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- MySpace: Bragging rights vs. revenues
- When Ross Levinsohn ran Fox Interactive FIM, one of his prime objectives was to “overtake” Yahoo, as I put forth in “Fox Interactive to Yahoo: watch out, we are on your digital tail!”: Levinsohn is not content that the online properties he oversees represent the "second biggest Internet company in...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., FIM, Ross Levinsohn, MySpace
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- $6 billion MySpace: Will this Levinsohn cash in?
- Ross Levinsohn is no longer a fan of MySpace; His ex-boss, however, continues to sing its very high praises, to the tune of $6 billion. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corp., touted a $6 billion MySpace “flip” price tag to shareholders in Australia earlier in the...
- Tags: Outsourcing, MySpace, Fox Interactive Media, News Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Ross Levinsohn
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- FIM Ross Levinsohn on MySpace in 'Real Deal' exclusive interview
- Ross Levinsohn, President, Fox Interactive Media FIM, believes in the “digital revolution.” He began his OMMA keynote in New York City recently by quoting none other than William Shakespeare: “The golden age is before us, not behind us.”I can attest to Levinsohn’s passion; I had the pleasure of a front...
- Tags: Fox Interactive Media
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- Fox Interactive to Yahoo: watch out, we are on your digital tail!
- Ross Levinsohn, President Fox Interactive Media FIM is not content that the online properties he oversees represent the "second biggest Internet company in the U.S. in terms of page views.” Speaking in New York City this morning, Levinsohn let it be known that number two really does try harder; FIM...
- Tags: Fox Interactive Media, Ross Levinsohn
- Blog posts 2006-09-25
- Hollywood trying to play by new rules
- Ross Levinsohn, president of Fox Interactive Media at News Corp, says that the multitude outlets--TV, syndication, DVD, Internet download, mobile phones, VOD, subscription--is changing the game. "Instead of taking programming and putting it on TV, now we have seven or eight different opportunities and all have revenue attached...for this town...
- Tags: MySpace, Ross Levinsohn
- Blog posts 2006-05-02
- Dogster or Newsvine in the Fox Interactive house?
- Still speculating on who Fox Interactive has acquired, but won't reveal for a few weeks, Jeff Nolan is betting on Dogster, but also thinks that Tagged, Skobee or Meetro could be the target. Newsvine has also been mentioned. At this point, Newsvine gets my vote. It just launched, and has...
- Tags: Fox Interactive, Ross Levinsohn
- Blog posts 2006-03-03
- Fox Interactive buying up Web 2.0 companies
- During an interview conducted by Mike Arrington of TechCrunch at the IBDNetwork Under the Radar event, Ross Levinsohn, president of Fox Interactive, just said that he had bought one of the companies in the room still finishing the paperwork, but didnt' say who. He has a $2 billion war...
- Tags: Fox Interactive, Ross Levinsohn
- Blog posts 2006-03-02
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- Radar Networks raises additional $13 million in Series B round
- A rumoured additional investment in San Francisco-based Semantic Web startup, Radar Networks, has become clearer over the weekend. Late last week, Dan Primack broke the story on PE Hub, reporting on a lunch he'd had with Ross Levinsohn and Roland Van der Meer of Velocity. VentureBeat's Chris...
- Tags: Network, Investment, Radar, Radar Networks, VentureBeat, Spivack, Twine, Nova, Aerospace & Defense, Semantic Web, Manufacturing, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-02-24
- MySpace: Can software really make it safer?
- You don’t have to be an underage minor to fear MySpace.Google News MySpace headlines today:"MySpace phishing scam exposes details of 60,000 users""Suspect posts details of shooting on MySpace""Death row and MySpace""MySpace.com posting leads to man’s arrest"Such headlines are negatively impacting MySpace corporate owner News Corp.I asked Ross Levinsohn last October...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Culture, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Amateur Content, Brands, Privacy, Social Networking, Social Media
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Will MySpace try to monetize its ecosystem?
- Over the last year or so, many companies and products have sprung up which attempt to feed off of MySpaces success - widgets, embeddable media players etc. Some of which have been blocked by MySpace, while others such as YouTube have been met with direct competition from the social network...
- Tags: YouTube, Social Networks, MySpace, Widgets
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- YouTube vs. MySpace: Is friendly bankable?
