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o Gay
Online Media Firm PlanetOut Files for $74.9 Million IPO
o Judge
Strikes Down Wash. Law Banning Violent Game Sales to Minors
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Search Technology Firm Lookout Acquired by Microsoft
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Weblog Software Provider Six Apart Acquires Ublog, Names CEO
o Report: Europe Suffering from
"Broadband Divide"
o DVD Rental Firm Netflix Sees
Higher Revenue, Acquisition Costs
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Briefly Noted: Sirius Satellite
Radio - Tony Hawk - Hertz, DivXNetworks - Wind's Libero.it,
MarketWatch.com - MarketWise University, Majesco - "Advent Rising"
delay, Activision Value - Discovery's "American Chopper," Sir Tim
Berners-Lee
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--VP - Ignition Strategic Communications
--NMS Imaging Seeing Sales Manager
--Financial Pricing/Modeling Analyst
--Audio Conference - Homeland Security Contracting - July 27
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o Gay Online Media Firm PlanetOut
Files for $74.9 Million IPO
San Francisco, Calif. -- PlanetOut, an Internet media company
focused on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered communities,
has set the terms of its upcoming initial public offering (IPO). The
company said that it plans to raise about $74.9 million by selling
4.65 million shares at $12-$14 each. The company, which originally
filed for the IPO in April, said that it has a community of 3.3
million active members. It operates a network of web sites,
including Gay.com, PlanetOut.com, Kleptomaniac.com and Out and About
travel.
http://www.planetout.com
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o Judge Strikes
Down Wash. Law Banning Violent Game Sales to Minors
Seattle -- A Washington state law passed last year that restricts
the sale of violent video games to minors has been struck down in
federal court via summary judgment. U.S. District Judge Robert
Lasnik said the law was "unconstitutionally vague" and violated
free-speech rights. The law would have imposed a $500 fine on any
clerk who sold games depicting violence against law enforcement
officers. "While we may have lost this one battle in the sale of
violent games against children, the war is far from over,"
Washington Democratic state Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson, who wrote the
law, told Reuters. She added that she has not decided yet whether to
appeal or propose new legislation. "It's our hope that Washington
state and all other states will now turn their focus to helping us
in our efforts to implement voluntary ratings measures at the retail
level and enhance parental awareness and use of the ESRB game
ratings," said Doug Lowenstein, president of industry trade group
the Entertainment Software Association, which supported plaintiffs
the Video Software Dealers Association.
http://www.theesa.com/SJORDER.pdf
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C194522D8
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o Search
Technology Firm Lookout Acquired by Microsoft
San Francisco -- Hoping to bolster its capabilities in the search
arena, Microsoft said on Friday that it has acquired San
Francisco-based Lookout Software, a maker of software that searches
emails, files and desktop data within Microsoft's Outlook. Financial
terms of the deal were not disclosed. Microsoft's MSN has been
working in recent months to increase the relevancy of its search
results in an effort to better compete with rivals Google and Yahoo.
"Lookout has developed an innovative technology for searching e-mail
that is aligned with our own MSN Search efforts," said Yusuf Mehdi,
the corporate vice president of MSN. As part of the acquisition,
Lookout founder Mike Belshe will become a full-time employee on the
MSN Search team. Co-founder Eric Hahn will work closely with the MSN
Search team during the transition of Lookout to Microsoft.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040716/sff002_1.html
http://www.lookoutsoft.com
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o Weblog
Software Provider Six Apart Acquires Ublog, Names CEO
San Mateo, Calif. -- Looking to further build its international
presence, Six Apart, a maker of weblog software, said that it has
acquired Ublog, a provider of one of Europe's most popular blogging
tools and hosting services. Financial terms of the deal were not
disclosed. Ublog has served as the exclusive agent for San Mateo,
Calif.-based Six Apart in Europe over the last six months. Already
deployed in France and Spain, SixApart's TypePad service will be
launched in Germany next week, and in the UK by this fall. Six Apart
also said that it has added several top executives, including Barak
Berkowitz, its chairman and CEO. Berkowitz, the former co-founder
and president of OmniSky, has been the company's acting CEO for the
past six months.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040714/sfw093_1.html
http://www.u-blog.net/site
http://www.sixapart.com
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o Report:
Europe Suffering from "Broadband Divide"
Brussels -- A new report by market analysis firm Jupiter Research
shows that Europe is experiencing something of a "broadband divide",
with wide disparities in Internet speeds and quality of service
depending on the country. While many Europeans have access to
ultra-fast Internet connections, nearly 30% have connections slower
than 512 kilobits per second, Jupiter said. "Across Europe,
broadband is evolving at markedly different rates, speeds and
prices," said Ian Fogg, author of the report. "It will lead to a
kind of digital patchwork, where some areas have high-quality
broadband and others have much more limited services, even within
the same country." According to the report, Germany will boast the
largest broadband market in Europe by 2009, with 13.5 million
households, followed by the U.K., which will have more than 10
million broadband households.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A6DC261D8
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o DVD Rental
Firm Netflix Sees Higher Revenue, Acquisition Costs
Los Gatos, Calif. Online DVD rental firm Netflix said it saw a 90%
increase in revenue in its second quarter, as the company reported
$120.3 million as compared with $63.2 million in revenue for the
same period in 2003. The company added that it now counts 2.1
million subscribers, having added 583,000 new subscribers in the
last quarter. However, Netflix shares fell over 25% on Friday on
