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Follow the Money: Tudou | Empire Avenue | Kabbage
Tudou Closes on $174M in IPO
Tudou Holdings, China’s second- biggest video website, raised $174 million yesterday in its U.S. initial public offering, according to Bloomberg. Proceeds will be used for tech upgrades, bandwidth expansion and rights to videos. The site offers movies, TV series and content it produces itself, as well as user-genera [...]
Posted: Monday, August 22nd 2011
Closing Bell: All about Google and Motorola | Firefox 8 | Foursquare
Google & Motorola:
What is Google’s patent strategy?
Exclusive: Guess who else wanted to buy Motorola?
Google buying Motorola: Nokia, Samsung, and other industry players [...]
Posted: Monday, August 15th 2011
Top News: Who owns the social graph? | Motorola Droid 3 debuts | Smartphone privacy | WaPo jobs section gets hacked
Social Media:
Analysis: Facebook video calling versus Google+ Hangouts.
Who owns your social graph — you or Facebook?
Over 500,000 businesses are [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 7th 2011
Ad Network Takes MySpace for $35M
Specific Media has bought MySpace from News Corporation, a number of publications have confirmed. The ad network, which helps marketers buy digital ads across the Web, online video, mobile and television, is paying about $35 million for the once wildly popular site, mainly in stock, according to news accounts. It is a telling transaction because it illustrates the changing business model, not to mention grow [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 29th 2011
Top News: Foodie.com, a new food vertical? | Facebook Credits go global | Yahoo's app search | Me on the Web
Domains:
Why did Glam Media spend over $100K on Foodie.com?
Social Media:
Facebook Credits goes global with additional support in 13 countries.
Facebook is armed with HTML5 and gunning [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 16th 2011
Top News: Windows 8 unveiled | PlayStation Store back online | Malware targets Google, Apple apps | YouTube introduces Creative Commons licensing option
Productivity:
Previewing Windows 8.
Why Windows 8 is fundamentally flawed as a response to the iPad.
Research & Stats:
You can only really [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 2nd 2011
Top News: Twitter adds Follow button | Schmidt takes blame for Google's social failure | Tapjoy says Apple's ban on promos kills profits | iCloud | YouTube to create network of networks
Social Media:
Twitter adds a one-stop 'Follow' button for sites.
More than friending: how can the social web go beyond
Facebook?
Schmidt sa [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 1st 2011
Top News: LinkedIn, Facebook IPOs | Apple near cloud music deals | Apple tells Senate it does not track locations | Kindle books outsell print versions |
Business Strategies:
What LinkedIn means for Facebook IPO.
Exclusive: Apple near cloud-music deals.
Search:
Google launches Inside Search [...]
Posted: Friday, May 20th 2011
Video: Another New Ad Twist in the Microsoft-Skype Deal
Under Microsoft's acquisition of Skype, the video conference call provider said it would "support Microsoft devices 'Xbox and Kinect, Windows Phone and a wide array of Windows devices, and Microsoft will connect Skype users with Lync, Outlook, Xbox Live and other communities." With such little to go on, the online ad community been speculating on what the deal could mean to their industry.
Will [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 11th 2011
Welcome to the Next Phase of Social Media Analytics, Wal-Mart Style
Kosmix is the developer of Tweetbeat Firsthand, a plug-in that scans the Internet for references to prominent people or organizations that have Twitter accounts and then provides readers of those pages with their latest tweets. The company is being acquired by Wal-Mart but, surprisingly to some social media tech aficionados, Tweetbeat Firsthand appears to be almost an afterthought - at least in terms of a social marketing application for the company.
Rather, Wal-mart is acqu [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 19th 2011
Top News: Google pushes forward with mobile payment plan | Publicis finds digital strategy pays off | GroupMe turns to advertising | New MobileMe
Mobile Payments:
Google sets role in mobile payment.
American Express launches all-new digital payments platform to attack PayPal’s bread and butter.
Ad Agencies:
[...]
Posted: Monday, March 28th 2011
Top News: Groupon breaks relationship with ad agency that designed its Super Bowl ads | The AT&T-T-Mobile deal | Facebook acquires Snaptu, adds check-ins to events | NYT's pay wall years in the making
Agencies and Ad Departments:
Groupon says it placed too much trust in agency that designed its Super Bowl ads.
Mobile Computing:
How the market values the AT&T-T-Mobile deal.
Why AT&T’s deal for T-Mobile must be b [...]
Posted: Monday, March 21st 2011
Top News: Verizon lands the iPhone, to boost mobile ad market | Providers ramp up battle of the 4G plans | Is Facebook peaking? |
Broadband:
Whatever 4G means, the ad battle has begun.
