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Comcast Preps its 2.0; creation of Fancast, acquisition of Fandango and thePlatform all part of a larger play to become consumers’ primary source for video, no matter where it lives. (Multichannel News) MacFarlane Creates for Burger King; Family Guy creator helping develop the pre-roll ads that will run along with his upcoming AdSense-delivered online show. (C21Media) CinemaNow [...] ...
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Comcast Preps its 2.0; creation of Fancast, acquisition of Fandango and thePlatform all part of a larger play to become consumers’ primary source for video, no matter where it lives. (Multichannel News) MacFarlane Creates for Burger King; Family Guy creator helping develop the pre-roll ads that will run along with his upcoming AdSense-delivered online show. (C21Media) CinemaNow [...] ... Source: gizmodo.com --- 38 days ago
Earlier today, we published the article Comcast's Video Download Store Is Wholly Unremarkable about Comcast's expansion of Fancast, a place to download movies a la Amazon Unbox. Then a reliable tipster filled us in on where Fancast is going—specifically, in the mobile market. And we have to say, it's caught our attention. Fancast is essentially Comcast's way to expand into other areas of the entertainment sector without building on their cable monopoly. So their coming mobile app (working on Sprint phones for certain) includes partnerships with various media companies that may surprise you as part of a large media portal conglomerate. Sure, Fancast supports basic Comcast services. You can watch an unspecified amount of live programming on your phone streamed at what we've been told is near perfect quality (on a small screen). You can schedule recordings to your DVR and, maybe in later releases of the software, even stream these recordings to your phone a la Sling Box. You can rate movies and buy tickets on Fandango. And if other deals work out, you'll also be able to schedule recordings to your TiVo and add movies to your Netflix queue. Apparently the software is more than ready to go. Comcast is just finishing negotiations with various partners. So whenever those negotiations finish, that's when you'll get Fancast mobile. ... Source: www.philly.com --- 66 days ago
Comcast Corp. is buying the popular e-mail newsletter aimed at stylish women, Daily Candy, for an estimated $125 million. The purchase expands the Philadelphia cable giant's push into online-content properties that it hopes will draw traffic to its various entertainment Web sites, including Fandango.com, Fancast and Movies.com. ... Source: www.paidcontent.org --- 38 days ago
Comcast ( NSDQ: CMCSA ) is getting ready to launch Fancast Mobile, a mobile application which will allow users to watch live programming on your phone, and schedule recordings on your DVR, reports Gizmodo ..Comcast has been talking about this possibility for a while now. There's not too many details on the mobile version right now, but one thing that is for certain is that it will work on Sprint phones. We're guessing this may have to do with Comcast's impending relationship with Sprint ( NYSE: S ) and Clearwire as a future investor in the combined WiMax venture. It's not surprising that it's not available on the iPhone since Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) has been particular about services that may compete with its plans for iTunes. Gizmodo also said Fancast Mobile will support basic Comcast services on your phone, such as watching an unspecified amount of live programming and scheduling recordings and maybe—in later releases—Slingbox-like streaming. You can also rate movies and buy tickets on Fandango, and possibly use your TiVo remotely and update your Netflix queue. Meanwhile, Comcast is also expanding its Fancast video store, to move from beyond streaming to downloads. Its Fancast Media Manager now allows users to rent or purchase TV and movie content for Windows PC viewing...the service has been streaming Hulu and other content for a while now. Our mobile application for Blackberry and other Smartphones brings you the latest headlines ...
