SINA, one of China’s biggest portal companies bought $1 billion assets of Focus Media. The media deal includes SINA acquiring Focus’ LCD display network, poster frame network, and in-store network, whereas Focus will be getting 47 million newly issued ordinary shares of SINA, which will be distributed to its shareholders. Focus will also retain its online ad division, the movie theatre ad network and some traditional billboards.
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Naver, a popular and top search portal of Korea acquired Me2Day – another popular micro-blogging service of Korea. The deal was made for 2.2 billion Korean Wan (around $2 million). Me2Day gives access to login by OpenID accounts as well. Naver is ranked by comScore as the fifth most used search portal in the world.
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Speakaboos brings a unique way for parents to entertain their kids – the site offers story books read by celebrities. Your kids can listen to story books, nursery rhymes, and lullabies being read by Kevin Bacon, Kelly Ripa, and Nick Cannon. The site also contains Flash-based games, coloring pages, e-cards – which can be printed out as PDF files.
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Nimbuzz adds an IM client’s feature to the iPhone that lets users send messages instantaneously. The setup’s pretty easy and you can start using the app almost right away, it’s even faster than a regular desktop IM client. One other feature as you are able to see in the image above, is that Nimbuzz can function in landscape mode as well.
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Giftd brings a service through which you can make your own virtual gifts’ box and embed them on different platforms over the Web. Viximo came out with this idea of having to share your virtual gifts at more than just one social network or website.
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We’ve covered some music services in the past, but this one came across as a little more interesting to me. Tunerec automatically records songs from Internet radio stations (about 300 of them), then tags them for your convenience. You can listen to the streaming content through their web interface that’s similar to iTunes.
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Now, track new iPhone apps with One Juicer – a service similar to Google Alerts. You can track new apps by keywords, where later notifications pop-up in your email, letting you know about what’s latest to hit the App Store. Here’s what the developers stated:
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Twitter clients aren’t all about micro-messaging, as Twitpay shows us, here’s a service that lets you tweet out micropayments. Kick off the service by signing up and loading cash to your Twitpay account – you can do that through a PayPal-like service. Tweets are sent out to Twitpay as @ShoaibHashmi twitpay $10 for package, where Twitpay deducts five cents commission.
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Loopt is now available on three AT&T phones. The mobile social network is available (in the U.S.) on: Sprint, Verizon, Metro PCS, T-Mobile and Boost. As technology evolves further, mobile is the future of social networking and Loopt is doing great job at it, as the top social networks are slow to notice and work on this department.
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Aviary launched in public Beta recently, brings a choice of online design tools for your ease. Aviary’s suite includes the following tools:
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