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Ad Spending At AOL Down 6 Percent

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:30:31 +0000

On Election night everyone was glued to their screens. Not just their TV screens, but also their computer screens. Going to the major news sites, hitting refresh on the interactive electoral maps millions of times, and watching Obama and McCain give their final speeches of the campaign streamed live over the Web. According to Akamai, which is the content delivery network for most major news sites including CNN which had a record day on its own), NBC, Reuters, and the BBC, global visitors to news sites peaked last night at 11 PM with 8,572,042 visitors per minute. Source:TechCrunch
Time Warner reported its third quarter results today and revealed that the AOL business isn’t doing too well but not as bad as some had expected (though it’s bound to get worse this quarter).

Total revenues for Time Warner Cable remained flat compared to the same period in 2007 at $11.7 billion with earnings of 30 cents a share, while revenues for the AOL segment decreased 17% ($207 million) to $1.0 billion. Ad spending is hurting (6% decrease to $33 million), as are revenues from subscription services (26% decrease to $165 million).

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Why the WiMax Deal Is A Disaster, Part II (Or, How Craig McCaw Snookered Eric Schmidt)

Fri, 09 May 2008 22:36:32 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
San Francisco based Zivity, a self described “community-powered showcase of female beauty,” will add a high profile technologist to their executive team next week. Napster co-founder Jordan Ritter, who was subsequently the CTO of Cloudmark and Columbia Music Entertainment (and a man who enjoys wearing sunglasses indoors), will join Zivity as chief technology officer.
Zivity continues […]Source:TechCrunch
TimeTube is a new mashup from Dipity, the interactive timeline site, that takes the mostly unsorted mess of videos that is YouTube and arranges them by date, offering a useful (and often unexpected) perspective on recent events.
Links to each video are situated across a horizontal timeline, with emphasis placed on the most popular videos (they […]Source:TechCrunch
The more I learn about the $3.2 billion deal announced earlier this week to salvage Clearwire’s and Sprint’s WiMax businesses by merging them together, the more I am convinced that someone got snookered. And that someone was Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Maybe he just can’t say “No” to visionary billionaires like Clearwire chairman […]

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Project Canoe: Cable Companies Paddle to Catch Up To Google in Targeted TV Ads

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:30:03 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Whenever cable companies feel threatened, they form a joint venture. The latest is called Project Canoe, an effort by all six major cable companies in the U.S. to deliver targeted TV ads to viewers through their set-top boxes. The NYT reports:

Collectively, the cable companies will initially put about $150 million behind the effort […]

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Video Killed the Broadband Buffet

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:30:48 +0000

Source:GigaOM
Time Warner Cable this week said it will move away from the “buffet” model of broadband and start experimenting with a “metered” model. The cable operator is rolling out a trial program in Beaumont, Texas, in which customers will be charged based on the amount of bandwidth they use. Given the rise in bandwidth-sucking content, […]

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Speed Boost in the Boonies

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:30:18 +0000

Source:GigaOM
The go-go days for broadband in the U.S. seem to be over, as evidenced by the less-than-stellar numbers posted by the big broadband providers for the most recent quarter, especially Comcast (CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable (TWC). The DSL providers are also facing challenging times, but one group is doing better than the rest: […]

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FON to team with Time Warner Cable

TechAddressBlog — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:29:25 +0000

FON, the share-your-Wi-Fi service company, that recently announced a new round of funding and partnership with British Telecom is rumored to be in close talks with Time Warner Cable, where FON software and service could be bundled with TWC’s broadband residential gateways. The news could be announced later this week.

FON also has similar agreements with Neuf of France and British Telecom in UK. One of the reasons why a cable provider like Time Warner Cable of other incumbents might be interested in FON is because they want to offer quad play services, and hope to use Wi-Fi-based telephony to fill out their offerings.

These incumbent partnerships should help the company build up some momentum, since the company has holes in its planned global footprint.

The Madrid-based company was started by Spanish telecom entrepreneur, Martin Varsavsky, who has managed to raise over $35 million for his start-up. The company has raised more funds, this time from Excite Japan and started selling its routers at the Sony Style shops.

Photo by Katie Fehrenbacher

Disclosure: GigaOM readers were offers FON routers for free as part of a special promotional offer.

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