Source: business.techwhack.com --- 74 days ago
Comcast and NetZero announces their plans to block child porn US based internet service providers Comcast and NetZero have announced their plans to join the list of ISPs which are going to block access to child porn. This was confirmed by the New York Attorney General’s office. This happened after Comcast was threatened by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that he would sue the company if they do not accept their demands to block online access to child porn. Cuomo stated about the new developments: “I commend the companies for working with my office to aggressively eradicate online child pornography and strongly urge all outstanding Internet service providers across New York and the nation to get on board.” AOL, AT&T and Time Warner Cable have already accepted the demands and are now blocking online groups which offer child pornography content. Tags: Andrew Cuomo , AOL , AT&T , Comcast , Internet , internet service providers , NetZero , New York Attorney General , Time Warner Cable Related posts Walt Disney sells Movies.com to Fandango (0) Wal-Mart Stores: No. 1 on Fortune 500 US list (0) Vonage to offer DSL services powered by Covad (0) Vonage Holdings to pay AT&T as part of their legal settlement (0) Virgin Group enters the Russian market (0) ... Source: business.techwhack.com --- 73 days ago
Comcast posts higher profits Comcast is the largest cable service provider in the US market. The company has now come out with their latest revenue report and they have posted a higher quarterly profit. Comcast said that they gained market share in telephone and Internet services and were also able to control their expenses. They gained subscribers from rival services including AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications Inc. Market analyst Tom Eagan said in a statement on the company’s report: “Free cash flow was better than we expected and that was partly due to the fewer customer adds, so they didn’t incur costs of adding new subscribers.” Comcast reported that their net profit in the second quarter rose to $632 million. The revenues were up at $8.553 billion. Tags: AT&T , cable service providers , Comcast , Revenues , USA , Verizon Communications Related posts Yahoo! meets market expectations with their results (0) Wipro profits are up by around 43 Percent (0) Walt Disney sells Movies.com to Fandango (0) Walt Disney Co. gains from improved sales of DVDs (0) Wal-Mart Stores: No. 1 on Fortune 500 US list (0) ... Source: www.moconews.net --- 38 days ago
Comcast ( NSDQ: CMCSA ) is getting ready to launch Fancast Mobile, a mobile application which will allow users to watch live programming on your phone, and schedule recordings on your DVR, reports Gizmodo . Earlier today, Gizmodo wrote about how Comcast was expanding its Fancast video download store , and dismissed it as "unremarkable" until it found out about the mobile piece. There's not too many details right now, but one thing that is for certain is that it will work on Sprint ( NYSE: S ) phones. We're guessing this may have to do with Comcast's impending relationship with Sprint and Clearwire ( NSDQ: CLWR ) as a future investor in the combined WiMax venture. It's not surprising that it's not available on the iPhone since Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) has been particular about services that may compete with its plans for iTunes. Gizmodo said Fancast Mobile will support basic Comcast services on your phone, such as watching an unspecified amount of live programming and scheduling recordings and maybe—in later releases—SlingBox-like streaming. You can also rate movies and buy tickets on Fandango, and possibly it will allow you to also use your TiVo ( NSDQ: TIVO ) remotely and update your Netflix ( NSDQ: NFLX ) queue. Our mobile application for Blackberry and other Smartphones brings you the latest headlines when you're on the go. Go here to download . ... Source: www.dailynewstranscript.com --- 94 days ago
The allure of the latest Batman movie will be powerful enough to pull some fans out into the dark of night to see "The Dark Knight." Diehards have already bought up every seat for the midnight screenings on opening night a week from Friday at IMAX theatres in Natick and Reading. In fact, those tickets sold out within a few days of going on sale more than a week ago. "We know (the film) is going to be huge," said Vikky Angelico, a supervisor at the Comcast IMAX 3D Theatre in Natick. Dedham Community Theatre in historic Dedham Square will host a midnight premiere of the blockbuster sequel on July 18. Tickets are still available according to the theatre's Web site. "The Dark Knight," directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, is the sequel to 2005's "Batman Begins," which grossed more than $371 million worldwide. Fandango, an online ticket sales Web site, shows a number of midnight screenings already sold out. Similarly, MovieTickets.com reported sales three weeks in advance for "The Dark Knight" outsold those of last summer's "Spider-Man 3" for the same period by a margin of 8 to 1. But not every movie theatre has ticket buyers clamoring for pre-opening sales. For its 12:01 a.m. opening day showing of "The Dark Knight," the AMC Theatre in Framingham has only sold 66 seats, or 19 percent of the space it is allotting for the film. More than the film is a hot ticket. The resulting hype that engulfs "The ...
