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Every phone geek loves to debate how long it’ll be before we’ve trashed our wallets in favor of paying for stuff with our phones in the real world — but what about online?
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Both Silicon Alley Insider and Mashable are reporting that Google is in talks to buy Web video provider Brightcove for $500 million to $700 million. If true, The move would make Google’s YouTube, the top consumer Web video site, a powerful player in the commercial Web video industry as well. Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire says that the company is profitable and cash flow...
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Yahoo recently notified Yahoo Publisher partners (third party sites that display Yahoo cost per click ads) that they should expect to see new “pricing adjustments” which will be based on the quality of traffic coming from their sites.
TechCrunch reports that Yahoo (and its competitors) regularly make adjustments to CPC payments doled out to publishers based on the perceived “...
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Adobe Systems Inc. is adding a new digital rights management (DRM) component to its Flash video technology that will allow users to download and watch content in-browser even when not connected to the Internet.
The new DRM scheme will be supported by an upcoming version of the Adobe Flash player, and will enable Adobe to support a wider variety of business models, including...
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TechCrunch is reporting on a new Twitter service called called Super Chirp that lets Twitter users get paid for their content. According to the blog, Super Chirp uses Twitter’s private message system allowing publishers to leverage their existing Twitter accounts to promote their paid streams. Users can subscribe via the Super Chirp site, pay with Paypal, and then get...
At the annual BookExpo convention in New York City over the weekend, Google said it plans to introduce a program that would enable writers and publishers to sell digital versions of their books directly to consumers through Google. The move would pit Google against Amazon.com, which is seeking to control the e-book market with the versions it sells for its Kindle reading device.
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At Google’s I/O conference this week the company unveiled a new set of widgets called Web Elements that allow users to quickly integrate Google’s most popular products such as Maps, Calendar and Search, and into their sites with a minimal amount of work. Other widgets include ‘Presentations’, which allow users to embed presentations from Google Docs into a site, and ‘Spreadsheets’, which...
Investor’s Business Daily, publisher of in-depth financial news geared to personal and professional investors, recently announced a partnership with Mochila, a premium content syndication technology platform and network, to distribute IBD’s multimedia offerings to online readers who want up to the minute market information.
Using content from Investor’s Business Daily’s companion website,...
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OpenX the large neutral online ad server for website publishers, recently announced OpenX Market, an independent marketplace which allows publishers the ability to directly connect with advertisers in order to sell their ad inventory. Similarly, the service also helps advertisers (either directly or through ad agencies) access targeted ad inventory.
Publishers using the...