1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: Contify, Delhi, India

Contify is a content aggregation and distribution company based in New Delhi, India that markets content obtained through its partnerships with 250 of India’s leading and niche publications. That content, more than 3,000 business news stories, is then distributed daily to clients in the form of global information databases such as Dow Jones Factiva, Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Bloomberg. The idea

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: StyleCaster

StyleCaster is a media company that creates and distributes women’s lifestyle content. It provides consumers, advertisers, and partners with content and advertising solutions across a portfolio of sites that span the lifestyle spectrum – fashion, beauty, celebrities, food & drink, entertaining, and travel.

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Off The Quad

In a new twist on the hyper-local and “daily deals” trends, Off The Quad combines a daily lifestyle, events, and entertainment e-newsletter accompanied by local specials for students at several U.S. universities. It has just launched in time for the fall semester.

The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Cheezburger Network ,Seattle

Cheezburger Networks is one the largest humor networks in the world. The company has more than 50 humor sites, including I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog, Failbook, Oddly Specific, Failbook, Pundit Kitchen, ROFLrazzi, and There, I Fixed It. It also publishes books and sells t-shirts through its LOL Mart. The company specializes in Internet memes

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Deal Radar 2009: EQAL

Social media entertainment company EQAL (pronounced “equal”) was founded in April 2008 by Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried. Beckett, who was working as a plastic surgeon resident at the Loma Linda Medical Center outside of Los Angeles, quit to pursue his dream of working at the intersection of entertainment and technology. He moved back to

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Deal Radar 2009: Publicity Guaranteed

Today’s Deal Radar looks at a company that seems to be attempting to change the direction of an industry that has been notoriously difficult to measure. Publicity Guaranteed allows companies seeking publicity to pay for results as they go along, rather than having to pay a retainer or for billable hours. The company has introduced

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Deal Radar 2009: Critical Media

CNN’s ratings soared last Thursday evening as viewers tuned in to coverage of Michael Jackson’s death, demonstrating that traditional broadcast news still has a strong pull. But when it’s not a case of breaking news, broadcasters, advertisers and publishers are still trying to figure out what forms twenty-first century media and its distribution will take. Tonight’s Deal Radar company is

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Murdoch’s Next Steps?

Continuing our analysis of media companies’ results, today we discuss Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS) and a potential acquisition for it, Monster (NYSE:MWW). For News Corp, revenue for the quarter fell 16% to $7.4 billion and was marginally short of analysts’ expectations of $7.71 billion. EPS of $1.04, however, was higher than the previous year’s $0.91.