en-us jgoss@blern.com (Blern Admin) jgoss@blern.com (Blern Admin) http://blern.com/ http://paidcontent.org/images/site/logo_pc_secondary.png http://blern.com/DqU54 Challenges remained in Thomson Reuters markets division in Q2, as the unit s revenue was down 4 percent while its profits dropped 25 percent (though the company pointed out that excluding currency changes, the decline was more like 15 percent). That Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:50:47 -0400 http://blern.com/DqU51 UK cable operator Virgin Media s new web and mobile VOD service will offer premium archive material, rather than the latest catch-up shows, because broadcasters already offer own-brand catch-up services, Virgin Media s TV and online executive Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:50:46 -0400 http://blern.com/Dqa62 While the magazine industry finally experienced a boost in Q2 in terms of largely positive ad pages, the comeback remains fairly weak, forcing publishers to try to figure out ways of using their brands to expand their marketing muscle. Meredith ( Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:50:45 -0400 http://blern.com/Dqft1 Revenue at McClatchy ( NYSE: MNI ), the major newspaper publisher, keeps shrinking but at a slower rate as the ad market gets stronger. The company said revenue dropped 6.4 percent to $365.3 million during the quarter, an improvement from the 8.2 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:50:44 -0400 http://blern.com/DqnT6 If you ve ever tried to upload a video to YouTube and found it rejected for being more than 10 minutes long, you may be pleased to learn YouTube is giving you five more minutes of video time. Why, after years of complaints, is YouTube extending the Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:50:42 -0400 http://blern.com/Dqt30 Interpublic Group s Mediabrands is building up its hyperlocal unit Geomentum by adding former Forrester analyst Lisa Bradner has its first president. She ll head up account management and consulting, as the company expects to expand into client Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:50:37 -0400 http://blern.com/Dqz61 Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) CEO Steve Ballmer is taking the stage at Microsoft s analyst day to talk about the company s consumer businesses, saying that a lot of the issues we see in our consumer businesses are very much on the minds of the Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:50:35 -0400 http://blern.com/Dqz60 MTV has reorganized the heads of its Integrated Marketing Group with the return of MySpace ( NSDQ: NWS ) sales executive Angela Courtin to the Viacom ( NYSE: VIA ) company. Courtin will serve as SVP, MTV Integrated Marketing. In conjunction Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:50:34 -0400 http://blern.com/Dqz59 As expected, Forbes is shuttering the True/Slant site this weekend, according to the posts of several contributors. As Fishbowl NY noted, all of the reader farewells penned by T/S contributors say that they hope to working on a new undisclosed Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:50:32 -0400 http://blern.com/Dr3M0 RealNetworks ( NSDQ: RNWK ) conducted a deep reorganization in the second quarter that led to the elimination of 85 jobs, including 25 percent of the company s execs. Today, it announced that the changes are largely complete and is busy trying to Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:50:30 -0400 http://blern.com/DpmK5 Facebook, which has been testing a new feature that lets users pose questions to the entire Facebook community and answer others, is finally launching the product, which it is calling Facebook Questions. The company says it will be Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:29:48 -0400 http://blern.com/DpmK5 Facebook, which has been testing a new feature that lets users pose questions to the entire Facebook community and answer others, is finally launching the product, which it is calling Facebook Questions. The company says it will be Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:29:48 -0400 http://blern.com/DpmK4 A month after he announced his departure from his post at Publicis digital hub VivaKi, David Kenny, one of the key architects of the ad holding company s interactive strategy, has decided to join content delivery manager Akamai ( NSDQ: AKAM ) as Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:29:34 -0400 http://blern.com/DpmK4 A month after he announced his departure from his post at Publicis digital hub VivaKi, David Kenny, one of the key architects of the ad holding company s interactive strategy, has decided to join content delivery manager Akamai ( NSDQ: AKAM ) as Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:29:34 -0400 http://blern.com/DpmK1 Will Facebook backer Digital Sky Technologies go public before Facebook? The Russian internet investment group, which has accumulated a five percent stake in the social network, has hired Goldman Sachs, along with two other investment Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:29:28 -0400 http://blern.com/DpmK1 Will Facebook backer Digital Sky Technologies go public before Facebook? The Russian internet investment group, which has accumulated a five percent stake in the social network, has hired Goldman Sachs, along with two other investment Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:29:28 -0400 http://blern.com/DpzS1 Health Grades, the publicly-traded owner of popular doctor ratings site HealthGrades.com , is being taken private by PE firm Vestar Capital Partners in a $294 million deal. Vestar, which includes former WebMD ( NSDQ: WBMD ) CEO Roger Holstein Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:29:23 -0400 http://blern.com/DpzS1 Health Grades, the publicly-traded owner of popular doctor ratings site HealthGrades.com , is being taken private by PE firm Vestar Capital Partners in a $294 million deal. Vestar, which includes former WebMD ( NSDQ: WBMD ) CEO Roger Holstein Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:29:23 -0400 http://blern.com/DpzR7 Facing steep competition from Apple s iPad, which can do just about everything a computer can in addition to displaying books, Amazon ( NSDQ: AMZN ) has decided to evolve the latest Kindle into an even better single-purpose device for less than the Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:29:18 -0400 http://blern.com/DpzR7 Facing steep competition from Apple s iPad, which can do just about everything a computer can in addition to displaying books, Amazon ( NSDQ: AMZN ) has decided to evolve the latest Kindle into an even better single-purpose device for less than the Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:29:18 -0400 http://blern.com/DqCf3 Zynga is confirming this evening that it has indeed raised $150 million in funding from Japanese internet and telecom firm Softbank. Reports that the social gaming giant had raised the cash first surfaced several months ago, although Zynga would Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:29:17 -0400 http://blern.com/DqCf3 Zynga is confirming this evening that it has indeed raised $150 million in funding from Japanese internet and telecom firm Softbank. Reports that the social gaming giant had raised the cash first surfaced several months ago, although Zynga would Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:29:17 -0400 http://blern.com/DqHN7 UK national and regional news publisher Trinity Mirror s digital income for the first half of this year is down by 300,000 to 18.6 million ($28.9 million) compared with last year, even though the news publisher is hailing traffic growth. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:29:15 -0400 http://blern.com/DqHN7 UK national and regional news publisher Trinity Mirror s digital income for the first half of this year is down by 300,000 to 18.6 million ($28.9 million) compared with last year, even though the news publisher is hailing traffic growth. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:29:15 -0400 http://blern.com/DnqH8 Elemental Technologies , a Portland, OR.-based startup that sells video processing systems used by content companies, has raised $7.5 million in a new funding round. The funding comes from Walt Disney Co. ( NYSE: DIS ) venture arm Steamboat Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:09:42 -0400