Source: www.metrowestdailynews.com --- 94 days ago
The allure of the latest Batman movie will be powerful enough to pull some fans out into the dark of night to see "The Dark Knight." Diehards have already bought up every seat for the midnight screenings on opening night a week from Friday at IMAX theatres in Natick and Reading. In fact, those tickets sold out within a few days of going on sale more than a week ago. "We know (the film) is going to be huge," said Vikky Angelico, a supervisor at the Comcast IMAX 3D Theatre in Natick. "The Dark Knight," directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, is the sequel to 2005's "Batman Begins," which grossed more than $371 million worldwide. Fandango, an online ticket sales Web site, shows a number of midnight screenings already sold out. Similarly, MovieTickets.com reported sales three weeks in advance for "The Dark Knight" outsold those of last summer's "Spider-Man 3" for the same period by a margin of 8 to 1. But not every movie theatre has ticket buyers clamoring for pre-opening sales. For its 12:01 a.m. opening day showing of "The Dark Knight," the AMC Theatre in Framingham has only sold 66 seats, or 19 percent of the space it is allotting for the film. More than the film is a hot ticket. The resulting hype that engulfs "The Dark Knight" has spread to a large deal of Batman-related products. Jack LeFevra, the manager of Bedrock Comics in Framingham, said he can expect his business to improve based on past ... Source: www.oilweek.com --- 67 days ago
NEW YORK _ Cable and Internet service provider Comcast Corp. is expanding its online menu with the acquisition of Daily Candy, an electronic newsletter catering to women looking for tips on fashion, food and fun things to do in big cities.Financial terms weren`t disclosed. The Wall Street Journal reported the sales price at about US$125 million, citing people familiar with the matter who it did not name.Founded in 2000 by Dany Levy, Daily Candy boasts about 2.5 million readers who signed up to receive daily newsletters in their email. It produces different daily editions for London and 11 U.S. cities: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C.Like most websites, New York-based Daily Candy makes its money from advertising.Philadelphia-based Comcast hopes to expand Daily Candy`s audience by promoting some features on its other Internet properties.Besides a general-purpose website that anchors its high-speed Internet service, Comcast also owns the online video service Fancast and movie ticket broker Fandango. ... Source: vator.tv --- 78 days ago
DailyCandy, the 8-year-old newsletter company, is being rumored to be sold to Comcast for $75 million, according to Silicon Alley Insider. If bought, it would be the latest in a string of acquisitions by Comcast including ThePlatform, Fandango, Plaxo and ... [ Read more ] ...
Source: www.gigalaw.com --- 57 days ago
A class-action lawsuit targets Facebook and eight of the participants in Beacon, its ill-fated advertising product that shared information about third-party site activity with the social network. Named as defendants are Facebook, as well as current or former Beacon participants Blockbuster, Fandango (owned by Comcast), Overstock.com, STA Travel, Zappos, Hotwire (owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp), and GameFly. Read the article: CNET News.com ... Source: blogoverdose.com --- 100 days ago
Entertainment site Fandango.com bought Movies.com from the Walt Disney Co to widen its offering of celebrity news and movies reviews. Fandango is a part of Comcast Corp, a major cable company, they said it will help them with their expansion on movies, theater and marketing advertisements. They also sell tickets online. According to Nielsen Ratings, Fandango has [...] ... Find more results for Comcast's Fandango on RSSMicro.com |
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A class-action lawsuit filed earlier this week targets Facebook and eight of the participants in Beacon, its ill-fated advertising product that shared information about third-party site activity with the social network. The set of twenty plaintiffs, mostly residents of Texas, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday. Named as defendants are Facebook, as well as current or former Beacon participants Blockbuster, Fandango (owned by Comcast), Overstock.com, STA Travel, Zappos, Hotwire (owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp), and GameFly. A Facebook representative told CNET News on Thursday that the company had not yet actually been served with the lawsuit, and that its legal team consequently did not have a formal statement at the time. STA Travel, Gamefly, and Overstock all declined comment; none of the other defendants could be immediately reached. "Until we're served, we're not being sued, so we don't have any comment," Overstock general counsel Mark Griffin told CNET News. Beacon gained almost immediate notoriety when Facebook unveiled it as part of its Facebook Ads announcement last fall. Privacy advocates, most notably liberal activist group MoveOn.org , lambasted the program for not allowing users to disable it easily. Facebook has since modified the program and the controversy has wound down. But in the lawsuit, the plaintiffs point to the window of time before Facebook instituted t ...
