Orange takes on YouTube? Telco buys 49% stake in Dailymotion
French telecommunications provider Orange is in talks with video hosting site Dailymotion to buy a 49% interest for EU58.8m (£50.8m).
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Black Eyed Peas create augmented reality music video with ‘Will.i.apps’
Music act The Black Eyed Peas have launched BEP360, an iPad, iPhone and iPod touch app that features ‘the world`s first 360-degree view music video’.
Cadbury’s case study: Digital campaign generates over £3 for every pound spent
Cadbury’s recently ran a cross-media campaign for its Dairy Milk brand, covering TV, online ads and YouTube promoted videos. Despite only investing 7% of its budget in online, the brand saw the sector generate 20% of the sales. This case study from Gfk NOP highlights to growing power of online advertising in the marketing mix…
I can haz $30m? Lolcats blog network gets funding boost
The Cheezburger Network, owner of popular blogs such as ICanHasCheezburger, FAILBlog and PunditKitchen, has raised $30 million in venture capital.
Groupon CEO sorry for Japan’s new year meal blunder
The CEO of group-buying discount site Groupon has apologised to Japanese customers Monday for a New Year’s deal gone wrong.
Children ‘need more help to block online threats’
Internet companies should provide more ways for children to block, filter or report alarming online content and contacts, recommends a new study for the European Commission.
Online video rentals ‘failed to live up to hype’ in 2010
Despite years of big growth and even bigger hype, the network-delivered rental and sale of videos continued to represent only a small portion of the U.S. home video entertainment market in 2010, as consumers flocked to buy and rent Blu-ray discs, according to Screen Digest, now part of IHS.
Right to Reply: Is a two-speed internet the end of the internet? Well, yes…
BT has been accused of undermining one of the founding principles of the internet – that of “net neutrality” – by creating a two-tier system which would allow content providers on its network to charge for a faster video delivery service. Under BT’s new Content Connect feature, ISPs can charge content owners for a premium … [Read more…]
Dominos iPhone app generates £1m in pizza sales
Domino’s Pizza has topped pizza sales of £1million with its iPhone ordering app.
Video: What 20 minutes on Facebook looked like in 2010
Over the past year the 500 million people who use Facebook worldwide uploaded more than 2.7 million photographs, shared 1 million links and ‘Liked’ 7.6 million pages every 20 minutes, the social networking compnay has revealed.