Kenneth Corbin

NEW YORK — The proliferation of video on the Web is an established fact, but advertisers are still scratching their heads about the best way to fit their messages into the content. Here at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) digital video summit today, panelists considering the migration of ad dollars from television to the Web […]

After months of braggadocio, proclamations, and posturing, Microsoft has decided on Saturday to throw in the towel and drop its bid for Yahoo. CEO Steve Ballmer notified Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang via a letter on Saturday. The company posted the text of the letter on its Web site this evening. “Despite our best efforts, including […]

The deal to end all deals is not to be. After three months of saber rattling, back-room negotiations and calculated media leaks, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has walked away from its bid to buy Yahoo. In a letter sent to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang dated today, Ballmer announced that Microsoft was pulling the acquisition offer […]

Amazon has filed a lawsuit in New York contesting a controversial new state law requiring some online retailers to collect sales tax on purchases shipped to New York’s residents, even if they have no offices or employees there. The e-commerce giant filed its challenge to the law in the State Supreme Court in Manhattan, seeking […]

IBM today is expected to announce a new version of its Lotus Quickr product, along with a new tool expressly designed to break down the walls that separate data housed in different file systems. And Big Blue isn’t pulling any punches about who it’s targeting with the introduction of the Lotus Quickr Content Integrator, a […]

NEW YORK — It seems clear enough that the phenomenon of user-generated content (UGC) on the Internet has built enough momentum that it can no longer be thought of as a fad. Yet the matter of how to make money from the galaxy of blogs, images and videos that people create and share in online […]

It is an impressive service. Tailor-made for the superfan, the fantasy junkie. But watching *six* games at once, really? This afternoon, Major League Baseball brought in a gaggle of reporters to the headquarters of its MLB Advanced Media unit in New York’s Meatpacking District to show off the souped-up version of its premium online video […]

With profits down 36 percent, media conglomerate Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) affirmed its widely anticipated plans to spin off its cable unit — even though the group’s performance helped buoy the rest of the company. Time Warner, whose media holdings include Time magazine, HBO, Warner Bros. and AOL, reported net income of $771 million, or […]

For anyone still in the dark or having forgotten what’s going on in the newspaper business, the Audit Bureau of Circulations offered a sobering reminder this week with its latest report on paid subscriptions. For the six months ending March 31, the newspaper industry as a whole saw a 3.2 percent drop in weekday circulation […]

Media giant Cox Enterprises today said that it’s spending $300 million to acquire Adify, an online ad technology provider specializing in powering vertical advertising networks. The purchase snaps up one of the few remaining independent, pure-play online ad companies with significant scale, continuing the process of consolidation that has seen large Web and media companies […]

Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) AOL plans to roll out open voice APIs today for developers and device makers to integrate the company’s AIM Call Out service into the hardware and software used to make phone calls over the Internet. AOL said that the Open Voice APIs will allow its VoIP service to run on softphones, […]

As I tap out a news story about the latest dustup over consumer privacy on the Internet, I find a formula to the reporting. A public interest group in Washington, D.C., complains that x Web company is trampling over people’s privacy rights by engaging in some deceptive practice to pry personal information from an unsuspecting […]