Tsavo Media To Pay Yahoo $4.8M For Sending ‘Low Quality Traffic’, President Quits

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Tsavo Media , which operates a network of roughly 300 websites and blogs as an indirect subsidiary of Canadian online publishing and advertising company Cyberplex , is being retroactively charged $4.8 million “over a reasonable time period” by Yahoo for sending the latter company’s advertisers “low quality traffic” in 2011. To boot, Cyberplex president Ted Hastings (formerly Tsavo Media’s CEO), apparently jumped ship.

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Kitties, Komen and The New Editor of Mainstream News [Internet]

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There's a new editor in chief of mainstream news. More

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Showyou’s latest update adds more ways to discover videos

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Currently most online video services have a sort of hunt-and-peck approach to finding things you might want to watch. You pick a video, watch it and then when it’s done you have to hunt down something else that might be of interest.

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The Pandora’s Box of Privacy

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On Tuesday, Sen. Al Franken tentatively raised his gavel to close a hearing  before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, saying, in his gravelly voice, “I don’t chair that much.” An aide leaned forward to whisper in his ear. “The record will be held open for a week,” Franken then said triumphantly, and brought down the hammer

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For It Before They Were Against It: Google Spent $400K On SOPA Lobbying

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According to filings with the Federal Election Commission, Google spent approximately $390,000 (out of $3,760,000.00 total) on SOPA and PIPA lobbying including efforts to educate lawmakers on SOPA and the DMCA. The question, then, is whether the massive search and advertising giant was for or against the bill – and why so much money was spent to argue the case

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ConnecTV Prepares To Take On IntoNow With New Social TV Platform

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Today, a company called ConnecTV is launching an ambitious new service for socializing the TV viewing experience using mobile and web-based applications.

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YouTube & its content discovery paradox

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For years, YouTube has worked to shake the perception that it is all about amateurish user-generated content.

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AOL Beats The Street, Q4 Revenue Down 3 Percent To $577M

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AOL reported better than expected fourth quarter earnings this morning. The company, which owns TechCrunch, reported revenue of $576.8 million, which is down 3 percent from Q4 2010 revenue of $596 million.

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Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio

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As an artist who probably makes a substantial income from licensing his music, you might think Neil Young would frown on piracy and file-sharing, but that appears not to be the case, according to an interview he gave at the Dive Into Media conference in Los Angeles . Instead of railing against file-sharers, Young called piracy “the new radio” because it’s “how music gets around.” The musician’s comment puts a lot of the hysteria about copyright infringement into perspective — as we’ve pointed out before, file-sharing and monetization aren’t mutually exclusive, and in many cases a certain amount of so-called “piracy” can actually be good for business , as authors, musicians and even game developers have come to realize. Comparing piracy to radio is a smart way of looking at the issue: in the early days of the music business, when live performances and record sales were the main revenue generator for artists and publishers, radio itself was seen as a form of piracy (as sheet music was before that)

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Sorry Dick, but Twitter is definitely a media entity

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At the Dive Into Media conference on Monday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said that the company doesn’t see itself as a media entity , although he admitted that it is in the media business.

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