NY Post: Pittman Gobbles Up DailyCandy Shopping Site
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Media mogul Bob Pittman's (the man who presided over AOL's atrophy from fastest growing to fastest shrinking ISP) acquisition of the frivolous shopping and entertainment site DailyCandy for a reported $3.5...
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The weekend before Christmas, traditionally one of the key periods in the retailing year, turned out to be a bit of a bust in bricks and mortar stores this year. Interestingly, both discounters and luxury goods retailers did quite well,...
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MSN hopes to take advantage of what is traditionally - representing about 10 percent of the entire year's sales - a retail boon: the week after Christmas. It is putting together online a series of major offline retail brands, such...
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Wired reports that the new Can-Spam bill that will come into law on January 1 will not really do much at all to contain spam. Given large loopholes in what is considered "spam," the best that can be hoped is...
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Hotels.com, the travel e-commerce site company that has to date done the vast majority of its creative and $55 million media budget spending in-house, will seek an outside creative partner. Proposals were sought from a list of undisclosed agencies, due...
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Kia, the Korean budget car company, will lead its Amanti advertising launch with online media. Driving to its Kiaamanti.com microsite, the manufacturer is finding that nothing drives "handraisers" like online advertising. IAR reports....
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Verizon tapped Avenue A to do its online media and R/GA to handle creative tasks. They replace Boston-based Euro RSCG Circle. Verizon spent about $20 million in online media in the first 10 months of 2003. AdWeek reports....
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Even as offline holiday sales have started to lag, the Internet racked up its second $2 billion dollar week in a row. Where offline sales dropped this past weekend, online sales increased by about 4 percent for the past week...
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MediaPost's Kate Kaye takes a look back at 2003 merger and acquisition activity as a prelude to further consolidation as the industry matures. The search sector saw heavy activity with all major players involved in some form of acquisition or...
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AdSense, Google's contextual ad serving platform has been quite successful, and it's no surprise that Google rolled it out internationally to supplement their inventory. As with the U.S. rollout, Google has started with some large publisher deals and will allow...
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iMediaConnections' Joe Jaffe takes us through the day in the life of Jessica, single online female, and adopter of all things Internet. Jessica uses the Internet at work and at home but for different reasons. Walk through the day with...
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Spock and Kirk are together again. Leonard Nimoy has signed a deal with Priceline to appear in a commercial, to be aired in January. Nimoy has done many projects with Captain Kirk (a.k.a. William Shatner), including some truly terrible music...
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