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To narrow down your selection of articles, click on the "AND" or "NOT" next to any of the categories below. Say you’re currently browsing entries in category "A", you can then drill down into entries that belong both to category A and another category, or belong to category A but not another category. For instance, you could list entries about demographics in the automotive sector, or entries about email marketing that are not about spam. Numbers in the columns below indicate how many entries the selected operation will narrow your query to. You can combine multiple intersection and exclusion criteria to further limit the number of entries.
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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.
[...]
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
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
Literary Magazine 'Wholphin' Launched via DVD
A new magazine - and a new conceptualization of what a magazine is - has been launched; four yearly issues will contain not articles but short films on DVD, writes the Washington Post (via MediaBuyerPlanner). The DVD magazine, Wholphin (a cross between a whale and a dolphin), is being published by the [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 18th 2006
Million Dollar Homepage Being Blackmailed
The Million Dollar Homepage is being hammered by extortionists who want money in return for halting the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that knocked down the site last week and has since made it nearly impossible to access, reports The Register (U.K.). The site's ow [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 18th 2006
4Q Online Advertising Beats Media Execs' Expectations
Online ad spend increased 15 percent in the fourth quarter of 2005 from the third quarter, according to surveyed media executives who during the previous quarterly survey by Deutsche Bank and MediaPost had forecast a 10 percent increase. The cost of premium inventory increased, on average, 6 percent, while run-of-network inventory costs increased about 3 percent, and pay-per-click prices were [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 17th 2006
Yahoo, Marketers Agree: Shorter Is Better (for Text Ads)
Starting this week, Yahoo Search Marketing will shorten sponsored search text ads to 70 (from 190) characters, and most marketers view the move in a positive light, writes ClickZ. They say the standardization (with Google) simplifies the management of keyword buys and makes comparing results across engines easier. It's also what time-strapped consumers want. No [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 17th 2006
Consortium Makes Bid for VNU
Netherlands-based VNU, which owns Nielsen Media Research, ACNielsen and Adweek (among others) on Monday said it was in talks to be acquired by a group of private equity firms that have offered to buy it for as much as 7.3 billion euros (approximately $8.8 billion), or 28.00-28.50 euros per share, reports Reuters. The buyout firms are t [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 17th 2006
Media Matchmaker Hooks up Buyers, Potential Partners
In Media Matchmaker, Media buyers wishing to find product placement, promotions and integration opportunities for their clients have a new tool to help find potential partners that are likewise looking to negotiate and close deals, writes MediaBuyerPlanner. As traditional advertising has been augmented by digital opportunities, product placement and other non-traditional approaches have become increa [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 17th 2006
Online Shoppers Not Too Worried about Security
Some 70 percent of online adults responding to a new Business Software Alliance (BSA) study conducted by Harris Interactive said security concerns did not prevent them from making purchases online - and 38 percent said spent more online in 2005 than they in 2004, reports InternetNews. Nine of ten said they did online shopping from home; 26 percent said they did at least some online shopping while at work.
Some 88 percent said [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 17th 2006
Online Sales Up 33 Percent Christmas Week
Year-over-year online sales growth was strong Christmas week (ended Dec. 25), up 33 percent, to $1.77 billion, from the $1.33 billion in the corresponding week a year earlier, reports Internet Retailer, citing comScore figures. Online sales were, however, down significantly from the record $3.03 billion the week before. Online travel sales [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 17th 2006