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June 25, 2010  | | Connecting People & Knowledge Since May 2000 | | | | | June 18, 2010 · Today's Sponsor: | | |  | Top Stories San Francisco - Facebook made "tens of millions" of profit last year, with revenues estimated at nearly $800 million, Reuters reports, citing two sources familiar with the situation. [more..] London - Major record label EMI on Friday announced a restructuring plan that will see the company combine its music publishing and recorded music divisions, to be led by former EMI publishing head Roger Faxon. [more..] San Francisco - Last night's NBA Championship game that saw the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Boston Celtics broke an all-time traffic record on Twitter, generating 3,085 tweets-per-second (TPS) as the game ended, the company said. [more..] Baltimore, Md. - While ad impressions served to Apple's iPad grew 160% in May, the company's share of the overall mobile ad market -- as measured by Millennial Media -- was down nearly 10% for the month. [more..] New York - A "quicker-than-expected uptick in the U.S. economy" will fuel a rebound in U.S. online ad spending this year, which eMarketer now forecasts will grow 10.8% from 2009 figures to reach $25.1 billion. [more..] Port Washington, N.Y. - In addition to the $10.5 billion U.S. consumers spent on new physical video game software in 2009, used game rentals, subscriptions, full digital downloads of games, downloadable content and mobile game applications generated an estimated $4.5 billion to $4.75 billion, according to a report from market research firm NPD Group. [more..] Palo Alto, Calif. - Social Gaming Network, a publisher of multiplayer mobile games for the iPhone and other platforms, has raised $2 million as part of the first tranche of a second round of venture capital financing, TechCrunch reported. [more..]
DMW Notice Board Digital Media Conference East - June 25, 2010 - Washington D.C.
Join over 500 of the most influential decision-makers in the media, entertainment and technology industries will gather in Washington, DC / Tysons Corner for the 7th Annual Digital Media Conference East. This year's event features 3 keynotes and 15 panels divided across 5 Tracks: Mobile, Social Media, Television/Video, Marketing and Law & Tech. Keynoters include Boxee CEO & Co-Founder Avner Ronen and Kelly Day, EVP and General Manager, Digital Media and Commerce, Discovery Communications. New speakers announced from National Geographic Global Media, CBS Interactive/TV.com, Yahoo! News, MTV Networks, WeatherBug, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), Cisco Media Solutions Group and many more!
We are accepting speaker submissions and offering sponsor/exhibit opportunities now. Please contact Event Director Jay Baage via email ( jay@digitalmediawire.com) for more information.
Register for only $499 until June 18. Reserve your seat now!
Briefly Noted Tokyo - Twitter, which launched in Japan in 2008, and released a mobile version in October 2009, drew more monthly unique visitors that the country's most popular online social network, mixi, in April, the Associated Press reported, citing Nielsen data. [more..] Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo's Flickr photo hosting service this week announced a partnership with licensing agency Getty Images, providing Flickr members with a way to easily offer their photos for licensing through Getty Images for commercial or editorial usage. [more..] San Francisco - Google's YouTube has partnered with a local TV station in San Francisco on a citizen journalism experiment for its YouTube Direct platform, CNET News.com reported. [more..] Extras Job/Event/Marketplace Classifieds - National Geographic - Washington - iFactor Consulting - Pheonix - Payvment, Inc. - San Francisco, CA - Zynga - San Francisco
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