Lionsgate Realizing 95% Margins on Digital Business

Sep 07, 2009

Submitted by Michaelfidler from YouTube: http://www.beet.tv/2009/07/lionsgate-realizing-95-margins-on-profitable-digital-business.htmlHOLLYWOOD, Calif -- Whoever said digital media wasn't profitable wasn't talking to Lionsgate's Curt Marvis.The president of digital media told Beet.TV that the company's digital business is realizing 95% profit margins across new me (Read More)

Top 10 Digital Media Products of 2008

Dec 18, 2008

ReadWriteWeb: There was lots of activity in the digital lifestyle space in 2008, with new devices, services, and platforms being launched and some of our favorites from last year getting significant updates. One notable trend throughout the year was the way these products and services began to converge; not in the sense that they were be (Read More)

Topics: digital, media, social media

Why We Need to Go Digital This Holiday

Dec 12, 2008

Submitted by Magitam from Google Reader: What I'm about to say will anger a lot of CE manufacturers, but this has been the laziest year in consumer electronics to date and I'm recommending that rather than spending money on the boring stuff that has come out in 2008 we all spend our money on digital media - games, music, audiobooks, ebooks, and the like. And I don (Read More)

Topics: digital, digital media, media

Screw The Downturn. Accel Raises A Cool Billion In New Funds

Dec 11, 2008

Submitted by Michaelfidler: Twenty five year old venture capital firm Accel Partners is announcing two new funds today that add more than $1 billion to their war chest: Accel Growth Fund at $480 million and Accel London III at $525 million. (Read More)

Topics: digital, digital media, internet

"Yes We Can" Director Releases Video About Science Commons

Dec 08, 2008

Submitted by Coreburn from Google Reader: Film director Jesse Dylan, the co-creator of the Emmy award winning Barack Obama support video Yes We Can has released a new work, this time explaining the Creative Commons Foundation's science initiative, Science Commons.Dylan, who coincidentally is the eldest son of folk legend Bob Dylan, uses his familiar style to aggreg (Read More)

Topics: media, digital, digital media

Youth-Oriented Media Company GoFish Raises $22.5 Million

Dec 06, 2008

Submitted by Sunil: GoFish, a digital media company that focuses on content geared towards children, teenagers, and their parents, has raised a $22.5 million funding round led by Panorama Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners, and Rembrandt Venture Partners. As part of the deal, Michael Jung, Mark Menell, and Richard Ling (from Panorama, Rustic Cany (Read More)

Topics: digital media, media, digital

Casual Internet Use Is Good for Kids, 3 Year Study Concludes

Nov 20, 2008

ReadWriteWeb: The ways young people use the internet everyday are transforming learning in ways that adults often fail to understand but represent major new opportunities that need to be taken advantage of by supportive educators. That's the conclusion of a major new study by 28 researchers over three years released today by the Univers (Read More)

Topics: internet, blog, digital

Weekly Wrapup: MySpace Profiles, IBM Blue Spruce, Windows Live, And More...

Nov 15, 2008

ReadWriteWeb: It's time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we analyzed the significance of MySpace's new profiles, looked at how Google is tracking flu trends, explored a partnership between an online finance tool and a newspaper, and more. On the product side, we brought you an exclus (Read More)

Topics: digital, digital media, internet

Instant Messaging Coming to Popular Mechanics, Seventeen

Nov 14, 2008

ReadWriteWeb: Hearst Magazines Digital Media Web sites, including Seventeen.com and PopularMechanics.com, are rolling out Instant Messaging functionality for their readers to communicate with. Can group chat keep fickle web readers on this publisher's web pages? We suspect that it could work well, but the first implementation we've se (Read More)

Topics: digital, digital media, media

NYT Losing Vivian Schiller to Become New CEO of NPR: Sam Whitmore Responds

Nov 11, 2008

ReadWriteWeb: What do you get when you move the head of digital media at one of the world's leading old-school press outfits into the CEO's office of an even hipper large music and news organization? We don't know, but we're excited to find out! Veteran media exec Vivian Schiller announced today that she's leaving her position as head (Read More)

Topics: digital, digital media, media

Free Ticket to NewTeeVee Live to Giveaway

Oct 30, 2008

ReadWriteWeb: Our friends at Gigaom are running the second annual NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco on November 13, 2008. It's an event focused on the online video arena and we have one free ticket to giveaway. To be in to win, all you need to do is leave a comment here telling us what your current favorite online tv or movie se (Read More)

Topics: digital, digital media, media

What's Next After Web 2.0? Here's What You Told Us...

Oct 15, 2008

ReadWriteWeb: Over the weekend we editorialized that the world financial crisis will have a big impact on where Web Technology is headed. Has the world arrived at one of those giant inflexion points, we asked, where one Web era is usurped by another? We asked you to leave a comment in the post telling us what you think will be next. Many (Read More)

Topics: technology, web, advertising

Bad Karma At contentSutra. Site Sputters After Being Bought By The Guardian.

Oct 05, 2008

TechCrunch: Only three months after the British newspaper publisher The Guardian Group bought Rafat Ali’s ContentNext Media and his collection of blogs for a reported $30 million, one of those blogs is sputtering badly. The blog in question is contentSutra, the Indian counterpart to its bigger and better known brother, paidConte (Read More)

Topics: blog, media, digital

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