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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/23/09

Online Media: Microsoft, News Corp. discuss web deal to remove news sites from Google. Sony online service to challenge iTunes? Online Retail: EBay search glitch   [...]

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   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/21/09

Web 2.0 News and Trends: Rumor has it that Google will launch a music initiative called One Box to offer song previews, artist bios, graphics, and video - but no downloads or subscriptions. One Box won't be limited to music, according to CNET's Stephen Shankland. There are several different kin  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/7/09

Ad Networks and Analytics: Facebook shutting out developers. Magazines band together for new ad network. Agencies and Marketing Execs:   [...]

Yahoo Drops $150M Worth of Alibaba Shares

Yahoo is preparing to sell 57.48 million shares of Alibaba.com, China's largest B2B marketplace. The sale will raise about $150 million -- the full 1.14% stake it purchased four years ago. When Yahoo made the purchase, Alibaba took charge of Yahoo China. The department recently restructured, during which much-used classifieds service Koubei was transitioned to Taobao.com. In part because of this, tension has begun to rise between Yahoo and Alibaba,   [...]

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To Protect Economy, China Sets Limits on Virtual Currency

Online transactions with virtual currency in online gaming has become so widespread in China that the government fears it will affect the actual economy, The New York Times reports. The country is currently one of the world's largest markets for massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs) like World of Warcraft; tens of millions of youth are reportedly trading virtual goods for real money or  [...]

Glam Strengthens Foothold in Land of Rising Sun

Vertical content network Glam Media has received an investment from Mizuho Venture Capital, as well as a second round of investment from Germany's Hubert Burda Media -- a company with which it strategically liaised in 2008. In addition to Mizuho, the company's Japanese arm, Glam Media Japan KK, is enjoying infusions from Dentsu and ADK, publishers Shogagukan and Syueisya, and news/pr  [...]

GOOG, Record Labels Plot to Dethrone Baidu, Scoop China

In an ongoing attempt to bait advertisers and a broader slice of the Chinese audience, Google's Chinese arm has formed an alliance with a number of music labels, including EMI, Warner Music Group and Vivendi's Universal. The labels will work in tandem to provide free music downloads to anyone in China. usic, said they would seek to profit here by working with Google and offering free downloads of music to anyone inside China. At present, China host the   [...]

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Glam Takes Mumbai with AdaptiveAds Acquisition

Glam Media, an ambitious women's network that breaches both online and traditional media, has acquired AdaptiveAds, a display ad targeting/optimization startup based in Mumbai. The technology will be incorporated into Glam Media's Glam Media Evolution brand platform. "AdaptiveAds supercharges Glam Media’s brand engagement technology, delivering insight into how ads behave with different audiences and giving brands the ability to dynamically act based on this knowledge," said Chairman/CEO  [...]

PC Market Growth Plummets in Q4

Following roughly six years of growth, with the last five averaging 15% increases, worldwide PC shipments fell 0.4% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2008 (4Q08), according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, reports Retailer Daily. The slowdown was enough for a sequential decline of 2.5% from  [...]

Typical SocNetters Address 110 People/Week; Spend $101 Online/Month

With 40 million active users in the US, social networking has grown 93% since 2006 -- and is poised to play a vital role in the current economic downturn, according to a trend report from Netpop Research LLC. Crucially, Netpop also predicts a related increase in social media advertising opportunities, MarketingCharts   [...]

China Knuckles Down Harder on 'Vulgar' Web Content

China expanded its crackdown on "vulgar" online content to 14 additional sites, including Microsoft's MSN, reports Reuters. The ruling Communist Party also accused Google of doing an insufficient job of policing its own search results. Google took significant flak from American users when in 2006 it   [...]

WPP Trims Thousands, Ogilvy Already Under the Knife

WPP, which employs more than 100,000 people, plans to cut several thousand jobs worldwide, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. The staff-slimdown will take place where labor costs exceed 60% of revenue, the Guardian said. According to R  [...]

Nintendo Explores Downloadable Video for Wii

Nintendo hopes to leverage the global success of its Wii by selling videos on the console -- first in Japan, and perhaps elsewhere, if all goes well. Ad agency Dentsu will help market the model to the Japanese. Dentsu's anime production firm, Pioneer LDC, is developing content for the medium. (Pioneer, which can loo  [...]

Japan to Purge Google Street View from Its Cities

Japanese lawyers and professors have banded together to ask Google to stop providing street-level images of the country's cities online. Google Street View lets Google Maps users zoom directly to the ground floor of certain cities, providing a photographic view of the area from the perspective of a pedestrian or driver. 12 Japanese cities have been profiled this way, as well as 50 US cities and certain parts of Europe,   [...]

Indian Gov May Censor Google Earth

Following last month's terrorist situation in Mumbai, legal advocates in India demand that the country's High Court implement a "blur" on certain locations featured in Google Earth. Earlier this week it was revealed that the terrorists used a number of so-called "new" technologies, includi  [...]

US Labels Prominent in Asia-Pacific's Top Brands of '08

Five of Asia's top 10 brands are US-based companies, indicating the strong presence of US companies in the Asia-Pacific region, according to "Asia Pacific's Top 1,000 Brands for 2008," as determined by a TNS survey, writes MarketingCharts. Mov  [...]

Google Grabs 76% of US Search Spend

Google continues to dominate the market for search advertising spending, with a 76% share in Q3 2008, while Yahoo gained 1.8 points to bring it to 19.2% and Microsoft Live Search held steady at a 4.8% share, according to search engine spending data from Efficient Frontier - MarketingCharts   [...]

Nearly 40% of Online Japanese Visit Music Sites

Nearly 40% of the Japanese online population visited an entertainment music site in August 2008, and Japan had the highest penetration of users of Apple iTunes software for the month when compared with other countries, according to a study of music-related sites in Japan by comScore, MarketingCharts   [...]

GOOG, YHOO, MSFT Set Rules of Engagement for Iron-Fist Countries

Tech titans Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have agreed upon a common set of principles to guide business dealings in countries that restrict free speech and expression. The search and ad giants have previously been criticized for complying with China's censorship of certain material published online. In 2006, Google agreed to filter search results on topics like Falun Gong, democracy, or T  [...]