- MySpace touts more than 100 million MySpace “friends” and YouTube touts more than 100 million “clip-culture” videos viewed daily. One hundred million is an impressive sounding number. The millions of MySpace social networkers and YouTube video sharers the sites boast are what attracted News Corp. and Google to acquire...
- Tags: Social networking, MySpace, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Web 2.0 success metrics: Revenues, profits in 2007?
- Google’s Matt Cutts takes a break from personal holiday festivities to “come to Yahoo’s defense about something,” in his post today, “Page view metrics? Bah humbug!"Is Cutts spreading some search engine ecumenical cheer in the spirit of holiday togetherness?Cutts’ AJAX shout-out for Yahoo Mail is not disinterested; His “mini-rant about...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Web, revenue, FIM, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-23
- Web 2.0: Who needs business models?
- Packaged vs. conversational is how John Battelle characterizes the interactive media landscape, which he portrays as an intra-corporate battlefield that has already claimed high-profile victims. Battelle uses the recent departures of interactive execs from AOL, Fox Interactive Media and CBS Digtial Media, to support his theory that not only don’t...
- Tags: asset, Battelle, ROI, Social Media, Social Networking, Content, Copyright, Television, TV, Brands, Amateur Content, Social Web, AOL, User-Generated Content, Culture, Advertising, Media, Web 2.0, Business Models
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Web 2.0 Summit: The players and the products
- The Web 2.0 Conference/Summit gets underway today in San Francisco, and I will be posting from there. John Battelle and Tim OReilly are hosting the pricey invitation only event, which will feature interviews with some of the high and mighty players in the Web 2.0 kingdom, such as Marc Benioff...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, web2con
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- News on Digg acquisition? How about MySpace?
- The latest Web 2.0 acquisition “rumors,” courtesy of TechCrunch:"Digg has been in recent acquisition discussions with a number of companies, including News Corp., according to multiple sources close to the negotiations."News Corp. is undoubtedly always on the lookout to further expand its Fox Interactive Media FIM stable of Internet properties...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, MySpace, News Corp., Fox Interactive Media, acquisition, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Who needs social media? Junk CPMs, inventory glut, 'Sexxy Sangria'
- Yahoo CEO Terry Semel latched on for dear Wall Street life to “Social Media” in his Q3 disappointing earnings conference call last week. I projected Yahoo’s call to Social Media arms in “Yahoo vs. Facebook, MySpace, Digg, YouTube”:The Yahoo – Facebook story of most significance is not if/when/how Yahoo may...
- Tags: social media, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-23
- Google, MySpace $900 million dollar NOT done deal?
- Contrary to popular belief, the Google–MySpace “partnership” is not a $900 million dollar “done deal.”Google “announced a multi-year search technology and services agreement” last August:whereby Google will be the exclusive search and keyword targeted advertising sales provider for Fox Interactive Medias growing network of web properties including MySpace.com. The agreement...
- Tags: Google Inc., MySpace
- Blog posts 2006-10-19
- YouTube vs. MySpace, Facebook: Clip culture vs. friendship
- YouTube’s Chad Hurley is proud of the site’s “clip culture.” In “YouTube’s 100 million videos: quantity vs. quality” I cite YouTube’s “snack-sized” philosophy:We are not trying to stream full-length programming. We have developed a new clip culture. The site specializes in short—typically 2-minute—homemade, comic videos created by users. YouTube serves...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, YouTube&rsquo, s Chad Hurley
- Blog posts 2006-10-19
- Google CEO from Q2 to Q3: Partnerships promised and delivered!
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a man of his word, at least as far as his commitment to growing Google through partnerships. Schmidt extolled the power of partnerships at Googles Q2 earnings conference call in July:lets explore a little bit how the partnerships that were developing -- not just the...
- Tags: partnership, Google Inc., advertisement
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
- MySpace vs. Facebook: Is friendship real?
- Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace is as friendly as it was from day one: Tom Anderson is STILL everyone’s friend, even though some of the 100 million MySpacers are venturing to declare “Tom is not my friend.” Facebook, on the other hand, hopes it is on the high ground by requiring claims...
- Tags: MySpace, friendship
- Blog posts 2006-10-17
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