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blinkx, Guinness World Records to bring unique footage of record-breaking feats

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guinness.pngblinkx announced a partnership with Guinness World Records, the globalleader in compiling and authenticating world records. Under the terms of the agreement, video content from Guinness World Records’ Video Vault will be fully searchable and playable at blinkx.com. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and will share resulting ad revenue with Guinness World Records.

The Video Vault is a catalog of online videos ranging from the fastest, strongest, longest and even the weirdest achievements in the world, and users can submit footage of their own attempts to break world records directly on the web site.

Originally posted on December 4, 2007 @ 1:49 pm

New York Daily News selects WebTrends Analytics for online behavior analysis

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dailynews.pngWebTrends Inc., provider of consumer-centric analytics and marketing intelligence solutions, announced that New York Daily News has chosen WebTrends Analytics to gain comprehensive insight into NYDailyNews.com readers.

“We are excited to partner with the Daily News by providing them a full-featured web analytics platform that will give them the ability to meet their complex business needs,” said Bruce Coleman, CEO of WebTrends. “Our strategy to deliver an open platform that can easily integrate with other best-of-breed technology solutions provides innovative organizations like the Daily News with a comprehensive marketing solution.”

Originally posted on December 3, 2007 @ 11:17 am

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Latimes.com partners with Mixx, takes stake

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mixx.pngThe Los Angeles Times Media Group has joined forces with Mixx, a social news website, in an online content and co-marketing alliance which puts readers of the nation’s largest metropolitan daily newspaper in control of their own personal blend of online news, information, photos and videos. It has also been announced that The Times has taken a small equity stake in Mixx, details of which were not disclosed.

Mixx offers Latimes.com readers additional tools to help harness and organize the vast assortment of internet news, information and multimedia content. Users who click through to the Mixx site from Los Angeles Times story pages can submit items without any requirement for registration, and quickly search and browse through content from Southern California and beyond. Upon registration for a free Mixx account, users can also expand their social networking and bookmarking options by creating and participating in public and private groups, networking with other Mixx users who share their interests or live nearby, joining the lively discussion by making comments about items they find interesting, and by voting for or against news, images and videos that they like or dislike.

Originally posted on December 4, 2007 @ 2:52 pm

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eBay, Yahoo Japan to faciliate cross-border trading

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seikamonOnline auction giant eBay will have another chance to establish foothold in Japan with its new partnership with Yahoo Japan to link up their auction sites.

The two companies will launch a separate website called Sekaimon which means “Gateway to the World” and or “global shopping” in English. The goal of this venture is to expand online auction and make online purchase a lot easier between Japan and the U.S. In English, it means additional income for both companies.

The Japanese-language Sekaimon will break language barriers by translating all items in eBay to Japanese. Moreover, it will assist in all aspects of online shopping from shipping, payment to custom clearance.

With only 15 million auction items listed, Yahoo Japan will now have access to more than 248 million users registered under eBay. The auction giant, on the other hand, will benefit from the strong presence of Yahoo in the Japanese market.

Originally posted on December 4, 2007 @ 10:18 am

Glu Mobile agrees to acquire China’s leading mobile games publisher

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viewmedia.jpgGlu Mobile has agreed to acquire Beijing Zhangzhong MIG Information Technology Co. Ltd., a leading developer and publisher of mobile games for China. The acquisition accelerates the company’s presence in China and deepens Glu’s relationship with China Mobile, the largest wireless carrier in China.

According to China’s Ministry of Information Industry, the Chinese mobile market has more than 500 million mobile subscriptions. With the acquisition of MIG, Glu will be positioned to more effectively publish its existing world-class branded and award-winning original titles in China and to continue to publish MIG’s market leading portfolio of culturally relevant and popular local titles. Importantly, this acquisition makes Glu the first top-tier global mobile games publisher to acquire a developer and publisher of mobile games in China.

As part of the acquisition, Wang Bin, chief executive officer, MIG, will join Glu as General Manager focused on China and Glu will add MIG’s approximately 80 employees to its worldwide team. These employees will continue to develop and publish mobile games that are relevant to a local, and potentially global, audience as well as work in conjunction with Glu’s existing Beijing office to further penetrate the Chinese market.

Under the terms of the transaction, which the parties anticipate will close in approximately three weeks, MIG’s shareholders will receive approximately $14.7 million in cash. Additional payments of up to $25 million in cash and stock are contingent upon the achievement by MIG of certain financial milestones during 2008, with a portion of the additional payments subject to continued employment of the principal officers of MIG.

Originally posted on December 3, 2007 @ 11:49 am