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Breaking news from CNN- Colin Powell endorses Obama!
Politweets — ... Heading to the shoe store with @ reiastorch and @ reesestorch . Picking them up some shoes, and some shoes to fill LifePacks 4 kids w/o shoes. about 22 hours ago from web @ Toryfarina Wonder no more Tory...ChurchMetrics is a focused stats tracking tool, it is not a CMS or giving records tool. about 23 hours ago from web in reply to Toryfarina RT: @ cameronmoll http://mobile.fandango.com/ is a much better experience than http://fandango.com/ in a desktop browser No clutter. about 24 hours ago from web ...

News Bits Goes to the Movies
Contentinople: — Where do kids go for their online movie information these days? Surprisingly enough, it's not Moviefone , which is owned by AOL LLC , or even Fandango , which is owned by Comcast Interactive Media (CIM Labs) . Give up? According to a Nielsen NRG poll, the No. 1 online destination for moviegoers aged 15 to 24 is actually MySpace . According to the poll, 46 percent of young movie watchers stopped by MySpace, versus 26 percent for Yahoo, 18 percent for Fandango , and 12 percent for AOL's Moviefone . But the social networking site's hold on ...

Facebook App Helps You Get Reimbursed For Sucky Movies
GeekSugar — If you saw a real stinker of a movie recently and are still fuming over the dough you lost paying for your tix — I feel you, movie tickets here in SF are upwards of $10.50 now — a new Facebook app can't get your precious time back, but can at least help you get back your money in the form of free movie tickets. Called Payback Time, this app relies heavily on your creative and convincing writing style. Just leave your rant on Payback Time as to why you should get your money back, list the dollar amount you want reimbursed (I'd throw in the cost of popcorn and ...

News Bits: MSN Live Search Share Plummets
Contentinople: — It looks as if gorgeous photographs with links to answers of tangential questions aren't enough to win over (or even keep) MSN Live Search 's users. The site's share of search went down in Nielsen's October search rankings. Wa aaa y down. The No. 3 search site now has 11.4 percent of total searches , down a whopping 19 percent from last year, according to Nielsen's press release. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is still No. 1 with 61.2 percent of total search, up 8.1 percent, and Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) stays at No. 2 with 16.9 of the market, which declined overall by 12 percent. ...

Palm Pre Losing Mojo Each Day the SDK is Held Close
jkOnTheRun — Just yesterday, I was on camera saying how much I’m looking forward to the Palm Pre. With my first-gen iPhone contract up in July, I’m sure to get a new phone this summer. There’s still some open questions around the Pre, such as battery life and the cost to use the phone as a tethered modem for a notebook or netbook. The biggest question I have right now is the same one I had for Google’s Android device: How long before developers embrace it and deliver a vast array of software? This morning, I read a Wired article about ...

TrialPay: Works for People With More Time Than Money
E-Commerce Times — With the economy in the dumps, you might hesitate before buying discretionary goodies like video games or pizza. But what if you could get those things for free by doing something you might already be inclined to do -- like signing up for a trial of Netflix ...

Industry Moves: Schiller Leaves Glam To Head Sales For Comcast Interactive
paidContent — Industry vet Scott Schiller is joining Comcast Interactive Media (NSDQ: CMCSA) as SVP-advertising sales, responsible for Fancast, Fandango, Movies.com and Plaxo. Schiller is leaving ad network Glam Media, where he was promoted to EVP-global marketing last September. Schiller will be based in New York but will build a national sales network; he will report to Chuck Davis, EVP of CIM and CEO of Fandango. His portfolio does not include recently acquired DailyCandy or the behnoth of the group, Comcast.net. Release. Schiller, a co-founder of the ...

Headcount: MySpace Execs Depart
Contentinople: — After announcing a major reorg among its senior management staff by consolidating control under CEO Howard Stringer, Sony Pictures Entertainment (NYSE: SNE) plans to cut its staff by 300 people in response to sagging DVD sales, reports The Los Angeles Times . Sony isn't the only studio facing challenges. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. slashed 10 percent of its workforce in January. Epix, the joint premium-channel venture formed by Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. , and Lions Gate Entertainment , has tapped Courtney Menzel as its senior vice ...

Fandango comes to the iPhone, iPod touch
Macsimum News — Posted by Dennis Sellers Fandango, the online moviegoer destination, has released a new, free app for the iPhone and iPod touch at the Apple App Store. It enables fans to access movie and theater information “on the go,” buy tickets for more than 16,000 screens across the U.S. in seconds, watch trailers, view fan...

Fandango finally on the iPhone
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touchThey've gone and done it. Fandango [App Store link] is out for the iPhone/iPod touch as a free download. There are a lot of movie apps for the iPhone with showtimes and trailers -- Now Playing, Hot Popcorn, and i.TV also link to the MovieTickets.com site for ticket buying -- but Fandango is the 800 pound gorilla for the US market's online movie info and ticket purchasing. It links to more than 16,000 domestic screens. Now, right from the comfort of wherever you and your iPhone are, you can find the ...

