A growing migrant population makes Poland an increasingly important factor in UK online publishing. But what are Polish publishers doing over here and at home? In this video interview, I…

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Bebo has hired Philip Macartney, a sales exec with Dublin’s FM104 radio station, as head of sales in Ireland, one of its most popular territories. Macartney a founder of online…

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Bebo business development VP Ziv Navoth told Beet.tv’s Andy Plesser the social network is getting “over a billion” video views every month. If you haven’t read our ongoing coverage here…

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— Online Catch Up For Channel 4: Channel 4 has rolled out a free seven-day catch-up service on channel4.com, reports NMA.co.uk. The click-and-play streaming service is in addition to…

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AOL president Ron Grant, appearing on our EconSM panel, suggested new acquisition Bebo would be used to thread social features throughout AOL’s new-look websites. In a later chat with my…

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AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) $850 million purchase of Bebo back in March was one of the big social media deals of the year. In a Q&A with ContentNext co-editor Staci Kramer…

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Bebo financed KateModern through product placement ads with the likes of Proctor & Gamble and Orange. Now it’s struck a similar deal for its new Sofia’s Diary series with clothes…

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Though he no doubt took a healthy slice of that $850 million, Bebo’s English co-founder Michael Birch went to ground when AOL (NYSE: TWX) bought the site in March -…

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Now it gets interesting. Fiver (formerly the Five Life channel) has bought the TV broadcast rights to Bebo’s second online interactive drama Sofia’s Diary. The social net gained the option…

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- BBC bandwidth dialogue: BBC future media and technology director Ashley Highfield has penned a manifesto urging industry collaboration in response to concerns over IPTV and the possibility ISPs could…

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Multi-lingual pan-European social net upstart Netlog is making a song and dance today about letting its users add Last.fm’s radio widget to their profile pages. If there’s a big deal,…

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Bebo founders and husband-wife team Michael and Xochi Birch will make about $600 million in the sale of the social networking site to AOL (NYSE: TWX) for $850 million. The…

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As AOL (NYSE: TWX) takes control of Bebo, don’t overlook Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). The social network in September struck a deal with the portal to power its display advertising…

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After a late night finalizing the announcement of today’s $850 million acquisition and a hectic morning, Bebo’s affable president Joanna Shields spent some time with Staci and I on a…

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So we reported on the return the investors got, but not on Bebo’s actual revenue numbers. Kara Swisher digs in and reports on some of the real revenue numbers:…

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AOL (NYSE: TWX) and Bebo bosses hosted reporters and analysts on a conference call to explain the reasons for the $850 million acquisition. -- AOL CEO Randy Falco (left): “This…

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For more information on Bebo, check out our archives: -- AOL Buying Bebo For $850 Million -- Rumourbusting: Bebo/Murdoch, Free Indie, WAYN/AOL -- Bebo Opens Platform To All Comers;…

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VC firm Balderton Capital will reap about $140 million - nine times what it invested in Bebo less than two years ago - by selling its 15.7 stake in…

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In a major and rather unexpected deal, AOL (NYSE: TWX) is buying social net Bebo for $850 million (£417 million) in cash. Rumors had swirled around Bebo of either…

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Four months after it launched, ITV (LSE: ITV) is to put some of its shows on Bebo’s Open Media platform. In fact, only shows from its ITV2 channel, which has…

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When Bebo’s interactive video drama KateModern killed off its eponymous lead character at the start of its second season earlier this month, it seemed like just a natural arc in…

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- Bebo/Murdoch: Up to its usual entertaining tricks, Valleywag points to Bebo employee Emma Carlsgaard’s profile update reporting Rupert Murdoch visited the site’s San Francisco office. After concluding News Corp…

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Just when the BBC thought it had lanced the iPlayer platform neutrality boil, up steps a tech-savvy politician to pick away again. The House of Commons public accounts committee called…

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Bebo’s own version of Facebook Apps, its Bebo Platform, has now been opened to all developers. Announced in December, the platform had been beta tested privately by a clutch of…

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There’s still life in the old dog yet. Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) biz dev guys have been busy bees - both Bebo and UK commercial radio leader GCap have decided to…

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