Mobile Computing/Marketing:
Verizon to announce it will be offering the iPhone.
Verizon iPhone to boost mobi [...]
Posted: Monday, January 10th 2011
Top News: AdMob reaches 2 billion daily requests | Facebook preps for IPO | 1B downloads for Map App Store's first day | Facebook v Google ads?
Online Ad Market:
Google's AdMob reaches 2 billion daily ad requests.
Greystripe’s flashy iOS ads help boost mobile ad network’s revenue by 400 percent.
Business News:
Facebook [...]
Posted: Friday, January 7th 2011
Wait, Facebook Has How Many Users?
As the Sturm und Drang over the Goldman Sachs-Facebook deals settles down, marketers are looking at the massive cash infusion with an eye for what the deal will mean for them. For starters, it has already meant a recalculation of Facebook's reach. The site apparently has 600 million users - or possibly more - than the 500 million milestone Facebook widely proclaimed it reached a few months ago.
According to a document that Goldman Sachs is showing potential investors, Faceboo [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 5th 2011
Top News: Google's Boutique.com | Women, Youth, Minorities Do Most Mobile Shopping
Business Strategies:
—Spanfeller Media Group website The Daily Meal comes out of beta today.
—American Red Cross website [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 23rd 2010
IAC Creates 'Content Farm,' Seeks Writers
Barry Diller of IAC looks to be in the process of creating a “content farm,†seeking writers for IAC properties.
IAC’s Pronto has launched The Writers Network, a site looking for people to write short how-to articles for between $10 and $25, according to AdAge.
The articles seem, for the moment, to mostly be designed for IAC site Home [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 23rd 2010
Top News: Ray Ozzie's post-PC world | Adobe's new ad format | Google Instant boosts revenues | AdMob runs interactive video ads on Android
People:
Departing Microsoft visionary Ray Ozzie sees "post-PC" world.
Ad Technologies:
Adobe works up new ad format for smartphones.
Testing a bar code technology for 2-D smartphones. [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 26th 2010
Top Industry News for 10-21-10: Click fraud escalates, eroding online ads' credibility
Security:
Escalating click fraud erodes credibility of online advertising.
Ad Technology:
Web ads tied to news photos pop up more and more.
Momentum for interactive [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 21st 2010
Industry Buzz & News: 5/04/10
Search:
Google invests in firm that tries to predict the future.
Ad Technologies:
Consolidation predicted for ad technology sector in 2010.
Social Media:
Twitter set to [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 4th 2010
Now Microsoft Supports HTML5. Is it Finally Over for Flash?
After Steve Jobs delivered his anti-Flash manifesto last week, Microsoft chimed into the Flash-versus-HTML5 debate as well: Redmond likes the standard too and plans to develop future versions of Internet Explore for it. The future of the web is HTML5, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Internet Explorer wrote in a blog post.
"Microsoft is deeply engaged in the HTML5 process with the W3C. HTML5 will be very import [...]
Posted: Monday, May 3rd 2010
3D's everwhere: in a newspaper, games, on the desktop
3D technology - now close to becoming mainstream with the movie industry - is slowing making its way to other, less obvious vehicles, as three recent announcements show.
One is by the London newspaper The Sun, which is planning to publish a 3D edition with 3D-color ads and editorial a week before the start of the World's Cup. It is the first national newspaper to run ads and editorials in 3D, according to [...]
Posted: Monday, May 3rd 2010
iAd May Be Tipping Point for Google's AdMob Acquisition
Apple's forthcoming iAd may wind up being the tipping point that will prompt the Federal Trade Commission to approve Google's pending acquisition of AdMob. When it first began to review the $750 million acquisition, staff at the Federal Trade Commission were expecting to recommend blocking Google's acquisition of the mobile advertising network, according to a source quoted in the New York P [...]
Posted: Monday, May 3rd 2010
Jobs: Why Flash Is Not, and Never Will Be, Coming to Apple’s Mobile Devices
It’s official (at least as official as anything ever is): there is definitely no Flash coming to iPod, iPhone and iPad devices. The decision is not primarily business-driven, but is rather based on technology issues, Apple’s Steve Jobs says in a critical letter about why Flash is not appropriate for mobile.
The mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards - all areas where Flash falls short, Jobs [...]
Posted: Friday, April 30th 2010
Google Lists Hotel Prices on Google Maps
Google continues to experiment with new ad formats using its ubiquitous Google Maps.
The latest is a feature it introduced that shows specific rates for selected hotel listings when searching for hotels on Google Maps. With this feature, when a user searches for hotels on Google Maps he or she can enter the dates for the stay and see actual prices on selected listings.
"You can click on the price to see a list of advertisers who have provided pricing information for that hotel, indicate [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 24th 2010


