Christie's Elizabeth Taylor auction boosts digital bidding

Christie's Elizabeth Taylor auction boosts digital bidding
Telegraph.co.uk
Photo: AP By Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor The growth of the British institution's online bidding community was boosted by its major sale of Dame Elizabeth Taylor's treasures last year. During 2011, 29 per cent of the auction house's bidders ...

Telegraph.co.uk 

Corel Completes Acquisition of Roxio(R) Business From Rovi Corporation
MarketWatch (press release)
With this deal, Corel has expanded its product portfolio to include Roxio's broad range of digital media and security solutions, including Roxio Creator(R), the industry's most popular digital mediasuite and Roxio(R) Toast(R), the leading media ...

Subway Taps MediaCom for US Digital Media Duties
Adweek
MediaCom was awarded responsibility for Subway's US digital media efforts, taking over the business from Publicis Groupe's Publicis Modem. Duties on the new assignment include a full range of responsibilities including search and mobile.

$20K grants available for female-driven digital journalism start-ups - 10000 Words
mediabistro.com
By Meranda Watling on February 7, 2012 10:00 AM Great new idea for using digital media to deliver journalism? If you can check yes here too, this opportunity is for you. The International Women's Media Foundation is offering its second round of three ...

5 Emerging Revenue Strategies for Digital Content Producers
Econsultancy (blog)
How are people making money with digital media? These 5 examples are newly emergent models of revenue generation being pursued by organizations. A growing politics and literature blog produced by alienated Ivy League graduates and made famous by a NYT ...

Worldnow Has Record Year with Over 130 Station Deals
Sacramento Bee
"Worldnow has made significant strides in opening up their publishing platforms to give us the control we need to grow our business," said Pat LaPlatney, Vice President of Digital Media for Raycom Media. "They also lead the field with a simplified ...

Glam Media moves closer to IPO
Financial Times
By Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent Glam Media, a large network of lifestyle blogs that has been valued at close to $1bn, is close to finalising plans to file for an initial public offering by April, at the same time as it attempts to ...

Blog empire Populis acquires South American digital brand Cidade
Siliconrepublic.com
Populis, which is one of Europe's fastest-growing digital media companies, now owns and operates more than 600 websites through media brands Excite Europe, Blogo, Blogosfere and now Cidade Internet, as well as 700000 websites in the Mokono network.

Apple patent throws wrench into Facebook plans
CBS News
Patent number 8112360, originally filed in May 2006 and granted today, is called Digital MediaAcquisition Using Credit. Here's the first independent claim that covers the basic method (with another claim covering a computer system that would do this): ...

Thrillist Hires New Head of Sales, Forms Thrillist Media Group
AdAge.com
But Mr. Lerer also imagined a day in which the combined operations would begin fulfilling the promise of what he thought the next generation of digital-mediacompanies would look like: ones that married content and commerce seamlessly and integrated ...

AdAge.com

SaleSpider.com -- SaleSpider Announces New Editorial Calendar for Next Month
MarketWatch (press release)
These editorials will be released once a week for the entire month of March and they will focus on what is currently hot in the digital media industry. These editorial newsletters will be targeted to reach small business decision makers in both the ...

Yahoo! Releases Chairman's Update for Shareholders
MarketWatch (press release)
Inc. /quotes/zigman/59898/quotes/nls/yhoo YHOO -0.13% , the premier digital media company, today released the following shareholder update from its Chairman Roy Bostock. I write today to update you on the actions the Yahoo! board has taken, ...

What Happens to Your Facebook Account When You Die?
JD Supra (press release)
Digital media has evolved at breakneck speed, giving lawmakers little time to catch up. The latest federal law concerning digital media after you die is from 1986, while Oklahoma, of all places, has the most progressive and up-to-date law about digital ...

A Guide to the Digital Advertising Industry That's Watching Your Every Click
The Atlantic
In his 1994 best seller, Being Digital, Negroponte predicted that the power of digital media would give citizens an unprecedented degree of control over their media environments. He illustrated this new control with the hypothetical example of The ...

The Atlantic

You've Got to Work It To Hire The Best Talent
iMedia Connection (blog)
As a recruiter in digital media, this doesn't surprise me so much. In fact, if you looked at digital media alone as an index of the strength of our economy, you'd be hard pressed to think America was suffering financially! My firm is pretty darn busy ...

How brands lost the Superbowl race for the second screen
Econsultancy (blog)
Here in New York last week, digital media and advertising commentators were all talking about the role that digital and in particular, social media, was going to play during the Superbowl TV ad breaks. With advertisers paying about $3.5 million for a ...

A good test is where students do well if they really understand the material
Livemint
There are two answers—digital media, which is now becoming more and more affordable, and educators who are just not teachers who teach, but ministers and sub-ministers who understand the things that we are talking about. One thing that India and the ...

The Myth of the Disconnected Life
The Atlantic
It epitomizes the information overload that accompanies being tethered to digital media. Advocates of Digital Sabbaths note that if you are nose-deep in your smartphone, you are not connecting with the people and places around you in a meaningful way.

The Atlantic

Conviva raises $15 million for smooth online video - Digital Media ...
By Rich Scherr
Conviva, a developer of online video technology designed to eliminate choppy viewing for both live and on-demand content, has raised $15 million in a new round of funding, led by Time Warner Investments.
Digital Media Wire | connecting...

Amazon Tests A Retail Store; Ad Trading Guidelines In The UK ...
By AdExchanger.com
The industry organization hopes to create standards (and police) what it sees an important and unique, digital media silo developing in and around exchanges, demand-side platforms and sell-side platforms. Pete Robins of agenda21 tells ...
AdExchanger.com: Exchanging Ideas...

Digital Media Update: You Down With O.V.P. (Yeah You Know Me ...
By Peter D. Csathy (Twitter name pcsathy)
COO of eNow (acquired by AOL); and long-time media/digital media executive (Universal Studios, New Line Cinema and others); have served on public, private, and non-profit boards, including Digital Music Group, Inc. (acquired by The ...
Digital Media Update

Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter: Trash or worth the cash ...
By Lucia Davis
Doug and Richard were joined by Kristen D'Arcy, SVP of e-commerce and digital media at Oscar de la Renta, and Debbie Aho Williamson, eMarketer's SVP of e-commerce and digital media. The panel was split into three discussions focusing ...
iMediaConnection Blog

Digital Media Legend Ted Leonsis to Headline BIA/Kelsey's ...
Digital Media Legend Ted Leonsis to Headline BIA/Kelsey's 'Interactive Local Media East,' March 26-28 in Boston. ILM East speakers include Mahalo's Jason ...
www.prnewswire.com/.../digital-media-legend-ted-leonsis-to-h...

PitchIt Challenge offers $50K for digital media startups | WeMedia.com
Calling all media, technology and social dreamers: The 2012 We Media PitchIt Challenge is open to entries. The challenge offers $50000 in seed funding to ...
wemedia.com/.../pitchit-challenge-offers-50k-for-digital-medi...

Tumblr and Digital Media Startups - Social Media Analytics Report
Need hard data on what consumers say about Tumblr and other startups on social media? Find it in Amplicate's new company focus report 'Public Opinion on ...
amplicate.com/social.../60-tumblr-and-digital-media-startups/

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