PaidContent points to a Microsoft release announcing the introduction of a video download service for mobile devices, one of a proliferating series of Microsoft offerings of video content. Not to be confused with MSN Video, the MSN Video Downloads service...
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aQuantive's DrivePM ad network, which buys online media on the cheap and resells it after divvying it up into various packages, hired Google vet Gary Savoy to run its East Coast sales. DrivePM's goals are ambitious, hoping to win $21...
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LookSmart yesterday launched five education-oriented sites it is calling "vertical search" applications. The sites divvy up content from its FindArticles.com resource....
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A Lost Remote story shows local newspapers control the leading websites in 74 out of 81 markets studied, this according to The Media Audit. The study noted that in a good number of markets, a local TV station came in...
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Foote Cone's interactive division is getting into the promotions sales business, partnering with PaperClick to proffer to FCBi clients a coupon UPC code reading technology that lets users easily enter into contests and promotions with their mobile phones. Mobile users...
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The willy nilly patent granting that seemed pervasive in the past years regarding what many people would regard as non-innovative obvious "inventions" on the internet is starting to come home to roost for the Patent and Trademark Office. The most...
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Many reports on yesterday's Google-Urchin deal seem to be pegging the size of the undisclosed deal terms around $30 million, although no one of the reports seems to either know first hand or even know from where the original $30...
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eBay fired television creative boutique Goodby Silverstein & Partners as its ad agency, according to AdAge. A defensive-sounding Jeff Goodby defended the agency's work, calling it "always successful." While the creative strategies caromed in many directions over the six-year relationship,...
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AOL launched a teen-oriented blog application designed to give parents more control over how much access the outside world has to the bloggy thoughts of their progeny. Parents can make the blogs accessible only to a controlled list or fully...
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Well, the good news is that wireless text messaging was ranked less annoying than spam, pop-ups, telemarketing and visits from door-to-door salesmen. The bad news is nothing else in the world, according to Intelliseek, was ranked more annoying that the...
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A spat between two viral marketing firms was dismissed by a Virginia court yesterday. New Media Strategies claimed that BuzzMetrics stole trade secrets during inter-company deal talks that later fell through. New Media Strategies said that it would file the...
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau lost its preliminary injunction bid to prevent MediaPost from using the OMMA brand name in conjunction with its magazine and trade show efforts, finding that the IAB failed to meet the very strict standards for gaining...
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