Nicholas Carlson

Web video start-up Joost is doing its best to bring TV to the Internet. And now Joost has commercial support for its upcoming video-streaming service. This week it signed 32 companies as advertising launch partners to support its collection of content produced by media conglomerates such as Viacom, Toronto-based JumpTV and CBS. But in its […]

Google, eBay, MySpace and YouTube are successful because they take advantage of what the Web does best: connect the many to the many. So does iStockphoto.com, which connects stock photographers with their customers and takes a slice of each transaction along the way. In February 2006, Getty Images acquired iStockphoto, which added a stock video […]

Apple is in a good position to take on the challenge of reshaping its business model around the upcoming iPhone, financial analysts said after the company announced its earnings yesterday. Apple reported a net profit of $770 million. That’s 87 cents a share and 23 cents above Wall Street forecasts. Sales rose 20 percent to […]

Microsoft refreshed its video platform today with a new beta version of MSN Video. The updated site reflects the design, layout and features of Soapbox, Microsoft’s answer to Google’s user-generated video site YouTube.com. The new version is compatible across multiple browsers, including Firefox and Mozilla using Flash, a Microsoft spokesperson told internetnews.com. Additionally, with the […]

Back in his Hollywood days, Barry Diller, the CEO of IAC, had a reputation for spawning so-called “Killer Dillers,” protégés who took after his aggressive business style. The list includes heavyweights like former Disney Chairman and CEO Michael Eisner and Dreamworks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg. Diller has promoted another up-and-coming executive with an early track record of […]

Riding first-quarter sales that surpassed $3 billion for the first time, Amazon today reported $111 million in 2007 first-quarter profits, a 115 percent jump over 2006 first-quarter profits of $51 million. The news fared well for the company in after-hours trading. Revenues increased 32 percent in the first quarter to $3.02 billion, compared to $2.28 […]

Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) President and CEO Randall Rothenberg said he wants metrics firms Nielsen/NetRatings (NNR) and comScore to join the 21st century. In an open letter to comScore President Magid Abraham and Nielsen/NetRatings President and CEO William Pulver, Rothenberg said he wants their companies to commit their interactive-audience measurement processes to a third-party audit. […]

Motorola is betting on the silver lining. After two consecutive quarters of poor financial results and thousands of layoffs, the company augmented its profitable Motorola Connected Home Solutions business by acquiring Terayon Communication Systems for $1.80 per share or approximately $140 million. Teraycon, Motorola said, creates video processing solutions to optimize bandwidth and enable content […]

Well, you can’t call Google  stingy. One day after announcing record breaking profits for yet another quarter, Google put some of that cash to work, acquiring video-conferencing software from Swedish company Marratech AB. Google also took on Marratech’s technical team, which will continue to be located in Sweden, a Google spokesman told internetnews.com. Financial terms […]

Turns out it isn’t just parents, politicians, and lawyers worrying about teen safety online. The majority of teens themselves actively manage their online profiles to keep the information they believe is most sensitive away from the unwanted gaze of strangers, parents and other adults. According to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life […]

Lately, even good news is bad for Yahoo. Take the buzz surrounding the Yahoo advertising platform, code-named Panama. Three weeks after its Feb. 5 launch, word came from metrics firm comScore that click-through rates for Yahoo-sponsored search ads were up and so were sponsored clicks as a percentage of total user clicks on Yahoo.com. Yahoo […]

NEW YORK — AOL brought out the C-Level glitz and glamour at an event here this week in an attempt to woo marketers used to spending their money on TV. The event felt like a television network’s “upfront,” where a network shows off its new shows in an effort to get advertisers on board early. […]