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Exclusive: Disney Acquires “Sophisticated” Mommy Blog Platform Babble Media

Kara Swisher in Media on November 14, 2011 at 6:45 am PT

Organic arugula alert: Disney’s interactive unit is calling all urban hipster parents!

HuffPost at One Biiiilllliiion Monthly Page Views: More Buying, More Launching, More Hiring

Kara Swisher in Media on October 3, 2011 at 1:15 am PT

It’s definitely better than one million!

Staplers, Anyone? Even More Daily Deal Sites Emerge, This Time Targeting the Enterprise.

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 3, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

The group-buying space has rapidly expanded from offering general items such as spa treatments and restaurant discounts to items aimed at more refined niches, like families and travel. There’s even the Chosen Deals for Jewish singles on JDate. Another emerging category is now targeting small-to-medium-size businesses.

Exclusive: Yahoo News Head Moves to Disney.com, Which Will Get Big Redo

Kara Swisher in News on March 16, 2011 at 3:27 pm PT

Yesterday, BoomTown reported that Mark Walker, the head of the powerful Yahoo News site, was leaving the Internet giant for another company. That company, sources said, will be Disney, where Walker will be leading a major overhaul of its flagship Disney.com site.

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Path Raises $8.65M From Kleiner, Index

Liz Gannes in Social on February 1, 2011 at 4:15 pm PT

Path, the personal media-sharing app, has raised $8.65 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Index Ventures and Digital Garage Japan. The company said today it had facilitated the sharing of “over 2 million moments,” a.k.a. iPhone photos and short videos. Path is expanding ever so slightly to allow users to email pictures from within its iOS app, which makes sense since many people’s close friends and family don’t all have iPhones.

What Do Groupon Clones Look Like? A Mother Lode of Niches.

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 26, 2011 at 12:39 pm PT

With Groupon’s and LivingSocial’s success at securing hundreds of millions of dollars in financing and achieving hyper revenue growth, who wouldn’t want to copy their business model? In an industry that is only a year-or-so old, the trend of the past five minutes (or so it seems) is to target moms.

Exclusive: Former Facebook Ad Head Mike Murphy Takes Senior Advisor Role at Zynga

Kara Swisher in News on January 23, 2011 at 7:02 pm PT

Mike Murphy–Facebook’s first head of advertising sales, who left the social networking giant in October to take some personal time off–seems done with relaxing. He is now taking a part-time, but significant, role at online gaming phenom Zynga to help formulate its advertising strategy. In addition, though, Murphy is also close to formalizing an additional consulting relationship with Facebook.

Don’t Read This While Driving: T-Mobile Launches Safe Driving App

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 19, 2011 at 8:10 am PT

The carrier plans to offer a service called DriveSmart Plus that detects when a phone is in a moving car and disables most calling and texting functions.

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Disney Interactive Hires Brooke Chaffin to Oversee Content for Women and Families

Voices in News on January 5, 2011 at 1:07 pm PT

Yahoo and media technology veteran Brooke Chaffin has signed on with Disney Interactive Media Group as Senior Vice President of Women and Family, the company announced today. Chaffin, formerly president of Auditude, will be based in North Hollywood, Calif., and will take on a newly created role overseeing women- and family-focused experiences for Disney Online. She’ll report to DIMG Co-President Jimmy Pitaro.

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