Bebo founder Michael Birch has laid pretty low since the teen social net’s exit to AOL (NYSE: TWX) in March, even lower than he was usually - $850 million can…

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Bebo has hired Google (NSDQ: GOOG) industry marketing head Nicole Vanderbilt to the new role of international VP, as the social network continues to reconfigure following its absorption by AOL…

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-- iPlayer series stacking: Series stacking, one of the proposed features the BBC Trust ordered to be scaled back last year, will go live on September 13. The feature will…

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Shortly after having announced its appointment of a new mobile head, Bebo has hired Kelly Brett to head up its original productions. While working closely with advertising partners and production…

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-- MuZu TV: The music video startup has signed up with ITN On to get access to ITN Source’s 80,000-hour archive of Reuters, Granada and Channel 4 music interviews and…

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Bebo is hiring Intercasting international GM Sean Kane as its first global head of mobile, charged with giving the teen-focused social net more legs in the wireless space. Bebo worked…

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-- BBC: Beeb developers have unveiled a better way to discover music being played across the broadcaster’s outlets. The /Music section has added persistent artist profile pages that show which…

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Just four months after she joined video sharer Dailymotion as its first UK MD, Kate Burns is joining Bebo on August 4 in a new position as European VP and…

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T-Mobile has added support for Bebo and Piczo to its My Social Sites mobile social networking application. The app already allowed customers to use Xanga, LiveJournal, Vox, BlackPlanet and Rabble.…

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Looks like Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes might be answering questions about the Bebo deal for awhile. He’s already admitted that AOL might have overpaid for the $850…

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Bebo will team with Universal Music for its fourth interactive video drama series, The Secret Life of Sam King. The fictional story of a junior label staffer will feature cameo…

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Angel Gambino, the head of music for social network Bebo, now owned by AOL (NYSE: TWX), is leaving the company, reports News.com, and she confirmed to me in an e-mail.…

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For the record. In amongst Staci and Rafat’s coverage from the D6 conference in Carlsbad, California, Rupert Murdoch confirmed earlier rumours News Corp (NYSE: NWS) was in talks to buy…

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It’s official—AOL (NYSE: TWX) now owns Bebo, closing the $850 million acquisition roughly two months after making it public. The social media network will not stand on its own; instead,…

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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 its…

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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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