news that the company's acquisition cost for each new subscriber
rose to $35.12, compared with $30.45 in the second quarter of 2003,
and projections that acquisition costs will rise to between $37 and
$39.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040715/sfth002_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040716/media_netflix_stocks_1.html
http://www.netflix.com
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> New Media Attorney
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o Briefly Noted: (New York)
Sirius Satellite Radio, a provider of satellite-delivered digital
radio programming, announced on Friday that it has signed
professional skateboarder Tony Hawk to host a show on Sirius
Faction, a channel created for action sports enthusiasts. "Tony
Hawk's Demolition Radio" will be broadcast from a custom studio
built into Hawk's practice skate park in California. New York-based
Sirius said it will announce additional athlete-hosts for the
channel in coming months. The company also said on Friday that
rental car partner Hertz has expanded its Sirius offering to include
complimentary satellite radio for those renting its Prestige and
Luxury vehicle models.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040716/nyf042_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040715/nyth161_1.html
http://www.siriusradio.com
(San Diego) DivXNetworks, a developer of video compression
technology and provider of video-on-demand delivery technology,
announced on Friday that will power a new video-on-demand service
for Italian telecommunications firm Wind. The service will be
offered on Wind's Libero.it portal, which claims 8 million unique
monthly visitors.
http://www.divxnetworks.com
http://www.libero.it
(San Francisco) MarketWatch.com, a provider of business news,
financial information and analytical tools, said on Thursday that
MarketWise University, a provider of stock market education, has
extended its contract to offer educational courses for introductory
and advanced trading and investing tactics to users of
CBS.MarketWatch.com and BigCharts.com. MarketWise University
conducts its sessions both online and live at cities nationwide
including Boulder, Co.; Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. and New York City.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040715/155668_1.html
http://www.marketwise.com/MW_main/index.asp
(Edison, N.J.) Video game publisher Majesco announced on Friday
that it has postponed the release of its "Advent Rising" title until
the first quarter of 2005, but said the move should not affect its
previously announced revenue and income estimates for the current
year. "We are taking advantage of our strong fourth quarter line-up
to allow Advent to fully realize all aspects of its franchise
potential," said Majesco CEO Jesse Sutton. "This change in strategy
also enables us to free the game from what we expect to be an
overcrowded holiday season so that we can maximize the impact of our
marketing campaign."
http://www.majescogames.com
http://www.adventtrilogy.com
(Minneapolis) Activision Value, the game developer's value-priced
game publishing label, announced on Friday a multi-year alliance
with Discovery Consumer Products to develop PC, console and handheld
titles based on its "American Chopper" series. The first "American
Chopper" games are expected at retail in the fall.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040716/165198_1.html
http://www.activisionvalue.com
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/amchopper/amchopper.html
(London) Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the World
Wide Web, on Friday officially received his knighthood from Queen
Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace for "services to the global
development of the Internet." The modest inventor is widely credited
with having come up with the system used to organize, link and
browse Web pages on the Internet. True to form, Berners-Lee,
recently named by Time magazine as one of the Top 20 thinkers of the
20th century, downplayed his achievement, saying he was merely "in
the right place at the right time."
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp
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Media Attorney
The online division of a multimedia global entertainment company
has an exciting career opportunity for a New Media attorney with
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> Database Programmer
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Deloitte Consulting LLP, one of the world's leading management
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for company information
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> VP of Sales - Web Hosting / Internetworking / Telecom Services
XIF is an 8-year old Internetworking Solutions firm. We are a
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We are looking for someone with 8+ years experience in sales and
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> VP - Ignition Strategic Communications
Ignition Strategic Communications is a fast-paced, fast-growing
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at least a decade of experience. Ideal candidates will have
hands-on experience media relations and PR experience, management
know-how and entrepreneurial expertise in growing a full-service
agency. Journalism experience useful. Competitive salary and
benefits. Send resumes to
mediarelationsjob@hotmail.com. No phone calls, please.
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Imaging Seeing Sales Manager
Sales Professional wanted to build and mentor B2B outside sales
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> Financial Pricing/Modeling Analyst
Create and analyze complex financial models of proposals.
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Send resumes to
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Spending on homeland security is growing at an unprecedented pace
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Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA) and our panel
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> Executive Networking Meeting - Going International, July 20th
Going International too late can cause you to miss the boat on
great opportunities - are your competitors already making headway
in some of these markets? Perhaps without your knowledge? But
going International too early can also cause a company to lose
focus if it's not ready to do so yet. If you're already executing
on an International strategy, this session will help you make
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