Rich Fine, Practitioner-in-residence at Kent State University and former Managing Director in Merrill Lynch’s Equity Research Department.
– Douglas Anmuth, Senior Internet Analyst for Lehman Brothers, with his presentation at our EconAds Conference held recently in NYC
The rest of the data is derived from our own reporting at paidContent.org, mocoNews.net, ContentSutra.com and paidContent:UK, and supplemented with coverage of EconAds.
Order your report to learn about increased activity from AOL (NYSE: TWX), Aegis Group, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Draper Fisher Jurvetson and more.
VC Investments:
– Total number of investments:160
– Total number of disclosed investments: 137 valued at ,925,830,000
– Average investment size: ,057,153
– Best estimated value of overall investment in the space (disclosed and undisclosed): ,126,620,000
Acquisitions:
– Total number of acquisitions: 100
– Total number of disclosed acquisitions: 46 valued at ,535,320,000
– Average acquisition size: 7,313,415
– Best estimated value of overall transaction in the space (disclosed and undisclosed): ,594,510,000
The charts below provide a topline overview of how the money was spent (click thumbnails for better view):
Social Media Deals Report: This 199-page report, filled with charts and data, examines the categories, number and size of VC and M&A deal in social media from 2007 through 2008. Visit the ContentNext Reports page
– Glam Media: The company has hired Yukihiro Yamamura as CEO of its new subsidiary Glam Media Japan KK and VP of Glam Media. No stranger to the CEO position, Yamamura previously held the post at DoubleClick Japan, and earlier, Excite Japan. Thus starts the Japanese expansion of the online ad network…it plans to officially launch its Japanese site and publisher network later this year.
– Greenspun Media: The Las Vegas Sun publisher has named Rob Curley as president and executive editor, and Chris Jennewein as SVP and publisher of the interactive division, Editor & Publisher reports. Curley, now in charge of the operations and editorial departments, was previously VP-product development at WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive. Most recently, Jennewein headed up internet operations as VP at the San Diego Union-Tribune.
– Marchex: Local search and ad company Marchex has named several new exec hires. Sloan Seymour is joining as VP-Marchex Adhere, Ed O’Keefe has been named VP-performance marketplaces, Brooks McMahon has been appointed VP-partner development and Leigh McMillan has been upped to SVP-marketing and communications. Seymour was most recently president and CEO at Ziff Davis Enterprise/Media. O’Keefe was previously director-product management and innovation at R.H. Donnelley, while McMahon joins from Getty (NYSE: GYI) Images.
– Federated Media: Justin Nesci has signed on as SVP-sales and marketing, having previous led online ad initiatives as Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), MTVN/Nickelodeon and IMG. He will be responsible for sales strategy and the sales staff.
Check out the best business jobs in digital media. Go here for paidContent.org Job Board.