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Apple Designer Regrets | Mobile "Crushes" Facebook? | IBM Distrusts Siri

Business Strategies: Apple designer 'winces' over some past product choices Campaigns of Note: LG Electronics USA Debuts 'Only LG' Ad Campaign Customer Experience: Three Myths abou  [...]

Mullen's "Talent Hub" | NHL Digital Power | POM Deceived | Google Buys Streamer | Facebook Buys Gifter

Agency News: Mullen Opening West Coast 'Talent Hub' Business Strategies: The NHL's Digital Power Play Campaigns of Note: Coca-Cola exec claims   [...]

Squatters Seize, Control Brand Names On Pinterest

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Top News: HP Awards PC Business | AmEx Brand Innovation | Groupon Reports Profit | Millennial Media Doesn't | Google Ads Trump Facebook | Social Brand Blunders

Ad Technology: Volvo Launches China's First RTB-based Advertising DoubleClick co-founder targets publishers with content-meets-commerce service Publishers   [...]

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Black Consumer Market: Huge, Largely Untapped, Won Through Fair Representation

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Top News: Gannett Earnings Plummet | Olympic Sponsors "Greenwashing?" | Fortune 500 SoMe Infographic | P&G Glorifies Mothers

Ad Technology: CEO Moore On 24/7 Media: We’re A Tech Company, Not An Agency Sinclair Broadcast Group Expands Contract for Harris Corporation Media Software Solution ChaCha Partners With Adometry   [...]

Hotels Go On Offensive Against Negative Reviews

Hotels are taking a particularly aggressive stance against anonymous reviews found on such sites as Yelp or Trip Advisor by actively trying to connect the data dots to identify the author. Once the hotel has identifying information in hand it might thank the poster for the good review - perhaps with a gift basket. In the case of a negative review, it might send an email asking for either a reconsideration or a chance to readdress what was wrong with the person’s stay,   [...]

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Retailers Top Forrester's Customer-Experience Ranking

Only 11% of companies garnered a rating of "excellent" in this year's Customer Experience Index of large US firms, released by Forrester Research, Inc., -- and 38% of firms were rated as "poor" or "very poor." Barnes & Noble and USAA topped Forrester's ranking, while Charter Communications and Me  [...]

One Easy Fix Could Cure Email Marketers' Impotence

As wallets slacken and consumers grow more conscious of where their money is going, online retailers have become more aggressive about using email to promote discounts. A recent report found online shopping is more appealing as gas prices increase. Armed with this and other optimistic forecasts, nearly three-fourths of internet retailers are prepared to survive the economic climate -- an  [...]

United Kingdom Cracks Down on 'Suicide Sites'

Since the Suicide Act of 1961, the United Kingdom considers it illegal to promote suicide. The act will be amended to include web publishers with so-called "suicide websites," and to help internet service providers police sites for such content, reports the BBC, following concerns that users querying for suicide information hope to locate sites encouraging them to do it. "Updating the language of the Suicide Act [...] should help to  [...]

NebuAd Loses CEO, Pursues Less Controversial Pastures

Battered by bad press, recent Congressional probes and the loss of ISP clients, CEO Bob Dykes of NebuAd has decided to step down. Following his departure, President Kira Makagon was chosen   [...]

User Consent: Just an Afterthought to Behavioral Tracking

Letters released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee reveal that many internet and broadband companies use targeted-ad technology without clearly informing users. The largest online ad firm of all, Google, said it tracks web-surfing behavior across affiliate sites. And this isn't the first such outing: two months ago, The New York Times   [...]

Knol Could Knock Wikipedia Down a Notch

This week Google unveiled Knol, a Wikipedia rival, after six months in beta. Knol is a publicly-authored knowledge site. To protect against page vandalism without stifling community input, new pages are placed under "moderated collaboration," meaning anyone can add to them but contributions only go live after the original author(s) review them. Google's decision to cur  [...]

Corporate Reputation in Decline; Top Companies Buck Trend

71 percent of US consumers rate corporate America's reputation as poor, but consumers still will buy, recommend and invest in the most visible companies that focus on building their corporate reputations, according to the ninth annual Harris Interactive Reputation Quotient (RQ) survey -- MarketingCharts   [...]

AP Ends Blogger Battle Over Fair Use of Content

The Associated Press (AP) reports it has resolved its conflict with copyright-infringing bloggers. The AP recently attacked bloggers in a media fight about "fair use" of content. Specifically, it took issue with bloggers excerpting titles or sentences from its articles, which other publications mus  [...]

Carl Icahn Launches Corporate Rant Blog

Carl Icahn debuted The Icahn Report, a professional blog, last week, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. The controversial investor -- which currently seeks to oust Yahoo's board of directors -- first stated his intention to launch a blog in February, Reute  [...]

Google Checkout Charges 20 Cents Per Use

Despite sentiments that the service is free, the WebGuild reports -- or rather, laments -- that Google Checkout, a competitor of PayPal, charges 20 cents per transaction in addition to a "hefty fee" for general use. 20 cents is also charged for canceled orders. The Cos  [...]

Free Press: NebuAd Has No Respect for Privacy

Behavioral ad platform NebuAd violates "fundamental expectations of internet privacy" according to a report from the Free Press and Public Knowledge group, reports MediaPost. Free Press issued a report which stated "NebuAd's practices resemble several forms of 'attacks' on users that have generated considerable controversy and user condemnation." The report compares NebuAd's target  [...]

Ask Puts Promotional Guns Behind Privacy Policy

Ask.com wrote an open letter to privacy advocates and the California Attorney General's office, toting a more prominent "Privacy" link on its website. From the letter: As of today, Ask.com has added a [prominently placed] direct link to our privacy policy ... right on our homepage. It is only one of four non-search related weblinks ... We’ve also made sure that the "Priv  [...]