DISH Network launches Fandango Channel
Zatz Not Funny! — ... aren’t the only providers piping interactive Internet-based services to your set-top box. DISH Network has launched Fandango movie ticketing service on channel 100. The ...

Fandango releases iPhone App
iPhone Buzz — Finally, online movie ticketing service Fandango is out for the iPhone as a free download, allowing users to preview trailers, find local theaters, and even buy up to 10 tickets at a time. "If you're into movies, however, the Fandango app is literally, the ticket," TUAW wrote. Its features include: Browse movies: In theaters. Coming Soon. Watch trailers. Read synopses, cast lists, run times. View fan ratings. Find theaters: Find ...

Fandango releases iPhone App
Top iPhone News — Finally, online movie ticketing service Fandango is out for the iPhone as a free download, allowing users to preview trailers, find local theaters, and even buy up to 10 tickets at a time. “If you’re into movies, however, the Fandango app is literally, the ticket,” TUAW wrote. Its features include: Browse movies: In theaters. Coming Soon. Watch trailers. Read synopses, cast lists, run times. View fan ratings. Find theaters: ...

Fandango offers free ‘Hannah Montana’ iTunes download with movie ticket purchase
Macsimum News — Fandango offers free ‘Hannah Montana’ iTunes download with movie ticket purchase Posted by Dennis Sellers Apple ico Mar 27, 2009 at 6:27pm image Starting today, moviegoers purchasing advance tickets for Hannah Montana: The Movie at Fandango ...

Some Good News for New Media Job Seekers
NewTeeVee — We have a message for those of you still out there looking for work: Don’t give up — people are finding jobs. Back in December, we spoke with three unemployed people about how tough it was looking for new media work. Today we are happy to report that two of those people have found full-time ...

Star Trek Already a Hit Movie at Fandango
OhGizmo! — By Shane McGlaun If you are a movie fan, you know that the Star Trek film is set to launch this week. This should be one of the coolest films of the summer. At first, I didn’t like Sylar from Heroes as Spock, but with those crazy eyebrows, the dude makes a good Spock. If you want to see the movie on opening weekend, you had better buy your tickets now. According to Fandango, the movie has sold out in more than 100 theater times around the country. The online ticket seller says that ticket sales for Star Trek alone make up 81% of its daily sales. Of ...

Star Trek Tickets Booming on Fandango
I4U News — Star Trek Tickets Booming on Fandango Posted on Wed, 6 May 2009 09:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun | Topic: Other Stuff There is no doubt that the new Star Trek movie set to launch this month is going to be one of the biggest films of the summer. Fandango has announced that despite the fact that the movie doesn’t open until Thursday night at midnight, the film has already sold out more than 100 opening weekend shows around the country. So many Star Trek tickets have sold that the sales for the film alone account for 81% of daily ticket sales on the Fandango website. Fandango has ran a Star Trek survey of ...

Transformers 2 is Huge for Online Ticket Sales
WebProNews Feed — Online ticket vendor Fandango had a big day courtesy of the US release of Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. The movie came out today, technically starting at midnight last night. "The film's success proves that fans are ready for the summer and looking for an escape," says Fandango COO Rick Butler. "Moviegoers should certainly buy their tickets in advance before heading to the theater. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen may end up enjoying one of the top-selling opening weekdays in the history of our company." Clearly, Butler is ...

Five Apps for movie nuts
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review Just a few years ago, lovers of movies had one option of finding out where and when a film was playing: the newspaper. Remember them? They came sometime after scrolls and before ...

AT&T iPhone Ad for The New Yorker: Apps in the City
BIA/Kelsey Blog — In an take off of “Sex in the city,”  AT&T has taken out the back page of The New Yorker with an iPhone ad entitled “Apps in the city.” The ad, part of a series of iPhone ads using different themes and highlighting apps under that theme, features Urban Daddy, OpenTable, Wine Ph.D, Fandango and Rocket Taxi. It is nice  for AT&T and Apple to support the local apps with the ads. But otherwise, keeping tabs on local apps can be tough work. As my mobile-centric colleague Mike Boland notes, “there is no ‘local’ ...

Making Retail Mobile
WebProNews Feed — ... Finally, Ted Hong, Fandango's chief marketing officer, established his authority on the subject by pointing out that the percentage of ticket sales for Fandango has more than doubled since the launch of Fandango's iPhone app.  Also, according to Nielsen, Fandago is among the top five mobile sites. ...

Hello, And Welcome To Moviefone. Now Leave And Try ShowtimeFu.
TechCrunch — At one time, Moviefone was the hottest way to find movie showtimes. It was so hot in the 90s that Seinfeld even made fun of it in an episode (embed below). Sadly, now run by AOL, its website is a cluttered mess. I don’t know about you, but when I visit it, I expect to find a way to easily find movie showtimes. I don’t care about the latest celebrity gossip, nor do I want to see all this behind the scenes stuff. Just movie showtimes, please. That’s what a new site, ShowtimeFu offers. And it’s so much better than Moviefone You simply visit the site, put ...