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Posted: Wednesday, May 16th 2012
Will TwitterPeek be Darling or Dud?
In what appears to be indicative of Twitter's success and growing popularity, a new gadget has hit the market that has been developed specifically - and solely - for users to send and receive tweets.
TwitterPeek, a $99.95 device with a QWERTY keyboard, color screen and click-scroll wheel offered through Amazon.com, could prove to be the hot selling item for the holiday season. On one hand, it's less expensive than a smartphone upgrade. On the other, it c [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 4th 2009
Facebook Introduces Real-Time Search
On the heels of acquiring FriendFeed, social networking site Facebook announced real-time search features, a move seen to compete directly with Twitter.
The improved search engine will now provide better results, gathering data from those users who have chosen to share their personal information.
It will also include results from users' update streams, something Facebook has lef [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 13th 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 8/12/09
Ad Networks and Analytics:
Who's No. 1 in mobile advertising?
AD network halo stories.
Agencies and Marketing Execs:
Euro RSCG Taps Marian Salzman for PR.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 12th 2009
Facebook Buys FriendFeed For $50 Million
Facebook bought life aggregator and community site FriendFeed on Monday for a deal reportedly worth $50 million. The figure would come from $15 million in cash, and the rest in Facebook stock that vests over several years worth nearly $32.5 million.
Facebook had previously eyed purchasing the start-up as far back as 2007. This deal also comes after an [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 11th 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 8/7/09
Ad Networks and Analytics:
E-mail expands growth by double digits, becomes fastest-growing DM segment.
CBS upbeat on ad spend. Analysts cautious.
Agencies and Marketing Execs:
Publicis in lead to acquire [...]
Posted: Friday, August 7th 2009
Google, Facebook and Twitter CEOs in MediaGuardian's Top 10 Digital Media List.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page lead the list in this year's MediaGuardian Top 100 of Digital Media. The Guardian UK's MediaGuardian is an annual compilation of the 100 most influentical people in the digital space. Apple's Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive come in at number four ahead of Microsoft's Steve Ballmer at number five. Rounding out the top 10 is Twitter's Evan Williams. The complete list of 100 can be [...]
Posted: Friday, July 31st 2009
Microsoft Loses Cool, Gives Yahoo Three-Week Ultimatum
Microsoft has sent Yahoo a letter stating it has three weeks to move on its $44.6 billion buyout offer.
If the companies fail to form a pact by then, "we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors," wrote CEO Steve Ballmer of Microsoft.
90 percent of Yahoo's shareholders are [...]
Posted: Monday, April 7th 2008
FTC Gives GoogleClick Merger the 'Go-Ahead'
The FTC today approved Google's $3.1 billion merger with DoubleClick, despite a menagerie of complaints from competitors, privacy advocates and politicians, in addition to hold-ups abroad [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 20th 2007
CA Fires Ignite Sparks Under Citizen Journalists
The amount of user generated content from the Southern California fires that has been uploaded to CNN’s i-Report has far surpassed citizen content surrounding the Minneapolis bridge collapse or the Virginia Tech shooting, repor [...]
Posted: Friday, October 26th 2007
Leaked Documents Confirm MySpace News Coming
The MySpace News site has apparently been confirmed in leaked Fox Interactive Media sales documents, including screenshots, about the MySpace news-aggregation service, Wired writes.
The site, reportedly to launch later this year, will automatically collect news items from various news sites and blogs. MySpace users will then be able to rate and comment on each story the [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 14th 2007
Soapbox, Microsoft's YouTube Rival, Enters Public Beta
Soapbox - Microsoft's answer to YouTube - has gone into public beta after having been open only to select beta testers since September.
Soapbox is Microsoft's latest attempt to compete with similar web-based offerings from Google and Yahoo. As with YouTube, Soapbox allows users to upload videos to the site in most digital video formats, [...]
Posted: Friday, February 16th 2007
Yahoo Courting Sponsors for Social Media Sites
Yahoo is beginning to increase efforts to monetize its social media sites, including Yahoo Groups, Yahoo 360 and Yahoo Video.
This week, Yahoo will begin a high-profile marketing initiative with Nissan Motors, after having recently launched its first corporate page on Yahoo 360 for Travelocity, MediaPost reports. Yahoo promises that similar marketing efforts will be coming soon to [...]
Posted: Monday, November 13th 2006
Yahoo Bringing Instant Messaging to Email
Early next year, Yahoo will begin giving Yahoo Mail users the ability to initiate an IM conversation with the email's recepient, without either party having to download Yahoo Messenger.
With the new service, Yahoo Mail users can chat via email, as well as with Microsoft Windows Live Messenger users, CNET reports. The new feature will allow Yahoo Mail users to see whether their contac [...]
Posted: Friday, November 10th 2006
Wal-Mart, Apple Considering Digital Download Deal
After months of pressuring movie studios not to partner with Apple to make movies available for download via iTunes, Wal-Mart itself may be ready to partner with Apple over movie, music, and TV show downloads.
Apple and Wal-Mart are considering an alliance that would allow consumers to purchase a digital download "coupon" that would let consumers download movies, music, and TV shows, with Apple paying Wal-Mart a portion of the proceeds, Variety [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 3rd 2006
Analyst: MySpace Going Mobile
RBC Capital analyst Jordan Rohan said after meeting with the managers of MySpace that the firm is developing a mobile phone application. He also said that the site could be worth $15 billion or more in the next few years.
Rohan, realizing the boldness of his claim, said it could be justified on the basis of MySpace's "raw, unprecedented user/usage growth," ZDNet reports. Rohan also based his prediction on the site's "massi [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 28th 2006
Google Gets into Radio Ad Biz with dMarc Purchase
Google announced Tuesday that it has acquired privately held radio advertising firm dMarc Broadcasting Inc. in a deal that could be worth up to $1.24 billion, including an initial payment of $102 million, writes Reuters. dMarc connects adverti [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 18th 2006
Tacoda: Users Engage More with Behaviorally Targeted Ads
Behaviorally targeted online advertising solutions provider Tacoda has released the results of an eye-tracking study that pits behavioral targeting against contextual targeting in terms of user engagement with advertised brands. The primary finding: Behavioral targeting generated an average of 17 percent more "looks" at the ads than contextual targeting, and after the first exposure, that advantage increased to 54 percent. However, the total time ("seconds") s [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 18th 2006
BuzzMetrics Buys Intelliseek, Becomes Nielsen BuzzMetrics
Nielsen parent VNU is taking a majority stake in word-of-mouth measurement firm BuzzMetrics - which itself announced that it is acquiring rival Intelliseek - and forming a new company, Nielsen BuzzMetrics, ClickZ [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 18th 2006
Yahoo Revs, Profits Increase - but Not Enough
Yahoo showed strong revenue and earnings growth in 4Q05, driven by both search and display advertising, reports ClickZ. Revenues were $1.5 billion, a 39 percent year-over year increase; net income was $683 million, or $0.46 per share; after adjustments, net income was $247 million, or $0.16 per share - up from $0.13 per share in 4Q04, but less than the $0.17 analysts expected. As a consequence, Yahoo stock fell after the report. Yahoo' [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 18th 2006