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Latimes.com partners with Mixx, takes stake

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mixx.pngThe Los Angeles Times Media Group has joined forces with Mixx, a social news website, in an online content and co-marketing alliance which puts readers of the nation’s largest metropolitan daily newspaper in control of their own personal blend of online news, information, photos and videos. It has also been announced that The Times has taken a small equity stake in Mixx, details of which were not disclosed.

Mixx offers Latimes.com readers additional tools to help harness and organize the vast assortment of internet news, information and multimedia content. Users who click through to the Mixx site from Los Angeles Times story pages can submit items without any requirement for registration, and quickly search and browse through content from Southern California and beyond. Upon registration for a free Mixx account, users can also expand their social networking and bookmarking options by creating and participating in public and private groups, networking with other Mixx users who share their interests or live nearby, joining the lively discussion by making comments about items they find interesting, and by voting for or against news, images and videos that they like or dislike.

Originally posted on December 4, 2007 @ 2:52 pm

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Gaia Online, Warner Bros. ink deal to bring movies to millions of teens

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gaia_matrix.pngGaia Online announced that Warner Bros.’ movies will be made available through Gaia’s virtual theater, the Gaia Cinemas, starting today. The more than 2.5 million teens who visit Gaia Online every month will be able to watch the legendary studio’s films with daily free screenings as well as pay-per-view screenings. Movie titles will include box office smashes such as “The Matrix” and “Batman Returns”; comedies including “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective”; “Caddyshack 2 & 3”; and classics including “Superman 2 & 3” and “Risky Business”.

Additional movies from Warner Bros.’ library will be added to the Gaia Cinema schedule every Monday. While select movies will be available for free, recent releases will operate on a pay-per-view basis at $1.99 per screening.

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Originally posted on December 4, 2007 @ 3:33 pm

Idearc Media, TurnHere to offer online video services to Superpages clients

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turnhere.pngTurnHere, Inc. and Idearc Media Corp. announced a partnership to produce online videos for Superpages’ clients. Superpages.com will leverage TurnHere’s professional filmmaker network to produce broadcast-quality local merchant videos that tell the stories behind businesses.

According to the terms of the agreement, Idearc’s listing service, Superpages.com, will be offering its base of over 18 million small- to medium-sized businesses in the United States the opportunity to showcase their products and services using TurnHere’s proven formula for creating engaging online video vignettes. TurnHere will begin producing videos for Superpages.com customers across the nation. The videos will be accessible at video.superpages.com.

Originally posted on December 3, 2007 @ 11:04 am

PayMate, India’s leading mobile payments company enters North American market

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paymate.pngPayMate, India’s leading mobile payments company, is entering the North American mobile market and has hired Mr. Dhruv Singh as Vice President of Americas to lead its growth initiatives in the region that are focused on providing mobile payment solutions to the cross border remittance and the US unbanked consumer markets.

PayMate has built the largest ecosystem for mobile commerce in India by signing up merchants, banks, carriers, and consumers. PayMate is already accepted by over 3000 merchants in India and can be used to pay for purchases online, over the phone, and across the counter via the mobile phone.

Dhruv Singh was previously Director of Worldwide Business Development at AMD where he was responsible for all Go-To-Market and Sales Development strategies, initiatives, and execution for the HP worldwide account. Prior to that Mr. Singh led the worldwide corporate and professional graphics
sales and business development efforts at ATI Technologies. Mr. Singh will be based out of PayMate’s Sunnyvale, California office.

Originally posted on December 3, 2007 @ 11:06 pm

SUP acquires LiveJournal from Six Apart

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livejournal.pngSUP, an international media company based in Moscow, has acquired LiveJournal from Six Apart, Ltd. LiveJournal is one of the world’s leading global online communities, with a monthly audience of more than 18m unique visitors in nearly every country in the world. Additionally, SUP today launched a new U.S. company, LiveJournal, Inc., based in San Francisco, which will manage and operate LiveJournal.

This deal is the second agreement between SUP and Six Apart. In October 2006, SUP concluded a licensing agreement with Six Apart to support and develop the large Russian segment of LiveJournal, which now represents 28% of its monthly audience. In the past twelve months, SUP and Six Apart have worked in close collaboration to improve LiveJournal for Russian users during which time the community has almost doubled.

More information on the acquisition is available at http://community.livejournal.com/LJ_2008/.

Originally posted on December 3, 2007 @ 10:58 am