CBS is trying everything with Last.fm after it has mostly failed to gain the success, and revenue it was initially hoping for when it acquired the site in 2007 for $280 million. Recently it launched several Last.fm-branded HD broadcast radio stations and now it's taking the next step with Last.TV, a project to a... |
28 October 2009
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While the natural evolution of things has traditional radios moving online to keep up with the times, online radio station, social music aggregator and music-centric social network Last.fm is doing the exact opposite by moving to the airwaves. Owned by CBS, the site will effectively start running the media company&rs... |
12 September 2009
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URL-shortening service Bit.ly has managed to land pretty big collaborations with some of the web's more important services. Benefiting from a successfully built API (Application Programming Interface), large companies around the web have started to use its “Twitter famous” URL-shortening services.Tod... |
28 August 2009
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Yesterday Comcast announced that HBO and Cinemax programming would be joining its On Demand Online trial to be held over the course of this summer. While these are great additions, details remained sketchy about what other networks would join, if any. Today the cable operator has put speculations to rest announcing 1... |
15 July 2009
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Two years after Last.fm was acquired by CBS, the online radio's founders Martin Stiksel, Felix Miller and Richard Jones have announced they are leaving the company. The announcement was made on the last.fm official blog and the co-founders believe their mission at the company was completed.“[We] feel the t... |
11 June 2009
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Online video is becoming a large business even for the reluctant big TV networks. Since it was launched in 2007 it has proven quite successful and has risen to the top of online video sites. But only three out of the four major networks in US, namely FOX, NBC and ABC, have partnered to create and provide content for ... |
2 June 2009
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Apple has issued an official report telling iTunes fans that all four of the major networks today are offering primetime programs in HD on the iTunes Store. Apple also used this opportunity to reveal that people using the iTunes Store on their Mac, iPod or Apple TV have downloaded some 200+ million TV shows to date.F... |
16 October 2008
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As a fan of the Beverly Hills, 90210 long-running, prime-time television drama series, you don't even have to like Apple's iPods to want this baby in your pocket. The folks at CBS believe that a custom "Beverly Hills, 90210 Limited Edition Apple iPod Nano" with your name just under the artwork makes for a g... |
30 July 2008
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Larry Mendte, who used to work as a news presenter for a Philadelphia TV station, somehow managed to gain access to the e-mail of his co-presenter, Alycia Lane. The information he had access to for a period in excess of two years was later on leaked to abloids and resulted in Lane's downfall. Since the start of ... |
22 July 2008
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CBS Corporation was happy to announce today that it had reached an agreement to acquire CNET Networks, one of the 10 most popular Internet companies in the United States. According to the terms of the acquisition, CBS will acquire CNET Networks for roughly $1.8 billion, getting access to a combined 54 million unique ... |
15 May 2008
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CBS Mobile, Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm's subsidiary MediaFLO announced a partnership to provide a new channel on V CAST Mobile TV dedicated entirely to the Big Brother 8 show. The channel will transmit live video of the activity inside the Big Brother House from August 19 through the end of the season on Sept... |
17 August 2007
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CBS is just one of the companies that announced their plans to challenge Google's YouTube with a similar service able to offer the same features as the online video sharing solution. Today, CBS prepares to confirm some new deals meant to represent the beginning of the revolution, signing agreements with MSN, AOL... |
13 April 2007
04:27 GMT |
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CBS and Sprint have recently announced that programming from the most watched network in the US will be coming to the mobile operator with mobilecasts, full episodes and video clips from popular CBS programs. Sprint will be offering a wide variety of content including live nightly mobile casts of CBS Evening News wit... |
26 March 2007
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