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Top News: More about iPad 3 | Disney on YouTube | New tech coverage at Bloomberg
Mobile Computing:
iPad 3 will have 4G LTE networking.
Super-sized Android apps can reach 4GB.
Convergence:
Disney Channel content hits YouTube.
[...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 6th 2012
Top News: Groupon trades for $2.5B? | The madness continues with Cyber Monday | Networks worry about Hulu's ad sales|
Cyber Monday:
Cyber Monday deals will be more aggressive and more widespread, retail group says.
Next up: Cyber Monday, e-tailers' big day.
Cyber Monday to [...]
Posted: Monday, November 29th 2010
Top Industry News for 10-06-10: Yahoo to acquire Dapper
Online Ad Market:
Yahoo to acquire ad technology company Dapper.
Mobile Computing:
Android most popular operating system in U.S. among recent smartphone buyers.
Microsoft CEO says we will [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 6th 2010
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/17/09
Media Strategies:
Plans for iPods and iPhones to carry advertising that won't turn off.
US consumers less willing to pay for online news.
All eyes on Murdoch as newspapers [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 17th 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/16/09
Online Advertising:
Google trademark policy worries holiday advertisers.
Online Payments:
More ways to avoid cash or plastic at checkout.
Media Strategies:
Comcast [...]
Posted: Monday, November 16th 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/27/09
Search Technologies:
Google Social Search to go live next week.
Social web browser Flock is partnering with Spanish-language media company Univision
Google Voice lets users keep their numbers.
[...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 27th 2009
Rubicon Absorbs Others to Improve User Targeting Capabilities
Yesterday internet ad "infrastructure" firm Rubicon Project announced its acquisition of Others Online, an audience optimization firm.
This marks Rubicon's first-ever acquisition, and marks the company's desire to help web publishers leverage growing trends toward [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 16th 2009
GOOG Hopes Fast Flip Opens Profit to Publishers
This week Google Labs launched Fast Flip, a news/story search engine that provides results as screenshots of relevant articles.
The idea behind Fast Flip is to enable users to visually "flip" through the information they most want to read. Headlines and popular topics are easy to spot.
Fast Flip is also "smart," meaning it tailors itself to a user based on the selections s/he makes, making it a melange of "fast browsing, natural magazine-style [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 16th 2009
Heavy.com Bows Terrestrial Radio Show
eavy.com, a destination site for young males which drew 1.9 million U.S. visitors in July (per Nielsen Online), is launching a terrestrial radio program in the hopes of expanding its audience.
The show, Sumosonic, will be hosted by Guns n’ Roses guitarist Richard Fortus. It will feature interviews and songs from new artists, reports Adweek (via MediaBuyerPlanner).
Sumosonic will air on 900 c [...]
Posted: Monday, September 14th 2009
Technorati to Reposition as Blogger Rival
Technorati, at one time the go-to place to locate popular blogs by topic, is planning a strategy that will pit it against the industry it once attempted to organize and aid.
The company is now in the process of hiring writers with the objective of creating its own content site, according to TheNextWeb, which published a letter discreetly sent to bloggers last week:
Become a Techn [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 8th 2009
Email, Text-Message Coupons Click with 8% of Households
Text messaging and email are quickly emerging as ways to obtain coupons in the US, with 8.6 million (8%) of the country's households currently using one or both of these methods to receive money-saving offers, according to (pdf) an analysis from Scarborough Research that explores and ranks the ways households obtain coupons.
The study, which recently added electronic coupon distribution to the obtainment methods it has historically tracked, also found that Providence, RI is the top city for [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 8th 2009
Bing & Ping Connects Search to Socnets; Windows Live Ominously Omitted
Microsoft is now inviting Facebook fans to test a new program called Bing & Ping, which enables them to share their Bing search results with friends on various social networks, as well as email.
Results include restaurant recommendations, local movie times, flight statuses and other means by which data has been terraced.
"Say you use Bing's Instant Answers feature to check the score of the game, and you notice that your buddy's favorite team has just been beaten pretty handily," surmised N [...]
Posted: Friday, September 4th 2009
ABC Turns Print Ads into Online Video Platforms
In an effort to draw more viewership to thriller FlashForward, ABC has begun incorporating codes into print ads promoting the show.
When held up to a webcam, the codes deploy a 3-D ad for FlashForward on computer screens, including photos from the show. Each photo turns into extended episode clips when clicked on.
"It appears to play right out of the ad," explained VP-Advertising/Marketing Darren Schillace of ABC Entertainment ( [...]
Posted: Friday, September 4th 2009
Facebook, Nokia Partner for Mobile/Socnet 'Lifecasting'
Nokia is partnering with Facebook to launch a "lifecasting" feature that weds both the socnet and the mobile vendor's handsets.
The service would enable users to post locations and status updates from their phones to their Facebooks. It debuts in October on Nokia's touchscreen N97 mini, a handset particularly suited to the liaison because its home screen was created especially for application personalization via Ovi Store, the Nokia equivalent of Apple's App Store.
Nokia added that the Lif [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 3rd 2009
Examiner.com Snaps Up NowPublic
Citizen-generated media site NowPublic has been purchased by Examiner.com, a unit of Clarity Digital Group.
Four-year-old NowPublic enables users to read and share news, all the way down to their neighborhood blocks. The deal was valued at about $25 million; NowPublic will remain an independent entity.
Internet consultant/NowPublic investor Merrill Brown called the deal one of the "indications of the inevitable [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 2nd 2009
Barnes & Noble Finds New Revenue Streams
With the financial performance of major booksellers suggesting significant declines in the reading rates of U.S. adults, book retailer Barnes & Noble has recently invested in new sales avenues such as [...]
Posted: Monday, August 24th 2009
MySpace Snaps Up iLike Music Sharing Service
Adding credence to a week's worth of rumors and hearsay, social network MySpace has purchased iLike, a music application that lets users recommend songs and share playlists on their social networks of choice.
iLike is among a handful of brands that managed to build a viable business atop open platforms proffered by traffic-rich sites like Facebook. In July the site served 2.9 million unique visitors in the US, 59.2 [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 20th 2009
MicroHoo Expected to Ink Deal Today
Microsoft and Yahoo are expected to seal and internet search partnership later today, concluding a year and a half of torrid courting, according to people familiar with the matter (via The Wall Street Journal).
Microsoft made an unsolicited, and unsuccessful, $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo in February 2008. A consolidation of both [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 29th 2009
Time Warner Reabsorbs Google's 5% Cut of AOL
In a deal valuing the former internet subscription company at less than $5.66 billion, Time Warner bought back Google's 5% stake in AOL.
The planned $283 million purchase includes share of cash distributions Google received from AOL during its investment. It was finalized on July 8.
Google bought the stake in 2005 for $1 billion, valuing AOL at $20 billion at the time. $726 million of the investment was written down last year.
Time [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 28th 2009
Amazon Envelops Zappos into Gaping Maw
In a swoop that marks the largest acquisition in its 14-year history, Amazon is purchasing online shoe retailer Zappos.com for $847 million in cash and stock.
Amazon is best-known for successfully peddling books, DVDs and electronics, but it does have an apparel section. Some years ago, it attempted to compete directly with Zappos in footwear with the launch of Endless.com, which has seen limited success, re [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 23rd 2009