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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

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

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 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

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

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

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

'Download Disasters' Found in WhenU, 180solutions Bundles

Among "The Web's Worst Download Disasters," at least according to the blog of software startup SiteAdvisor, is software bundled with packages from adware leaders WhenU and 180solutions, writes MediaPost. SiteAdvisor says it tested more than 140,000 programs and found that the following five scored worst among adware/spyware: EntertainmentWallPaper.co  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 18th 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