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Criterion Capital Partners Acquires Bebo from AOL

Criterion Capital Partners Acquires Bebo from AOL

| June 23, 2010 | 3 Comments

LOS ANGELES – Criterion Capital Partners, LLC (CCP), a merchant banking and financial advisory firm based in the United States, announced that it has acquired the Bebo business, the youth-centric social media network, from AOL Inc. As part of the deal, CCP will assume the rights and complete operating control over the global social platform [...]

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Nine Out of Ten 25-34 Year Old U.K. Internet Users Visited a Social Networking Site in May 2009

Nine Out of Ten 25-34 Year Old U.K. Internet Users Visited a Social Networking Site in May 2009

| August 3, 2009 | 4 Comments

Internet Users Age 55 and Older More Likely to Visit Social Networking Sites than Business & Finance, Technology and Travel LONDON, U.K. – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, released the results of a study into U.K. social networking site usage by age of visitor, based on data from the [...]

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Introducing Yahoo! Mobile – Your Starting Point to the Internet

Introducing Yahoo! Mobile – Your Starting Point to the Internet

| February 26, 2009 | 0 Comments

BARCELONA, Spain – Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced the upcoming launch of its new Yahoo! Mobile service – a highly-personalized mobile starting point to the Internet. Yahoo! Mobile will be available on the mobile Web, as an app developed for the Apple® iPhone™, and as an app developed for smartphones from Nokia®, RIM®, Samsung®, Sony Ericsson® and [...]

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Brightcove Extends Online Video Platform with Global Partner Ecosystem

Brightcove Extends Online Video Platform with Global Partner Ecosystem

| December 8, 2008 | 0 Comments

Leading Technology, Distribution and Solution Providers Join Brightcove Alliance CAMBRIDGE, Mass., December 8, 2008-Brightcove Inc. today announced the formation of the Brightcove Alliance, a global ecosystem of leading technology and distribution partners who have integrated with the Brightcove online video platform, as well as solution providers building customer websites and video applications using Brightcove. Through [...]

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Ad Ops Daily Briefs: September 2 2008

| September 2, 2008 | 0 Comments

- Bebo names Nicole Vanderbilt new VP International Global social media network appoints Google’s former Head of Marketing and of Agency Programme to drive European expansion. In her new role, Ms. Vanderbilt will be responsible for driving Bebo’s business and membership internationally, initially focusing on France, Spain, Italy and Germany and the Netherlands. She will [...]

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Users Have Spoken: Social Network Ads ‘All Equally Horrible’

| July 11, 2008 | 1 Comment

A recent article by Mark Walsh on MediaPost signals trouble for social networks, even if it’s just the result of an informal and rather biased study. A Mashable poll asked which social networks had the best ads: Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, hi5, Friendster, LinkedIn, ‘other’ and ‘they’re all equally horrible’ were the answer choices. I can [...]

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Leading News Organization ITN Extends Advertising Deal with blinkx Based on Proven Campaign Success

| July 3, 2008 | 0 Comments

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – July 2, 2008 – blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it has won an extension contract that will augment the scope of its advertising partnership with ITN, one of the world’s leading news and multimedia content companies. Under the terms of the new agreement, [...]

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AOL’s Platform-A Offers Guaranteed CPM for Bebo and Facebook Application Developers

| June 30, 2008 | 0 Comments

By offering one of the industry’s highest CPM rates for Bebo and Facebook applications, Platform-A signals its commitment to social network advertising New York, NY – June 30, 2008 – AOL’s Platform-A announces that it will offer Bebo and Facebook application developers a guaranteed CPM for U.S. traffic to their applications. The CPM is one [...]

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Brightcove Partners with Bebo to Provide New Online Video Distribution and Monetisation Opportunities for Media Companies

| April 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

LONDON, UK, April 7, 2008 – Brightcove, the leading Internet TV platform, today announced a partnership with global social media network, Bebo, enabling its media customers to distribute online video content to Bebo’s 40 plus million members, while retaining control over their advertising inventory and 100 percent of the related revenues. Brightcove customers already taking [...]

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