This one slipped through the cracks amid our crazy conference week last week… Lycos Europe has recorded another big loss and still we have no buyer in sight for the ailing portal. The site lost €17.1 million ($21.5 million) in the nine months to September 30; that's against a €44.1 million ($55.5 million) profit in the same period last year. The portal says "cost management will be further tightened in the fourth quarter" - and no wonder: overall income dipped, too, but only from €58.4 million ($73.4 million) to €46.9 million ($59 million), so running costs are proving a big drain. Full story...
Palm’s poor performance was no surprise today since it sent out a warning last month that sales were falling way short of expectations.
Since updating its look last fall, iVillage has been tinkering at the edges, adding three new channels around celebrities, food and even astrology.
The greatest benefit of moderating a session at the Magazine Publishers Association conference on e-reading today was the chance to witness Slate founding editor Michael Kinsley’s induction into the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame.
T-Mobile USA is indeed looking for a U.S. partner to help finance a high-speed data network.
Reed Business Information-US continues its string of magazine divestitures with the sale of Home Accents Today, Furniture/Today and six sister b2b pub and related websites to Sandow Media.
» Google (NSDQ: GOOG) explains its core businesses, search, ads and apps, in layman’s terms.
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has sold “hundreds of thousands of iPads” on pre-order, reports the WSJ, which quotes people familiar to the matter.
In the second set of documents released today from Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit against Google (NSDQ: GOOG) over YouTube’s posting of its copyrighted works, e-mails among the video site’s three primary founders Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawad Karim, demonstrate the debates the trio had over how to handle unauthorized content.
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) attorneys argue in the trove of documents unsealed in the long-running legal battle between YouTube and Viacom (NYSE: VIA) that while Viacom “now insists that YouTube is liable because it should have recognized that their content was not authorized, plaintiffs’ own actions defeat that claim.
MobiTV has fixed a digital rights management issue that was prohibiting it from offering users the ability to store content on their phone and then play it offline or on other devices.