With digital companies like YouTube and Yahoo making aggressive pitches for cable ad dollars, one of cable TV’s stalwart programmers, Discovery Communications, rendered a bold response Thursday, purchasing top digital program provider Revision3 for $30 million. Read more at paidContent »
Data is absolutely crucial for the business of online advertising, and thanks to a new ecosystem designed to serve the sell-and-buy side, it can now be leveraged. But it also makes online advertising a far more complex space than it was even a few years ago. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
There are now more than half a dozen commercial Hadoop distributions in the market, and almost every enterprise with big data challenges is tinkering with the Apache Foundation-licensed software. A new report examines the key disruptive trends shaping the Hadoop platform market. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The 650 patents that Facebook acquired from Microsoft are “web-related” said a source with knowledge of the deal and listed some specific examples. The source said the portfolio includes patents related to: instant-messaging, e-commerce, LTE, mobile, handsets, search and advertising. Read more at paidContent »
Media issues like advertising and discovery along with commerce dominated the activity in social and real-time Web technologies during the first quarter. Google raised some hackles, Facebook responded to demands from traditional advertisers, and Yahoo got a new chief executive. Read more in the full report. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Smartphone sales surged both in the U.S. and worldwide, carriers struggled to cope with the ever-increasing consumption of mobile data, and the fight for spectrum remained front and center in the first quarter. Our latest quarterly wrap-up analyzes these trends and more. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The Ford Motor Company, which will typically spend up to $100 million on a TV-rich ad campaign when it launches a new car, is creating its own original reality competition series on Yahoo to spark interest in its new Focus Electric model. Read more »
In a webscale data center, peak efficiency feels like a blast furnace. I stepped into the hot aisle of Dell Modular Data Center and 1,920 servers blasted 115-degree air right in my face. If eBay’s Dean Nelson has his way, that was just the beginning. Read more »
The news that’s been telegraphed for weeks is done: Yahoo is laying off 2,000 staffers, 14.1 percent of its workforce, as new CEO Scott Thompson remakes the business around the buzzwords smaller, nimbler, core, best in class. Thompson isn’t close to finished. Read more at paidContent »
Last summer, Yahoo’s investments in big data brought us Hadoop startup Hortonworks, and now those same investments brought us predictive-marketing startup InsightsOne. The company, founded by the team responsible for building Yahoo’s consumer analytics platform, launched on Thursday with $4.3 million in Series A funding. Read more »
Google is a champ when it comes to its infrastructure, and a blog shows the search giant is running its data centers at a PUE of 1.14. Compared to Facebook, it has room for improvement, but what about when ranked against Apple, Amazon and Microsoft? Read more »
Silicon Valley leads the world in technology but it’s losing a debate over how that technology should be used. A new surge in patent lawsuit… Read more at paidContent »
As companies like Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) make big investments into video content channels with name-brand film and television talent, they might… Read more at paidContent »
Two star hires and a well-reviewed phone-and-tablet operating system do not necessarily remake a company, but they do ease the perception — prevalent in recent years — that Microsoft is on its last legs. Could the once-dominant software giant be on the comeback trail? Read more »
One solution to the big data skills shortage has been consulting firms that specialize in deploying big data systems companies need to make sense of their information. These companies will continue to play a vital role in helping us make sense of the the data deluge. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
A business that pays people to expose bogus patents announced it will offer a cash reward to the person who can show that putting an adverti… Read more at paidContent »
With the comedy genre heating up in the online video world, My Damn Channel is turning to an age-old television format: the live daily comed… Read more at paidContent »
Big data now touches everything from enterprises to smart-meter startups, while Hadoop is fast becoming the leading tool to analyze that data, and debates around privacy abound. GigaOM Pro analysts offer insights on what to consider when it comes to big data decisions for your business. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
This year is only the beginning. That was the essential message Tuesday from Yahoo’s head of video and original programming, Erin McPherson,… Read more at paidContent »
Raghu Ramakrishnan, who was the top scientist for several of Yahoo’s key technology efforts, is now a technical fellow with Microsoft’s server and tools unit. This is the latest sign that Yahoo is struggling to retain key technologists. Read more »
Fandango will be an online and mobile movie-ticket seller for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Movies, according to a new partnership between the two comp… Read more at paidContent »
Yahoo and its decision to go nuclear on Facebook has drawn much attention and ire. So even though the knives are out for Yahoo, I for one am willing to listen and look for alternative theories on Yahoo and why it sued Facebook. Read more »
When Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) filed a patent suit against Facebook this week, it became as popular as Rush Limbaugh at a Planned Parenthood gather… Read more at paidContent »
The news of Yahoo suing Facebook for infringing its patents has drawn sharp reactions from some of the more measured voices in our industry.However, there is more than meets the eye to the whole Facebook-Yahoo scrum, for suing Facebook is a pretty drastic step for Yahoo. Read more »
Facebook is not about to take Yahoo’s patent suit lying down and is planning to fight Yahoo, according to my sources close to Facebook. Yahoo, earlier this week, filed a broad-ranging patent infringment lawsuit against the social network that is likely to go public soon. While Facebook’s legal response […] Read more »
Yes, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) went there today — claiming in a lawsuit that it, not Facebook, is the real king of social networks. The company po… Read more at paidContent »
Continuing its aggressive expansion into video content as it restructures its operations, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has signed a development deal w… Read more at paidContent »
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has made good on its threat of last month and filed a patent infringement suit against Facebook. The lawsuit adds to the… Read more at paidContent »
The man helping Yahoo’s new CEO plot the company’s rejuvenation has told his staff he is leaving his role as SVP of the Europe, the Middle E… Read more at paidContent »
SBNation, the sports blog network is teaming up with YouTube and launching a sports channel that will have everything from baseball to trash talk. And while it won’t do much to ESPN viewership in the near term, it will surely put Yahoo Sports under pressure. Read more »
New Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Scott Thompson’s upcoming turnaround may centre on mining Yahoo’s green plains for different prospects, including… Read more at paidContent »
Growth phases at Web startups are invariably accompanied by attacks, as we’ve seen with sites like Facebook, Twitter and many other web-based companies. Here we look at which are the most brutal attacks and how companies and developers can guard against them in the future. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
On Super Tuesday, when 10 states hold their presidential primaries and 419 delegates are up for grabs, the election trackers at Yahoo and Fizziology have Mitt Romney as the favorite to win the day. The day might not go as well for Rick Santorum. Read more »
Facebook needed to change the way it sold advertising inventory and add some glitzier formats. Last week, at its fMC event for marketers, it made some progress towards addressing those needs. Let’s see what Facebook is doing right and where it still has ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues on its push for original video content and A-list talent, with a deal for a new comedy series with Ben Stiller’… Read more at paidContent »
For ad-supported web platforms such as Facebook, every dollar spent on infrastructure means even more money brought in by advertising — the culprit of many privacy issues. That has big implications for a company’s bottom line. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
With close to a billion active users, Facebook is already the world’s largest social network, and it is already generating billions from advertising directed at those users. So the bottom line for investors and analysts is, Can this company really get any bigger? Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Madison Avenue’s upfront ad markets are the place where TV broadcasters and cable companies sell the bulk of their billions of dollars in co… Read more at paidContent »
Yahoo’s once dominant position with display advertising is now officially over. Research firm eMarketer released figures Wednesday showing t… Read more at paidContent »
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group’s main business unit aims to delist from the Hong Kong stock market – but says the move is unrelated… Read more at paidContent »
