Mediabistro - Started as an offline venture by Laurel Touby has now just made $23 million by selling to Jupitermedia Corporation. She will remain on as Senior Vice President. This move enhances Jupitermedia Corporation with it’s own job board. Mediabistro is based out of New York City where Ms. Touby started this offline by hosting cocktail parties starting in 1993. She later opened the site in 1996. More coverage here.
Asia tuning in - to digital mobile television. With new handsets coming out seemingly every single time you look, it’s not a wonder they are going mobile tv in Asia. A good majority of the new devices are coming from the Asian realm, and they will be the first to be connected, watching television, as well enjoying technology to the extreme.
Europe is adopting – a mobile TV standard. According to the BBC, it appears that Europe is not going to be left behind in this mobile TV launch and expansion. Will America get on board this week? This year?
SocialMedia - Not my Planet Social Media Services, but more like another company embracing the Facebook. There are already players in the field that are helping to monetize the fb app field such as Lookery*. This is going to be a battleground for user acceptance, but competition is a good thing. More coverage here.
Yahoo failing - I guess that should technically be a question, but it appears that Yahoo new CEO and Co-Founder Jerry Yang is finding that being at the top is very disturbing. In fact it looks like in the next 100 days he will see if he can figure out what is wrong.
Technically Speaking, back later and don’t forget to read the Link Blog.
*Disclosure: Rex Dixon is currently working a bit with the Lookery group.
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