Looking to shed weight and beef up a sleek new image as a Web-based media company, AOL is attempting to sell off its social networking site Bebo and instant messaging system ICQ.
For Aller Media, whose products encompass everything from magazines to television, radio and web-based media, it means taking current competencies and strengths, and lifting them onto new platforms and into new times.
He notes that Yahoo is one of the most globally recognized names on the Web, and a leading Internet-based media company.
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The companies the Google alums work on are all Web-based, and increasingly about social media, including games, analysis of Web chatter and content.
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But now it's unclear how that strength on the desktop will translate into an edge in online advertising, digital media and Web-based business applications.
With social media and Web-based content apps native to the TV, marketers now must begin thinking about a fourth screen in addition to PCs, tablets and smart phones.
Jez Jowett, head of London-based creative agency Cake New Media which designed the Web site, told CNN that a user-friendly Web site could work extremely well to target key demographics.
That's how Pollak, chief executive of Manhattan-based American Lawyer Media, envisions the future of his company -- a sticky web of timely gossip, breaking news and profitable spinoffs like newsletters, books, conferences and CDs.
Both Read and Intel are targeting the data centers supporting social media, mobile devices, and web-based applications.
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Betaworks is a data-driven media company based in New York that builds and invests in the social web.
This is funny and flattering all at once, but it also underscores how new media has changed old media, and how the emerging social web is changing the once-autonomous search-based internet.
Utilizing the iPhone4's gyroscope and Wi-Fi connectivity, Movea's Air Mouse application enables users to kick back and relax while watching high quality, web-based entertainment from the comfort of their couch and is the perfect navigation tool for online and home media center digital entertainment.
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The proliferation of media revenues, conference-specific cable networks, team-specific cable networks, and now Web-based networks (Missouri) are changing the face of college athletics.
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