Yahoo Buzz apprehends Digg

Ad Networks and Analytics:

• A partnership with SpotXChange may enable YuMe to increase ad inventory and opportunities for publishers in its network.
• Federated Media, the ad network founded by John Battelle, raised $30 million in funding.
• ADSDAQ, the online buying and buying platform, launched the Agency Trading Desk, enabling advertisers to review how well ads perform and resell spots to other buyers.
• Spot Runner appointed a new President, John Gentry, who was promoted from his previous position as Chief Revenue Officer.

Campaigns of Note:

• Huggies is partnering with MeetUp.com for sponsored events aimed at new moms connecting with each other on the site.

Funding:

• Japanesevideo search engine Fooooo raised a second round of venture capital funding to the tune of $1 million.
• Marketing widget creation firm SplashCast secured $4 million in its first round of financing, led by Australian advertising industry vet Mark Bayliss.

Legal, Government and Regulation:

• The FCC has raised $19 billion in the auction for unused wireless spectrum. Buyers' names haven't not yet been released.

Mobile:

• Yahoo debuted a special NCAA widget that feeds news and scores to mobile users, sponsored by Jaguar North America.
• Alltel users in select markets can submit local bands through a partnership with online streaming radio site Pandora.

Online Content:

• Nickelodeon announced its intention to build hundreds if not thousands of new casual branded online games.
• Apple may start an all-you-can-download subscription service for iTunes. The cost of music would be built into the retail price of new iPods or iPhones.
• Borders will begin selling MP3 audiobooks from OverDrive in the coming months.
• Yahoo Buzz is gaining momentum against Digg as social news service of choice. Buzz pushes more traffic to mainstream sites, whereas Digg sends more users to blogs and other user-generated content.

Publishing:

• Spanish language news publisher ImpreMedia will unify its titles under one portal to more efficiently reach its target audience.
• Dow Jones has shafted the Associated Press. It will instead cull content from Agence France Presse.

User Experience:

• US customers of Cogent Communications and European customers of TeliaSonera couldn't visit each other's websites. Amidst a squabble, the companies blocked access to each other's hosted pages.

Video:

• Video sharing site Viddyou added support for high-definition videos, and a paid premium option that gives heavy users access to more features.
• Magnify, which lets users aggregate videos from across the 'net, added social networking to its functionality.