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Digital Media Wire will not be published on Friday, April 2, in observance of the Good Friday holiday. The next issue will arrive on Monday, April 5. Top Stories Seattle - Amazon.com has caved on its policy of setting a standard $9.99 price point for e-books, signing deals with CBS' Simon & Schuster and News Corp.'s HarperCollins that will let publishers set prices for new releases at between $12.99 and $14.99, The Wall Street Journal reported. [more..] Dallas - Activist investor Carl Icahn has sold 75% of his holdings in video rental store chain Blockbuster, Seeking Alpha reports. [more..] New York - Hulu, the video portal joint venture between NBC Universal, News Corp. and Disney, generated $100 million in revenue in 2009 and has posted profits in the last two quarters, CEO Jason Kilar told The New York Times. [more..] Reston, Va. - Online TV viewers are willing to watch between 6 and 7 minutes of ad content per hour, substantially higher than the current 4 minutes served on average, according to a survey of 1,800 U.S. Web users conducted by comScore. [more..] Seattle - RealNetworks this week laid off 60 employees, or about 4% of its total workforce, as the company undergoes a restructuring and the spin-off of its Rhapsody music service, TechFlash reported. [more..] Mountain View, Calif. - In an April Fool's Day prank, Internet giant Google on Thursday changed its name to "Topeka" for the day, paying homage to the Kansas capital that changed its name to "Google" last month in a bid to lure the company's ultra-high-speed Internet project. [more..] Washington - Looking to make a push into original news reporting, Internet giant Yahoo has launched a news bureau in D.C., staffing it with several journalists from prominent media outlets, The New York Times reported. [more..] New York - Eight venture-backed U.S. companies raised $711 million by going public during the first three months of this year, matching the number of initial public offerings (IPOs) that occurred in all of 2009, according to a new report by Dow Jones VentureSource. [more..] Hackensack, N.J. - Vidyo, a provider of videoconferencing services, announced on Thursday that it has raised $25 million in its third round of venture capital financing. [more..]
DMW Notice Board LA Games Conference - April 29, 2010, Los Angeles
We are pleased to announce terrific new keynotes and speakers for the 4th Annual LA Games Conference at Hollywood's renowned Roosevelt Hotel on April 29:
KEYNOTE additions include the CEOs of two cutting-edge companies working at the intersection of cloud-based computing and games and social networking and games, respectively: DAVID PERRY - CEO, Gaikai and JOHN PLEASANTS - CEO, Playdom. Other confirmed speakers include industry leaders such as Brian Ward, SVP, Worldwide Studios, Activision Blizzard, Chris Petrovic, General Manager, GameStop Digital Ventures, Nanea Reeves, SVP & COO, Global Online, Electronic Arts, Peter Wanat, Executive Producer, Universal Studios Interactive Group, Michael Pachter, Managing Director, Equity Research, Wedbush Securities, Inc., Tim Chang, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners, Teemu Huuhtanen, President, North America, Sulake Inc. (Habbo Hotel), Mike Vorhaus, President, Magid Advisors, Alex St. John, President & CTO, hi5, Mari Baker, President & CEO, PlayFirst, Micah Nyatsambo, Director of Social Media, Media Contacts, Havas Digital, Neal Sinno, VP of Business Development, Arkadium, Eric Goldberg, Managing Director, Crossover Technologies, Louis Figueroa, VP, Business Development, Sony Online Entertainment, Brandon Beck, Co-Founder & CEO, Riot Games, David Reitman, VP, Content & Entertainment, Switch and Data and many more.
To register for the event, please click here.
(Pre-Registration Rate $549 - reserve your seat now!)
Briefly Noted San Francisco - With Apple's iPad set for release on Saturday, Wired.com posted a handy roundup of initial reviews of the device from major publications, including The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, David Pogue of The New York Times, and Ed Baig in USA Today. [more..] Los Angeles - Netflix has developed an instant streaming application for Apple's iPad, while Hulu is considering an iPad application and networks including CBS and ABC will stream TV shows to the device, Ars Technica reported, citing various published reports. [more..] Palo Alto, Calif. - Facebook has hired Joanna Shields, the former CEO of social network Bebo, to run its sales and business development operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. [more..] Los Angeles - Guvera on Tuesday launched a public beta version of its ad-supported music download service in the U.S., Billboard reported. [more..] Madrid - Pablo Soto, the developer of file-sharing applications including Blubster, Piolet and Manolito, this week launched Foofind, a search engine that indexes torrents and other links to media available online, TorrentFreak reported. [more..] Extras Job/Event/Marketplace Classifieds - Gannett Digital - McLean - VMIX MEDIA INC - San Diego, CA - Socialcast - San Francisco, CA - Zynga - San Francisco - Synacor - Buffalo, NY - Live365 - Foster City - Amazon.com - Seattle, WA
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