Growing digital agency AKQA needs new digs in San Francisco and will move into a bigger space at the end of the year. The firm went from about 50 employees earlier in the year to about 100, mostly due to...
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Aimee Reker will take the lead of media services at Zentropy's Minneapolis office. The dozen media employees in the Minnesota facility plan and buy for General Mills, Microsoft, H&R Block, Purina and others. The position had been open since early...
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Zinio, the digital magazine firm, named David Zinman as VP marketing and product management. Zinman became a well-known figure in online marketing circles in the late 1990s as founder of AdKnowledge, one of several large and expensive companies purchased and...
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Penton Media, the debt-ridden publisher of B-to-B titles, is looking to the web for new revenues. The new focus comes from its new CEO David Nussbaum, who needs to cut costs and raise revenues quickly to prevent the companies interest...
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Online retailers offering in-store pick-up are doing some things quite well. For instance, most are offering same-day service and sending off emails almost immediately to show availability. But even as pick-up service has improved over last year, according to a...
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eBay bought more of its Korean holding Internet Auction Company (IAC) after almost doubling its bid to several institutional shareholders. The purchase of about 23 percent of the company for about $325 million brings its stake to about six sevenths...
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Microsoft launched its new music retail store last night, showing it to be only the second company, after Apple Computer, to get all the major music publishers to agree to common terms for a web retail effort. The store -...
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Hewing to almost perfectly consistent precedent, Disney's video on demand test markets are proving a bust. This time around, Disney's stab at making the online world resemble the Hollywood model is called MovieBeam and uses a technology that downloads movies...
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A new Pew study shows that instant messaging (IM) has spread among adults, with 51 million of them having used the technology. A quarter of those use IM more often than email. In an average day, 15 million adults use...
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FAST Search & Transfer, a search technology firm that has sold enterprise search applications to large IT firms such as AT&T and IBM, will offer a web version of its technology to media companies hoping to come out with their...
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Massive, the New York digital agency, is developing an ad system that would allow for banner insertions in video games, tracking and even abilities such as frequency capping. The system is set to launch with game publishers Atari and Ubisoft....
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Copernic Technologies launched its own combination of desktop and internet search applications, called Copernic Desktop Search (CDS). 30,000 users have already downloaded a similar application that provides combined search results from several web search engines. The new application adds to...
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An Overture executive told CNET that it plans to automate its ad auction system next month. The company's global product management head said it will combine and automate broad matching and phrase matching. The service will be called "advanced match...
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IDC, a research firm with one of the most conservative estimates of how much email turns out to be spam, said yesterday that the ratio of spam to email increased from one in four messages to two in five messages...
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