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Sweet Success For Cut The Rope: An Interview With ZeptoLab’s CEO

by Ingrid Lunden on Jan 16, 2012 • No Comments

Games rank as the most popular form of mobile content today—with some 68 percent of U.S. consumers downloading a game app to their device in the last 30 days, according to Nielsen. And ZeptoLab’s Cut The Rope—a game of physics, boxed spaces and candy—has been one of the biggest of them all, with...

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Tom Hanks Brings "Electric City" to Yahoo

by Peter Kafka on Jan 8, 2012 • No Comments

More new blood for Yahoo, this time in the form of a Hollywood star: Tom Hanks and his Playtone productions are creating an animated series for the Web giant. Hanks will also star in "Electric City," which Yahoo is describing as an "action-packed sci-fi adventure series," which will run for a total of 90 minutes...

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Netflix Gains DreamWorks Animation But Faces Stiffer Competition In Brazil

by Staci D. Kramer on Sep 27, 2011 • No Comments

I don’t know many video subscribers—TV or or streaming—who make decisions based on whether or not their package includes Shrek 2. But Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) subscribers want signs that CEO Reed Hastings is putting his money where his mouth is and a deal with DreamWorks Animation SKG, particularly one that values the streaming...

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Watch: Taiwanese Animation Spoofs New Facebook Changes, F8 Conference

by Josh Feldman on Sep 25, 2011 • No Comments

Yes, our friends from NMATV are back, and they're taking on the new changes being made to Facebook.

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Fox Mobile Vet Stalbow Joins Rovio As GM, North America

by Staci D. Kramer on Aug 22, 2011 • No Comments

At our paidContent Mobile conference in May, Andrew Stalbow and Peter Vesterbacka paired up to tout the value of a major studio partnering with a popular game developer on the successful Angry Birds Rio. Now Stalbow has shifted from SVP-Mobile for Fox Digital to working with Vesterbacka directly as the North American...

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Yahoo Board Backs CEO Bartz Amid Questions From Testy Shareholders

by Sam Gustin on Jun 23, 2011 • No Comments

The big question at Yahoo’s annual shareholder meetings over the last couple of years has been when the clock will run out on Carol Bartz. The Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO survived her third shareholder’s meeting on Thursday with the support of the company’s board, despite Yahoo’s turnaround being stuck in neutral.

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Outfit7 Pulls A Rovio, Signs William Morris Deal For Films, TV And More

by Ingrid Lunden on Jun 20, 2011 • No Comments

Looks like Rovio is not the only mobile content company that wants to catapult itself into being the next Disney of the entertainment world. Outfit7, makers of the popular Talking Friends series of apps, has signed a deal with William Morris Endeavor for the talent agency to help put...

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Angry Birds Is Prepping Its First Book: A Cookbook About Eggs

by Ingrid Lunden on Jun 8, 2011 • No Comments

Rovio, which has made a small fortune spinning out products from the wild success of its “Angry Birds” mobile games, is now moving into book publishing, and plans to self-publish its first book—a family cookbook focused on egg recipes—both as a traditional volume and as an app in the coming weeks.

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Lionsgate Considers More Series For ‘Streaming First’ Releases

by David Kaplan on Mar 28, 2011 • No Comments

As the idea of straight-to-streaming video has becomes a fairly common idea among Hollywood studios, at least as an “experiment,” Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) is refining its strategy around its recently-introduced animated Hulu series, Trailer Trash, and believes it has been able to craft a business model around video “now,” not...

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Disney Interactive Revenues Surged As Segment’s Loss Widened

by David Kaplan on Feb 8, 2011 • No Comments

All in all, The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company’s fiscal Q1 was solid, buttressed by strong performance at its cable networks, theme parks and consumer products divisions. Even broadcasting, which isn’t the strongest part of the company these days, gained a bit. But the Interactive segment, in spite of impressive sales growth, posted...

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The Morning Lowdown 01-21-11

by David Kaplan on Jan 20, 2011 • No Comments

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:

» With even digital music sales flagging these days, it’s hardly surprising that Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), one of the four major record labels, has hired Goldman Sachs to search for possible buyers for the company. However, it is surprising considering...

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Hyperbole and a Half: A Web Comic Gone Wild on YouTube

by Liz Shannon Miller on Jan 19, 2011 • No Comments

Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half is one of the funniest and strangest web comics online. But beyond her trademark crude artwork, she's also got a YouTube presence which not only brings her drawings to life, but also includes some delightfully random live action experiments.

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Sweet Success For Cut The Rope: An Interview With ZeptoLab’s CEO

Tom Hanks Brings "Electric City" to Yahoo

Watch: Taiwanese Animation Spoofs New Facebook Changes, F8 Conference

Yahoo Board Backs CEO Bartz Amid Questions From Testy Shareholders

Angry Birds Is Prepping Its First Book: A Cookbook About Eggs

Disney Interactive Revenues Surged As Segment’s Loss Widened

Hyperbole and a Half: A Web Comic Gone Wild on YouTube

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