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Video AdTech Startup Teads Closes $5.2M Series A, From Partech & Elaia, To...
French video adTech startup Teads, which sells technology allowing publishers to embed video ads within articles that automatically play when they become visible on the user’s screen, has closed a $5.2...
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SFX Buys Readability Developer Arc90, Fame House and Tunezy To Give Its...
Electronic dance music is big business today, and SFX Entertainment, a producer of live events and other electronic dance music content, is making a big consolidation move to cement its position within...
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Pinterest Closes Another Copyright Hole, Inks A Deal With Getty Images, Will...
With a fresh $225 million in its pocket, Pinterest is gearing up to spend a little of it to build out its platform and the data that powers it - and close up a copyright hole in the process. Pinterest...
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Nielsen’s New SDK Adds Mobile Viewing To Its Traditional TV Ratings, Uses...
After months of trials, Nielsen today is announcing an SDK that will give it the ability to measure how people view TV on mobile apps and other digital formats - data that Nielsen plans to use...
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SoundCloud Turns Instagrams Into Next-Gen Album Art For Its Quarter Billion...
Two titans of user generated content team up today as SoundCloud begins letting you select from your Instagrams when choosing cover art for sounds and playlists you create. The integration with...
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Q Factor Raises $6.5M Series A To Fix Rich Media Delivery On Mobile By...
Q Factor, a U.S. startup that's aiming to fix media-rich content delivery on wireless devices so there's less - or even zero - waiting around to watch that video or access a large file, has closed a...
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Twitter Forcing Media Previews On Web Client Users Is Not Cool – But Feels...
And so it begins. Twitter, now firmly on the road to IPO, has equally firmly turned its attention to monetisation - which means it's turning on new features that are designed, first and foremost, with...
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YouTube Music Awards Were Chaos You’ll Never See On TV
Can YouTube create live content that inspires watercooler zeitgeist moments like television? Google's giving it a shot with the YouTube Music Awards, a celebration of do-it-yourself Internet culture...
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Nipping At Spotify, Deezer Passes 5M Paying Subs, Adds ‘Hear This’ And...
Spotify may be the world's biggest music streaming company, but rival Deezer is inching closer to its terrain: today the company revealed that it now has 5 million paying users globally and 30 million...
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Facebook Adds Reminders For Upcoming TV Show Airings To Its Android App
Facebook is now a TV guide. Or, at least, if you're using its Android app, you can now set reminders for upcoming episodes of TV shows in the U.S., on participating TV show Facebook Pages. A new...
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“F*ck You, Google+”, An Adorable Song About YouTube’s New Comments
Some YouTubers are not pleased about being forced onto Google+ for commenting, and one girl took a stand in the cutest, most profane way imaginable. “You ruined our site and called it integration / I'm...
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The “Dance In A Year” Video Becomes A Platform For Anyone To Learn A Skill In...
Ever since Karen X. Cheng was young, she exhibited a kind of bull-headed determination to reach any goal. First, it was learning how to spin notebooks on the tip of her index finger, like all the cool...
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Pew Social Media Study: 30% Of The U.S. Gets News Via Facebook; Reddit Has...
The Pew Research Center is today releasing comparative numbers looking at how U.S. adults use social networking sites to read news (a follow-on from earlier research focusing on two specific sites,...
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Facebook Picks SportStream To Beef Up Its Real-Time Sports Data For News Outlets
You post “Goal!!!!11!!” but who scored? Facebook's on a drive to host more sports talk and get its trends shown on the news, so today it's partnering with SportStream to structure, enhance, and make...
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Diary.com ‘Growing Like A Weed’ After Switch To Privacy Controls And $1.2M...
Recently we've seen the rise of a new wave of startups that give far more control back to users. They have avoided the public nature of Twitter and the – sometimes toxic – vagueness of Facebook which...
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Music Streaming Startup Rdio Lays Off Staff To ‘Improve Cost Structure And...
The music streaming business can be tough, with market leaders like Spotify growing like weeds but still loss-making. Today, some bad news from competitor Rdio, the music streaming service startup from...
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Technology Crossover Ventures Funds All Of Spotify’s $250M International...
Technology Crossover Ventures is making its biggest bet ever by backing the entirety of Spotify's new $250 million round, a source tells TechCrunch. The Wall Street Journal's report of Spotify raising...
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Once A Turntable Rival, Spotify App Soundrop Launches On Deezer As Co-Founder...
On the heels of Turntable.fm shutting down its recorded music listening rooms to focus on live events, Oslo-based rival Soundrop is doubling down on the social listening model. Today, to complement an...
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Samsung’s Music Partner 7digital Picks Up $1.6M Loan, Enters Into Reverse...
Some developments for 7digital, the UK-based music platform that powers download and streaming services for the likes of Samsung, HTC, T-Mobile and Pure: it has entered into acquisition talks and a...
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Facebook Testing A ‘Save For Later’ Feature, Chasing That Engagement Carrot
Facebook is looking at implementing an Instapaper- or Pocket-like “Save for Later” feature, according to AllThingsD. There's no offline access at the moment, however, so it seems more like a way to try...
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