CityVoter.com, a review and “best of” voting site that powers Web sites for TV stations and other traditional media outlets, has signed a new deal that will boost its count of Hearst-Argyle TV affiliates from five markets to eight. The…
Pegasus News is launching an iPhone App on July 11 to coincide with the launch of iPhone 3G. The app for the Dallas city guide will feature events, restaurants, drinks, Wi-Fi and garage sales, all searchable by the hour and…
As my colleague Peter Krasilovsky discussed in his write-up this morning, the purchase of The Weather Channel by NBC Universal and partners is getting a lot of press attention for several reasons: At $3.5 billion, the price is substantially less than…
NBC Universal, along with Bain Capital and The Blackstone Group, has agreed to acquire The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications for a figure reported to be $3.5 billion. The deal is the first of several sell-offs for Landmark, which also hopes…
I read with interest a recent blog post on the Utah Web Services site that really hit home with me on how SEM and SEO are being sold and how they should be sold. SEM and SEO are inherently technical…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog over the past week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. YouTube: Helping or Hurting Video Quality? Related to the previousl post, NewTeeVee asks whether…
Telstra, the parent company of Sensis, the Australian-based Yellow Pages company, has acquired 55 percent of Autohome/PCPop, which runs Autohome.com.cn, a Chinese auto portal, and Norstar Mediatwo, a Chinese CNET-like tech site. The two properties complement Telstra’s 51 percent share in SouFun,…
We have learned that Gannett is acquiring the parts of ShopLocal that it doesn’t already own from partners Tribune and McClatchy. ShopLocal’s stated mission is "connecting advertisers and consumers, online and in-store." ShopLocal's efforts generally center on localized circulars, targeted…
Related to the previous post, NewTeeVee asks whether YouTube is feeding creativity or killing it. Lots of examples are given of homemade videos that have made it big, and have fueled the growing online video culture in which we find…
If you haven't heard of YouKu, you're not totally alone. But the leading Chinese video site is proving itself worthy of broader attention. The site raised $40 million this week from new and existing investors including Brookside Capital Partners, Sutter…
On the heels of announcing 500,000 business profiles and 5,000 paying advertisers, MerchantCircle has formed a deal with Yahoo! to give these businesses easy access to Yahoo! online ad products. The company already has distribution deals with Citysearch, Google and…
At Princeton's Fourth of July fireworks last night, I got into a discussion with a friend who is concerned about his son who works as a journalist for a small N.J. newspaper. I referred him to a "tell it like it is"…
MediaNews Group, Hearst Newspapers and Freedom Communications have retained Bain Consulting to help realign their cost structures, says MNG Vice Chairman and CEO William Dean Singleton, who was speaking at a World Association of Newspapers meeting in Sweden. “We asked Bain…
The Google Mobile blog today announced that the company will bring voice search capability to mobile mapping queries. This will utilize the Goog411 voice search technology, and will be available initially on BlackBerry Pearl models (8110, 8120 & 8130). It…
Microsoft's Virtual Earth Blog posted yesterday that AskCity will now use Virtual Earth to power its mapping and local features. This will take the place of Ask's homegrown mapping tool that was the first to come out with multi-point directions,…
Social bookmarking and news aggregator Digg has announced that it will integrate a new recommendations engine. This will track users' activity and recommend stories according to the behavior of other presumably like-minded users. This is mostly a filter to increase…
TeachStreet, which lists and profiles local independent teachers for everything from test prep to tennis lessons, is close to its official launch out of beta in Seattle and readying a second market in Portland, Oregon, according to founder Dave Schappell.…
Local.com yesterday announced an ad distribution deal with Hearst-owned White Directory Publishers. The deal will bring Local.com's display ad inventory to White's national sales force. In this way it presents an opportunity for White to appeal to national advertisers that…
As speculated, Microsoft today announced the acquisition of natural language search technology developer Powerset. The acquisition is hoped to help Microsoft better serve search results, based on a natural language analysis of user queries, and better index of Web content.…
Over the past several months, The Kelsey Group has been talking with a number of sales managers and directors of companies in the directory, newspaper and online space to understand the challenges of recruiting, hiring and training online reps. The…
