If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Twitter is close to raising $100 million at a billion dollar valuation. The $100 million round is a significant increase over the $50 million the micro-blogging service planned to raise in its last round. Continue Reading →
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It’s just a typical day, with a typical news cycle. We have a plethora of opinions shrouded as facts, dozens of stories based upon self-serving manipulated statistics and a healthy dose of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) served up by ratings-starved news organizations. The hottest trending topics this week included Joe Wilson’s rude and inexcusable Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter is raising money at a $1 billion valuation. The micro-blogging service is hoping to raise approximately $50 million at the $1 billion valuation. While the company still doesn’t have a true business plan, let alone generates revenue, it very well Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Rupert Murdoch told a Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference that iPhone & BlackBerry users will be charged for the Wall Street Journal. Even if you already have a subscription to the Journal, users will have to pay $1 a week for access Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. In an effort to create a popular new beverage for the masses, Vitaminwater is letting Facebook users pick its next flavor. Vitaminwater will monitor Facebook and Twitter for trending flavor topics related to its contest, before dwindling down popular choices in Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google’s GMail service went down for a few hours yesterday. The service error sent many into a panic, as millions of people rely heavily on Gmail in order to conduct business. The outage, which last for a good portion of the Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Fox will begin interweaving Twitter into the fabric of its shows. Specifically, Fox is scheduled to air “tweet-peats” of shows like Fringe and Glee, which will feature messages from cast and crew about the show via Twitter. The move is a Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter is set to begin acknowledging the exact location of where tweets come from. The micro-blogging service will include the latitude and longitude of tweets in real time. Co-Founder Biz Stone said “We have a strong hunch location will be a Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. NBCU, Time Warner, News Corp, Viacom, CBS, Disney and Discovery Communications are teaming to create a rival to the Nielsen metric system. The media conglomerate is also working with major advertisers like AT&T and Proctor & Gamble, as well as ad Continue Reading →