Blog network Glam Media is getting less and less female focused these days and the company’s latest acquisition of German men’s online media company Fantastic Zero will only help to broaden its demographic and geographic reach. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The purchase of three-year-old Fantastic Zero comes a year after Glam launched its own male-centric brand, Brash, in Germany.
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Glam Acquires Men’s Online Media Company Fantastic Zero
Posted by David Kaplan on September 10th, 2010
Posted in Europe, Mobile Social, Social networking, social media 
Tags: Advertising, countries, Germany, marketing, media-publishing 
No Comments »The Morning Lowdown 09.09.10
Posted by David Kaplan on September 10th, 2010
» The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) saw its shares rise as high as 8 percent upon speculation that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim was either looking to buy or raise his stake in the media giant. But the billionaire denies any such plans. [WSJ]
» Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has consistently been in third place behind Sony’s Playstation and Nintendo Wii. But it believes it can be more competitive thanks to its new controller-free Kinect game technology [AP]
» The BBC is bracing for deep cuts and is planning on cutting back on its foreign reporting in places like Burma. [Telegraph]
Posted in Europe, Mobile Social, Social networking, social media Tags: animation, apps, BBC, Companies, countries, Entertainment, games, media-publishing, Microsoft, New-York-Times, newspapers, Sony, twitter, UK, xbox No Comments »EU carriers face fiber double-squeeze
Posted by fmmonteverde on September 9th, 2010
European operators are paying the price of years of delay in rolling out fiber access networks, with fast-growing competition from cable operators and utility companies.
Much of Europe is lagging seven years behind Asia and the US in FTTH and FTTB deployment, according to a new report from Arthur D Little.
Several of Europe’s incumbe
The Morning Lowdown 09.07.10
Posted by David Kaplan on September 8th, 2010
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:
» Twitter app developers have seen a 50 percent cut in early-stage investment over the past year—though it’s not clear if that’s the result of Twitter’s own evolving business model or tied to the number and type of new apps on the market. [Mashable]
» Not surprisingly, troubled oil giant BP wasn’t a big spender on search ads before the oil spill in the Gulf. In two months, BP went from spending very little on search advertising—about $57,000 a month—to becoming one of Google’s top advertisers, dropping nearly $3.6 million in the month of June alone. [AdAge]
» Craigslist’s decision to shutter its “adult services” listings isn’t likely to end the debate over websites’ responsibility to filter user-gen content. [WSJ]
Posted in Europe, Google, Mobile Social, Social networking, social media Tags: abc, adult, Advertising, AOL, apps, Companies, countries, Disney, Entertainment, espn, Features, search, the-morning-lowdown, Time Warner, twitter, UK No Comments »Samsung launches Android tablet in joint venture with Vodafone
Posted by Editor on September 3rd, 2010
Samsung has launched its first Tablet device ‘The Galaxy Tab’ with global carrier Vodafone and set to offer the product from October. The market prices have not been released yet and much will obviously hinge on that, but Vodafone’s Samsung Galaxy Tab looks like a real contender for iPad in terms of functionality. Unlike the [...]
Posted in Android, Europe, Mobile, Mobile Social, SMS, Samsung, Social networking, social media Tags: Adobe, apple ipad, MMS, tablet, Vodafone, Wi-Fi No Comments »