Some acquisitions barely need explanations, That's not always the case when Comcast ( NSDQ: CMCSA ) Interactive Media opens the virtual checkbook; people are still asking me about Plaxo and today's announcement about DailyCandy, while less eyebrow-raising, still needs some 'splaining. CIM EVP Sam Schwartz and DailyCandy CEO Pete Sheinbaum did just that during an interview soon after the news broke. Neither would talk numbers but sources close to the deal say it's about $125 million. (They also declined to talk about information I had that the deal is roughly 10 times cash flow cash flow of about $13 million and total revenue of $23-25 million.) Schwartz described DailyCandy as "a high-monetization property" and "another step as we try to grow into a major presence" online. Comcast plans to keep the full DC team. Some highlights: What are you going to do with DailyCandy? How does it fit in strategically? : Schwartz spoke of DC's growth from a very small idea eight years ago to a company that serves 2.5 million subscribers. "Those subscriptions represent a very loyal, engaged high-value audience for their advertisers and we think we can take what they've created and the stage that they got to so far and apply that to some new ideas we have both horizontally and vertically… Lots more in the full interview after the jump . The team there is fantastic, combined with the team we already have that's focused on Fandango and Fancast and our ...
Karin Gilford, the former GM of Entertainment at Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ) who left earlier this week, is joining Comcast ( NSDQ: CMCSA ) as we reported earlier . Now her position there is official: she is joining as as SVP of Fancast and Online Entertainment. Gilford will build and manage Fancast , the online video service from Comcast Interactive Media, as well as work on expansion of CIM in the online entertainment space. She will report to Amy Banse, President of CIM. At Yahoo, Gilford was in charge of all programming, content and overall business strategies for Yahoo Entertainment's consumer websites, including Yahoo Movies, Yahoo TV and Yahoo omg!, and was based in its Santa Monica offices. CIM also owns other online properties including Fandango, Movies.com, Comcast.net, thePlatform, Plaxo. Fandango and Movies.com will continue to be led by Chuck Davis, CEO of Fandango, Comcast.net will continue to be run by Scott Bailey, SVP of Comcast Interactive Media, and thePlatform and Plaxo will continue to report to Sam Schwartz, EVP of Comcast Interactive Media. More details in release . Related Yahoo Combining Sports, Entertainment Under Pitaro In Gilford's Wake Updated: Industry Moves: Yahoo GM Of Entertainment Karin Gilford Leaving For Comcast Check out the best business jobs in digital media. Go here for paidContent.org Job Board. ...
We think DailyCandy is annoying. Always have. It's up there with Sugar Inc. But DailyCandy takes the cake because it is owned by Bob Pittman. If you saw the movie or read the book about Pittman's wife (Into Thin Air) you know why he seems like a jerk. But we have to concede that Pittman knows how to play the game. He has sold the DailyCandy business to Comcast for $125M. NYC-based DailyCandy was founded by Dany Levy in 2000. It is an online newsletter that targets women via e-mail newsletters on fashion, fitness, culture and lifestyle. The newsletters are free and ad -supported. Pittman reportedly paid just $3M for DailyCandy five years ago. So this is a cationary tale for your publishers who find success who want to cash out early. In a letter to DailyCandy's 55 employees, Pittman wrote that "since we made our investment in 2003, subscriptions have grown from just over 200K to over 2.5M." He also said he expects the company to rack up $25M in revenue this year on its way to $10M in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. Comcast has become one of the bigger Internet content owners, with holdings like Fandango, Movies.com and now DailyCandy. View - site ...