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Top News: Online Political Ads | Target Dumps Kindle | Hyperlocal Mobile Scale | LinkedIn Tops Conversions | Tumblr Ads | Amazon Web Shows
Business Buzz:
2012: Year of the Online Political Ad [INFOGRAPHIC]
Business Strategies: [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 3rd 2012
Top News: Anheuser-Busch Scolds UFC | Digital Future "Blight?" | Commissions for "Likes" | Vevo Original Shows
Ad Technology:
Issuu: A Tool for Marketing, Not Just Magazines
Greystripe® Introduces PC-to-Mobile Ad Targeting with ValueClick Audience Mapping Technolo [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 26th 2012
Top News: Gannett Earnings Plummet | Olympic Sponsors "Greenwashing?" | Fortune 500 SoMe Infographic | P&G Glorifies Mothers
Ad Technology:
CEO Moore On 24/7 Media: We’re A Tech Company, Not An Agency
Sinclair Broadcast Group Expands Contract for Harris Corporation Media Software Solution
ChaCha Partners With Adometry [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 17th 2012
Closing Bell: Netflix Chastises Comcast | ScoreBig Mimics Priceline | FCC Fines Google
Streaming Media:
Netflix CEO Calls Out Comcast on Net Neutrality
Business Strategies:
ScoreBig Uses Priceline’s Model to Name Your Own Price for Live Events
Privacy:
[...]
Posted: Monday, April 16th 2012
Competitive Data Ripe for Picking on SocNets
Social networks have become a goldmine of information for companies skilled in the art of connecting the dots - a little-noticed development that is beginning to concern companies.
According to a global study commissioned by Cisco only one in seven of the companies that participated in the research has a formal process to adopt consumer-based social networking tools for business purposes - indicating that the potential [...]
Posted: Friday, January 15th 2010
Microsoft Yanks Support for Family Guy Special
Microsoft is withdrawing its support for a Family Guy show special that will be airing Nov 8 on the Fox network because the computer giant decided that some of the humor is offensive and edgy and does not fit with the brand image it is trying to project, according to ABC News.
The 30-minute clip, "Family Guy Presen [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 27th 2009
Hacked Accts Divulge Twitter's Thirst for Solvency ... and Meditation
A French hacker that managed to penetrate a number of sensitive Twitter employee accounts has leaked documents that reveal the company's financial ambitions, pending profit models and a "growing sense of entitlement" among its workers, Valleywag reports.
The hacker, who goes by the pseudo Hacker Croll, accessed the email, Paypal, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, MobileMe, and Gmail accounts of higher-ups [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 16th 2009
Hampered by Debt, Zango Shuts Down
Controversial adware firm Zango was sold last week, following a bank foreclosure after its failure to honor over $44 million worth of debts.
The company launched over a decade ago as 180solutions, after which it changed its moniker several times: 180solutions and Hotbar, before concluding its trajectory as Zango. Security firms -- to which it often conveyed threatening letters, and the occasional lawsuit -- gave it flak for installing potentially harmful a [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 23rd 2009
Revised TOS Gives Facebook Perpetual Rights to User Content
This month Facebook revised its Terms of Use, a document it is legally permitted to update at any time without informing users. Users demonstrate tacit acceptance of the Terms by continuous use of the site.
The revision grants Facebook complete, perpetual ownership of content up [...]
Posted: Monday, February 16th 2009
Unwanted 'American Idol' Text Message Backfires on AT&T
This week AT&T Wireless sent a text message to a "significant number" of its 75 million customers, promoting the Tuesday premier of American Idol, a popular show where Americans compete for pop stardom.
The wordy SMS read:
AT&T Free Msg: Get ready for American Idol! AI 8 starts this Tues (1/13) at 8pm on FOX. Check out AT&T's official AI web site from you [sic] PC - www.att.com/idol for the latest info on our $1MM sweepstakes, test your AI IQ by playing the trivia game [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 14th 2009
Twitter Finally Draws Attention from the Spammer Community
Perhaps as a tribute to its mainstream legitimacy, Twitter's turf has been invaded by at least two spammer-orchestrated scams.
In the most widespread of the two, users receive a direct message from a follower, bearing this or similar bait: "hey! check out this funny blog about you...", followed by a link to a webpage.
After clicking on the link, victims are presented with a false Twitter login page. Usernames and passwords entered on the page become vehicles for spammers to distribute sim [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 6th 2009
LiveJournal Cuts 20% of Workforce
LiveJournal, a mature blog community launched in 1999, cut 12 employees -- about 20% of its workforce -- without severance yesterday, reports Gawker (via LiveJournal's xb95).
A previous version of this article stated the staff cut consisted of 20 employees. In an email to the editor, a company representative corrected the figure.
In December 2007 [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 6th 2009
Digitas Heads to Roll in US
Digitas announced plans to lay off approximately 70 of 2,100 US-based employees, citing reduced client budgets. Non-US employees will not be affected.
"We have redeployed talent wherever possible, but the realities of the current economy did require that we let some talented people go in order to best position the agency for continued growth and success," one spokesperson stated.
Digitas, the digital unit of global conglomerate Publicis Groupe, has o [...]
Posted: Friday, December 12th 2008
YHOO Layoffs Draw More Blog Coverage than Most Ad Campaigns
Yesterday Yahoo began making good on its promise to lay off 1500 members of its staff -- nearly 10% of the search brand's workforce.
Affected departments include sales, marketing, content, administration, engineering, and acquisitions like Maven Networks and Right Media Exchange. According to Advertising Age, marketers from its category- [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 11th 2008
Agency.com Takes iCrossing to Court for 'Employee Raiding'
Omnicom's Agency.com has filed suit against digital ad firm iCrossing, insinuating the latter poached a number of major executives and clients, reports the Wall Street Journal.
$19.5 million in damages are sought. The suit alleges tortious interference, breach of contract and conspiring to misappropriate proprietary data and trade secrets. In specific it accuses iCrossing CEO Donald Scales, former Chief Exec [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 11th 2008
Email Nightmare: Carat Staffers Get Talking Points on Job Cuts
An unfortunate email blunder alerted Carat staffers that their jobs could be in peril, and shared with them the specifics on how they would be told of the news, reports MediaBuyerPlanner.
The media agency will restructure its US operations and plans an undisclosed number of layoffs -- news that was shared with the entire agency via an [...]
Posted: Friday, September 5th 2008
NebuAd Loses CEO, Pursues Less Controversial Pastures
Battered by bad press, recent Congressional probes and the loss of ISP clients, CEO Bob Dykes of NebuAd has decided to step down.
Following his departure, President Kira Makagon was chosen [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 4th 2008
Facebook to Buy ConnectU, Whose Code it 'Stole'
ConnectU, which sued Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for stealing its code, is now a Facebook acquisition target, the BBC reports.
Before starting Facebook, Zuckerberg conducted programming work for the founders of ConnectU, known at the time as HarvardConnect.com. He launched Facebook as an Ivy League-only network in 2004, sparking a [...]
Posted: Monday, August 18th 2008
User Consent: Just an Afterthought to Behavioral Tracking
Letters released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee reveal that many internet and broadband companies use targeted-ad technology without clearly informing users.
The largest online ad firm of all, Google, said it tracks web-surfing behavior across affiliate sites. And this isn't the first such outing: two months ago, The New York Times [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 12th 2008
Yahoo's Board Still On Board, Despite Recount
The surprisingly positive results of last Friday's Yahoo shareholder vote prompted Capital Research Global Investors to demand a recount, after which the group discovered that the proxy voting intermediary made "significant errors," reports Mediapost.
The first tally showed 85 percent of sh [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 7th 2008