Three of China’s leading online video sites have clubbed together to reduce costs and help compete against industry rivals Youku and Tudou, which last month announced a deal to merge. Sohu, Baidu joint venture iQiyi and Tencent have formed an alliance which will cover content licensing and broadcasting. The deal will allow the firms...
You may know TED, not as the guy from marketing, but as the nonprofit organization devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading” — or as the set of global conferences, Talks, and videos that touch on the many heady, relevant issues surrounding Technology, Entertainment, and Design. As an increasingly powerful medium through which the world’s experts...
It seems that nearly every week we report on groundbreaking news from TED, the global nonprofit known for its “Ideas Worth Spreading”. Today, it announced its latest efforts in the education space: a dynamic TED-Ed site with new teacher tools for customized learning experiences. The new platform allows educators to customize TED-Ed videos with follow-up questions and...
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Google announced its Google Drive cloud storage service yesterday and just hours later the service was blocked in China, just like Dropbox and countless other Western Internet services, leaving the door open for local players to dominate the growing space. While the blocking of the new Google service is not surprising given Google’s history...
Right now there’s a cutthroat battle between social marketing platforms to represent the world’s biggest brands. In hopes of seducing dollars from offline and clients from competitors, social marketing platform FanBridge has just hired away Buddy Media’s GM of lifestyle brands David Dowd. Previously the head of branded content biz dev for Google, his...
Macs As “Patient Zero” While Windows malware can’t damage a Mac, UK-based Sophos encourages Mac users to be “a responsible member of society” by ensuring their systems don’t infect other computers. In a tacky comparison, the security company compared an infected Mac to a person who has Chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease that carriers...
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Vimeo Ben Silbermann is the CEO and visionary cofounder behind Pinterest, which grew from 5,000 users in August 2010 to 17 million this month. With Instagram off the market following a $1 billion sale to Facebook, Pinterest is now the hot social startup in Silicon Valley. Investors are beating down its door, hoping to...
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It’s All About the Data ATT noted on its earnings call today that more users are opting for tiered data plans and are 70% are choosing the highest data plan that the company offers. ATT Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega said that data plans will be a $24 billion revenue stream for the...