» What the ad revenue generated from SI swimsuit edition means fiscally for the rest of the year. [MarketWatch]
» EBay rolls out new search features in a new, open testing site. [Bits]
» Was Google’s Super Bowl ad popular or not? It depends on where you ask. [AdAge]
» ComScore’s latest digital media report shows growth in search, social media and display ads, and reduction in e-commerce spending. [MarketWatch]
» Yahoo’s newly filed patent could mean the company is developing a “search via SMS” feature. Full story...
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.
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) may have lost its search deal with T-Mobile in the U.S. earlier this month—but it is still picking up search partners—at least in Europe.
Nothing like a good, hard dose of scathing reality to scare the hell out of a media audience.